Workshops

Workshops
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I spent 8 years teaching about the Greek and Roman world in higher ed. Now, I use my teaching experience as a curriculum designer and consultant to support other educators. I can be a sounding board for lesson planning, or a workshop facilitator on student-centered and community-engaged pedagogy. If you’re looking for collaboration in implementing curriculum changes (or a deluge of information about Cicero and the Roman Republic!), please reach out!

Workshops

Community-engaged learning

Evidence-based techniques for bringing real-world connections or community partnerships into your classroom – or building on what you’re already doing

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"The discussion really helped us move our discussion from an individual course-by-course basis to thinking about it as a department and where community-based learning fits into our curricular goals and goals for the major!"
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"The workshop also helped illuminate how important it is to talk as a department and not just 1:1. I hope to facilitate more group conversations in the weeks to come to continue the discussion."

Active learning

Making your classroom more interactive and engaging, whether you’re teaching online or in person (I talk about some general principles for active lecturing in this post)

Learning objectives

What are they? Why does my dean keep asking about them? We’ll unpack the research (see my post on "The Tyranny of Learning Objectives") and apply it to your courses.

Civic engagement

Connecting your students’ coursework to their civic identity, and empowering them to participate in the public arena in meaningful and constructive ways

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"The workshop helped me to think about small and large things I can do in my classroom, simply from mentioning civic engagement more to talking more specifically about how their community-based learning fits in with democratic engagement."

Curriculum outside educational institutions

Nonprofits and community orgs do a lot of teaching too – I’ve helped to develop engaging political educationals and trainings in collaboration with leaders that can be used again and again

Student-centered pedagogy

Connecting education research with classroom practice

Deliberative Dialogue & conflict resolution

Teaching touchy subjects and creating a space where students can share perspectives

Need support on another topic? Let me know and we’ll design a workshop together.