Opportunities

Teaching squares are groups of four faculty members who visit each other’s classes -- to learn from each other, not to evaluate each other -- and then get together to discuss what they learned from the visits. (Groups of three may also form a teaching triangle.)

To support these goals, I can help by 

• • providing prompts to guide the class visits and/or the debrief (in addition to my Teaching Squares Guide), and

  • supporting your debrief conversation by covering the cost for a meal together on campus.

After the debrief, each participant will be asked to submit a very brief report (download here) on insights gained from the experience.  

✍🏼  Apply for support for a Teaching Square (or Triangle) by completing this form.  ✍🏼  

Faculty are invited to propose a Faculty Learning Community (FLC)—a small, faculty-led group that meets regularly over a semester or academic year to explore a shared topic related to teaching or more broadly to their professional growth. 

TWU FLCs aim to foster meaningful conversation, mutual support, and purposeful change.  This change may be modest or radical, but the spirit of these groups is to amplify impact beyond the group members through

• a tangible product (e.g., a teaching resource), 

• a curricular innovation (e.g., redesigned course or course sequence), 

• a campus event (e.g., a workshop, panel, or brown bag lunch), 

• a broader dissemination of insights (e.g., a publication, presentation, or op ed), or

• another impactful result.

Selected proposals will receive modest funding for refreshments or books and may request help with planning and facilitation.

✍🏼  Propose a Faculty Learning Community completing this form.  ✍🏼  

Writing Retreats

Give yourself a block of time to write by coming to these drop-in writing retreats. No agenda, no program—just a supportive space for uninterrupted writing. Bring your materials (and headphones if needed), and enjoy coffee, tea, fizzy water, and snacks while you work.  

For now, we'll host writing retreats in Stoddard 308.   After we move, writing retreats will be in The Faculty Commons on the 8th floor of MCL.  

Stay tuned for the Fall 2025 dates.  

WOW (Where is Oakley Writing?)

Designed and facilitated by Dr. Karen Dunlap (Faculty Liaison, Professor Emeritus Curriculum and Instruction), WOW is two-week program of scheduled writing sprints of at least 20 minutes a day. Get some writing done, and enjoy the accountability and fun of following Oakley on his adventures.  Learn more here.