Centering Centers

Centering Centers

By Lindsay Doukopoulos, DeElla Wiley, Adam Barger, DRI CommitteeEducation
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Centering Centers episodes

  • Faculty Identity Shifts: Findings from the SOAR Project

    This is Episode 15 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Stephanie Laggini Fiore, Assistant Vice Provost, Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Temple University in Philadelphia discussing the SOAR course redesign initiative that has shown positive impact on high DFW courses. Here is a transcript of the podcast.

    46 min
  • The Gold, Silver and Bronze of a Reflective Practitioner Program

    This is Episode 14 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Nick Monk, Director, and Brian Wilson and Steven Cain, Senior Instructional Designers, Center for Transformative Teaching at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Here is a transcript of the podcast.

    Links:

    https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/reflective-practitioner-program-aims-to-recognize-professional-development/

    https://teaching.unl.edu/rpp/

    47 min
  • Turning Lessons Learned from Instructional Coaching into Faculty Onboarding

    This is Episode 13 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Andrea Jackson, Instructional Coach, Center for Faculty Development at Fayetteville Technical Community College in North Carolina.  Here is a transcript of the podcast.


    38 min
  • Cultivating our Common Humanity: A Contemplative Practices Program

    This is Episode 12 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Ileana Hernandez, Assistant Director for Assessment, Evaluation & Development, Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Florida International University.  Here is a transcript of the podcast.

    Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below.

    • FIU's Contemplative Practices in Education initiative
    • The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Rhonda V. Magee
    • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness by David Treleaven
    • Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
    • Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning by Daniel P. Barbezat and Mirabai Bush
    • Contemplative Mind in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Patricia Owen-Smith
    • UCLA Mindful Awareness Practices classes 
    • Dr. Mays Imad, neuroscientist & expert on trauma-informed teaching and education
    • Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and the Contemplative Practices Tree
    • 40 min
    • Bringing Students to the Table: A Students as Partners Program

      This is Episode 11 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Mark Hofer, Director, Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation and Professor, School of Education at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA. Here is a transcript of the podcast.

      Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below.

      Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation (STLI) - https://stli.wm.edu/

      STLI Student Partner Program - https://stli.wm.edu/studentpartnerprogram/

      Student-Produced Video on the Student Partner Program - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CecnSFNqRQs

      Student-Produced STLI Podcast - Teachers and Students Coming Together - https://stli.wm.edu/podcast/

      Student-Produced Video on Innovative Teaching in the Pandemic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3f_ES7DDg

      42 min
    • Getting on the Write Track: The Value of Faculty Writing Retreats

      This is Episode 10 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Kim Case, Director of Faculty Success, and Sharon Zumbrunn, Provost Faculty Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at Virginia Commonwealth University.  Here is a transcript of the podcast.

      Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below.

      Why Aren't You Writing?  

      The Write Track

      www.drkimcase.com

      1 hr
    • On Podcasting as Personal and Professional Development

      This is Episode 9 and the first episode of Season 2 of "Centering Centers", which is now officially a POD Network podcast!  This podcast explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features John Kane, Director, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and Rebecca Mushtare, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the State University of New York, Oswego talking about their podcast, Tea for Teaching.  Here is a transcript of the podcast.

      Tea for Teaching Podcast

      Episode 204, Preventing Workplace Burnout. Tea for Teaching

      35 min
    • Backstage Serendipity

      This is Episode 8 of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Lindsay Doukopoulos, Associate Director of the Educational Development team at Auburn University in Alabama. Here is a transcript of the podcast.

      Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below.

      1. Six Dead Bodies Duct-Taped to a Merry-Go-Round: https://newplayexchange.org/plays/215732/six-dead-bodies-duct-taped-merry-go-round/recommendations

      2. Biosensors Show Promise as a Measure of Student Engagement in a Large Introductory Biology Course: https://www.lifescied.org/doi/full/10.1187/cbe.19-08-0158

      3. Significant conversations and significant networks – exploring the backstage of the teaching arena: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075070802597200

      4. Coming (at some point) to To Improve the Academy: "Taking Teaching and Learning Seriously: Approaching Wicked Consciousness through Collaboration and Partnership" inspired by Randy Bass's original 1999 article, "The Scholarship of Teaching: What's the Problem"  https://my.vanderbilt.edu/sotl/files/2013/08/Bass-Problem1.pdf

      47 min
    • Keeping the Whys and the Hows in Mind

      This is Episode 7 of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Deandra Little, Assistant Provost and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University in North Carolina in conversation with David Green, Director of the Center for Faculty Development at Seattle University in Washington state.  Here is a transcript of the podcast.

      1 hr 3 min
    • Nimble Skill Sets

      This is Episode 6 of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Isis Artze-Vega, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Valencia College in Central Florida, formerly Assistant Vice President for Teaching and Learning at Florida International University.  Here is a transcript of the podcast.

      41 min

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