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Creating Access to Success: Tools to Cultivate Vibrant, Diverse, and Effective Learning Environments in Community College Classrooms
Hours: 6
***Workshop presented by Dr. Martha Ramos Duffer
Lunch Provided
This workshop will equip faculty with specific usable tools to create vibrant learning environments that are enriched by differences, in which every student is fully supported in thriving and excelling. Often, discussions of diversity, equity, and multicultural competence leave us feeling guilty, defensive, hopeless, and frustrated. In this workshop, we will build on our collective commitment to the success of all students and shared expertise to fuel solid, believable hope and new possibilities, using the foundation of proven research-based strategies to support each student in being successful in reaching her or his academic goals. Dr. Ramos Duffer will lead us through an exploration of the underpinnings of racial misunderstandings and the latest research on the formation and effects of prejudice, to create shared understanding of the ways that oppression manifests and interrupts the learning process in college settings. Together we will identify steps to dismantle unintended barriers in the classroom and best practices to cultivate and sustain vibrant, diverse and effective learning environments in community college classrooms.
Presenter, Martha Ramos Duffer, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist, motivational health and wellness speaker, multicultural competence trainer and organizational consultant based in Austin, Texas. Dr. Ramos Duffer is the founder of Quantum Possibilities, which provides a broad array of consulting, training, coaching and therapeutic services focused on personal and spiritual growth for individuals, healing and joyful relationships for couples and peak performance, healthy systems and multicultural competence for organizations. Dr. Ramos Duffer was born in Mexico City and grew up in Puerto Rico. After earning her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology in 1994 from Baylor University, she has taught undergraduate and graduate psychology courses at Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, and since 2005 to the present, at St. Edwards University. For five years she served as the Executive Director of a community based non profit organization focused on social and economic justice, community building and cultural arts. Throughout her career she has provided psychological services through various agencies, hospitals and her own private practice. Dr. Ramos Duffer has spoken widely nationally and regionally on racial and gender justice, multicultural competence, motivation, health, and wellness. She has had the opportunity of working with varied local, regional and national organizations, developing programs and providing training to their Boards of Directors, Faculty and/or Staff in multicultural competence, leadership, management, appreciative inquiry, secondary trauma prevention, wellness, and successful goal setting, helping them gain the skills and create the systems necessary to sustain a healthy growth-promoting work environment and carry out their missions more effectively. A frequent guest on Univisions Despierta Austin and keynote speaker at conferences around the state and nation, Dr. Ramos Duffer has become a sought after speaker, consultant and trainer in the areas of productivity, leadership, organizational health and effectiveness, building anti-racist multiculturally competent organizations, and wellness. |
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