Teaching Social Problems 2022 Annual Division Meeting Tuesday, August 2, 2022 via Zoom Attendees: Sandhya Celestin, Seth Bacon, Ira Silver Four-part meeting agenda: 1. Sessions for the 2023 SSSP meeting, which will be in Philadelphia. 2. Material you'd like to see in and/or contribute to an upcoming division newsletter. 3. Student paper award 4. Special division activities for the next year. Agenda #1 SSSP offers 3 kinds of sessions: 1. Critical Dialogue: Short (5 minute) presentations by up to eight authors. These sessions encourage conversation and audience participation. This format is particularly impactful as it purposefully fosters dialogue between scholars and activists. We strongly encourage you to make use of the Critical Dialogue format as much as you can, especially for sessions you are sponsoring/co-sponsoring on the program theme. 2. Papers in the Round: These sessions are composed of multiple roundtables in the same room. Each roundtable should have four papers with an established scholar as discussant. 3. Regular: These sessions are composed of four papers and a discussant or five papers without a discussant. These are less common for TSP sessions. The aim is to plan 3 of our own sessions, one of which is on the conference theme. Then, we can offer up to 7 co-sponsored sessions. 2023 SSSP annual meeting theme: “Same Problem Different Day: Recognizing and Responding to Recurring Social Problems” Ideas for individual sessions: * “No Room for Doom and Gloom: How to Make Learning about Social Problems Motivating and Inspiring” (Connected to theme of 2023 meeting) * “A Context for Discussing Trauma: How the Modality of Instruction Influences What Students Feel Comfortable Sharing” * “Recognizing Our Own Privilege: How College Instructors Can Be Transparent About Their Power in the Classroom” Ideas for joint sessions: * “Identity Matters: How an Instructor’s Subjectivity Influences the Way They Teach about Race (with Racial and Ethnic Minorities) * “Teaching about Environmental Racism” (with Environment and Technology) * “Making Classrooms More Accessible” (with Disability) * “Using Media to Teach about Social Problems.” (with Social Problems Theory) * “Experiential Learning as a Way to Teach about Social Problems” (with Community Research and Development) Agenda #2 * Member news * A feature story about innovative teaching methods * Listing of sessions at next SSSP meeting * Other?...Teaching resources – websites with relevant material Agenda #3 We have a student paper competition, but we don’t get submissions. Can we repurpose the award? We discussed allowing for papers that are either research-based and contain implications for teaching or that aren’t research-based but describe a technique used in the classroom. Agenda #4 I asked that people brainstorm and share with me any ideas that occur to them. The meeting was recorded and can be accessed here: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/heOf8Tthjw5fy8lTED3fYjDq3sTaLz4SVA6JhLOseqt30yyfluay7y2pLbaktmAx.uTsM6pTNQo6u5Rme Passcode: 2x&X+qiB