Empowering Students

Cultivating learning spaces where all students can thrive.

What Is the Equity Action Exchange?

The Equity Action Exchange is a collective of CEGEP students, teachers, and community members. We work together to embed equity and care into the methods and content of teaching and learning. We do this by building and sharing curriculum bundles teachers can use or adapt for their classes.

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Community Building

Create a classroom culture where all students feel like they matter.

Mental Health

Invite students to calm and focus their minds.

Equity Essentials

Shed light on the injustices of colonialism and racism and celebrate excellence within Black, Indigenous and racialized communities.

Taking Action

Guide students to use their campus as a ‘living lab’ as they explore strategies to break down barriers and create spaces where all students can thrive.

Transversal Skills

Build students’ ability to enact positive change by nurturing essential skills such as communication, collaboration, reflection, constructive feedback exchange, and imagining alternative futures.

Helping All Students Flourish

For too long, postsecondary institutions have centred European knowledge and pedagogical approaches, leaving the rich knowledges of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities on the margins.

The fact that such Eurocentric curricula contribute to a sense of isolation, shame, and disconnect for many racialized and Indigenous students is well established. What is less obvious – especially for teachers who were themselves educated in a Eurocentric system – is how to do things differently.

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From Resistance to Engagement: How Classroom Guidelines Can Foster Productive Dialogue on Racism

28 May 2024

This past semester, I had a challenging class. It was composed of career students, many of whom had never spoken...