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Teaching & Learning at 糖心少女

Support at the Faculty Center

To support teaching and learning at 糖心少女, the Faculty Center provides a variety of resources:

Classroom Management 

Our handbook curates information from across campus into a single one-stop resource on a range of services, policies, and supports on working with students and classroom management. We cover academic integrity resources, classroom conduct, and classroom climate.

 

Navigating Difficult Classroom Conversations

Our colleagues at CSUN have recently developed some materials for difficult classroom dynamics that can benefit faculty at any campus. See their for more details.

Additionally, the Faculty Center recommends using community agreements to set expectations for students about the class and how everyone will participate and engage. Doing this early in the semester is recommended (i.e., week one).

Community Agreements allow you to:

  • Co-create content with your students on classroom behavior expectations鈥
  • Collaborate and build community by identifing how to respectfully engage, participate, and include with goal of cultivating a learning space for all your students鈥
  • Redirect challenging moments by referring to class community agreements鈥
  • Give students specific and clear direction on their responsibilities to themselves, their instructor, and their peers鈥鈥

Some prompts you can use/modify to start a community agreements discussion with your class include:鈥

  • What kinds of classroom conversations do you find most enjoyable and why?鈥
  • What types of peer-to-peer interactions do you find supportive and why?鈥
  • What's your ideal classroom environment and why?鈥
  • What classroom dynamics do you least enjoy and why?鈥
  • What kinds of conversations and classroom interactions best support your learning and why?鈥

Consider having the class vote on a short list of 2-3 classroom conduct expectations that they most value (this is where you can curate and edit to prepare the co-created options)鈥

Post the final community agreements in a space easily navigated by students such as the Canvas course page and consider including a syllabus statement if you will be using community agreements.

 

 

Faculty Center Annual Teaching Expo 2026

The annual Faculty Center Teaching & Learning Expo showcases innovative approaches to teaching in higher education and provides a space for 糖心少女 faculty to connect and exchange ideas as teacher-scholars.

Save the date, February 27, 2026 and

Program Schedule at a Glance:

8:30am Coffee Services (KEL 5400)

9:00-9:30am Research Plenary with Dr. Paola Ometto (KEL 5400)
          - "Is Entrepreneurship the Same Everywhere? Rethinking Entrepreneurship in Marginalized Contexts"

Dr. Paola Ometto

Dr. Ometto, Associate Professor of Management, shares how entrepreneurs from marginalized communities experience distinct entrepreneurial pathways, emphasizing how they craft identity narratives to respond to social perceptions and sustain their ventures. Learn how entrepreneurship can function as a powerful source of identity formation, empowerment, and personal well-being鈥攅specially for women鈥攅xtending far beyond economic returns.

10:00-11:00am Conference Panel: Teaching Innovations (KEL 5400)

  • Mary Stewart, Nicoleta Bateman, and Jocelyn Ahlers, "Linguistic Justice and Standardized Academic English"
  • Katherine Brown, "Collaborative design in class activity for reading quizzes"
  • Alyssa Sepinwall, "The Welcome Question: A Simple Technique for Student Connection, Engagement, and Academic Success"
  • Sheri-Lynn Kurisu, "Making Student Thinking Visible: Designing AI-Resistant Assignments"

11:15-11:50am Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Sessions are an interactive and conversational format with faculty facilitators. A time to collectively share and dive deep into key questions relevant for faculty life today. This part of the program is concurrently scheduled so please note the room location for the session you wish to join.

Cultivating Care and Trust in Student-Faculty Interaction During Precarious Times (KEL 5400)

  • Facilitators: Sheri-Lynn Kurisu, Brandon Moore, and Jonathan Trinidad

Navigating AI Togther & in the Classroom (KEL 2413)

  • Facilitators: George Brusch and Sixian Jin

12:00-12:30pm Lunch Break (KEL 2413)

12:30-1:45pm Joy of Teaching Keynote with Dr. Paul Stuhr (KEL 5400)
            - "One Blueprint for Belonging: Designing Intentional Conditions for Community"

paul

Belonging is not something we add to our classrooms as an afterthought; it is something we create through the conditions we design. Small, intentional shifts in instruction can create moments, or pockets of joy and collective effervescence, where students feel seen, connected, and ready to learn. In this keynote, I share one way to intentionally shape the conditions in which community can emerge. I鈥檓 not suggesting 鈥渢his is the way鈥 to build belonging, but rather one blueprint grounded in a model called adventure-based learning.

2:00-2:45pm Using Teaching Resources from the CSU (KEL 2413)

  • Meegan Feori-Payne, "Andragogy and the QLT Rubric"
  • George Brusch, "Calming Textbook Costs"

3:00-3:30pm Dessert Reception & Poster Session (KEL 2400)