Category: S.A.F.E TOPICS

Space for ASE Students to Set the Pace: Creating Culture in the Classroom Part Two – A SAFE Topics Podcast

Hello campus community and happy Friday!

Part two is here! Our latest episode with students was so good that once again we had to split it into two parts. In this episode of the SAFE Topics Podcast, we’re continuing our conversation with students. We are joined by students from various Academic Success and Equity (ASE) Programs to talk about creating culture in the classroom! Our hosts Sean, curry and Mana are joined by several students including Helen Leinani Highland-Coslow (Mana, English/Literature), Dannia Saldivar (Mana, Liberal Arts: Math and Science), Jose Luis Mendez (UPRISE, Film/Theater), Jocelyn Rogers (RAFFY, Communication), Natalie Salgado (PUENTE, Sociology), Ian Clark (Umoja, Spanish), and Campbell Reyes (Mana, Art History). Join us in listening to part two!

Ways to Listen!

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What to Listen For

  • When is the classroom culture established?
  • If the teacher’s mood is down, the class is down.
  • It’s easy to change the students, but hard to change the teacher.
  • The class culture can change daily.
  • It starts with the syllabus – before the class even starts.
  • “We need new sh*t so I’m not bored.”
  • How can instructors build trust in the classroom?
  • The need for vulnerability from both students and teachers.
  • How teachers deal with big issues happening in the world while we’re in class.
  • Raw realness that professors bring to the classroom.
  • Having empathy for your students.
  • The importance of ASE programs and identity.
  • Is the professor open to constructive criticisim?
  • Bonus after the end credits!

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The S.A.F.E. Topics Team

curry mitchell – Faculty, Letters (Co-host)
Sean Davis – Faculty, Sociology (Co-host)
Mana Tadayon – Student, ASG President (Co-host)
Kelly Barnett – Intern and Music Technology Student (Audio Editor)
James Garcia – Associate Faculty, Sociology (Show Notes, Online)

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Space for ASE Students to Set the Pace: Creating Culture in the Classroom Part 1 – A SAFE Topics Podcast

Hello campus community!
The student voices are back! In this episode of the SAFE Topics Podcast, we are joined by students from various Academic Success and Equity (ASE) Programs to talk about creating culture in the classroom! Our hosts Sean, curry and Mana are joined by several students including Helen Leinani Highland-Coslow (Mana, English/Literature), Dannia Saldivar (Mana, Liberal Arts: Math and Science), Jose Luis Mendez (UPRISE, Film/Theater), Jocelyn Rogers (RAFFY, Communication), Natalie Salgado (PUENTE, Sociology), Ian Clark (Umoja, Spanish), and Campbell Reyes (Mana, Art History). Let’s listen and learn from these students in part one of this two-part episode.

Ways to Listen!

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  6. Audible

What to Listen For

  • Is a classroom a culture?
  • What it means to be sitting in the back of class.
  • Not waiting for a culture and taking it into your own hands.
  • Co-creating a culture and disrupting the “typical.”
  • How professors are included in cultures and subcultures.
  • The structure of the course and where you fit in.
  • Bringing in the different cultures of all students into a single place of learning.
  • Where you sit determines your classroom culture.
  • What it means to be respectful to the teacher coming from different student cultures.
  • Generational gap and differences.
  • When respect is earned and not given. 
  • “I have so much to offer and I didn’t even know it” – Finally having voices heard.
  • Race and ethnicity is definitely part of the culture.
  • How white culture is impacting the culture. 
  • The invisibility of culture of some students.
  • The importance of acknowledging our privileges.

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The S.A.F.E. Topics Team

curry mitchell – Faculty, Letters (Co-host)
Sean Davis – Faculty, Sociology (Co-host)
Mana Tadayon – Student, ASG President (Co-host)
Kelly Barnett – Intern and Music Technology Student (Audio Editor)
James Garcia – Associate Faculty, Sociology (Show Notes, Online)

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Stay great and have a fun weekend!

The S.A.F.E. Topics Podcast Team

Cameras On vs. Cameras Off: Blank Boxes & Framing Faces – A SAFE Topics Podcast

Good evening campus community!

In this episode of the SAFE Topics Podcast, the team goes into the topic of anonymity in the classroom. Join hosts Sean, curry, and Mana along with our special guests, Tyrone Nagai (Letters and Pre-Transfer), Krista Byrd (Psychology), and David Bonds (Mathematics) as they get into the topic of having cameras on vs. having cameras off! Listen in!

Ways to Listen!

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What to Listen For

  • How has Zoom been for you?
  • Having cameras on in-class versus one-on-one office hours.
  • “Just because you see their face doesn’t mean they’re paying attention.”
  • Is the “camera on student” also the “sit in the front student.”
  • The advantages of a live session.
  • Sometimes having cameras on is more of a distraction.
  • What’s happening from the psychological perspective?
  • It’s the students that aren’t showing up that are cause for concern.
  • “Zoom fatigue.”
  • Students are multitasking a lot of the time in a synchronous class.
  • Cameras on and cameras off as an equity issue.
  • Students are lacking friendships, connections, and networks.
  • Forcing cameras can be a tech issue.
  • Reminding ourselves that flexibility is important. 
  • What situations call for cameras to be on?
  • The implications of student success rates during this time.
  • What does participation and engagement mean to you?

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The S.A.F.E. Topics Team

curry mitchell – Faculty, Letters (Co-host)
Sean Davis – Faculty, Sociology (Co-host)
Mana Tadayon – Student, ASG President (Co-host)
Kelly Barnett – Intern and Music Technology Student (Audio Editor)
James Garcia – Associate Faculty, Sociology (Show Notes, Online)

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Stay great and have a fun weekend!

The S.A.F.E. Topics Podcast Team

Misinformation Series – Forum #2 “Do I Have Covid? Health & Science Misinformation in the Wild (of the World Wide Web)” Thursday, April 1 at Noon

Do I have COVID? Health & Science Misinformation in the Wild

Do I Have Covid? Health & Science Misinformation in the Wild (of the World Wide Web)

Health and science misinformation is dangerous, and the repercussions have become life-threatening, especially since the world started battling COVID-19. Join us as we discuss the:

  • value of science in our society and the ways misinformation threatens it
  • processes involved in scientific discovery (specific to COVID-19)
  • importance of data in the dissemination of scientific information
  • methods to discuss science and information literacy issues

Here are the details:

When: Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 12pm
Where: Misinformation Series Forum #2
Hosts: Kristine Arquero, Maha Gebara-Lamb, Dominique Ingato, Joe Salamon, Lauren McFall

You are invited! 🙂 

Meet Mana: Awesome Student, ASG President, and the New SAFE Topics Podcast’s Co-Host!

Hello campus community!

In this week’s episode, hosts Sean and curry introduce and welcome Mana Tadayon, the SAFE Topics’ newest co-host! Mana first joined us as a guest on the One Word Conversation episode with students on “Leaders” (S2E3). In today’s release, we welcome Mana as a part of the team and we can’t be excited enough! Listen in and join us in welcoming Mana!!

Ways to Listen!

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What to Listen For

  • Welcoming Mana!
  • What is it about community college that keeps you coming back for more?
  • The immediacy of impact on the campus community.
  • Every single class has a new set of people and that’s amazing. 
  • There is agency and autonomy in the work we do – is it the same for students?
  • What’s missing or makes community college harder?
  • Canvas and the “to-do” list.
  • Having passion and the energy to get through bad things.
  • The trap of “we did it, so we can do it.”
  • Teachers still come in nervous and with imposter syndrome.
  • To care or not to care.
  • What does community college promise to students and to teachers?
  • What does the Associated Student Government promise students?

The S.A.F.E. Topics Team

curry mitchell – Faculty, Letters (Co-host)
Sean Davis – Faculty, Sociology (Co-host)
Mana Tadayon – Student, ASG President (Co-host)
Kelly Barnett – Intern and Music Technology Student (Audio Editor)
James Garcia – Associate Faculty, Sociology (Show Notes, Online)

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Stay great and have a fun and safe Spring Break!

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