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Language Equity Across Disciplines (LEAD) a professional development program at GCC that looks at how we can increase our equitable approaches to serving students by learning about and incorporating language equity theory and strategies to writing in all disciplines, and communication campus-wide.
LEAD Objectives
- To both equitize and improve writing across the curriculum at GCC to provide faculty across the disciplines with a cross-curricular approach to develop students’ writing skills, to provide authentic assessment, and to increase the transferability of course objects.
- To educate faculty across the curriculum about the value of encouraging “students to write with style, to bring their style to academic writing and/or to choose writing topics that engage their lived experiences.”
- To educate faculty across the curriculum in assessing student writing to privilege positionality and students’ right to their own language.
- To empower faculty across disciplines to utilize cultural wealth models in developing student writing across the disciplines