Didn’t grade as much as you hoped during the weekend? No problem! Come grade with others in Dana 216. CITL will be hanging in the lounge with treats and encouragement to grade!

This agenda-free event is just a time to get up from your desk, play some fun games, and eat lunch! Go through the line (code word: CITL) and find us in Commons 221 for good food and good conversation.

Join others for a 20-30 minute brain break, fresh air, and body moving. Happening three times, meet outside Dana on Alumni Walk at either 9 am, 11 am, and/or 3 pm.

Lindsey and Wells will be posted up at the Ronj with coffees, teas, and even a CITL specialty drink! Stop by for one minute or sixty!

All materials provided in Dana 216 for mostly mindless snowflake cutting and bead stringing. Mindless in a good, seasonal, colorful way!

You are juggling a lot as a faculty member in your first few years here at Bates. Join this group to help lessen the load…

The Fall 2024 CITL Reading Group is focusing on the Hard Work of Difficult Discussions: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Political Correctness (among other related…

The Fall 2024 CITL Reading Group is focusing on the Hard Work of Difficult Discussions: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Political Correctness (among other related…

Teaching languages (other than English) and their respective cultures, histories, literature etc. is a wonderfully nuanced profession. So, let’s share, swap, and explore our language…

Are you teaching a FYS in the fall? We invite you to join this community of practice to have an opportunity to talk about challenges…

Calling all staff educators! Wait, who’s a staff educator? Do you design learning materials and programs, foster productive learning environments, or promote individual growth and…

The Fall 2024 CITL Reading Group is focusing on the Hard Work of Difficult Discussions: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Political Correctness (among other related…

More information on this event is coming soon. This registration form will allow you to register for any and all of CITL’s Lunch and Learn workshops, which are…

Are you teaching a FYS in the fall? We invite you to join this community of practice to have an opportunity to talk about challenges…

The Fall 2024 CITL Reading Group is focusing on the Hard Work of Difficult Discussions: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Political Correctness (among other related…

The Fall 2024 CITL Reading Group is focusing on the Hard Work of Difficult Discussions: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Political Correctness (among other related…

Teaching languages (other than English) and their respective cultures, histories, literature etc. is a wonderfully nuanced profession. So, let’s share, swap, and explore our language…

Are you teaching a FYS in the fall? We invite you to join this community of practice to have an opportunity to talk about challenges…

Calling all staff educators! Wait, who’s a staff educator? Do you design learning materials and programs, foster productive learning environments, or promote individual growth and…

You are juggling a lot as a faculty member in your first few years here at Bates. Join this group to help lessen the load…

We’ll discuss the scholarship on (student) participation and motivation and introduce learning activities to help you brew up a more interactive environment. Don’t ghost this…

Attendees may order and charge their lunch at the Den and come to the meeting room with your lunch. It is recommended you order your lunch 20 minutes earlier then the meeting start time, though. Use the secret code “CITL” at the Den cash register.

Are you teaching a FYS in the fall? We invite you to join this community of practice to have an opportunity to talk about challenges…

The Fall 2024 CITL Reading Group is focusing on the Hard Work of Difficult Discussions: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Political Correctness (among other related…

Wells and their mom are making dozens of cookies Thursday morning. Stop by Dana 216 to snag one and say hi.

DeStress Fest: Cookies is part of our now semesterly tradition – DeStress Fest. CITL is bringing you some community-oriented events in the last week of classes and during finals week. We hope you can join us for one or all of these drop-in events!

This agenda-free event is just a time to get up from your desk, catch up with colleagues, and eat up! Go through the line and find us in Commons 226 for good food and good conversation.

DeStress Fest: Lunch with us in Commons is part of our now semesterly tradition – DeStress Fest. CITL is bringing you some community-oriented events in the last week of classes and during finals week. We hope you can join us for one or all of these drop-in events!

Inspired by Taylor Swift’s concert friendship bracelets, we will have supplies to make your own bracelet (and we have snacks for you too). Stop by Dana 216.

DeStress Fest is part of our now semesterly tradition – DeStress Fest. CITL is bringing you some community-oriented events in the last week of classes and during finals week. We hope you can join us for one or all of these drop-in events!

Haven’t been able to join us yet this semester to talk about teaching and learning? No problem. Stop by even if you haven’t (yet) read the book and just want to think aloud with us!

Didn’t grade as much as you hoped during the weekend? No problem! Come grade with others in Dana 216.

Grade in Community is part of our now semesterly tradition – DeStress Fest. CITL is bringing you some community-oriented events in the last week of classes and during finals week. We hope you can join us for one or all of these drop-in events!

HHMI BioInteractive recently launched a new Inclusive Teaching MOOC, covering many inclusive teaching topics. At this info session, we will share more about the course, and a panel will share how these learning communities and other support have influenced our teaching at Bates. See page 10 of our December 2023 newsletter for more information.

Stop by Dana 217 for scritches and cuddles with Pippin! Leafy greens will also be provided and you can give Pippin a treat.

Bunday with Pippin Castonguay is part of our now semesterly tradition – DeStress Fest. CITL is bringing you some community-oriented events in the last week of classes and during finals week. We hope you can join us for one or all of these drop-in events!

Lindsey and Wells will be posted up at the Ronj with coffees, teas, and even a CITL specialty drink!

Drinks on us @ The Ronj is part of our now semesterly tradition – DeStress Fest. CITL is bringing you some community-oriented events in the last week of classes and during finals week. We hope you can join us for one or all of these drop-in events!

Wells hosts a workshop on what we inadvertently teach our students through our pedagogical decisions.
What does grading blind or taking a stance on a controversial topic communicate to your students about you, the discipline, and their world(s)?

On the Menu Workshops are typically offered the last weekday of the month during the regular academic year and are open to all educators. The date for the November workshop is December 5. You may go through the line in Commons for lunch and charge CITL. Then join us upstairs in Commons 211 from 12-1 pm for the workshop of the month. A calendar invitation will be sent out to you as a reminder for each workshop.

Join this community of practice to share with other educators about teaching writing across the curriculum. We will share challenges and resources to support incorporating more writing to learn and reflection assignments in all courses. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE TBD.

Besides contributing to a more inclusive classroom, expanding beyond gender (and other!) boundaries and binarisms can enrich possibilities for creativity, learning, understanding, and joy. In Part One of several workshops organized by CITL Faculty Fellow Erica Rand (Gender and Sexuality Studies/Art and Visual Culture), short presentations by faculty in widely varied fields about their own creative and research practices will introduce a conversation about the generative potentials of thinking beyond binarisms in the work we can do and facilitate. Participants include Brian J. Evans (Dance/American Studies), Hanna McGaughey (Asian Studies), Ian-Khara Ellasante (Gender and Sexuality Studies/Africana), and Kat Anderson (Biology). Please go through the lunch line, charge your meal to CITL, and join us in 221 Commons for this event.

Join this community of practice to share effective practices and brainstorm common challenges with other staff educator colleagues. Go through the line in Commons and charge CITL for your lunch. We are working to break down silos and share tips about what works in our various roles.

Join this community of practice for any new faculty member (teaching at Bates less than three years). Go through the Commons lunch line (charge CITL) and then come upstairs to join ongoing supportive conversation.

Every Friday. November 3, 10, and 17.
Stop in for scritches (also to chat with CITL).

In lieu of our scheduled On The Menu workshop program, Accessibility Isn’t
Scary, CITL is offering to all a space for gathering, for sharing, for
listening, and for (re)thinking and what teaching and learning might look
like at Bates. The Accessibility workshop will be rescheduled to a later
date this year.

We foresee a place of togetherness to discuss openly reframing course
content, shifting course schedules, supporting your students, and
articulating the teaching and learning support that you need following this
community trauma.

Please come join us at noon in Commons 211. Feel free to
go through the line and charge your lunch to CITL. We look forward to being with you.

Join this community of practice to share with other educators about teaching writing across the curriculum. We will share challenges and resources to support incorporating more writing to learn and reflection assignments in all courses. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided.

Join this community of practice to share effective practices and brainstorm common challenges with other staff educator colleagues. Go through the line in Commons and charge CITL for your lunch. We are working to break down silos and share tips about what works in our various roles.

Are you proposing (or planning to propose) a FYS course? Well, this is the event for you! During this 90-minute workshop, we will first introduce you to your FYS support team, before launching into a WORKshop (with particular emphasis on WORK). You will leave this workshop with a solid course proposal draft (with particular emphasis on writing), as well as have access to additional support in attaching MOI and GEC course designations, working with W-CATs, and creating compelling course titles and descriptions. We are looking forward to seeing you at this fun and productive event.

Guilt-free book club’s Fall 2023 selection is Geeky Pedagogy by Jessamyn Neuhaus. Join this first session to pick up your copy of the book. We will discuss our interest in the book at this session. We will divide the book into three sections for future discussions. For the next session in November, we will read Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.

Join this community of practice for any new faculty member (teaching at Bates less than three years). Go through the Commons lunch line (charge CITL) and then come upstairs to join ongoing supportive conversation. Note: The October 6 meeting will be held in the Fishbowl.

Join this community of practice to talk about grading for growth, the vast spectrum of ungrading practices, and how to incorporate more bias-resistant and motivational grading practices into your own courses. Whether you have been using labor-based grading contracts for years or just want to learn how ungrading is defined, this group is for you. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided.

The Ruth M. and Robert H. Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching honors faculty for their outstanding performance as teachers. This past year, Katy Ott of the Mathematics department was selected. In an effort to continue conversations concerning pedagogical practices, Katy Ott brings together this year’s Kroepsch panel to discuss local actions and global thoughts in teaching and learning.

In this month’s workshop series, we will be discussing writing-to-learn activities. Generally, writing-to-learn activities are short, impromptu or otherwise informal and low-stakes writing tasks that help students think through key concepts or ideas presented in a course. Often, these writing tasks are limited to less than five minutes of class time or are assigned as brief, out-of-class assignments. We will share a variety of ways to incorporate more small writing assignments in your course, whatever the discipline, without increasing your grading workload. Go through the line in Commons (charge CITL) and then come upstairs to join us!

Join this community of practice to share with other educators about teaching writing across the curriculum. We will share challenges and resources to support incorporating more writing to learn and reflection assignments in all courses. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided.