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THIS WEEK:

Tutor Nashville

Tutor Nashville is a new partnership between Vanderbilt University and Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS). Through the program, elementary and middle school students are paired with Vanderbilt tutors to receive free, one-to-one, academic mentoring and support. 

This semester, due to COVID-19 restrictions, all tutoring sessions will be conducted virtually. As a tutor, you and your student will meet virtually during school hours, two or three times each week (depending on your schedule). No prior training is required — all tutors will be provided with professional development, guidance, and support from experienced educators.

Upcoming Information Sessions:

Monday, February 22
12:30p.m – 1:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 25
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Virtual event. Zoom link. 

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students, Peabody undergraduate students, Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Tutor Nashville

This Moment in America Panel Discussion

The Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion will host a panel of Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students to share their personal and professional views and experiences on issues that inform “This Moment in America.” The panel will explore the impact that recent political strife and racial divisions have had on marginalized social groups. This discussion also will touch upon topics related to police violence, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic and changes to the U.S. Supreme Court and presidency.

Panelists will include:
Bitania Endalkachew, Senior in Arts & Science majoring in Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies; External Relations Liaison, FirstVU 
Claire Barnett, Communications Coordinator, Frist Center for Autism & Innovation
Franklin Ellis, Director, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair, Professor of History and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Katie Crawford, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair, Professor of History and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Rob Nelson, Interim Director, Office of LGBTQI Life
Terry Maroney, Professor of Law
Veer Shah, Senior at Peabody College majoring in Human & Organizational Development and Economics; President, Vanderbilt Student Government
Xiu Cravens, Associate Dean for International Students and Affairs, Peabody College

Wednesday, February 24
1:00 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP required.

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students, Peabody undergraduate students, Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Share the Love: Random Acts of Kindness Goodie Bag Giveaway

Stop by and pick up a goodie bag (while supplies last) from the Office of Student Engagement and Well-Being as our way of showing kindness to you so that you might show kindness to others. In honor of spring, we will have seed packets and mini pots, mini notecards to write a note of appreciation to someone, sweets to share, and more. We hope to see you there!

Wednesday, February 24
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
In person event. 

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students, Peabody undergraduate students, Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Office of Student Engagement and Well-Being

Psychology & Human Development Diversity Speaker Series with Richard Prather

Join us for a talk with Richard Prather, Ph.D., University of Maryland, entitled: Reconstructing the Study of Human Cognition by Abandoning Cognitive Universalism.

The study of human cognition is a prominent part of psychology and related disciplines. While the modern approach begun during the Cognitive Revolution has been seemingly successful, it is not without its problems. Prather addresses five concerns with how human cognition is studied and proposes a reconstruction of how researchers study human cognition by implementing a combination of methodological approaches and theoretical positions.

Friday, February 26
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP required.

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students, Peabody undergraduate students, Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Autumn Kujawa

Alumni PATH Dialogue with Shan Foster

Shan Foster was a student-athlete at Vanderbilt, graduating in 2008 with a degree in Human and Organizational Development. After playing in the NBA, Shan became the co-founder and CEO of Fostering Healthy Solutions, where he cultivates healthy solutions to diversity issues through education, training, and execution. He also serves as executive director of AMEND Together & vice president of external affairs at YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee. He equips men and boys to serve as advocates for gender violence prevention and cultural change. Shan also recently released his memoir, What Hurt Didn’t Hinder. We hope you will join us for this engaging dialogue!

Friday, February 26
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP | Zoom Link

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students, Peabody undergraduate students, Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Office of Student Engagement and Well-Being

Community-Engaged Design: Equitable Processes in Practice

A key challenge of community research in action is unpacking the consequences of systemic oppression and structures that have been designed to advantage some over others. While participatory and democratic methods of research and design seek to empower communities through intentional, community-engaged practices, what can we learn by focusing on the design processes with those at the margins, broadly defined? What practices, outcomes, and resources are important for researchers to consider in this regard, especially when it comes to equity?

This panel brings together community design experts from three major U.S. cities—Nashville, Boston, and Washington D.C.—in conversation to address these key questions with explicit implications for researchers.

Friday, February 26
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Virtual event. Zoom link 

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students, Peabody undergraduate students, Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Rachel Hanebutt

COMING SOON:

Civil Discourse with Norman Merrifield

Peabody alumnus Norman L. Merrifield will lead another collaborative, interactive space for participants to Anchor Down and share thoughts on the art of Equitable Conversation.

Tuesday, March 2
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP required. 

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students, Peabody undergraduate students, Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Peabody Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Peabody Research Spotlight

The Peabody Research Spotlight (PRS) series is designed to showcase research conducted by faculty and PhD students at Peabody College, and to facilitate and strengthen interdisciplinary collaborations.

The session will consist of presentations by five alumni, representing all Peabody departments.

Speakers:

Special Education: Devin Kearns, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut

Leadership Policy and Organization: Dominique Baker, Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education & Human Development, Southern Methodist University

Psychology and Human Development: Janet Yarboi, Assistant Professor and Pediatric Psychologist at Rush University Medical Center

Teaching and Learning: Sam David, Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota

Community Research and Action: Hasina Mohyuddin, Assistant Dean of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Peabody College

Thursday, March 4
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP required.

Open to current and prospective Peabody PhD students

Questions? Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez

Dean’s Diversity Lecture with Sonja Ardoin

The Dean’s Diversity Lecture Series is a forum designed to host frank and open discussions about race, diversity and inclusion.

Sonja Ardoin, Ph.D. is a learner, educator, facilitator, and author. Professor Ardoin’s talk is entitled: First-Gen is Not My Only Identity: Recognizing Intersections. In the talk, she will bust the myth that being first-gen is a monolithic experience by exploring how identity intersections create unique first-gen perspectives.

Thursday, March 4
7:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP required.

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students, Peabody undergraduate students, Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Peabody Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Dean’s Diversity Lecture Q&A with Professor Ardoin

Join us for the interactive student, faculty and staff sessions. Sessions will be capped at 25 participants, so RSVP soon!

Friday, March 5
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Virtual event. RSVP required.

Open to Peabody faculty and Peabody Staff  

Friday, March 5
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP required.

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students and Peabody undergraduate students

Questions? Peabody Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Walk and Talk with OSEW

As the weather turns warmer, we invite you to join staff members from the Office of Student Engagement and Well-Being (OSEW) Meaghan Mundy and/or Courtney Mullane for a socially-distanced walk and talk outside. Weather permitting, we will meet at the Peabody Administration steps. Due to social distancing guidelines, six students can join along so please be sure to RSVP.  For future walk and talks, we may explore campus, walk to Scarritt-Bennett’s labyrinth or meet at a local greenway.

Friday, March 5
9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
In-person event. RSVP required.

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students and Peabody undergraduate students

Questions? Office of Student Engagement and Well-Being

Consultancy Protocol Workshop

Join us as Eve Rifkin, Program Director for Leadership and Learning in Organizations, shares facilitation tips for using the Consultancy Protocol. The Consultancy Protocol provides a framework for constructive dialogue on problems of practice, as used in our Faculty EDI and Teaching Workshops.

Wednesday, March 10
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP required. 

Open to Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Narrative Circles

The Narrative Circles approach is distinguished by principles and practices of narrative theory intended to create a shared exploration where each individual’s multi-storied self is affirmed. A welcoming space is created for reflection and connection across lines of difference so that we learn to take a values-based approach to how we exist and interact with each other.

Thursday, March 11
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP | Zoom link

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students, Peabody undergraduate students, Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Peabody Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Faculty Face Time with Professor Georgene Troseth

Dr. Georgene Troseth is a professor of psychology at Peabody College. A developmental psychologist, she has published research articles about very young children’s symbolic development and their understanding of pictures, video images, and video chat as sources of information. One focus of her research is the importance of adult support or “scaffolding” for very young children’s learning from traditional and digital media including e-books and educational applications, and for their understanding of digital images that blend fantasy with reality (such as Snapchat filters and Pokémon Go). As a first-gen student, her unusual path to academia provide her a unique lens for thinking about work-life balance. Graduate student Ashli-Ann Douglas will facilitate the conversation.

Friday, March 12
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP | Zoom link

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students, Peabody undergraduate students, Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Peabody Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

CONTINUING:

Meditation Mondays

Co-sponsored by the Peabody Office of Student Engagement & Well-Being and the Center for Student Wellbeing, we invite all Peabody faculty, staff, and students to a free guided meditation every Monday.

Every Monday
12:15 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP required.

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students, Peabody undergraduate students, Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Office of Student Engagement and Well-Being

Breathing Technique & Meditation

Join Sky Campus Happiness during this time to learn a short breathing technique and meditation to increase focus and concentration. We’ll also give practical and easy to apply tips!

Every Wednesday
1:00 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Virtual event. Zoom link

Open to Peabody professional and graduate students and Peabody undergraduate students

Questions? Marcelo Galeano

Peabody Faculty & Staff Circles of Trust

Our monthly Circle of Trust® experiences, facilitated by Dane Anthony, are designed to foster personal and professional renewal by offering time and space to:

• pause, disconnect from technology, & be still
• explore where you are on your journey
• acknowledge & honor both struggles & successes
• learn to ask open & honest questions, hold tensions, & realign your soul & role

Join us for a three-part series via Zoom:

Wednesdays (2/3, 3/3, 4/7)
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Virtual event. RSVP required.

Open to Peabody faculty and Peabody staff

Questions? Office of Student Engagement and Well-Being