Do you teach college classes and are concerned for the needs of BIPOC students in primarily white classrooms? Learn to listen and interpret their needs through a creative study using erasure poetry and black vernacular theory. This will help you recognize the needs of your BIPOC students with creative pedagogical strategies.

I plan to include a combination of exploration of theory and information, some storytelling aspects, and participatory activities. I am going to pose a scenario and start the workshop with breakout rooms given a prompt based on that scenario. They will use shared documents to write down their discussion. After discussing the results of the breakout rooms, I plan on introducing my erasure poetry interview project and its findings on the needs of BIPOC college/university students in primarily white classrooms as well as additional theory supporting these findings. This includes the storytelling aspect because I will be introducing the narratives of my school’s BIPOC students through the erasure poetry. The viewers will have an opportunity to then use the shared document to create their own erasure poetry on the subject or join another breakout room brainstorming other pedagogical strategies besides interview erasure poetry that can get the same insight into the needs of their BIPOC students.