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Mindful Teachers: Tips for Including Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in Mindfulness, Meditation, and Yoga Classes

Intended for a K-12 audience but concepts can be adapted for any audience of learners. 

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Mindful Communications: Using Mindfulness to Break Racial Bias

Open initially but then has popped behind a subscription/paywall. 

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Northeastern University: 4 Practices to Promote Equity in the Classroom

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The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfullness

Law professor and mindfulness practitioner Rhonda Magee shows that the work of racial justice begins with ourselves. This is a link to where you can purchase this book. 

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University of Minnesota: Mindfulness for Racial Justice

This article arose from a conversation with Rhonda Magee, a law professor and mindfulness teacher and the author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities through Mindfulness. Magee writes about the importance of mindfulness for people of all and various racialized identities working toward racial justice. This article is written from our understanding as white-embodied, cisgender women, and includes reflections from Rhonda, a Black-embodied, cisgender woman. It may be especially helpful for white-embodied readers who are interested in understanding how mindfulness-based practices might assist them in addressing systemic racism, or, for people of color exploring ways of working with white-embodied people through mindfulness. We encourage all readers to check out Magee's writings to see how her work resonates for you.

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Learning for Justice: Mindful of Equity

Practices that help students control their impulses can also mask systemic failures. Written for a K-12 audience however I think this resource translates well to higher education as well. 

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Fullerton College: Mindfulness and Equity: Natural Partners

Slides from the FC Mindful Growth Initiative. Mindful Growth = Mindfulness + Growth Mindset 

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Elements of Indigenous Style: 12 Ways to Better Choose Our Words When We Write About Indigenous Peoples

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Mindful Connections: Bringing Deeper Awareness to Your Land Acknowledgement

Mindfulness teacher Rose Mina Munjee explores why Indigenous land acknowledgments matter, and offers a guide for writing a land acknowledgment as a practice to expand awareness and encourage justice.

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Northwestern Native American and Indigenous Initiatives: Land Acknowledgement Resources

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Example of a mindful land acknowledgment from the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Queen’s University.

Lindsay Brant, Educational Developer, Indigenous Pedagogies and Ways of Knowing at the Centre for Teaching and Learning, talks about meaningful land acknowledgements.

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The Pyjama Foundation: Acknowledgement of Country and Gratitude Activity (for children but could be adapted).

An Acknowledgement of Country is an important sign or recognition and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Australians. We have created this activity to for mentors, teachers, carers or parents to use with their children.

These activities will help to ensure the children/child is aware of the past and ongoing connection of First Nation’s people to place and land.

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Native Governance Center: A Guide to Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

Native Governance Center co-hosted an Indigenous land acknowledgment event with the Lower Phalen Creek Project on Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019 (October 14). The event featured the following talented panelists: Dr. Kate Beane (Flandreau Santee Dakota and Muskogee Creek), Mary Lyons (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe), Rose Whipple (Isanti Dakota and Ho-Chunk), Rhiana Yazzie (Diné), and Cantemaza (Neil) McKay (Spirit Lake Dakota). We’ve created this handy guide to Indigenous land acknowledgment based on our panelists’ responses.

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LJIST: The Original People of this Land Acknowledgement Practice

“If you’re not mindful of what you are doing, then, you are turning a land acknowledgment into a token. It becomes an empty gesture to ‘honor’ Native people. It becomes this century’s mascot.”

Dr. Debbie Reese

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Putting the horse back in front of the cart: using visions and decisions about high-quality learning experiences to drive course design.

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Allen D, Tanner K. Putting the horse back in front of the cart: using visions and decisions about high-quality learning experiences to drive course design. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2007;6:85–89.

A systematic approach to designing significant learning experiences for students using the “ end in mind” kind of approach while starting with a vision of the desired results. The design process then works backwards to develop the instruction. How you teach might become as important as the way you teach. The three stages of backward design are planned with enduring questions such as 1) What is worthy of student understanding? 2) What would demonstrate competency in student understanding? 3) Which approaches promote understanding and competency in the subject matter?   
 

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Spider Silk: Stress-Strain Curves and Young's Modulus

This module introduces the stress-strain curve in the context of understanding materials' mechanical behavior. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

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Enzymes and the Rate of Chemical Reactions

This module introduces rates of reactions in the context of understanding how enzymes affect chemical reactions. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

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Antibody Binding

This module introduces the Scatchard equation in the context of understanding antigen binding and the properties of antigens. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

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Growth Mindset Prompt

Before giving an introduction to growth mindset, these prompts can be given to students so they can brainstorm activities they associate with long hours of practice (growth mindset) vs. natural talent (fixed mindset). Developed by Arietta Fleming-Davies.

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The p53 Gene and Cancer

This tutorial describes the structure and function of the p53 protein, how its activity is regulated in cells, and how mutant versions of p53 can lead to cancer.

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Cells of the Immune System

This tutorial provides an overview of the immune system, concentrating on the roles played by B and T lymphocytes, and on the antigen-presentation system.

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Modeling the lac Operon to Understand the Regulation of Gene Expression in Prokaryotes

This resource is a recitation activity designed for an introductory biology course in which students explore a lac operon simulation (https://qubeshub.org/resources/phetlacoperon).

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Gelin’: Gel Electrophoresis Simulation

Students will understand how DNA is separated into a fingerprint by using a chromatography activity to simulate gel electrophoresis.

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Intro videos and terminology for GMOs, Transcription, Translation

Compiled resources around GMOs and protein production including vocabulary, animations, videos, and games

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Bacteria Transformation

TeachEngineering resource in which students construct paper recombinant plasmids to simulate the methods genetic engineers use to create modified bacteria.

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