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Hi All, please find my updated working definition for diversity attached. I look forward to learning your definitions and joining them all together for our collective application!

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Lee -Diversity in the Learning Environment Definition Winter 2022

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All encompassing

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The various spectrum and complexity of ways to be and identify as a human.

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Meet each student at their level

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Lack of Administrative support

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I tell them about identities and one of those is I am multiracial. Then I encourage them to share with each other their identities. 

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I tell them about identities and one of those is I am multiracial. Then I encourage them to share with each other their identities. 

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All encompassing

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old schools of thought/practice/of doing things

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old schools of thought/practice/of doing things

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Diversity is difference in every manner or state of being. That difference is powerful, unique and generative to creativity and ingenuity. Unfortunately, we have defined difference as bad and undesirable, which is the root of all of the isms we experience everyday in our learning and working environments.

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In many ways, it is the reverse for me. I am a Black instructor with mostly White and students of Color.

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Remembering that we must be intentional about recognizing and embracing the intersectionalities that folx bring to our environments along with our own.

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I include diversity throughout my curriculum--visuals, reading, etc.

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In my learning evironment, I define diversity as the different backgrounds and lived experiences that students bring to the learning environment and the instructor brings to the learning environment. Also, the uniqueness each individual has that connects them to their own identity.

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I would agree that many "old school" practices that are still done today can be a large structural/systemic barrier to elevating diversity.

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I define diversity in my learning community as a multitude of different individuals, with a variety of lenses, on how they view, process, and think about the world around them.

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I try to increase diversity w/ students through my curricular choices (tools i use online to make things accessible, text choices, assignments, etc) and through caring gestures such as check ins, being flexible and creative w work, deadlines, etc