Introduction: Embodied Identity, Empowering Pedagogy, and Transformative Learning
Jessamyn Neuhaus
Part One
The First Day: Strategies for Starting Strong
1. How Blind Professors Win the First Day: Setting Ourselves Up for Success
Sheri Wells-Jensen, Emily K. Michael, and Mona Minkara
2. Critical Reflexivity as a Tool for Students Learning to Recognize Biases: A First Day of Class Conversation on What a Professor Looks Like
Jesica Siham Fernández
3. Commonalities and Research: A One-Two Punch to Combat STEM Fears and Biases on the First Day of Class
Kelly E. Theisen
4. Where's the Professor? First-Day Active Learning for Navigating Students' Perceptions of Young Professors
Reba Wissner
Part Two
Making Connections: Strategies for Building Trust and Rapport with Students
5. Using Experiential Learning to Humanize Course Content and Connect with Students
Breanna Boppre
6. Collaborative Rubric Creation as a Queer, Transgender Professor's Tactic for Building Trust in the Classroom
Fen Kennedy
7. Reflect to Deflect: Using Metacognitive Activities to Address Student Perceptions of Instructor Competence and Caring
Melissa Eblen-Zayas
8. From Absentminded Professor to Epistemic Collaborator: Reframing Academic Expertise through Vulnerability and Metacognition
Rebecca Scott
9. Black Man in a Strange Land: Using Principles of Psychology and Behavior Science to Thrive in the Classroom
Erik Simmons
Part Three
Anti-Racist Pedagogies: Strategies for Increasing Equity
10. Beyond Making Statements: The Reflective Practice of Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator
M. Gabriela Torres
11. Rippling the Patterns of Power: Enacting Anti-Racist Pedagogy with Students as Co-teachers
Chanelle Wilson and Alison Cook-Sather
12. Beyond "Good Writing": Enacting Anti-Racist Policies in Academic Writing
Jacinta Yanders and Ashley JoEtta
Part Four
Teaching with Our Whole Selves: Strategies for Instructional Authenticity and Pedagogical/Professional Success
13. The Superpowers of Visual Ambiguity: Transfiguring My Experience of Colorism and Multiheritage Identity for Educational Good
Donna Mejia
14. Sharing Our Stories to Build Community, Highlight Bias, and Address Challenges to Authority
Sarah Mayes-Tang
15. Teaching Up: Bringing My Blackness into the Classroom
Celeste Atkins
16. Empowered Strategies for Women Faculty of Color Navigating Teaching Inequities in Higher Ed
Chavella T. Pittman
Index
