Inclusive Teaching Fellows Information Session, Friday, 10/4 at 10:00 AM ET

An informal information session about the Inclusive Teaching Fellows, a new CATLR program launching in January. As a CATLR Inclusive Teaching Fellow, you will work with a CATLR staff partner and other Fellows to identify inclusive practices that you want to incorporate or expand in your own teaching, document the results, and develop materials and experiences to help other faculty adopt those practices themselves. The program is open to full-time faculty who will be teaching at least one for-credit course during the 2025 calendar year and we welcome applicants from across all of the Northeastern network.

What Inclusive Instructors Do, Part 2, Monday, 10/7 at 12:00 PM ET

In this three-part series, we discuss strategies for creating inclusive and equitable learning experiences. For Part 2, we reflect on the driving question, “how do you appreciate and incorporate your students’ diverse assets?”

Our discussions will be guided by the work of Dr. Tracie Addy, author of “What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching.” Her approach encourages instructors to value students’ identities as assets to communal learning. We look forward to exchanging ideas and helping one another adapt these principles to the Northeastern environment. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend all three sessions. Preparation materials will be distributed ahead of time to registered participants.

Guest Workshop: Reimagining Assessment with Specifications Grading, Tuesday, 10/8 at 12:00 PM ET

Specifications grading is one method within the larger constellation of “ungrading.” With this method, coursework is structured into discrete components. Each component is graded as complete or incomplete based on a one-dimensional rubric with an emphasis on achievement of learning outcomes. Join us for this guest workshop featuring David Tamés (CAMD) as he shares more about this evidence-based practice and his experiences using it. In this workshop, you will explore your own and others’ beliefs about assessment and gain ideas for how you could implement specifications grading in your courses.

AI Assignment Design, Part 2, Tuesday, 10/15 at 12:00 PM ET

In this two-part workshop, we will work on planning an assignment that incorporates a generative AI component. In Part 1, we will discuss how to design an assignment using a backward planning approach, discuss the value of the Transparent Assignment Design framework from a diversity and inclusion perspective, and gain inspiration from examples of existing generative AI assignments. In Part 2, each participant will begin developing an assignment for their context.

Inclusive Teaching Fellows Information Session, Wednesday, 10/16 at 2:00 PM ET

An informal information session about the Inclusive Teaching Fellows, a new CATLR program launching in January. As a CATLR Inclusive Teaching Fellow, you will work with a CATLR staff partner and other Fellows to identify inclusive practices that you want to incorporate or expand in your own teaching, document the results, and develop materials and experiences to help other faculty adopt those practices themselves. The program is open to full-time faculty who will be teaching at least one for-credit course during the 2025 calendar year and we welcome applicants from across all of the Northeastern network.

What Inclusive Instructors Do Part 3, Monday, 10/21 at 12:00 PM ET

In this three-part series, we discuss strategies for creating inclusive and equitable learning experiences. For Part 3, we reflect on the driving question, “How do you implement inclusive practices in your context?”

Our discussions will be guided by the work of Dr. Tracie Addy, author of “What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching.” Her approach encourages instructors to value students’ identities as assets to communal learning. We look forward to exchanging ideas and helping one another adapt these principles to the Northeastern environment. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend all three sessions. Preparation materials will be distributed ahead of time to registered participants.

Faculty vulnerability, safety, and fostering civility in the classroom, Wednesday, 11/6 at 12:00 PM ET

Many factors may be at play when a student engages in disruptive behavior: reactions to world events, personal difficulties, interpersonal or executive functioning skills the student has yet to develop, and/or important concerns that are unfortunately phrased. This workshop presents a process for systematically reflecting on the factors contributing to incivility that may occur in your classroom to help you identify options for the most appropriate response. You will also be introduced to course design and class planning strategies that lessen the likelihood of uncivil or disruptive behavior.

EdExchange: Embedding AI in Curricula, Thursday, 11/14 at 12:00 PM ET

As more faculty become comfortable integrating generative AI into teaching, departments are turning to programmatic consideration of using generative AI across the curriculum. This Educator Exchange highlights three such programs. You will hear a range of approaches from Martin Dias from the D’Amore McKim School of Business, Kelly Garneau from the Writing Programs, and Joe McNabb from the Graduate School of Engineering.