Arissa Oh speaks animatedly to a class of students

Scholarly Reflections on Teaching

Scholarly Reflections on Teaching is a faculty speaker series that asks individual faculty to unpack the various sources disciplinary expertise, careful observation of student learning, scholarship on teaching, attentiveness to their own experience, etc. that inform their pedagogical practice and spur creative experimentation in teaching. Each year, the CTE partners with different campus stakeholders to bring together speakers on a particular theme.

2025-2026: Teaching to Inspire Changemakers 

During the 2025-2026 school year, the CTE is partnering with the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society to feature faculty reflections on Teaching to Inspire Changemakers. Addressing student desires to make a difference and to affect change in society, industry, and scholarship, faculty  in a variety of disciplines will discuss how they aim to prepare students to: 1.) draw on disciplinary methods and expertise to articulate and better understand the context and substance of the challenges they are seeking to address; and  2.) discover how they can harness that expertise to be agents of meaningful change.

Fall 2025 Speakers

Edson Severnini: Practicing Agency in the Classroom

Thursday, October 23, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501

Laura J. Steinberg: Building Students' Capacity as Changemakers through Entrepreneurial Thinking & Project Based Learning 

Wednesday, November 19, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501

Spring 2026 Speakers 

Rocío Calvo (SSW): Amplifying Unheard Voices to Advance Graduate Students' Formation

Wednesday, February 4, 12:00 - 1:15 pm 
245 Beacon St. Room 501

Heather Olins (Biology): Teaching Climate Change Through an Empowerment Lens: Lessons Learned

Wednesday, March 25, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501

Clarissa Keen (Chemistry):  Connecting Chemistry to Community: Scaffolding Student-Led Public Health Projects

Tuesday, April 14, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501

Past Speakers

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