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CEILS Monthly Newsletter
Issue #104 | April 2024
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Upcoming CEILS Programming | | |
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Save the Date! CEILS Scientific Teaching Institute - Foundations of Equitable Course Design & Inclusive Teaching
July 17-24th, 2024
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Stay tuned for more details coming shortly! This summer, CEILS will once again offer our week-long course design bootcamp.
The CEILS Scientific Teaching Institute is designed to introduce you to evidence-based strategies for inclusive teaching and course design. The experience is facilitated by CEILS staff and other UCLA faculty; and you will receive feedback on your daily assignments, culminating at the end of the week with a syllabus draft, assessment plan, sample lesson plan, and embedded feedback strategy. Tips, strategies, and resources for equity, accessibility, and remote/online design will be integrated into the workshops and course site resources.
See more details on our website: https://ceils.ucla.edu/learning-communities-trainings/summer-institute-on-scientific-teaching/
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Conversations on Equity and Justice in Teaching | |
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CEILS invites you to join us for “Conversations on Equity and Justice in Teaching” this Spring Quarter. Our overall goal is to create a communal space for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students to discuss, learn, and consider strategies to support themselves and their students in the classroom. These conversations are topic-based and you can drop in for one or come for all. Light refreshments will be provided!
RSVP below and come be a part of this in-person conversation series!
Here are the topics/readings we will be discussing in Spring below from 12:30-1:30 pm in Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100:
- April 9th: Our Brains, Emotions, and Learning: Eight Principles of Trauma-Informed Teaching by Mays Imad
- April 16th: How Trauma-Informed Care Principles Can Contribute to Academic Success for Students in Hispanic-Serving Institutions by Joy Patton and Lauren Cortez
- April 23rd: Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy by Gloria Ladson-Billing
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Are you a UCLA Early Career Faculty in the Sciences? We invite you to join our
Learning Community on Teaching at UCLA
The CEILS team invites you to carve out a little time - one lunch each month - to gather in community and get support from each other on all things related to teaching here at UCLA. This community is designed to support early career faculty across disciplines in the sciences who have joined UCLA within the past 5 years.
All meetings take place on Thursdays in Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100 from 12:30 - 2pm. Lunch will be provided. Based on the feedback and discussion from the end of winter quarter, the topics this spring will include:
- April 11 - Equitable Grading Strategies for Assessment and Feedback
- May 9 - AI in the Classroom - the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown...
- June 6 - End of Year Reflections - Goal Setting for Next Year
Please kindly RSVP to let us know which sessions you will be able to attend (so we can order the right amount of food - yum!). Contact jessgregg@ceils.ucla.edu with any questions. Hope you can join!
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Conversation Series: Becoming An Antiracist Educator | |
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Come be a part of the CEILS Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator (B.A.A.E) Conversation Series where we encourage honest and vulnerable dialogue with faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and teaching-related staff around the unpracticed conversations about race and racism. Our goal is to cultivate an environment and practice that celebrates identity and culture while still identifying and working together against inequitable systems.
RSVP below and come join us to learn, reflect, and discuss during this three session, in-person series!
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Ed Talks @CEILS | Learning Community Meetings
Thursdays from 2:00 – 2:50 PM, May 2 - May 16, 2024
Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100
Join us as we explore the latest high quality STEM Education Research studies and how to implement effective and inclusive teaching. We welcome guest speakers from UCLA, other academic institutions, and community partners to share their research and lead small group discussions with our teaching and learning community. Faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and anyone interested in STEM education research are welcome to participate.
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Organizing Shared Approaches to Equity Work
By: Elizabeth M. Holcombe, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Adrianna J. Kezar & Darsella Vigil
Campuses are experimenting with new ways to structure and organize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work. Existing organizational structures tend to focus either on top-down or vertical ways of organizing DEI work (e.g. chief diversity officer positions) or more horizontally integrated designs such as DEI committees. These structures are limited in their ability to embed the type of culture change necessary to erode entrenched inequities on college and university campuses. This study identifies organizational structures that are more shared or matrix-like as promising approaches for transforming campus culture. Authors specifically describe four different models of a more shared organizational design for DEI and discuss the implications of changing structures in this way.
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Spring 2024 10+10 Pop-up Series (TLC)
During Spring quarter on Tuesdays at 10am, UCLA’s Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) instructional designers are offering a series of seven pop-up sessions on focused, specific topics related to online/hybrid course design.
For 10 minutes, they will demo how to do something in your course that will benefit your students’ learning, while simplifying your teaching with Bruin Learn. An optional, additional 10 minutes is available for discussion and Q & A.
- 04/09 - Add a Template to Your New Bruin Learn Course Site
- 04/16 - Giving Feedback in Bruin Learn Speedgrader
- 04/23 - Handling Large Classes with Fewer TAs: Some Strategies
- 04/30 - Inserting Images into Bruin Learn Pages and Assignments
- 05/07 - Sequencing Learning Material in a Module
- 05/14 - Design a Grading Rubric using Generative AI (ChatGPT)
- 05/21 - Five Ways to Use AI in Teaching and Learning
Zoom link for all sessions: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98654413254?pwd=SXAzcUFsS1VpM0doU0tQUy9hKzdodz09
Meeting ID: 986 5441 3254 Passcode: 196561
For more information, go to: https://online.ucla.edu/sp-2024-10plus10-series/
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Please mark your calendars for the Annual Semel HCI Center Celebration on Monday, June 3rd, 4 - 6:30pm.
This magical evening will feature live music, a poetry reading, delicious food, student research projects, and the Jane B Semel HCI Appreciation & Recognition Awardees. We also look forward to honoring the 2024 Eudaimonia Lifetime Achievement Awardee, a longtime supporter and champion of an inclusive culture of health at UCLA.
More details will be shared in the coming weeks; for any questions, please contact Ana Majer, amajer@conet.ucla.edu.
See you on June 3rd!
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Queer and Trans Inclusive Summit
The Queer and Trans Inclusive Fieldwork Summit will host a small group of UC faculty, postdocs, and grad students who do ecological field research. Our goals are to build community, share resources, and identify pressing needs. Find out more here.
Important dates:
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Featured Campus Resources | | |
Be Well Bruin
Share with students, add to your syllabus, add to your email signature! This website is a student-facing resource with an intuitive user design that allows students to easily find resources to support their physical, academic, emotional, financial, and social wellbeing. It also includes information on access to basic needs such as food, housing, childcare and transportation. This website is the result of a cross-campus initiative from multiple wellness organizations at UCLA.
Visit their website: https://bewellbruin.ucla.edu/
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Disabilities & Computing Program
The mission of UCLA’s Disabilities and Computing Program at the Office of Advanced Research Computing is two-fold. The first goal is to facilitate the integration of adaptive computing technology into the areas of instruction, study, research, and employment at UCLA. The second goal is to make information – including electronic text and multimedia – accessible to all students, faculty and staff.
Visit their website: https://dcp.ucla.edu/
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Additional UCLA Training Events
Visit the following websites to view additional training events that support teaching and learning at UCLA:
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Bruin Learn Workshops
Join the BruinLearn Center of Excellence and register for the upcoming training events:
- Assignments and Grading in Bruin Learn
- Hands-on workshop with Feedback Fruits: Peer Review & Group Member Evaluation
- Assignments and Grading in Bruin Learn
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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 monthly newsletter 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 newsletter, please email us at media@ceils.ucla.edu.
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