M . A . and Ph . D . in French Studies from Brown University . Named to the 2013-2017 Fulbright Specialist Roster , she was the Grantee for “ Francophone Culture : Literature , Pedagogy and Additional Language Acquisition ” at the University of Manitoba . Dr . Angelini was invited to participate in the 2020-2023 Olga Lengyel Institute ( TOLI ) for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights Summer Seminar . She is particularly honored to be the inaugural Holocaust Education Fellow at the Crane Center for Mass Atrocity Prevention and to have been invited by the U . S . Department of State ’ s Office of Alumni Affairs and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to participate in the 2022 Alumni Thematic International Exchange Seminar ( TIES ) on “ American Identity : Exploring our Collective Memory , Heritages , and Histories .”
Tara Pepis received her Ph . D . in Educational Policy , Research and Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst . She also holds a M . A . in Teaching English from Agnes Scott College , a M . A . in Communication from New School University , and a B . A . in Theater and English from Smith College . She is interested in the ways in which implicit bias and stereotype threat affect students in K-12 classrooms . She has published on the reactions of teacher candidates to an intervention aimed at reducing implicit bias levels in pre-service teachers . Currently , she is focused on ways to reduce implicit bias levels using virtual reality simulations .
Intended Audience
PK12 teachers PK12 administrators PK12 staff Higher ed faculty Higher ed administrators Higher ed staff HE staff
Track B : Teaching Strategies to Engage Diverse Voices Session 1B : Are We Ready for a Democratic Inclusive Classroom ? Diverse Student Voices Create Engaged Learning Environments
Democratic education ( D . Ed .) provides inclusive learner-centered strategies that can empower diverse student voices to create engaged learning environments . By incorporating student voice into class decisions regarding course outcomes , activities , and assessments , engaged learning environments become spaces where diversity is in the forefront and centralized . This session will therefore help participants to familiarize with D . Ed . strategies by presenting a case example and facilitating their democratic engagement with these processes . By the end of this session , participants will leave with knowledge and skills to create inclusive democratic learning environments that engage diverse student voices .
Presenters
Harsha Sharma , PhD ( she / her ), Professor , Nebraska Methodist College ( NMC ), Omaha , NE
Eric Kyle , Ph . D . ( he / him ), Director , 21st Century Pedagogy Institute , University of Central Oklahoma ( UCO ), Edmond OK
Harsha Sharma has over 25 years of experience in Higher Education . In these 25 years , she had an opportunity to serve in various capacities ; as an administrator , researcher and as an educator . In her post-doctoral training , she worked as post-doctoral Research Associate at Nebraska Medicine