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Welcome! The Crown Center for Teaching warmly welcomes everyone back to campus for the 2026-2027 academic year. In addition to the information in this newsletter and on our website, we remain available to assist with any aspects of teaching and learning at CC. Please contact us at <a href="mailto:crowncenter@coloradocollege.edu" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #4764ae;" target="_self" title="crowncenter@coloradocollege.edu“> …

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Where This Year Leads Us From the Director: Where This Year Leads Us As we near the close of Block 8 and the end of another academic year, this final Crown newsletter offers a fitting mix of celebration, reflection, and looking ahead. It is a moment to recognize the extraordinary work of teaching at Colorado …

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Block 7 Newsletter It’s spring, a time for renewal and celebration! In Block 7, we encourage you to check out a variety of opportunities to learn from and connect with colleagues: join faculty and staff workshops that support communication and problem-solving skills, take a deep dive into the programs and people supporting student success, share …

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Block 6 Newsletter Consider Instructional Coaching If you’ve never considered participating in Instructional Coaching as a coach or coachee, we encourage you to explore the program’s offerings for individuals and groups. Instructional Coaching provides a confidential space to explore pedagogies and receive supportive feedback from a trusted colleague. Our coaches are talented teaching faculty of …

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From the Director: Keeping Time Together  As we step into a new calendar year, those of us in academic life feel time in stereo. The world flips the page to January, while we remain midstream in our academic cycle. The teaching, advising, and planning continue as the steady rhythms of campus life move us continuously …

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Welcome to Block 4! The Crown Center’s Block 3 workshop, “Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Teaching,” has me reflecting on how interdisciplinarity has shaped my time at CC—first as a student, now as an employee. Early on, I realized that courses outside my art history major, psychology, music, history, feminist and gender studies, and sociology each offered …

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From the Director: When Curiosity Becomes Connectivity  With Block 3 underway, we find ourselves in that familiar and fruitful middle ground of the academic year. We are finding a rhythm as we surpass 2/8 of the current academic year, yet plans for the next one are already emerging. Now is the time when course ideas …

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From the Director: Here we are. Welcome to Block 2! The pacing of our academic calendar affords a special type of educational intensity, one where we dig deep and explore widely. Our Block 1 Crown Center Workshop focused on “Inclusive Participation.” Faculty and staff gathered over lunch to consider different modes and expectations of participation, ultimately …

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Welcome to a new Academic Year! It was a joy to spend last week with our newest colleagues during New Faculty Orientation. This energizing start aligned beautifully with the arrival of the Class of 2029 to our campus community. That convergence of new ideas, fresh perspectives, and shared curiosity is a powerful reminder of the …

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End of Year Opportunities Abound! From the Director: Sieve! Sieve! Sieve! More than a Hockey Chant… In our previous newsletters, we introduced the HITS framework (Hub–Incubator–Temple-Sieve) for enhancing the effectiveness of Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs). In this final block of the year, we move to the final letter in the framework: Sieve. The …

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