2025-2026 Workshops
End of Year Dinner Celebration
Thursday, April 30, 2026⋅5:00 – 8:00pm
Friends of the CTL, please join us for our end of year celebration. Each year we gather together to celebrate the end of another academic year over food, drinks, and camaraderie. We would love for you to join us as a thank you for your engagement and support this year, and help us honor our past and incoming Faculty Co-Directors!
Our celebration will start at 5pm. We will have a fixed menu with gluten free and vegan options.
Mozwell, at the Claremont Packing House, 590 W 1st St, Claremont, CA 91711
Workshop: Design for Belonging and Building Classroom Culture
Join us at The Hive: Studio 1, 130 E 7th Street
Description:
Can you design belonging? Dr. Susie Wise says, yes and no. Belonging is a feeling. Everyone experiences it differently. What you can design are all kinds of things that help the feeling to emerge: spaces that offer invitations, rituals that bring us together, roles that develop authentic responsibility, and systems that are respectful and support creativity and innovation. Susie will share from her book Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities and engage the 5Cs teaching community in a workshop to explore the intersection of design and the building of classroom cultures that promote inclusion for active learning.
Dr. Susie Wise is a designer and educator. She is the author of Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities (2022) and a co-creator of Liberatory Design (2021). A long-time educator at the d.school at Stanford University, Spring Semester 2026 she is an Innovator in Residence at The Hive where she is teaching Advanced Topics in Human-Centered Design (with a focus on design and neurodivergent adults).
Drop-In Working Session: Difficult Situations
Drop-In Working Session: Classroom Activities
Facilitated by Pete Chandrangsu (DNS)
Drop-In Working Session: Community Building
Facilitated by Jessie Lee MIlls (POM)
Teaching Tune Up
The CTL’s Teaching Tune Up is a change to prepare for the Spring Semester. We’ll have structured sessions on Academic Dishonesty in the age of AI, Inclusive Assignments and Assessments, as well as an Info Session on our CTL Fellows program. We’ll also have drop-in consultations and quiet working space available all day, and a CTL Book Fair!
Date: January 15th, 2026
Time: 9am – 3pm
Lunch will be provided
Location: Shanahan Center – HMC, Rooms 2425, 2450, 2454, 2460
Foundations of Inclusive Teaching: Assignments and Assessment
Facilitated by Pete Chandrangsu
Assessment is about more than assigning grades – what you assess sends your students a message about what matters (“will this be on the exam?”) Therefore, it is important to align your assignments and assessments with your learning outcomes and highest hopes for your students. Concrete examples/best practices will be culled from the scholarship on teaching and learning, as well as from participants’ own experiences with inclusive pedagogies.
This is part of the CTL’s yearlong series covering different aspects of inclusive teaching.
Location: R. Michael Shanahan Center for Teaching and Learning, Room Shan 1480
Claremont Discourse: Liberating the Classroom
Thursday, September 25, 2025⋅4:15 – 5:30pm
Join Claremont Discourse for a talk by Dr. Tessa Hicks Peterson, Director of Critical Action+ Social Advocacy (CASA), Assistant Vice President of Community Engagement and Professor of Urban Studies at Pitzer College, titled “Liberating the Classroom: Healing and Justice in Higher Education.
Dr. Peterson’s lecture is based on her book of the same title where she discusses how universities can transform into places that directly disrupt injustice and work toward personal and collective liberation. Instead of reproducing social inequity, she proposes that higher education institutions could become engines of healing. This transformation, however, requires a major conscience shift at the level of the individual (student, educator, leader), the classroom (teaching and learning), administration (culture and policy), and the institution (structures and systems).
Founders Room, Honnold Mudd Library
Lectures Workshop
Presented by Melissa Chadburn (Friend of the CTL)
Location: CTL Offices (1st Floor, Honnold Library)
Wednesday, September 10, 2025⋅11:00am – 12:00pm
Looking for ways to transform your typical lecture format into a more interactive and hands-on learning experience for your students? Do you struggle with nerves when speaking in front of your students? Trying to find a balance between performance and teaching? These workshops will enable us to practice delivering our lectures, give and receive feedback, and discover opportunities to actively engage with the material through exercises, discussions, and collaborative activities.
Throughout the Fall this learning community will meet biweekly, where we will workshop two 15-to 20-minute lectures at each meeting. Lunch will be provided
Fall 2025 Pre-Semester Events
Pre-Semester workshops:
- Session 1 – August 19th – 10:30 – 11:45 am
- Session 2 – August 10:30 – 11:45 am
Drop-In Hours:
- August 20: 10-12pm; 1-3pm
- August 21: 1-3pm
Learning Community: Teaching While the World is on Fire
Tuesday, May 6, 2025⋅11:00am – 12:00pm
This learning community is for anyone questioning how to teach effectively in the current era of climate change, war, student protest and more. How do we teach right here, right now? We’ll use the book Teaching While the World Is on Fire as a jumping-off point for exploration and analysis. The book is organized into sections with essays on politics, safety, race, gender + sexuality, and climate, primarily aimed at K-12 educators. We’ll work together to assess if any of the messages from this book can be adapted and applied to higher education, and to the Claremont Colleges.