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    • GSPD Reading Community Fall 2026

    • - Multiple Meetings
    in-person on Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed was written over 50 years ago but continues to be frequently cited across many teaching and learning contexts. The five-chapter book focuses on equitable teaching and lays out many ideas that are now considered central to good teaching: acknowledging student agency, seeding student investment, […]

    Build-a-Bot

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    in-person on Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    Interested in building a custom chatbot but not sure where to start? Join us for this hands-on workshop where you will learn to design, build, and deploy your own custom AI chatbot! Beyond course assistants, we’ll discuss how to create role-play conversation partners, scenario simulators, and tutoring agents. Participants should […]

    Exploring the Art of Improv in Our Teaching Practices

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    in-person on Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Back by popular demand! How can the art of improv support your teaching activities and bring more joy into the classroom? Traditional approaches to teaching in the college classroom can often be stilted and scripted. Yet, in order to respond to our students’ needs and draw them into the learning […]

    From Vulnerable to Vetted: Redesigning an Assignment for AI

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    in-person on Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    Not sure if your favorite assignment still holds up in the age of AI? This hands-on workshop will help you take an assignment you suspect may be vulnerable to AI misuse and redesign it to ensure your original learning goals are still met. Our time will be dedicated to hands-on […]

    GenAI, Teaching, and Learning: A Faculty Journal Club

    • - Co-Sponsored Event
    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    in-person on Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    Much ink has been spilled about genAI and learning, but the research is still very much in flux. Each month, the journal club* on AI in education will discuss 1-2 research articles on genAI as it connects to teaching and learning. You are welcome to join whenever you can - […]

    Chatbot Test Kitchen: Taste-Testing Prototypes with Peers

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    in-person on Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    Your chatbot's been simmering and now it's time to see if it's ready to serve! Bring your chatbot prototype to this hands-on session, where faculty will “taste-test” each other's creations and offer feedback before classroom deployment. Please note: this is a test kitchen, not a cooking class: please come with […]

    Thoughtful Analog Teaching

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    in-person on Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff

    The goal of this gathering is to provide a space for sharing thoughtful approaches to low-tech or no-tech teaching and learning. The CTL will share some models as well as considerations raised by instructors and scholars elsewhere, but most of our time together will be spent discussing what analog teaching […]

    • Analog Experience Classrooms for More Presence and Engagement

    • - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
    in-person on Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Faculty/Staff, Grad Students, Postdocs

    Explore ways to take instruction off the screen for engaged and immersive learning with us! WashU professor Todd Decker will share case-studies from film and music history courses, highlighting how material culture and community immersion can invite students to be truly present in a collective experience. We'll discuss, for example, how […]

    TILT DIY: A Workshop to Tune Your Assignments

    • - Advanced Workshop (PDT)
    • - Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (PDT)
    • - STEM (PDT)
    in-person on Danforth Campus
    Event For:
    • Grad Students, Postdocs

    This is a workshop in its truest sense: you'll come in with an assignment that could use some work, and leave with a revised project that's crystal-clear to students! TILT, Transparency in Teaching and Learning, is an assignment template that has been shown to improve student motivation, promote equitable outcomes--and […]