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Healing Harmony: A Model for Integrating Musical Outreach into Healthcare Settings
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Where Scholarship Meets the City: Fast-Track
Community-Engaged Course Design
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Alexis Petri | associate research professor, Educational Leadership, Policy, and Foundations | CAFE
Community-engaged learning invites students to test their disciplinary knowledge in settings shaped by real people and real challenges, strengthening both understanding and persistence. This 45-minute interactive workshop supports faculty who want to bring community contexts into their teaching in ways that are feasible, reciprocal, and accessible to all students. It welcomes instructors across disciplines, whether they are exploring this work for the first time or rethinking familiar approaches.
Participants will explore practical ways to connect coursework with community insight, from partner-informed prompts to reflective practices that draw on local issues. The session offers a flexible design framework rather than a single model, allowing faculty to adapt ideas to the contours of their courses, their students, and the communities they hope to engage.
The workshop centers on a guided rapid-design activity. Working in pairs, participants identify a disciplinary practice students should attempt and a community context where that practice matters. They sketch a draft assignment, exchange focused feedback, and refine the scope with attention to accessibility, procedural equity, and partner capacity. This process surfaces design choices that support meaningful engagement without placing undue strain on students or community organizations.
Participants will leave with a draft activity they can develop further and one concrete next step for moving their idea toward implementation. The session is well suited to faculty who want their teaching to resonate beyond the classroom, deepen student success, and cultivate thoughtful, community-connected learning.
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It helps faculty translate disciplinary knowledge into community-relevant learning experiences, moving ideas “from the page to the people.”
It supports teaching practices that build meaningful connections between coursework and civic contexts, showing how classroom learning can inform and strengthen community life.
It equips faculty with tools to design assignments that generate real-world impact, enabling scholarship to circulate beyond campus in accessible, thoughtful ways.
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