Dear Colleagues,

I’m sharing details about the upcoming TLC workshops. Please circulate them to your departmental lists.

Thanks so much,
Marwa Answar
—
TLC workshops:

Teaching with the CUNY Digital History Archive

Monday, November 3, at 3-5 pm. In-person, Room 3317.

The CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA) is “a counter-institutional archive” that centers CUNY’s histories as a site of organizing, learning and transformation, including the fight for Puerto Rican studies at Brooklyn College, the Save Hostos campaign, the Student Liberation Action Movement group at Hunter, and so much more. Over the years, educators have used CDHA materials in their classrooms across disciplines and departments, from SEEK to history to English and more. CDHA offers materials that can be used in any classroom that strives to engage students around their place at CUNY and the radical histories of CUNY we need to remember now more than ever. In this workshop, we will spend some time looking at example lesson plans and assignments that use CDHA materials. Then the bulk of the workshop will be spent designing and workshopping our own CDHA-related lesson plans and assignments.
Register at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cuny.is/tlc-f25__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtPrqXJWQ$ .
Sanctuary Classrooms? The Promise and Limits of Pedagogy in an Age of Border Revanchism
Friday, November 7, 2-4 pm. In-person, Room 3317.
CUNY’s classrooms are sites where immigration politics are lived day to day, and where the barriers they create might be reinforced or unsettled. In an era of border revanchism, when non-citizens are under attack, how can we foster belonging and refuge for all students in our classrooms, even as some face real threats?

This workshop begins from the premise that educators have limited but meaningful agency to cultivate different ways of sharing space and power with students. The idea of a “sanctuary classroom” points to this possibility. Together, we will trace how sanctuary has been taken up by cities and campuses, and consider what happens when the concept is scaled down to the classroom. Through a series of exercises, we will think together about how teaching can create small but powerful spaces of pluralism in a broader climate that is increasingly hostile to those ideals.

By the end of the session, participants will sketch an individual sanctuary plan for their own courses: concrete practices and experiments they want to try, limits they anticipate, and ways to push against them. The aim is to generate strategies that are specific, flexible, and usable in our classrooms, while also being honest about the real limitations we face.

Register at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cuny.is/tlc-f25__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtPrqXJWQ$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cuny.is/tlc-f25__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtPrqXJWQ$ >.

Sanctuary Classrooms? The Promise and Limits of Pedagogy in an Age of Border Revanchism
Friday, November 7, at 2-4 pm. In-person, Room 3317.

CUNY’s classrooms are sites where immigration politics are lived day to day, and where the barriers they create might be reinforced or unsettled. In an era of border revanchism, when non-citizens are under attack, how can we foster belonging and refuge for all students in our classrooms, even as some face real threats?

This workshop begins from the premise that educators have limited but meaningful agency to cultivate different ways of sharing space and power with students. The idea of a “sanctuary classroom” points to this possibility. Together, we will trace how sanctuary has been taken up by cities and campuses, and consider what happens when the concept is scaled down to the classroom. Through a series of exercises, we will think together how teaching can create small but powerful spaces of pluralism in a broader climate that is increasingly hostile to those ideals.

By the end of the session, participants will sketch an individual sanctuary plan for their own courses: concrete practices and experiments they want to try, limits they anticipate, and ways to push against them. The aim is to generate strategies that are specific, flexible, and usable in our classrooms, while also being honest about the real limitations we face.

Register at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cuny.is/tlc-f25__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtPrqXJWQ$ .

Embodied Knowledges: Teaching Discussion & Skillshare
Tuesday, November 11, at 11:30-1 pm. In-person, Room 3317. Lunch will be served.

• Are you ever uncomfortable or anxious in front of the classroom?
• Do you sometimes wonder if your students could be more engaged?
• Do you think about how your students perceive you? Do you wonder what you don’t know about them?
• Have you considered how your teaching has (or hasn’t) changed over time?

Trusting our experiences in the classroom as learners and teachers helps to make us better practitioners. The bodies and multi-faceted identities that we teach with are key to that experience. Using the framework of queer pedagogy, let’s consider the varied ways our and our students’ bodies exist in the classroom and how we relate to each other in that space. What do we know now that we didn’t before? What have we always known? This workshop is an opportunity to reflect on and share what we have learned through our cumulative hours in the classroom. Join us for a discussion about the embodied experience of being a CUNY student/teacher and how that has developed your thinking about teaching and pedagogy. Then, get ready to swap skills, techniques, and strategies based on your individual experience and knowledge.

Register at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cuny.is/tlc-f25__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtPrqXJWQ$ .

Co-Developing with Generative AI
Tuesday, November 18, at 2:30-4 pm. In Person, New Media Lab.

This workshop will explore how large language models can be used as a collaborator in coding and building digital scholarship. Participants will gain hands-on experience with AI tools for programming and development basics, while simultaneously reflecting on the ethical challenges and contradictions that come with working alongside generative AI in our research and teaching.

Register at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tinyurl.com/nml-co-dev__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtRiGdN1A$

—

Marwa Answar

APO, Teaching and Learning Center and Interactive Technology and Certificate Program

The Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3300

Phone: (212) 817-7289

New York, NY 10016

[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

Dear Colleagues,

I’m sharing details about the upcoming TLC workshops. Please circulate them to your departmental lists.

Thanks so much,
Marwa Answar
—
TLC workshops:

Teaching with the CUNY Digital History Archive

Monday, November 3, at 3-5 pm. In-person, Room 3317.

The CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA) is “a counter-institutional archive” that centers CUNY’s histories as a site of organizing, learning and transformation, including the fight for Puerto Rican studies at Brooklyn College, the Save Hostos campaign, the Student Liberation Action Movement group at Hunter, and so much more. Over the years, educators have used CDHA materials in their classrooms across disciplines and departments, from SEEK to history to English and more. CDHA offers materials that can be used in any classroom that strives to engage students around their place at CUNY and the radical histories of CUNY we need to remember now more than ever. In this workshop, we will spend some time looking at example lesson plans and assignments that use CDHA materials. Then the bulk of the workshop will be spent designing and workshopping our own CDHA-related lesson plans and assignments.
Register at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cuny.is/tlc-f25__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtPrqXJWQ$ .
Sanctuary Classrooms? The Promise and Limits of Pedagogy in an Age of Border Revanchism
Friday, November 7, 2-4 pm. In-person, Room 3317.
CUNY’s classrooms are sites where immigration politics are lived day to day, and where the barriers they create might be reinforced or unsettled. In an era of border revanchism, when non-citizens are under attack, how can we foster belonging and refuge for all students in our classrooms, even as some face real threats?

This workshop begins from the premise that educators have limited but meaningful agency to cultivate different ways of sharing space and power with students. The idea of a “sanctuary classroom” points to this possibility. Together, we will trace how sanctuary has been taken up by cities and campuses, and consider what happens when the concept is scaled down to the classroom. Through a series of exercises, we will think together about how teaching can create small but powerful spaces of pluralism in a broader climate that is increasingly hostile to those ideals.

By the end of the session, participants will sketch an individual sanctuary plan for their own courses: concrete practices and experiments they want to try, limits they anticipate, and ways to push against them. The aim is to generate strategies that are specific, flexible, and usable in our classrooms, while also being honest about the real limitations we face.

Register at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cuny.is/tlc-f25__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtPrqXJWQ$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cuny.is/tlc-f25__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtPrqXJWQ$ >.

Sanctuary Classrooms? The Promise and Limits of Pedagogy in an Age of Border Revanchism
Friday, November 7, at 2-4 pm. In-person, Room 3317.

CUNY’s classrooms are sites where immigration politics are lived day to day, and where the barriers they create might be reinforced or unsettled. In an era of border revanchism, when non-citizens are under attack, how can we foster belonging and refuge for all students in our classrooms, even as some face real threats?

This workshop begins from the premise that educators have limited but meaningful agency to cultivate different ways of sharing space and power with students. The idea of a “sanctuary classroom” points to this possibility. Together, we will trace how sanctuary has been taken up by cities and campuses, and consider what happens when the concept is scaled down to the classroom. Through a series of exercises, we will think together how teaching can create small but powerful spaces of pluralism in a broader climate that is increasingly hostile to those ideals.

By the end of the session, participants will sketch an individual sanctuary plan for their own courses: concrete practices and experiments they want to try, limits they anticipate, and ways to push against them. The aim is to generate strategies that are specific, flexible, and usable in our classrooms, while also being honest about the real limitations we face.

Register at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cuny.is/tlc-f25__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtPrqXJWQ$ .

Embodied Knowledges: Teaching Discussion & Skillshare
Tuesday, November 11, at 11:30-1 pm. In-person, Room 3317. Lunch will be served.

• Are you ever uncomfortable or anxious in front of the classroom?
• Do you sometimes wonder if your students could be more engaged?
• Do you think about how your students perceive you? Do you wonder what you don’t know about them?
• Have you considered how your teaching has (or hasn’t) changed over time?

Trusting our experiences in the classroom as learners and teachers helps to make us better practitioners. The bodies and multi-faceted identities that we teach with are key to that experience. Using the framework of queer pedagogy, let’s consider the varied ways our and our students’ bodies exist in the classroom and how we relate to each other in that space. What do we know now that we didn’t before? What have we always known? This workshop is an opportunity to reflect on and share what we have learned through our cumulative hours in the classroom. Join us for a discussion about the embodied experience of being a CUNY student/teacher and how that has developed your thinking about teaching and pedagogy. Then, get ready to swap skills, techniques, and strategies based on your individual experience and knowledge.

Register at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cuny.is/tlc-f25__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtPrqXJWQ$ .

Co-Developing with Generative AI
Tuesday, November 18, at 2:30-4 pm. In Person, New Media Lab.

This workshop will explore how large language models can be used as a collaborator in coding and building digital scholarship. Participants will gain hands-on experience with AI tools for programming and development basics, while simultaneously reflecting on the ethical challenges and contradictions that come with working alongside generative AI in our research and teaching.

Register at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tinyurl.com/nml-co-dev__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!pvObpr0X9Sux5AP5EMJwUptGtZepkc0x1YwURhGoZKHF7OQ4wSHpjhTilxE2T1UoJrn2OK7w3wkdNCjK3cRa3GuiuTr7-574N49nmLW-UjtRiGdN1A$

—

Marwa Answar

APO, Teaching and Learning Center and Interactive Technology and Certificate Program

The Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3300

Phone: (212) 817-7289

New York, NY 10016

[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>