Let’s Get Critical: Education Developers Using Critical Pedagogy Typology

Friday, December 6, 2024, 1–2 EST

Facilitators: Sharon Ultsch, Independent Scholar; Stefanie Baier, Michigan State University, and Adriana Signorini, University of California-Merced

This interactive workshop demonstrates how educational developers can use a Critical Pedagogy Typology designed by the authors to advance more equitable and socially just practices in higher education classrooms.

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Level Up Your Workshop Facilitation #1: Framing

Friday, January 24, 2025, 1–2 EST

Facilitators: Eric Kaldor, Brown University; Megan Litster, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; Nic Voge, Princeton University
This is the first session in a four-part PODLive series designed to help educational developers take their facilitation skills and strategies to the next level. In this first session, we focus on how framing your approach to a specific workshop around your goals and theory of change can help you be a better facilitator.

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Level Up Your Workshop Facilitation #2: Preparing

Friday, February 14, 2025, 1–2 EST

Facilitators: Diana J. LaRocco, Goodwin University; Tom Laughner, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Tolu Noah, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB); Thomas J. Tobin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This is the second session in a four-part PODLive series designed to help educational developers take their facilitation skills and strategies to the next level. To have a meaningful impact, we must be intentional about session design. In this interactive webinar, we will explore how to prepare engaging and motivating workshop experiences. Come learn what to do before your participants show up.

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Level Up Your Workshop Facilitation #3: Connecting

Friday, March 21, 2025, 1–2 EST

Facilitators: Deborah Kronenberg, College Unbound; Dana Grossman Leeman, Tufts University; Rick Huizinga, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

This is the third session in a four-part PODLive series designed to help educational developers take their facilitation skills and strategies to the next level. In this interactive workshop, we will build on our group genius to investigate the power of relationships to effective facilitation, especially with educational leaders.

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Level Up Your Workshop Facilitation #4: Turning Down the Heat

Friday, April 18, 2025, 1–2 EST

Facilitators: Deborah Hathway, University of Washington Bothell; emareena danielles, Me Out Loud LLC; Teresa Focarile, Boise State University

This is the fourth session in a four-part PODLive series designed to help educational developers take their facilitation skills and strategies to the next level. In this session, we will explore what to do when participants show up with a bottle of sauce and throw heat all over your plans! Using case studies, story-sharing, and discussion of trauma responsive practices, we will explore our shared repertoire, building trust in your ability to handle the unexpected.

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PODLive: Let’s Connect

Friday, May 16, 2025, 1–2 EST

Facilitators, POD Live! Subcommittee
This more informal session is sponsored by the Professional Development Committee (PDF) as an opportunity to connect, support, and create community with your POD Network colleagues.

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Transforming Teaching Evaluation: Teaching Centers as Institutional Change Agents

Friday, June 13, 2025, 1–2 EST

Facilitators, Kevin R. Guidry, University of Delaware; Lindsey R. Hamilton, Bates College; Jennifer Keys, Northwestern University; Jennifer B. McKanry, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Jessica A. Stansbury, University of Baltimore

In this session, attendees will learn from the experiences of educational developers at several different colleges and universities who have worked to improve how teaching is evaluated.

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