During local, national or international crises and significant events, students and faculty can become emotionally charged, feel mentally drained, and be uncertain about how to respond to opposing viewpoints with humility. The links below provide strategies to help faculty create teachable moments in times of crises and develop respectful rapport despite varied perspectives.

• Responding to Critical Incidents, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Supporting Students Through the Chauvin Trial and Daunte Wright Shooting, Rider University 
• Teaching After Charlottesville, The Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University
• "In the Eye of the Storm: Students’ Perceptions of Helpful Faculty Actions Following a Collective Tragedy," To Improve the Academy, Volume 25, 2007

Helpful guides and resources have been assembled by some of our favorite centers for teaching and learning and partner organizations: 

• Navigating the Post-Election Period with Your Students (2024),  University of Michigan CRLT
• Teaching and the Election, University of Oregon 
• How Faculty Can Prepare to Handle the Post-Election Classroom, Scholars Strategy Network (PDF)
• Resources for Supporting our Campuses in Politically Fraught Times, a POD Network compilation from 2016

Helpful guides and resources have been assembled by some of our favorite centers for teaching and learning, partner organizations, and experts in the field:

• Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice, developed by the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University
• Antiracist Pedagogy Reading List, compiled by Andrea Aebersold, director of faculty instructional development in the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation at the University of California at Irvine.
• Harvard’s Educational Podcast on Teaching Race and Racism featuring Bree Picower, Professor, Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning, Montclair State university
• Becoming a White Antiracist (presswarehouse.com) by Stephen Brookfield and Mary Hess. This book will be useful to anyone trying to create conversations around race, teach about white supremacy, arrange staff and development workshops on racism, and help colleagues explore how to create an antiracist culture or environment.
• "Teaching Race, Racism, and Racial Justice: Pedagogical Principles and Classroom Strategies for Course Instructors," by M. Brielle Harbin, Amie Thurber, and Joe Bandy. Race and Pedagogy Journal (2019).
• Teaching Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism, by Stephen D. Brookfield (2018).
• "Barriers and Strategies by White Faculty Who Incorporate Anti-Racist Pedagogy," by Jennifer Akamine Phillips, Nate Risdon, Matthew Lamsma, Angelica Hambrick, and Alexander Jun. Race and Pedagogy Journal (2019).
• Pedagogies of Care: Open Resources for Student-Centered and Adaptive Strategies in the New Higher-Ed Landscape contains material on teaching about race and racism (2020).

Start Talking: A Handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education, Kay Landis, editor, University of Alaska, Anchorage & Alaska Pacific University

Mastering online discussion board facilitation: Resource Guide, Edutopia