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Spring 2026 Faculty Reading Community

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  • 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • TBD

Event Description

Join fellow faculty and CTL staff for sustained cross-disciplinary conversation on critical topics in teaching and learning.

Cover of the book Productive Failure: Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing by Manu Kapur. The title appears in black and white on a red background.

The featured book for the Spring 2026 Faculty Reading Community will be Productive Failure: Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing by Manu Kapur. From the publisher’s website: Written by a leading global expert on human cognition, productive failure, and learning methods, Productive Failure shows you how to design the experience of failing. Research shows that repeated experiences of intriguing, constructive failure can help students (and our own children, and anyone else we lead) develop creativity and learn more deeply. When carefully curated, failure can become a signal for learning, not the noise detracting from it. The result? Learners gain a lifelong readiness to push themselves outside of their comfort zones, using setbacks as launchpads for learning and innovation.

Participants are required to attend 4 of 5 meetings. Faculty will receive a print copy of the book courtesy of the CTL. Seats are limited.

Meeting Mode and Time:

The FRC will meet in person at 1PM on the following Fridays:

  • Jan. 30th, 2026
  • Feb. 13th, 2026
  • Feb. 27th, 2026
  • March 27th, 2026
  • April 10th, 2026
  • April 24th, 2026

Our meeting room will be on the Danforth campus and will be announced soon.

The Spring 2026 reading community will be facilitated by Natalie Monzyk, Assistant Director of Educational Technology.

For questions about the Faculty Reading Community, please contact Natalie (monzykn@wustl.edu).

 


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