#SWeduActs
We are a loosely-affiliated open group of social work educators in the United States & Canada who are united in our wish and effort to engage together in anti-racist practice.
Our current work focuses on creating supportive, peer support spaces for social work educators to improve their practice around teaching about race, racism, anti-racist practice, Whiteness, privilege, oppression and the like.
We talk a lot about managing difficult dialogues in social work classrooms – in fact here is a tip sheet on that topic!
For resources on anti-racist pedagogy in general, click here!
Teaching online and want to think about anti-racism in online teaching? Resources here.
To check out some justice, equity, diversity & inclusion rubrics for syllabi & teaching click here!
Here’s our new resource page with reflections on how to teach about White privilege!
You can also read about how to use data as reflective anti-racist teacher here!
You can sign up for our email listserv here: https://groups.io/g/sweduacts
You can check us out on Twitter using our hashtag: #SWEduActs
established Summer 2020
#SWEduActs gathered on 9/9/22 to discuss talking with students about the Asso iation of Social Work Boards (ASWB) pass rate data…
By now, most of you will have heard about the Association of Social Work Boards’ pass rate analysis which breaks down pass rates by race, ethnicity, gender and age. We are gathering social work educators to talk about the ASWB pass rate analysis & help you think about dialoguing with BSW & MSW students on this topic. #SWEduActs a loosely-affiliated open group of social work educators who are united in our wish and effort to engage together in anti-racist practice. You can check out our guide to difficult dialogues in the classroom here. More info about our group below.
Our speakers on 9/9 included:
LaSalle University
@profmattdecarlo
University of Missouri
@lewissocialwkr
Salem State University
@docmont2
In October 2020, we organized a national social work teach-in (flier below) on police brutality as a form of structural racism. Hundreds of students, staff and faculty from across the participated. A recording of that event can be found here.
A 2020 Timeline: From Tweet to #SwEduActs Action
- May 25, 2020 – Death of George Floyd
- Dr. Desmond Patton tweets a call to action to social work academics
- Tweets, Retweets, comments, DMs and commitment
- June 30, 2020 – 1st open meeting
- July 8, 2020 – #SWeduActs National Influencers sub-committee meeting
- July 14, 2020- #SWeduActs Teach-In sub-committee meeting
- July 29, 2020 – #SWeduActs National Influencers sub-committee meeting
- July 30, 2020 – #SWeduActs Teach In and National Influencers sub-committee meeting – open meeting
- October 27, 2020 – Hosted a panel with over 300 attendees coupled with a National Teach in Week.
- January 13, 2021 – #SWeduActs held drop in ‘what’s next’ planning session. 30+ faculty logged in and the meeting resulted in faculty voting on monthly peer support strategy sessions.
- Feedback Loop – Monthly topics and questions grouped together by similarity have been spaced out for monthly engagements and are detailed on Blog pages.
“there is no neutrality in racism…the opposite of ‘racist’ isn’t ‘not-racist’ but ‘anti-racist”
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
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