ng Fellows and invited experts.
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Thu, Sept 4
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11:00 a.m.
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Kickoff: Meet the Teaching & Learning Fellows
Launch the semester by exploring JSU’s new peer learning communities, led by the Teaching & Learning Fellows. Connect with colleagues who share your interests, dive into specific teaching challenges or innovations, and preview the fall workshops that will support your goals. This is your chance to find your community, exchange ideas, and spark new approaches for the year ahead.
Find your peer learning community and spark new ideas for the year ahead.
Meeting Recording and Session Slide Presentation
Faculty Friends (Faculty Peer Learning Community) Interest Form (sign up closes on September 10th). After watching the recording, you can submit the interest form to let the Faculty Fellow know that you want to discuss joining their teaching and learning community.
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Wed, Sept 10
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3:00 p.m.
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Open Syllabus Spaces: Student Co-Creation for Engagement
Dr. Sharon Simmons, Department of Accounting, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Explore practical ways to invite students into the design of your course content and structure. Learn how co-creation can boost engagement and deepen learning —and join colleagues in rethinking what shared ownership of the classroom can look like.
Discover how inviting students into course design can boost engagement and enhance learning.
Meeting Recording and Session Slide Presentation
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Fri, Sept 19
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12:00 p.m.
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Beyond the Essay: Project-Based Multimodal Design
Dr. Brittany Myburgh, Department of Art
Move past traditional assignments and design authentic, multimodal projects that engage students in critical thinking and creative communication. Explore concrete strategies, share examples with colleagues, and leave with new ideas you can adapt for your own courses.
Move beyond essays with projects that build flexible, 21st-century skills.
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Thu, Sept 25
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10:00 a.m.
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From Product to Process and Back Again: Rethinking Writing and AI
Dr. Craig Meyer, Department of English and Modern Languages
Join colleagues in reimagining how AI tools can shape writing as both process and product. Consider new ways to guide students’ learning, explore practical classroom strategies, and reflect on how AI is reshaping what counts as good writing.
Rethink how AI tools shape writing as both a process and a product.
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Fri, Oct 3
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11:00 a.m.
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Culturally Relevant Teaching in Higher Education
Dr. La’Keshia Opara-Nadi, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education
Join colleagues in exploring culturally relevant approaches that affirm students’ identities and connect learning to their lived experiences. Discover strategies to strengthen engagement, deepen understanding, and create more inclusive classrooms that support success for all learners.
Affirm students’ identities and foster inclusive, engaging classrooms.
Meeting Recording and Session Slide Presentation
Dr. Opara-Nadi shared information on using Padlet to engage students and to learn more about individual students. You can access this app here: Padlet and view a very short video about setting it up for student activities.
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Wed, Oct 15
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10:00 a.m.
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Building Articles from Classwork: Mentoring Graduate Students Through Co-Authorship
Dr. Anwar Ahmad, Department of Biology
Join colleagues in exploring ways to transform graduate student coursework into publishable scholarship. Learn how structured prompts and guided mentorship can support co-authorship, strengthen students’ research skills, and expand opportunities for collaborative publication.
Turn graduate coursework into publishable scholarship through guided mentorship.
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Tues, Oct 28
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11:00 a.m.
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Trauma-Informed Pedagogy for Faculty and Student Thriving
Dr. Amirah Nelson, Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation, and Psychometric Services
Join colleagues in exploring trauma-informed strategies that connect course content to students’ lived experiences and strengths. Discover approaches that foster safety, inclusion, and resilience—and leave with practices you can adapt to support both student and faculty thriving.
Learn strategies to connect teaching to students’ lived experiences and strengths.