Initial Publication Date: September 30, 2019

ASCN Change Leaders Working Group 3 Informal Open Discussions

(Short Course) Collaboration for Change: Engaging stakeholders and working together on common goals

March 4, 2021 | 11am PT / 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET

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Presenter: Stephanie Chasteen (Chasteen Educational Consulting)

Education reform requires many partners from across the educational system to work together towards common goals. Change doesn't readily occur (or stick) when led by lone champions without broader support. Collaboration and engagement across multiple stakeholders have thus been the topic of multiple ASCN webinars.

Google Doc with discussion notes & resources
Presentation Slides (Acrobat (PDF) 21.8MB Mar5 21)

See also: Webpage with all materials for Short Course on Collaboration for Change »


Supporting Faculty in Developing Equitable Assessments

January 19, 2021 | 9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET

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Presenters: Carie Cardamone (Assoc. Director Tufts University Center for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching) & Heather Dwyer (Asst. Director Tufts University Center for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching)

Assessments may be only part of a course, but they can play a critical role in fostering or hindering student learning. Assessments that seemingly provide equal opportunity to demonstrate student learning can actually unintentionally send messages that a student does not belong in a given course. In this informal discussion, we will explore characteristics of equitable assessments and reflect on our own implicit assumptions about grading and assessment.

Google doc with discssion notes & resources

How can we help faculty pivot to online teaching?

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October 29, 2020

Presenters: Tonya Estes & Sukirti Ranade, Bellevue College

Google doc with discussion notes & resources

How do we deliver faculty professional development online?

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September 18, 2020

Presenter: Stephanie Chasteen, CU Boulder and Chasteen Educational Consulting

Google doc with discussion notes & resources

Building Buy-In

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April 30, 2020

Presenters: Ellen Hokkanen, Ashley Vaughn, and Madhura Kulkarni, Center for Integrative Natural Science and Mathematics (CINSAM) at Northern Kentucky University

Google Doc with discussion notes, including Madhura Kulkarni's presentation

See also: Related Short Course on Collaboration for Change »


Evaluation of NSF proposals to develop change leadership

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September 27, 2019

Brief description: It's proposal time! Many people are pulling together ideas for the next round of NSF proposals on institutional change, and many of these will include some element of change leadership (the topic of our working group).

Stephanie Chasteen, working group co-leader and an experienced evaluator of NSF-IUSE proposals, hosted a discussion about evaluation planning and scope. Notes from the discussion can be found here.