Past Retreats

Rooted in ongoing collaboration and reflection, Project Voltron is a multipronged initiative designed to move the needle for all students. The goal is to celebrate our work, unite the sequence, and launch a growth portfolio. In doing so, we continue bringing Letters together and ultimately give our collaborations and evolving ethos a more permanent home to share with students. This is how we go Voltron. Learn more...

Revisit the time we explored our personalities as teachers through the medium of paint, scissors, nicnaks, and glue.

Peruse a growing list of cool Lens Assignments or click the button to go there yourself

Dive into Laura Rendon's overview of the principles, pedagogies, and practices of Sentipensante

Revisit the time we shared books and contemplative practices in a museum of art.

Peruse a poster collection of new media, new pedagogies, and new practices (along with a few traditions too).

Dive into an exploration of who we are as Letters faculty what Communities of Practice are shaping our programs.

Review our initial ideas for revising the ENGL 100 COR along with a manifesto for bringing the department together.

Review our introduction to a year long project to celebrate past work, revise and unite our composition sequence, and bringing the department together.

Explore questions we generated as we listened to each other share the readings we assign and scaffold from the beginning to the end of our courses.