2025-2026 CELT WORKSHOPS

CELT Special Request After-Hours Support

CELT is available to do customized workshops, including evenings and Saturdays, upon request for small groups with a minimum of 4 attendees.  CELT Customized Workshop Request Form

Upcoming Workshops

Our workshop topics include instructional design strategies, assessments, instructional technology, and teaching and learning theories. *NOTE: Meeting rooms will appear in your confirmation email after registering for the workshop.

AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, & OCTOBER 2025

• Pedagogy Unlocked: Building Fundamentals for Lasting Relational Impact

  DATE: Monday, August 18, 2025

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm

  REGISTER HERE

  Explore core teaching principles that go beyond content delivery to foster meaningful connections with students. Learn strategies to design and facilitate lessons that cultivate trust, engagement, and long-term learning. Leave with tools to make your teaching both effective and relationship-rich.

• Bridging the Feedback Gap: Strategies to Cultivate Students' Feedback Literacy

  DATE: Wednesday, September 3, 2025 

  TIME: 10:00am - 11:15am 

  REGISTER HERE 

  This workshop provides the foundation for the certificate, highlighting the key features of feedback literacy, which will be fundamental to the subsequent workshops. The workshop will include content delivery, gamified interaction, small-group discussion, and an individual activity that will serve as the first deliverable in the certificate program. During this workshop, we will also:

  • Define feedback and feedback literacy in higher education.
  • Explore challenges students may experience in receiving or implementing feedback.
  • Discover approaches for implementing feedback literacy.
• Poll Everywhere: Presenter Training

  DATE: Friday, September 5, 2025 

  TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm  

  REGISTER HERE   

  **THIS WORKSHOP IS ONLINE - ZOOM LINK BELOW**  

  Join Donnie Richards for an interactive workshop designed to help you get started with Poll Everywhere. This session will walk you through the essentials of using the platform to engage students and assess their understanding in real time. During this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to:  

  • Log in and navigate your account
  • Understand the Activities page
  • Organize Activities and Folders
  • Adjust settings and defaults
  • Choose between Activity types
  • Add Activities to Folders
  • Configure Activities
  • Present Activities live and asynchronously 

  Presenter: Donnie Richards  

  Zoom Link: https://polleverywhere.zoom.us/j/8344440903 

• The Art of Building Rapport as a Grad Student

  DATE: Monday, September 8, 2025 

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm

  REGISTER HERE 

  Discover how to create authentic, professional connections with students while navigating your unique position as a graduate instructor. We’ll explore practical communication, presence, and classroom practices that encourage student trust and participation. Build confidence in balancing authority with approachability.

• Legal Issues for College Faculty - Book Group (Session 1)

  DATE: Tuesday, September 9, 2025  

  TIME: 3:15pm - 4:30pm  

  REGISTER: If you're interested in participating in this book group, you must submit this request form. Space is limited, and participation depends upon your availability. 

  Faculty members navigate complex legal issues every day, often without realizing it. Join us for a semester-long book group on “Navigating Choppy Waters: Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know” with author Kent Kauffman, Associate Professor of Business Law. Over four interactive sessions, we will engage in small-group discussions and facilitated Q&A focusing on key themes from the book. Participants will gain critical insights and deepen their understanding of legal issues in higher education, while Kent provides expert guidance to help unpack these issues. 

  Objectives: 

  1. Contribute to small-group discussions by sharing relevant experiences, examples, or perspectives related to the session’s discussion questions.
  2. Engage in Q&A sessions with the author by posing questions, offering clarifications, or responding to prompts.
  3. Collaborate with peers to explore multiple perspectives on legal issues in higher education.
  4. Synthesize discussion insights in a written reflection that connects the book’s themes to their own professional context.
• Rewiring Motivation: Teaching Gen Z in an age of Disconnection

  DATE: Wednesday, September 10, 2025  

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm  

  REGISTER HERE 

  Engaging today’s students brings the unique challenge in that they often navigate learning in a world of constant distraction and digital saturation. Participants in this workshop will examine the unique motivators, challenges, and values shaping Gen Z, along with evidence-based approaches to foster genuine connection and drive. Through discussion and hands-on activities, faculty will leave with tools to reframe motivation and create learning environments that inspire focus, curiosity, and persistence.

• Feeling Our Feedback

  DATE: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 

  TIME: 10:00am - 10:50am

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  This workshop focuses on the feelings that students have when they receive feedback. It recognizes how emotional reactions can challenge feedback usage. During this workshop, we will also:

  • Recognize and analyze emotional responses to feedback.
  • Explore the role of emotion in driving students’ future development.  
• Re-View: Considering Your Academic Identity and Purpose

  DATE: Thursday, September 18, 2025  

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm  

  REGISTER HERE

  Faculty engage in structured reflection about their career trajectory, values, and energy levels. Using a validated burnout inventory (e.g., Maslach Burnout Inventory or Oldenburg Burnout Inventory), participants identify what energizes and drains them, preparing for deeper exploration in subsequent sessions. 

• Foundations for Effectively Measuring Student Learning (required)

  DATE: Monday, September 22, 2025 

  TIME: 10:00am - 11:45am  

  REGISTER HERE  

  In this foundational workshop, we will explore an evidence-based process for collecting, synthesizing, and evaluating information to measure student learning. As we apply the 5-step process to our own subjects, we will look for opportunities to enhance student learning, as well as our own satisfaction with the assessment process. By the end of this workshop, we will:

  • Recognize the purpose and importance of using a systematic process to measure student learning.
  • Examine the alignment between course assignments and desired learning outcomes.
  • Identify opportunities to enhance student learning through diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment practices.
• Feeling the Impact: Emotions, Growth, and Community-Engaged Learning

  DATE: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 

  TIME: 10:00am - 10:50am

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  This workshop focuses on the feelings that students may have when receiving feedback from a community partner in work-based learning experiences, which helps the faculty prepare for potentially challenging situations. During this workshop, we will also:

  • Recognize and analyze emotional responses to feedback.
  • Explore the role of emotion in driving students’ future development.
• Legal Issues for College Faculty - Book Group (Session 2)

  DATE: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 

  TIME: 3:15pm - 4:30pm

  REGISTER: If you're interested in participating in this book group, you must submit this request form. Space is limited, and participation depends upon your availability. 

  Faculty members navigate complex legal issues every day, often without realizing it. Join us for a semester-long book group on “Navigating Choppy Waters: Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know” with author Kent Kauffman, Associate Professor of Business Law. Over four interactive sessions, we will engage in small-group discussions and facilitated Q&A focusing on key themes from the book. Participants will gain critical insights and deepen their understanding of legal issues in higher education, while Kent provides expert guidance to help unpack these issues. 

  Objectives: 

  1. Contribute to small-group discussions by sharing relevant experiences, examples, or perspectives related to the session’s discussion questions.
  2. Engage in Q&A sessions with the author by posing questions, offering clarifications, or responding to prompts.
  3. Collaborate with peers to explore multiple perspectives on legal issues in higher education.
  4. Synthesize discussion insights in a written reflection that connects the book’s themes to their own professional context.
• Engaging Silent Learners

  DATE: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm

  REGISTER HERE 

  We often lean heavily on students who readily participate in our classrooms. At times, this participation (or lack thereof) can influence our perspective of a student's ability and or engagement in the educational process. In this workshop, we will explore why students may or may not readily participate and discuss strategies for engaging more students. 
• From Feedback to Feed-forward: Fueling Faculty Success

  DATE: Wednesday, October 8, 2025 

  TIME: 10:00am - 10:50am

  REGISTER HERE 

  This workshop discusses how feedback can be used to propel someone forward. We will focus on the faculty perspective on feedback they may have received on their own work. During this workshop, we will also:

  • Recognize how feedback drives future learning and outcomes.
  • Develop effective feedback with QM’s model for helpful recommendations.
• Re-Fresh: Preparing your Mind and Schedule for Cognitive Renewal

  ​​​​​​DATE: Thursday, October 9, 2025 

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm

  REGISTER HERE 

  Faculty will explore principles from Cal Newport’s Deep Work alongside strategies for resisting the “tyranny of the urgent” in academia. Through reflection and practical exercises, they will identify distractions, time-fragmenting habits, and cultural narratives that drive busyness. Participants will develop intentional approaches to structuring their time and mental energy—supporting deeper focus, sustainable productivity, and renewed engagement with their teaching, research, and service.
• Building Good Habits: The Necessity of Self-Care and Time Management

  DATE: Monday, October 13, 2025 

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm

  REGISTER HERE 

  Teaching is demanding—your habits as a grad student can make or break your success. Learn from the experiences of 2nd-year grad students in a panel presentation and Q&A format. Our focus will be on developing the skills to prioritize self-care, manage schedules effectively, and set boundaries that sustain energy and focus.
• From Feedback to Feed-forward: Tailoring Feedback for Maximum Impact

  DATE: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 

  TIME: 10:00am - 10:50am

  REGISTER HERE 

  This workshop discusses how feedback can be used to propel students forward. We will focus on the student perspective and how feedback can move them forward in their education. During this workshop, we will also:

  • Recognize how feedback drives future learning and outcomes.
  • Develop effective feedback with QM’s model for helpful recommendations.
• Exam Design: A Comprehensive Approach for Student Success

  DATE: Monday, October 20, 2025 

  TIME: 10:00am - 11:15am

  REGISTER HERE 

  In this workshop, we will explore testing practices that not only help us effectively measure student learning but also help students develop skills for exam success. We will discuss several key topics related to exam design, including test-item construction, exam blueprints, exam analysis, and exam wrappers. By the end of this workshop, we will:

  • Use blueprinting to evaluate an exam’s content coverage and difficulty.
  • Develop test items that measure various levels of learning.
  • Use item analysis to inform our understanding of student performance and exam effectiveness.
  • Design exam wrappers that promote students’ future success.
• Legal Issues for College Faculty - Book Group (Session 3)

  DATE: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 

  TIME: 3:15pm - 4:30pm

  REGISTER: If you're interested in participating in this book group, you must submit this request form. Space is limited, and participation depends upon your availability.

  Faculty members navigate complex legal issues every day, often without realizing it. Join us for a semester-long book group on “Navigating Choppy Waters: Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know” with author Kent Kauffman, Associate Professor of Business Law. Over four interactive sessions, we will engage in small-group discussions and facilitated Q&A focusing on key themes from the book. Participants will gain critical insights and deepen their understanding of legal issues in higher education, while Kent provides expert guidance to help unpack these issues. 

  Objectives: 

  1. Contribute to small-group discussions by sharing relevant experiences, examples, or perspectives related to the session’s discussion questions.
  2. Engage in Q&A sessions with the author by posing questions, offering clarifications, or responding to prompts.
  3. Collaborate with peers to explore multiple perspectives on legal issues in higher education.
  4. Synthesize discussion insights in a written reflection that connects the book’s themes to their own professional context.
• Navigating Power Dynamics in a Student-Instructor Relationship

  DATE: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm

  REGISTER HERE 

  Whether we like it or not, power dynamics impact our classrooms. Titles, roles, attitudes, and demeanor all contribute to the classroom mix of power. How we engage with this power impacts our learning environment. In this workshop, we will explore the seven types of power: legitimate, coercive, reward, expert, referent, information, and connection (French and Raven, 1959), how this power is derived and the impact it may have in our classroom. 

NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2024

• Re-Connect: Embracing Collegiality in a Disconnected World

  Re-Connect: Embracing Collegiality in a Disconnected World

  DATE: Thursday, November 6, 2025

  TIME: 12:00pm - 12:15pm

  REGISTER HERE      

  Collegial relationships are more than just pleasant workplace interactions—they’re essential to job satisfaction, resilience, and long-term success in academia. In this session, we’ll explore how authentic professional connections can enhance collaboration, reduce burnout, and create a stronger sense of belonging. Through discussion and practical strategies, you’ll learn how to cultivate trust, navigate differences, and contribute to a positive departmental and campus culture.

• Motivaitng the Gen Z Learner

  Motivaitng the Gen Z Learner

  DATE: Monday, November 10, 2025

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm

  REGISTER HERE      

  Understand the values, learning styles, and motivators of today’s students. Explore strategies to spark curiosity, foster engagement, and create relevance in your teaching. Learn how to meet Gen Z where they are while encouraging them to stretch and grow.

• Legal Issues for College Faculty - Book Group (Session 4)

  Legal Issues for College Faculty - Book Group (Session 4)

  DATE: Tuesday, November 11, 2025

  TIME: 3:15pm - 4:30pm

  REGISTER: If you're interested in participating in this book group, you must submit this request form. Space is limited, and participation depends upon your availability.

  Faculty members navigate complex legal issues every day, often without realizing it. Join us for a semester-long book group on “Navigating Choppy Waters: Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know” with author Kent Kauffman, Associate Professor of Business Law. Over four interactive sessions, we will engage in small-group discussions and facilitated Q&A focusing on key themes from the book. Participants will gain critical insights and deepen their understanding of legal issues in higher education, while Kent provides expert guidance to help unpack these issues. 

  Objectives: 

  1. Contribute to small-group discussions by sharing relevant experiences, examples, or perspectives related to the session’s discussion questions.
  2. Engage in Q&A sessions with the author by posing questions, offering clarifications, or responding to prompts.
  3. Collaborate with peers to explore multiple perspectives on legal issues in higher education.
  4. Synthesize discussion insights in a written reflection that connects the book’s themes to their own professional context.
• Idea Incubator

  Idea Incubator

  DATE: Wednesday, November 12, 2025

  TIME: 10:00am - 12:00pm

  REGISTER HERE      

  This is a hands-on workshop where faculty begin developing an action plan related to their feedback literacy goals. During this workshop, we will also:

  • Create a simplified plan of feedback practices aligned with the initial goal.
• Balancing Academic Rigor with Appropriate Student Support

  Balancing Academic Rigor with Appropriate Student Support

  DATE: Wednesday, November 12, 2025

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm

  REGISTER HERE

  In this interactive workshop, we will explore the critical balance between maintaining academic rigor and providing robust student support, and how appropriate student support can lead to increased academic rigor. 

• Assignment Design: An Alignment-Driven Approach for Student Success

  Assignment Design: An Alignment-Driven Approach for Student Success

  DATE: Monday, November 17, 2025

  TIME: 10:00am - 11:15am

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  This interactive workshop will explore best practices in writing assignment design, including authentic tasks, clear expectations, scaffolding, and University resources to support student success. A portion of the workshop time will be used to apply these practices to our own writing assignments through a collaborative activity with colleagues. Attendees should bring 2 copies of an existing assignment for this exercise. By the end of this workshop, we will:

  • Discuss the value of authentic writing tasks that align with desired learning objectives.
  • Practice developing clear criteria for evaluating student writing that effectively guide student focus and effort.
  • Explore opportunities to integrate scaffolding and student support strategies into large writing tasks and assignments.
  • Enhance an existing writing assignment through collaborative exchange of constructive feedback with colleagues.
• Re-Discover: Exploring Vitality via Generativity

  Re-Discover: Exploring Vitality via Generativity

  DATE: Thursday, November 20, 2025

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm

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  Faculty are presented Erikson’s psychosocial theory, which places midlife at the crossroads of generativity vs. stagnation. Faculty will have an opportunity to explore the drift that may be inadvertently creeping into their work. Faculty will be encouraged to consider their own vitality and how they may generate new ideas by investing in the next generation—mentoring, co-authoring, and student partnerships.

• Implementation Lab

  Implementation Lab

  DATE: Wednesday, December 3, 2025

  TIME: 10:00am - 12:00pm

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  This workshop will serve as a place for faculty to present their plan, PechaKucha style, to the group and receive feedback. During this workshop, we will also:

  • Define a feedback action plan using feedback from peers.
  • Develop an implementation plan for feedback.
• Re-Focus: Navigating Institutional Change and Role Negotiation

  Re-Focus: Navigating Institutional Change and Role Negotiation

  DATE: Thursday, December 4, 2025

  TIME: 12:00am - 1:15pm

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  For those areas outside faculty control, this session introduces mindset reframing strategies drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), positive psychology, and narrative reframing. Faculty will learn to “re-author” discouraging narratives and realign with purpose.
• Identifying and Supporting Struggling Students

  Identifying and Supporting Struggling Students

  DATE: Monday, December 8, 2025

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm

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  Gain tools to recognize early signs of academic or personal struggles in your students. Learn how to provide supportive interventions, connect them with resources, and maintain an encouraging classroom climate. Strengthen your role as both an educator and a mentor.
• Transforming Classroom Challenges

  Transforming Classroom Challenges

  DATE: Wednesday, December 10, 2025

  TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm

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  Classroom challenges impact the operation of our classroom. They either impact our ability to teach or a student's ability to learn... or maybe both. If these challenges are too many and too often, it may even impact our passion for teaching. In this workshop, we will explore the interpretation of challenges, options for avoiding them, and ways to handle challenges in a constructive manner. 
• Classroom Assessment Techniques to Foster Student Engagement and Learning (Asynchronous Online)

  Classroom Assessment Techniques to Foster Student Engagement and Learning (Asynchronous Online)

  DATE: August 25, 2025 - December 31, 2025

  TIME: This workshop is ONLINE and self-paced (asynchronous)

  **THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE ASYNCHRONOUS/ONLINE**

  REGISTER HERE      

  Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple tools for collecting immediate feedback about student learning. In this asynchronous workshop, we will discover how CATs can be used to enhance the learning process and promote student success. We will explore a variety of CATs that can be used in different modalities and disciplines, and discuss how the information from CATs can be used by students and instructors to make informed adjustments that enhance learning. By the end of this workshop, we will:

  • Recognize CATs as part of an effective and systematic process to measure student learning.
  • Identify appropriate CATs for different teaching contexts and learning objectives.
  • Develop an action plan to implement and measure the impact of CATs on student learning in at least one learning experience, module, or course.

SELF-PACED & ED TECH WORKSHOPS 2025

• Brightspace Essentials Asynchronous

  DATE: August 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

  TIME: This workshop is ONLINE and self-paced (asynchronous)

  **REGISTRATION INFORMATION BELOW**

  This self-paced asynchronous certificate helps you build your Brightspace toolbox to support your teaching and learning needs in Brightspace, our campus Learning Management System. Working in an asynchronous Brightspace course, you can complete this certificate for broad insights into Brightspace and gain a strong utility of the most common Brightspace tools, solutions, and recommended practices. You will build and manage your courses in “better and brighter” ways.

  *If you are interested and would like to enroll in this CELT certificate, please email Andrea Bearman, CELT Instructional Designer, at [email protected].

• Brightspace Advanced Asynchronous

  DATE: August 1, 2025 - May 31, 2026

  TIME: This workshop is ONLINE and self-paced (asynchronous)

  **Enrollment information coming soon!**

  Ready to take your Brightspace skills to the next level? This self-paced program guides you through advanced tools and how to apply them effectively in your own courses. You’ll explore features such as Optimizing Quizzes, Intelligent Agents, Advanced Gradebook Solutions, Rubrics, Awards & Release Conditions, and Creator+.

• AI for Educators Asynchronous

  DATE: August 1, 2025 - May 31, 2026

  TIME: This workshop is ONLINE and self-paced (asynchronous)

  **REGISTRATION INFORMATION BELOW**

  This self-paced asynchronous certificate aims to help instructors navigate the opportunities and challenges associated with teaching in an AI-powered Age. Through engaging workshops, participants will identify the potential impacts of AI tools on student learning and assessment design, develop effective prompting strategies for different teaching and learning related tasks, enhance activity and course design to support student learning and assessment through AI tools, identify the potential benefits of AI for instructors' efficiency, and develop AI usage policy by considering the legal and ethical dimensions of AI in education.

  *If you are interested and would like to enroll in this CELT certificate, please follow these instructions:

  1. Log into Brightspace
  2. Once you are logged in, CLICK THIS LINK. It will take you directly to the CELT Certificate Brightspace Enrollment Survey.
  3. Then follow the directions to enroll in the AI for Educators Asynchronous certificate. Thank you!

JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2025

Spring workshop schedule coming soon!

MARCH, APRIL, & MAY 2025

Spring workshop schedule coming soon!