We acknowledge the emotional toll on instructors as you navigate your own responses to ongoing events while also striving to support students academic success in your courses. We invite you to join us for community discussions where we will help you brainstorm changes you might make to your course assignments, sections, and/or class sessions to support student learning and well being during the remainder of the quarter.

During these discussions we will listen to your concerns, brainstorm ideas together, and provide strategies that can be implemented easily without adding a lot of preparation time to your workload (and possibly save you time).

CEILS will be providing virtual spaces over Zoom on the following dates:

• May 7: Tuesday (tomorrow) 3-4 pm
• May 8: Wednesday 1-2 pm
• May 9: Thursday 1-2 pm

Use the following link to join:

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95260405507

Meeting ID: 952 6040 5507

This teaching guide, which was developed through a collaborative effort by UCLA’s teaching support community, provides resources to help instructors proactively and thoughtfully extend support to our students during times of crisis and trauma while also reminding us of our own humanity and the need to process current events and attend to our own well-being. The guide offers concrete strategies to help instructors establish and sustain an inclusive learning community, integrate compassion and accessibility into course design in achieving academic continuity, foster productive critical discourse, and respond with care if boundaries are crossed or if students are misinformed about events or behave in ways that are harmful to others or that violate UCLA’s Principles of Community or Student Conduct Code.



Resources related to Zoom and BruinLearn:

Instructors seeking support may wish to reference remote teaching resources in Bruin Learn or attend daily office hours provided by the Teaching and Learning Center in partnership with ITS.

Campus resources for well-being:

• BeWell Bruin: Student emotional support resources  
• Counseling & Psychological Services
• RISE Center
• UCLA’s Staff and Faculty Counseling Center
• Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center Resources for Emotional Social & Physical Health
• Bruin Safety & Well-Being resources from UCLA Office of EDI 

• This week's CEILS Education Research Talk on Generative AI is postponed until May 23rd.
• This week's Learning Community for Early Career Faculty in the Sciences is cancelled (next meeting will be June 6), however instructors are invited and encouraged to join the above discussion on teaching adaptations that is now scheduled during that time.

For more information about CEILS events and resources, including a list of STEM education events from previous mailers, please visit the CEILS website at www.ceils.ucla.edu or stop by our CEILS office in 222 Hershey Hall. If you wish to be added to the CEILS mailing list for future newsletters and special announcements, please send your request to media@ceils.ucla.edu. 

Please note, this announcement is circulated through many departmental listservs. Most other CEILS correspondence, including special event announcements and reminders, are sent to CEILS mailing list recipients only. If you have questions or have difficulty reading this announcement, please email us at media@ceils.ucla.edu.