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Join the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) and partners for summer programs to support faculty and librarian course design and scholarly growth. This year, we're proud to offer:
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Scholars Incubator
Facilitator: Cami Condie, EdD (Childhood Education and Care), CTI faculty fellow | Email Cami Condie
Meetings and location: June 9-11 (Tuesday-Thursday), 9 am-3 pm | Petrowski Room, Central Campus
Join CTI for the second iteration of our Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Scholars Incubator! Faculty, librarians, and staff are invited to join this three-day institute with an idea (or more than one idea!) for a new SoTL project.
SoTL research engages in systematic and/or reflective inquiry, including naming research questions, determining data sources, designing a study, receiving IRB approval (if student work or quotes are used or they co-participate), analyzing data, and then making the findings public. In other words, it’s expanding our expertise as disciplinary scholars to intersect with our role as professors.
As a teaching institution, we are frequently revisiting our teaching effectiveness and question what is/is not working or how a particular approach impacts student engagement. Redesigning a course? That’s the beginning of a strong SoTL project. Trying a new (or investigating a longstanding) project with students? That has SoTL potential. Incorporating AI into your teaching or an assignment? Reflecting on your experience applying anti-racism practices into your teaching? Interested in problematizing how your department assessment data will inform program and course decisions? Yes, yes, yes! All could be strong SoTL research!
This Incubator is designed for people who are new to SoTL and those who have already designed and completed SoTL projects before. Previous SoTL Incubator participants are welcome and encouraged to join with new projects! During our time together, you will:
- Expand your understanding of approaches to the scholarship of teaching and learning
- Engage with facilitators and fellow participants to:
- Develop a research question;
- Plan a literature review;
- Draft your project design;
- Develop a plan for data collection;
- Develop a timeline, IRB development plan, and ideas for dissemination.
- Connect with the SSU SoTL community in a generative and creative environment!
A $500 stipend is available for full and part-time faculty or librarians (MSCA union) who are not otherwise employed as full-time administrators (APA or NUP) or staff (AFSCME) at Salem State. To receive the stipend, participants will complete a project plan and/or IRB draft.
We are able to provide stipends for ten participants. In the event that interest exceeds our budgetary capacity, we will prioritize paid participation for faculty and librarians who have not received a CTI stipend this academic year.
Reading and Research After AI-Virtual Institute
Facilitator: Jim McGrath, PhD, CTI instructional designer | Email Jim McGrath
Meetings and modality: Participants will initially meet for a one-hour Zoom kickoff meeting the week of June 8 (we will schedule a date/time that aligns with our schedules). An additional 3-4 Zoom meetings will be scheduled throughout the summer, for a total of 10-12 hours.
In this virtual summer institute, faculty will develop or revise teaching materials related to research and reading for an upcoming course or campus resource/project. Together, we will consider how AI tools have led educators to reflect on the motivations, methodologies, and course activities we rely on when teaching our students how to read and research in our respective fields.
While we will take a close look at some specific AI tools, emerging use-cases, and critiques, we will focus more generally on the relationship between reading, research, and our pedagogical aims via readings, discussion, and self-reflection. What do we assume our students know about reading and research before our courses? How do we describe the value of particular reading and research methods and their importance to professional development, civic engagement, and the production of knowledge? What has AI challenged us to reflect on, revise, or re-assert in terms of specific reading and research practices?
A $500 stipend is available for full and part-time faculty or librarians (MSCA union) who are not otherwise employed as full-time administrators (APA or NUP) or staff (AFSCME) at Salem State. To receive the stipend, participants will submit revised materials relevant to the institute's interest in reading and research methodologies (Jim will work with participants to identify materials that align with their course topics, university roles, or research interests).
We are able to provide stipends for ten participants. In the event that interest exceeds our budgetary capacity, we will prioritize paid participation for faculty and librarians who have not received a CTI stipend this academic year.
Course Mapping Institute
Facilitator: Abby Machson-Carter, CTI instructional designer | Email Abby Machson-Carter
Meetings and location: June 1-3 (Monday-Wednesday), 10am - 3pm | Charlotte Forten Legacy Room, Meier 316B (North Campus)
Are you interested in rethinking one of your courses—whether it’s a new prep or one you’ve taught for years? This three-day summer program offers focused time and support to help you clarify what you want students to learn, design meaningful assignments, and create a course that is easier for students to understand and navigate.
Using a backwards design approach, you’ll plan course goals, identify key summative and formative assessments, and create a course map that shows how learning builds across the term. Through guided activities and hands-on work time, you’ll leave with a clear, cohesive course framework and practical tools you can use right away—and reuse for future course design or revision.
A $500 stipend is available for full and part-time faculty or librarians (MSCA union) who are not otherwise employed as full-time administrators (APA or NUP) or staff (AFSCME) at Salem State. To receive the stipend, participants will create a course map or similar plan.
We are able to provide stipends for ten participants. In the event that interest exceeds our budgetary capacity, we will prioritize paid participation for faculty and librarians who have not received a CTI stipend this academic year.
Teaching Through Curious Conversations Course Redesign Institute
Facilitator: Jonathan Simmons, PhD (Childhood Education and Care), Center for Civic Engagement faculty fellow | Email Jonathan Simmons
Meetings and modality: June 9-10 (Tuesday and Wednesday), 10 am-4 pm; Tuesday, July 21, 9 am-12 pm | in person (location TBA)
Please join the Center for Civic Engagement for a summer institute focused on helping faculty bring more purposeful, engaging conversation and relationship building into their teaching!
Together we will explore practical strategies for designing curious questions, facilitating meaningful classroom discussions, and helping our students learn through conversation. Drawing on the Civic Learning for and Engaged Democracy Curriculum Framework and ideas from Relationship Rich Education (Felten & Lambert, 2020), participants will develop approaches that fit with their own teaching style and discipline. This summer institute is designed to build on the strengths you already bring to the classroom, help you explore your own civic and professional identity, and develop new tools to deepen student engagement and explore questions of meaning and purpose within their content.
Program Details: The institute begins with two in-person working days on Tuesday, June 9 and Wednesday, June 10 from 10 am-4 pm including lunch both days. Then faculty will be supported as they engage in independent work to redesign the syllabus for a course they teach. Participants will come back together in person on Tuesday, July 21 from 9 am-12 pm to present their draft syllabus and receive feedback.
Institute Goals:
- Develop strategies to build curious questions and use multiple question and discussion strategies to navigate discussing complex ethical issues
- Build confidence in facilitating and managing classroom discussions
- Engage in reflection with peers on their own experiences as educators and the role of conversation in learning
- Build connections and relationships with other faculty across the university
- Revise a course syllabus to include conversational learning experiences
A $750 stipend is available for full- and part-time faculty or librarians (MSCA union) who are not otherwise employed as full-time administrators (APA or NUP) or staff (AFSCME) at Salem State. To receive the stipend, participants will share their redesigned syllabus at the final meeting on July 21.
Sign Up for Summer Programming
Choose one of these Institutes to help rethink and redesign one of your courses or, in the case of the Incubator, start a SoTL project! Our is open from now until Monday, May 25.
Questions about specific programs can be directed to the program facilitators. General questions about summer programs and signups? Contact CTI at cti@salemstate.edu. We look forward to seeing you this summer!