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Classroom managementÌýrefers to actions that an instructor takes to create and maintain a learning environment that is conducive to successful instruction. These actions include decisions about structure, organization, and course activities that support students by managing their expectations and behaviors. Effective classroom management can create a positive learning environment that...

Some of the factors that can affect course climate for a student include course demographics, physical setting, interactions with the faculty member, interactions with peers, and accessibility and diversity of course content.ÌýInÌýHow Learning Works, AmbroseÌýet alÌýrecommend viewing the course climate as a continuum, from marginalizing to centralizing...

While it’s important for instructors to build rapport with their students, it can be just as valuable for students to become comfortable with one another.ÌýWhen students feel at ease, it can lead to increasedÌýengagement and academic success.ÌýThis listÌýis intended to support teaching faculty to create a learning environment that is warm and communal...

By supporting faculty pedagogical innovation, especially with technology, the NEWÌýÌýaims to increase the efficacy and efficiency of student learning in courses. ExploreÌýinformation and answers to commonly asked questions here.Ìý

Wednesday, February 16 from 12:00-1:00pm MT - Join us for aÌýsession that will focus on the accurate interpretation of FCQ data and equitable use in faculty evaluation such as merit reviews. The facilitators of this session aim to support administrators and faculty serving on evaluation committees to make well-informed and equitable decisions, and to consider more robust models for evaluating teaching.

ÌýorÌýÌýMT - Join panelistsÌýwho graduated from CU, and from several institutions across the country and the world, to discuss their experiences on the academic job market, how they prepared for their current position, how their institution approaches community and mentoring for early career facultyÌýand generalÌýadvice forÌýcurrent graduate students and post-docs.Ìý

Friday, February 25 and Friday, March 4 from 9:00-11:00am MTÌý- The CU Dialogues ProgramÌý is pleased to announce an upcoming workshop intended for graduate students and university staff that have an interest in learning more about the principles of dialogue facilitation and how to integrate dialogue practice in the classroom or other professional contexts (both in person and remotely). The workshop will focus on practical dialogue facilitation skills and how to integrate dialogic practices in various contexts. Dialogue facilitation resources will be included as part of the workshop. The workshop also serves as an entrance point to the CU Dialogues Program’s Dialogue Facilitation Apprenticeship. Further details andÌý application materials . Applications are due no later than Friday February 18, 2022.

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 from 6:00-7:15pm MT - The Crown Institute has worked with Dr. Valerie Joseph (Smith College, MA) to curate a season of Grounded Knowledge Panelsâ„¢ that excavates down through the complexity of our experiences to the heart of what is meaningful and relevant to our healing as individuals, communities, relationships, and social systems. Join panelistsÌýAssetou Xango; Empowerment Coach for Black Femmes and Founder of the Dark Goddess Collective;ÌýDr. Kalonji Nzinga; CU Boulder Faculty, Cultural Psychologist and Director of the RAP Lab, and Lyripeutics;ÌýDr. Melita Belgrave; Associate Dean (ASU) music therapist, also certified in aging studies, and professor of music education; andÌýNii Armah Sowah; CU Boulder Dance Faculty, Awarded the Carson Library Legend of Dance Award for the first panel in this Spring series.Ìý

Constantly I write this happily
Hazards that hope may break open my lips
What I feel is taking place, a large context, long yielding, and to doubt it would be a crimeÌý
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìýagainst it

-ÌýLyn Hejinian, excerpt from Happily