Center for Instructional Innovation - Western Washington University's Teaching and Learning Center

1. Multicultural Faculty Fellows
Running time: 3 minutes, 54 seconds

The Multicultural Faculty Fellows Program is a Woodring College of Education critical literacy collaborative with members from diverse departments and programs. The Dean of Woodring, Stephanie Salzman, and Kristen French, of the Colleges Center for Education, Equity and Diversity, planned the program to create a space for faculty to promote transformative education and to feed the members research and interests in multicultural education.
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2. Dedicated to the Work
Running time: 3 minutes, 12 seconds

Members involved in the Multicultural Faculty Fellows program at the Woodring College of Education are extremely dedicated to their work. They are interested in using this work to help create schools that are just places for all students, to feed their own research into social justice and transformative education, and to support each others classroom practice.
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3. Classroom Practice
Running time: 4 minutes, 32 seconds

Members of Woodring College of Education's Multicultural Faculty Fellows Program discuss using the power of teachers to be positive role models for students. Kristen French believes that liberal arts education can be conceived of as education for liberation. The program can also be used as a laboratory to try out new classroom ideas and to refine and improve existing classroom assignments and materials.
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4. Measurements of Success
Running time: 2 minutes, 53 seconds

Kristen French, of Woodring College of Educations Multicultural Faculty Fellows Program describes ways to measure the success of the program. First of all, because it is a dynamic process, she believes that in some ways the process is more important than the outcomes, some of which may be difficult to measure, such as critical consciousness or transformation. For these reasons, qualitative research may be most appropriate to perform. The group has been audio taping discussions, journaling, and writing poems. Once they have collaborated on their choices, some of these will be the basis for publications and for presentation at conferences.
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5. Applying the Process
Running time: 3 minutes, 56 seconds

Kristen French, of Woodring College of Educations Multicultural Faculty Fellows Program, believes that others who wish to create a similar program need to first approach the process with dignity, having support for each member, and to make sure that the support involves forgiveness as well as solidarity. The program involves enacting knowledge, reflection, and actions, and is organized similarly to the Maori Spiral Discourse Model. At the beginning of the model is a long welcome, in which members develop relationships with each other, bringing in their own personal narratives and experiences with issues of equity and diversity.
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