Crafting an Inclusive Pedagogy for All: Perspectives from the Inclusive Pedagogy Institute Cohort
This discussion panel will feature perspectives from participants of the Inclusive Pedagogy Institute Cohort, sharing insights and experiences on crafting inclusive pedagogy for all learners. Attendees will engage in a dynamic conversation exploring effective strategies, challenges, and successes in fostering inclusivity within educational practices.
Megan Sullivan (Moderator), Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Faculty Director of Inclusive Pedagogy Initiative, College of General Studies
Megan Sullivan is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Faculty Director of Boston University’s Inclusive Pedagogy Initiative. She works with faculty across campus to help them be more inclusive instructors and to increase BU graduate and undergraduate students’ sense of belonging and purpose.
Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French and CCIMS Director of Undergraduate Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
Here is the short bio: Jennifer Cazenave is Assistant Professor of French and Film at Boston University. Her research interests include documentary cinema, disability studies, archive and memory studies, and Holocaust and genocide studies. She is affiliated with the program in Cinema and Media Studies, the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, and the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. In 2022-2023, she was a fellow in BU’s inaugural Inclusive Pedagogy Institute.
Liz Co, Director of Inclusive Pedagogy and Senior Lecturer of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences
Liz Co is a senior lecturer and the Director of Inclusive Pedagogy in the Department of Biology at Boston University. She teaches Anatomy, Physiology, and Physiology of Reproduction. Around campus Dr. Co spends her time with her students, writing, or involved in pedagogy research and education initiatives. Among her favorite campus activities, is EAT (Education and Teaching) lunches, a monthly gathering that Liz initiated to bring together faculty to discuss their teaching. Dr. Co received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences (with a focus on Immunology) from the University of California, San Francisco; she earned her BA with High Honors in Biology and Education at Mount Holyoke College in MA.
Michele Martinez, Senior Lecturer of Writing, College of Arts & Sciences
Michele Martinez is a Senior Lecturer in Boston University’s CAS Writing Program. She has developed classes that foster asset-based learning and antiracist visual literacy. Students from her writing courses have published their work in the Writing Program journals WR and Deerfield as well as the national publication Young Scholars in Writing. Michele’s scholarship focuses on intersections between nineteenth-century poetry and visual culture and at present addresses imperialist visuality in Julia Margaret Cameron’s family photography. In 2012, she published Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh: A Reading Guide (Edinburgh UP). Her interdisciplinary work has appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Review, and Modern Language Studies as well as the essay collection Victorian Women Poets. Michele plans to publish an essay on teaching WR152 Family Snaps and Stories.
Rachel Meade, Lecturer of Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences
Rachel Meade is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. Her research examines why people support populist social movements, media, and politicians in the US and Argentina. She was a participant in the 2022-23 BU Inclusive Pedagogy Institute.
Jonathan Waldo, Associate Director of Clinical Training, Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
I graduated from the Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine Program (MHCBM) at BU Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine in 2014. I worked as a counselor and then clinical director for a residential treatment program with Justice Resource Institute (the GRIP Program), and in group practice with Counseling Services of Greater Boston. While I’ve had the opportunity to develop experience with a broad range of client presentations and backgrounds, my primary focus for specialization has been on psychological trauma, particularly that experienced during childhood development. I joined the MHCBM Program as the Clinical Training Coordinator in September 2021. I oversee clinical field placements and training for students, which includes the process of students identifying and seeking practicum and internship positions, and their participation in clinical supervision courses in our program alongside their field experience. I have a passion for supervision and development of counselors’ skills and understanding alongside their own wellness and abilities for self-regulation. I understand mental health counseling through the fundamentals of respect for an individual’s lived experience, insight, and intrinsic capacity for wellness, and endeavor professionally to interact with colleagues, students, and clients from a position of collaboration and unconditional support. These values have been central to my approach to integrating updated and inclusive pedagogical practices into the clinical supervision courses and to the field placement preparation provided to our masters students.