Scholarly Reflections on Teaching
Scholarly Reflections on Teaching is a faculty speaker series that asks individual faculty to unpack the various sources disciplinary expertise, careful observation of student learning, scholarship on teaching, attentiveness to their own experience, etc. that inform their pedagogical practice and spur creative experimentation in teaching. Each year, the CTE partners with different campus stakeholders to bring together speakers on a particular theme.
2025-2026: Teaching to Inspire Changemakers聽
During the 2025-2026 school year, the CTE is partnering with the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society to feature faculty reflections on 淭eaching to Inspire Changemakers. Addressing student desires to 渕ake a difference and to affect change in society, industry, and scholarship, faculty聽 in a variety of disciplines will discuss how they aim to prepare students to:聽1.) draw on disciplinary methods and expertise to articulate and better understand the context and substance of the challenges they are seeking to address; and聽聽2.) discover how they can harness that expertise to be agents of meaningful change.
Fall 2025 Speakers
Edson Severnini: Practicing Agency in the Classroom
Thursday, October 23, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501
Laura J. Steinberg: Building Students' Capacity as Changemakers through Entrepreneurial Thinking & Project Based Learning聽
Wednesday, November 19, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501
Spring 2026 Speakers聽
Roc铆o Calvo (SSW): Amplifying Unheard Voices to Advance Graduate Students' Formation
Wednesday, February 4, 12:00 - 1:15 pm聽
245 Beacon St. Room 501
Heather Olins (Biology): Teaching Climate Change Through an Empowerment Lens: Lessons Learned
Wednesday, March 25, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501
Clarissa Keen (Chemistry):聽聽Connecting Chemistry to Community: Scaffolding Student-Led Public Health Projects
Tuesday, April 14, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501
Past Speakers
As a precursor to the Scholarly Reflections on Teaching Program, the CTE and the University Core Curriculum collaborated聽on a faculty speaker series on the theme "Engaging Difference & Justice".
Andr茅s Castro Samayoa on Engaged Accompaniment: Inviting Students to Account for their聽Different Selves in the Classroom
Tuesday, September 24, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Boston Room, Corcoran Commons
Cherie McGill on Defining Success
Wednesday, October 30, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Boston Room, Corcoran Commons聽
