Welcome to Equitable Teaching at U-M
Introducing the Social Identity Snapshot
Diop Russell | November 2025
U-M’s Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) has retired the widely used Social Identity Wheel and has transitioned to the Social Identity Snapshot. Learn how to facilitate this exercise in your classroom using recommendations from Patrick Kazyak-Albaladejo Muñiz (they/them), Associate Director for Strategic Partnerships and Dissemination at IGR.
Foundations of DEI in the Workplace
Diop Russell & Jameel Baksh | September 2025
Learn about the six-session training program for undergraduate student employees in LSA, offered from 2021 to 2024.
Ongoing student activism at the University of Michigan has been a catalyst for faculty engagement in issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. To build on the College of LSA’s existing efforts to address campus climate concerns, the University of Michigan established the Equitable Teaching website. This initiative provides innovative teaching methods and tools designed to enhance student success through equitable teaching practices.
What is Equitable Teaching?
The Equitable Teaching Team uses Norton’s Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching as a foundational resource for defining equitable teaching practices. Equitable teaching involves creating an environment where all students, of various backgrounds, abilities, or circumstances, have access to the resources, support, and opportunities they need to succeed academically and personally through:
- Design for Equity: by making content relevant to students experiences and goals, setting accessible levels of rigor, and clearly defined expectations for students.
- Inclusive Day to Day Teaching: creating a sense of belonging and trust between students, instructors, and administrators while designing course elements—such as online modules and daily learning activities—to increase inclusion and equity-minded practices.
- Learning through Critical Reflection: analyzing students and instructors experiences to determine how equitable and inclusive the course is and where improvements should be made.
Source: Artze-Vega, Isis, et al. The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. W. W. Norton, 2023.
Cultivate Equitable Classrooms
An equitable classroom environment starts with course and syllabus design, reaches through day-to-day interactions, and extends all the way to assessment practices for student work. View the many resources on cultivating equity in the classroom.
We are grateful to our colleagues in the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, the Program on Intergroup Relations, the Comprehensive Studies Program, and many others for generously sharing equitable teaching materials they have developed over years of practice for use on this website.
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