Incubating Educational Excellence From the Director: Incubating Educational Excellence In our Block 5 newsletter, I introduced the HITS framework (Hub-Incubator-Temple-Sieve) for enhancing the effectiveness of Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs). I shared some ways the Crown Center serves as a hub for convening, connecting, and coordinating. In Block 6, we move to the …
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Crown Center for Teaching Block 4 Newsletter
From the Director: The Core of What We Do Last week, I had the pleasure of traveling to Chicago to attend the annual conference of the POD Network. As outlined in its mission, POD “exists to provide professional development and a community of practice for scholars and practitioners of educational development, and to serve as …
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Crown Center on Elections
Block 3 Newsletter From the Director: On Teaching Through Elections Block three 2016 found me back in the classroom, fresh from my post-third-year-review sabbatical. I was teaching our Music Fundamentals course and felt I had finally hit my stride in the CC classroom. My brisk confidence propelled by the continuation of hope offered by the …
Crown Center in Block 2
Teaching Highlights The Crown Center supports and celebrates the excellent teaching of our colleagues across campus. If you have an item to share, please let us know! In an essay published this past summer in Faculty Learning Communities Working Towards a More Equitable, Just, and Anti-Racist Future in Higher Education, Associate Professor of Education Tina …
Crown Center in Block 1
Teaching News and Events Teaching Highlights The Crown Center supports and celebrates the excellent teaching of our colleagues from across campus. We’re excited at the outset of this year to share two such examples. If you have an item to share, please let us know! The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) recently featured our …
Crown Center Updates & Opportunities
Creativity & Innovation Comes to Crown We’re excited to announce that Creativity and Innovation at CC (C&I) has become a part of the Crown Center for Teaching. This alignment enhances our mission to support innovative and inclusive teaching across campus by heightening awareness of C&I programming and opportunities for engagement. C&I will maintain faculty programs …