{"id":1675,"date":"2026-08-17T19:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colleges.claremont.edu\/ctl\/?page_id=1675"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:39:43","slug":"2025-2026-workshops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/colleges.claremont.edu\/ctl\/ctl-events\/2025-2026-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-2026 Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"
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End of Year Dinner Celebration<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday, April 30, 2026\u22c5<\/span>5:00 \u2013 8:00pm<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Our celebration will start at 5pm. We will have a fixed menu with gluten free and vegan options.<\/p>\n

Mozwell, at the Claremont Packing House, 590 W 1st St, Claremont, CA 91711<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Workshop: Design for Belonging and Building Classroom Culture<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Monday, April 13, 2026\u22c5<\/span>3:30 \u2013 5:00pm<\/div>\n
Facilitated by Dr. Susie Wise<\/div>\n
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Join us at The Hive: Studio 1, 130 E 7th Street<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

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Drop-In Working Session: <\/span>Difficult Situations\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Thursday, April 9, 2026\u22c5<\/span>10:00 \u2013 11:15am<\/div>\n
Facilitated by Sara Hollar (CTL)<\/div>\n
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How can we navigate difficult situations in the classroom? Drawing on research, past experience, and de-escalation frameworks, during this time we\u2019ll discuss how to respond to things that flare up in our classrooms, from crises on or off campus, microaggressions or hostility between students, or even challenging events in own personal lives. This is a space to develop a toolkit to re-center student learning even in the most demanding times.<\/div>\n
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Drop-In Working Session: Classroom Activities<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Wednesday, March 4, 2026\u22c5<\/span>12:00 \u2013 1:30pm
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Ever feel like you\u2019re competing for students\u2019 attention? What if, instead, you could spark genuine engagement? During this conversation, we will discuss evidence-based strategies to facilitate student learning through backwards design and classroom activities. Bring your ideas and we can brainstorm class activities that align with your learning objectives and incentivize all students to participate!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Drop-In Working Session: Community Building<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026\u22c5<\/span>12:00 \u2013 1:30pm<\/div>\n
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Facilitated by Jessie Lee MIlls (POM)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Curious how to deepen a sense of community and belonging within your classroom? During this lunch consultation, we’ll make space for questions, ideas, and concerns around how we might foster community. We will also carve out time to provide or brainstorm concrete activities, tools, and exercises to build and strengthen belonging.<\/div>\n
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Teaching Tune Up<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
Thursday, January 15, 2026\u22c5<\/span>9:00am \u2013 3:00pm<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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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!<\/p>\n

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Date: January 15th, 2026
\nTime: 9am – 3pm
\nLunch will be provided<\/p>\n

Location: Shanahan Center – HMC, Rooms 2425, 2450, 2454, 2460<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Foundations of Inclusive Teaching: Assignments and Assessment<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
Wednesday, October 1, 2025\u22c5<\/span>2:00 \u2013 3:15pm<\/div>\n
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Facilitated by Pete Chandrangsu<\/p>\n

Assessment is about more than assigning grades \u2013 what you assess sends your students a message about what matters (\u201cwill this be on the exam?\u201d) 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\u2019 own experiences with inclusive pedagogies.<\/p>\n

This is part of the CTL’s yearlong series covering different aspects of inclusive teaching.<\/p>\n

Location: R. Michael Shanahan Center for Teaching and Learning, Room Shan 1480<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Claremont Discourse: Liberating the Classroom<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday, September 25, 2025\u22c54:15 \u2013 5:30pm<\/p>\n

Join Claremont Discourse for a talk by\u00a0Dr. Tessa Hicks Peterson<\/u><\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

Dr. Peterson’s lecture is based on\u00a0her book of the same title<\/u><\/a>\u00a0where 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).<\/p>\n

Founders Room, Honnold Mudd Library<\/p>\n

Lectures Workshop<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Presented by Melissa Chadburn (Friend of the CTL)<\/p>\n

Location: CTL Offices (1st Floor, Honnold Library)
\nWednesday, September 10, 2025\u22c511:00am \u2013 12:00pm<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Fall 2025 Pre-Semester Events<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Pre-Semester workshops:<\/p>\n