The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching

Isis Artze-Vega (lead author and editor) serves as College Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Valencia College in central Florida, a Hispanic-Serving Institution long regarded as one of the nation’s best community colleges. She provides strategic leadership in the areas of curriculum, assessment, faculty development, online learning, career and workforce education, and partnerships for educational equity. Prior to joining Valencia, Isis served as Assistant Vice President for Teaching and Learning at Florida International University and taught writing at the University of Miami. She is coauthor of Connections Are Everything: A College Student’s Guide to Relationship-Rich Education (2023). Flower Darby is an Associate Director of the Teaching for Learning Center at the University of Missouri. In this role she builds on her experience teaching in person and online for over twenty-six years, as well as experience gained in her previous roles as Director of Teaching for Student Success and Assistant Dean of Online and Innovative Pedagogies, to empower faculty to teach effective and inclusive classes in all modalities. Flower is the author, with James M. Lang, of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes (2019), and she is an internationally sought-after keynote speaker. Bryan Dewsbury is Associate Professor of Biology and Associate Director of the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University. He is the Principal Investigator of the Science Education and Society (SEAS) research program, a team blending research on the social context of teaching and learning, faculty development of inclusive practices, and programming to cultivate equity in education. Previously, he was at the University of Rhode Island. Bryan is a Fellow with the John N. Gardner Institute, where he assists institutions of higher education cultivate best practices in inclusive education. Mays Imad is an Assistant Professor of Biology and Equity Pedagogy at Connecticut College. Prior to that, she founded the Teaching & Learning Center at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona, where she also taught for over ten years in the department of life and physical sciences. A Gardner Institute Fellow and an American Association of Colleges and Universities Senior Fellow, Mays’s research focuses on stress, biofeedback and self-regulation, critical feeling, and cultivating resilience, and how these impact student learning and success. A nationally recognized expert on trauma-informed teaching and learning, Mays works to promote inclusive, equitable, and contextual education—all rooted in the latest research on the neurobiology of learning.