January 21, 2025
Cohort 1: Week 1
Introduction and Overview
January 21, 2025
Equity in Instruction Faculty Learning Community
Created as an online resource for faculty across the University of Hawai‘i System, the Equity in Instruction Online Faculty Learning Community (FLC) includes easy-to-adopt ideas for shaping your courses to be more inclusive.
The six module course encourages a learning mindset rather than a deficit mindset, and ultimately aims to improve student success in courses without diminishing academic quality. It is designed as a six-week hybrid program that includes asynchronous learning modules and face-to-face meetings with faculty to discuss the questions emerging from the modules.
This six-part module provides data, ideas, and resources to enhance the learning environment for students who may otherwise be struggling. We hope that this set of modules will be used to infuse equity into instructional design and provide all our students with the best possible learning environment on our campuses.
Interested in joining the FLC?
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FLC Course Framework
- Free to join
- Time to complete: Six weeks
- Faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants are all eligible to join
- Work with a team of 5–6 diverse educators across the UH Mānoa campus
- Reflect on your teaching practices and exchange ideas/strategies at facilitated weekly meetings
- Those who complete the course in a FLC and meet the requirements are eligible to earn the Equity in Instruction FLC course badge
- FLC members who earn the badge can serve to facilitate future cohorts and act as teaching mentors
- FLC members may qualify for compensation
What Do You Gain by Being Part of the FLC?
Build confidence in creating an inclusive classroom.
The modules include resources on inclusive teaching from the literature.
Deepen your understanding of equity gaps and discover techniques to close them.
The course will provide you with a data driven approach to determine if you are achieving success using DFW rates for your classes.
Walk away with a plan for revising your course syllabus with equity in mind.
The course is designed to offer easy and targeted changes at the course level to enhance equity that can be incorporated into any class.
Develop a network of like-minded faculty to support you.
Through face-to-face meetings, you will connect with fellow educators across the campus and have the opportunity to build a community that will go beyond the FLC timeline.
FLC Spring 2025 Timeline
January 27, 2025
Cohort 1: Week 2
Transforming Higher Education
January 27, 2025
February 3, 2025
Cohort 1: Week 3
Inclusive Learning Spaces and How to Foster Them
February 3, 2025
February 10, 2025
Cohort 1: Week 4
Evidence-based Strategies for Student Success
February 10, 2025
February 17, 2025
Cohort 1: Week 5
Centering Students
February 17, 2025
February 24, 2025
Cohort 1: Week 6
Exploring Our Own Class Data and Developing an Action Plan
February 24, 2025
March 24, 2025
Cohort 2: Week 1
Introduction and Overview
March 24, 2025
March 31, 2025
Cohort 2: Week 2
Transforming Higher Education
March 31, 2025
April 7, 2025
Cohort 2: Week 3
Inclusive Learning Spaces and How to Foster Them
April 7, 2025
April 14, 2025
Cohort 2: Week 4
Evidence-based Strategies for Student Success
April 14, 2025
April 21, 2025
Cohort 2: Week 5
Centering Students
April 21, 2025
April 28, 2025
Cohort 2: Week 6
Exploring Our Own Class Data and Developing an Action Plan
April 28, 2025
Spring Cohort Celebration
Cohort members will be recognized (Date TBD)
Launched in partnership with the Office of the Vice President for Academic Strategy (OVPAS) and supported by the Lumina Foundation, this FLC programming was developed for fostering equity focused, data-informed instructional practices and to improve faculty engagement in equity-driven teaching and learning across the University of Hawaii system. The OFDAS Center for Teaching Excellence will coordinate the FLC cohorts each semester at UH Mānoa. Faculty, instructors, and TAs are welcome to request to be included in a cohort or can complete the course individually.
Equity in Instruction FLC
Digital Badge
Badge design is subject to change.
The Equity in Instruction digital badge is an official UH System digital credential. It can be earned upon the successful completion of the FLC courses—details to be determined.
Credits
Faculty Development Support
Kathleen Kane, Director of Faculty Development, UH Mānoa OFDAS (retired)
Hazel Gedikli, Interim Director of Faculty Development, UH Mānoa OFDAS
Lamakū Design
Shamila Janakiraman, Assistant Professor, Learning Design & Technology, College of Education, UH Mānoa
Development and Beta Testers
Nate Brown, Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Bruno, Faculty Specialist at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP)
Stephanie Furuta, Curriculum & Instruction, UH Mānoa
Elizabeth Gross, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, UH Mānoa
Shamila Janakiraman, Assistant Professor, Learning Design & Technology, College of Education, UH Mānoa
Jayson Parba, Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator, Filipino Language and Culture Program, Indo-Pacific Languages & Literatures, UH Mānoa
John C. Robertson, Ph.D., Mathematics, UH Mānoa
Video Production
Michael Rohrbacher, Multimedia Developer, Technology & Distance Programs (TDP), College of Education, UH Mānoa
James Park, Web Developer, Technology & Distance Programs (TDP), College of Education, UH Mānoa
Data
Kara Plamann Wagoner, Director of Institutional Research and Planning Office, UH System
Jared Takazawa, Institutional Research and Planning Office, UH System
2022 FLC Pilot Cohort
Veny Liu, Assistant Professor of Math, UH West Oʻahu
Marc Bresler, Natural Sciences, Chemistry Lecturer, Windward Community College
Jason Kenji Higa, Assistant Professor & Medical School Course Director, University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine
Morgan Andaluz, Associate Professor of English, UH Maui College
Sharleen Nakamoto-Levine, American Studies/History Instructor, Honolulu Community College
Thomas Scheiding, Associate Professor of Economics, UH West Oʻahu
Kawēlau Wright, Associate Professor of Educational Administration, College of Education, UH Mānoa
Michael Oishi, Associate Professor, Literature, Leeward Community College
Julie Iezzi, Professor of Theatre, UH Mānoa
Joel A. Kaufmann, Instructor of Chemistry & Biology, UH Hilo
Carrie Mospens, Professor of English, Hawai‘i Community College