Produced by Achieving the Dream, this Toolkit synthesizes research from the field and stories from our colleges and offers a vast array of work-sheets and planning templates to support college teams in building institutional capacity in teaching and learning. The purpose of this toolkit is for college teams of faculty, faculty/educational developers, Student Affairs professionals, and Academic Affairs leaders to use this resource as they collaborate to change their institutional culture.
Developed by the Life University Center for Compassion, Integrity, and Secular Ethics (CCISE), this resource manual offers guidelines for practice and trains readers to use a secular ethics approach to cultivating personal, social, and environmental flourishing. Compassionate Integrity Training (CIT) is a multi-part training program that cultivates basic human values as skills for the purpose of increasing individual, social, and environmental flourishing. By covering a range of skills from self-regulation and self-compassion to compassion for others and engagement with complex…
This resource is a syllabus for the Prison Writing Center Praxis I/O course offered at Scripps College by Dr. Kimberley Drake. In this course, students will discuss the theory and practice of an Inside/Out Writing Center, with the goal of establishing and maintaining a Writing Center at CRC. The class will examine academic writing alongside journalism and other forms of nonfiction writing, and students will practice these kinds of writing and all aspects of the writing process as they learn how to give one-on-one feedback in a Writing Center setting. Along the way, students will discuss…
The Evergreen State College developed a writing lab course that provides weekly writing opportunities for students to experiment, observe, or practice. This 4-credit course is a “laboratory” offered in coordination with the BA Colloquium; it features direct instruction along with hands-on practice in a variety of tried-and-true techniques focused on “the 5 Rs”: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Resilience, and Rhythm (a.k.a. time management).
Developed by the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS), this guide is separated into three sections: Getting to Know the Environment, Pedagogy in Practice, and Curriculum Details & Logistics. The first section of this guide, Getting to Know the Environment, provides an overview of prison infrastructure, terminology, and policies, in addition to how they impact the day-to-day reality and education of our students. The second section, …
With Pell Grant access fully restored as of July 2023, the Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network (FICGN) has identified a gap in the existing resources and support available for instructors teaching in a prison setting for the first time. Orientations and trainings offered by correctional institutions tend to lack comprehensive guidance for instructors on effectively engaging students from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds and tailoring their pedagogical approaches to support students as they pursue their studies within the unique context of a correctional facility.
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This toolkit and guide were created by The State University of New York's (SUNY) Higher Education for the Justice Involved (HEJI) team to help support administrators and professors to best serve students by considering their power and responsibility inside the prison context. The first goal of this document is to help guide programs through developing hiring and training practices that can support quality programming inside the correctional facility. The second goal is to generate a larger conversation about what programs consider to be best practice and how hiring,…
This manual will help prepare you to teach courses in Ohio’s correctional facilities as part of the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP). Teaching in prison classrooms is unique and requires specialized training and many new considerations. This manual is meant to offer a guide as you plan your OPEEP courses and navigate the bureaucratic steps on campus and at the prison location where your class will convene.
Also attached to this resource is an OPEEP training slideshow that includes an introduction to OPEEP's mission and vision for the program.
A slideshow on effective pedagogy, culturally responsive teaching, and trauma informed practices developed by Saint Louis University Program Director, Christopher Grabau, PhD.
Also attached to this resource are training worksheets designed to be used alongside the slideshow.
With the reinstatement of Pell and TAP funding, and in collaboration with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) and other identifiable stakeholders, the State University of New York (SUNY) seeks to increase and expand incarcerated individuals access to quality post-secondary education, both during and after incarceration. Included in this resource are 13 principles that guide the design, implementation, and metrics for success of SUNY’s programs inside prisons, jails, and federal correctional facilities in New York State.
