Session 2: Asao’s chapters 1 & 2; discussion, questions, and application.

This Community of Practice invites faculty and graduate students who teach writing-intensive courses and/or who want to teach more writing in their courses to join a conversation about assignment design and writing assessment for a socially just future. In this Community of Practice, participants will brainstorm, discuss, analyze, and practice ways to teach and assess writing in their disciplines that support students’ linguistic diversity, funds of knowledge, and literacies. We will read Asao Inoue’s open access book Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future as a launching point into our conversations. Time will be made in each meeting to discuss practical application to our writing assignments and teaching of writing. Inoue is the former chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), and Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies was the winner of the 2017 CCCC Outstanding Book Award and 2017 Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book Award. This CoP is capped at 20 participants.