These workshop presentations, handouts and working group reports and materials were all created by ACS faculty and staff in response to our call in early summer for ACS Rapid Summer Grants for Advancing Pandemic Pedagogies.
Working Group: A Post-COVID Look at Study Abroad: Sustainability and Global Experience
Summer, 2021
Ellen Sayles (Facilitator) (Richmond), Anne-Marie Bruner-Tracey (Centenary), Lori Harmann (Centre), Anne Ledvina (BSC) and Naomi Otterness (Davidson)
Working Group: “Decolonizing” the Curriculum: Tensions, Trends and Tools
Summer, 2021
Betsy Sandlin (Co-Facilitator) (Sewanee), Kent Andersen (Co-Facilitator) (BSC), Diane Boyd (Furman), Nancy Chick (Rollins), Emily Puckette (Sewanee), Stephanie Rolph (Millsaps), Elisabeth Gruner (Richmond), and Amy Cotrill (BSC)
Working Group: Enhancing the First-Year Experience
Dana Bekurs (Facilitator) (BCS), Jennifer Leach (Southwestern), Jennifer Mathews (Sewanee), Jason Rodocker (WLU), Tiffany Norris (BSC), Andrew Gurka (Richmond), Ashley Kistler (Rollins), and Brad Harmon (Furman)
Working Group: Fostering a Sense of Belonging in the Classroom
Summer, 2021
Carlos Hurtado (Facilitator) (Richmond), Kylie Korsnack (Richmond), Brandon Ng (Richmond), Jory Brinkerhoff (Richmond), Eva Cadavid (Centre), Layne Gordon (Rollins), Brittani Sahm (Rollins), and Zeynep Teymuroglu (Rollins)
We hope that facilitators at ACS institutions will continue to develop topics, activities, and resources to add to this. Our focus was on students in the classroom. Still we discussed the importance of students in majors, the institution itself, and the faculty and staff at the institution. Moreover, our list of practical activities can be complemented. We also could extend the topics covered, for example, to develop more on the sense of belonging within the institution. Finally, the proposal of assessment tools for instructors could be extended to include more quantitative options. Our proposal is only the beginning for what could be used as a starting point for future development.
Working Group: Leveraging Digital Pedagogies to Energize Learning
Summer, 2021
Michael Marsh-Soloway (Facilitator) (Richmond), Vincent Gawronski (BSC), Elizabeth Pettinaroli (Rhodes), Martin Sulzer-Reichel (Richmond), Claudia Ferman (Richmond), Hannah Huber (Sewanee), and Olivier Delers (Richmond)
Working Group: Preparing Department/Program Chairs
Summer, 2021
Anne Stone (Facilitator) (Rollins), Stephanie Hansard (BSC), Joanna Wares (Richmond), MacKenzie Moon Ryan (Rollins), Valerie Renegar (Southwestern), Jeff Carlson (Richmond), and Mike Gesinski (Southwestern)
Working Group: Rethinking Advising for Non-traditional Students
Summer, 2021
Beth Ann Howard (Facilitator) (Richmond), Gretchen Flynn Morris (Richmond), Amber Taylor (Rollins), Debbie Tatum (Rollins), Teresa Cole (Rollins), and Susan Montgomery (Rollins)
Working Group: Writing Accountability Groups
Summer, 2021
Nancy Chick (Facilitator) (Rollins), Tara Strauch (Facilitator) (Centre), Ellen Barnett (Trinity), Katie Ann Skogsberg (Centre), Kara Wunderlich (Rollins), Centdrika Hurt (BSC), Linda Boland (Richmond), Mei Li Inouye (Centre), Maude Keely Sutton (BCS), Blake Robinson (Rollins), Kip Kiefer (Rollins), Kati Curts (Sewanee), Elizabeth Wiener (Sewanee), Kiyona Brewster (Centre), Kimberly Dennis, (Rollins), Courtney Hatch (Hendrix), Delphia Shanks (Hendrix), MacKenzie Moon Ryan (Rollins), Juan Guevara Pinto (Rollins), Stephanie Hansard (BSC), Matt Nichter (Rollins), and Jason Heaton (BSC)
Workshop: Syllabus Design: Crafting More Inclusive Learning-centered Syllabi
August 4, 2021
Facilitated by Kent Andersen (Birmingham–Southern College), Barbara Lom (Davidson), Kerry Paumi (Centre), and Betsy Sandlin (Sewanee)
Workshop: Developing as a Department Chair: Cultivating an Academic Leadership Mindset
July 27, 2021
Facilitated by Lisa Jasinski (Trinity), Duane Colthorp (Trinity), Jana Mathews (Rollins), and Hilton Kelly (Davidson)
Workshop: Nature Therapy: Tending to Educators’ Well-being
July 1, 2021
Facilitated by Ellen Barnett (Trinity), Courtney Crim (Trinity), Laura Allen (Trinity), and Aaron Godlaski (Centre)
Workshop: Adventures in Triage: Pandemic Lessons for Robust and Flexible Course Design in the Natural Sciences (and Beyond)
June 23, 2021
Facilitated by Kimberly McArthur (Southwestern), Katie Ann Skogsberg (Centre), and Andrew Bell (Richmond)
Workshop: Engaging Second Language Students through Interactive and Student Presentations, Close Readings/Viewings, and Interactions with Native Peers in the Online Classroom
July 28, 2020
Facilitated by Genny Ballard (Centre), Florin Beschea (Davidson), Mark Preslar (Sewanee) and Susanna Weygandt (Sewanee)
Workshop: Designing Student-Centered Class Activities for Blended Synchronous Equation-Based Courses
July 23, 2020
Facilitated by Andrew Bell (Richmond) and Carol Ann Downes (Hendrix)
Workshop: Near, Far, Wherever You Are: Models for Building Community in the “New” First-Year Experience
July 22, 2020
Facilitated by Peter Gess (Hendrix), Michael Hughes (Trinity), Cathy Jellenik (Hendrix) and Katherine Troyer (Trinity)
Workshop:Ready When You Are: Flexible Delivery and Excellent Pedagogy in Blended Delivery, Active Learning Classes
July 21, 2020
Facilitated by Ryan Brazell (Richmond), Kylie Korsnack (Richmond), Kimberly McArthur (Southwestern) and Julie Sievers (Southwestern)
Workshop: Strategies for Teaching and Learning Online and Hybrid Environments Backed by Cognitive Science Research
July 20, 2020
Facilitated by Jessica Alexander (Centenary) and Jennifer Queen (Rollins)
Workshop: STE(ngage)M: Adapting the Case Study Method through Universal Design for Learning
July 17, 2020
Facilitated by Ellen Barnett (Trinity), Jonathan King (Trinity), Aditi Pai (Spelman) and Katie Troyer (Trinity)
Workshop: Remote Summative Assessment In Equation-based Courses: If They Can Look Up the Answer, How Do We Know They Learned It?
July 9, 2020
Facilitated by Megan Leonard (Hendrix), Prayat Poudel (Centre) and Todd Tinsley (Hendrix)
Workshop:Technologies, Pedagogies, and Best Practices for Teaching Chinese Online: A Workshop for ACS Chinese Language and Content Course Instructors
July 8, 2020
Facilitated by Zhengbin “Richard” Lu (Spelman), Hongchu Fu (Washington & Lee), Carl Robertson (Southwestern) and Li Wei (Rollins)
Workshop: Making Learner-Centered and Inclusive Pedagogical Choices for an Unpredictable Fall Term
June 29, 2020
Facilitated by Kent Andersen (Birmingham-Southern), Barbara Lom (Davidson), Kerry Paumi (Centre) and Betsy Sandlin (Sewanee)
Workshop: Purposeful Planning for the Distinctive Learning Experiences of Small, Residential Liberal Arts Colleges
June 24, 2020
Facilitated by Nancy Chick (Rollins), Kent Andersen (Birmingham-Southern), Betsy Sandlin (Sewanee), Stephanie Rolph (Millsaps) and Linda Boland (Richmond)
Working Group: Adapting Pandemic Pedagogies in the Performing and Collaborative Arts
Summer, 2020
Jennifer Goff (Centre), Peter Friedrich (Millsaps), John Marshall (Sewanee), Jennifer Matthews (Sewanee), Laura Perkins (Rhodes), Jason Rosenberg (Sewanee), & Robert Seebacher (Centre)
Working Group: Choral, Instrumental, and Vocal Pedagogy
Summer, 2020
Johann Van Niekerk (Centre), Shane Lynch (Washington & Lee), Cory Wikan (Centenary), Tiffany Lu (Sewanee), John Sinclair (Rollins), Johathan Trotter (Millsaps) & Prakash Wright (Sewanee)
Working Group: Culture, Critique and Context: Building Remote Communities of Learning through Intentional Inclusive Practice
Summer, 2020
Monique Earl-Lewis (Morehouse), Adria Welcher (Morehouse), Samuel Livingston (Morehouse), Corrie Claiborne (Morehouse), Sulayman Clark (Morehouse), Clarissa Myrick-Harris (Morehouse), Kipton Jensen (Morehouse), & Toni Jaudon (Hendrix)
Working Group: Curating Connection: The Modified Tutorial Model and Other Opportunities for Small-Group Mentorship
Summer, 2020
Erin Hoover (Hendrix), Hope Coulter (Hendrix), Mark Hopwood (Sewanee), & Stephanie Batkie (Sewanee)
Working Group: Engaging (Outside) Communities in the Remote Classroom
Summer, 2020
Kimberly Kasper (Rhodes), Joy Brooke Fairfield (Rhodes), Shaolu Yu (Rhodes), Tom Bremer (Rhodes), Laura Browder (Richmond), Sharon Green (Davidson), Amy Hammond (Centenary), Patricia Herrera (Richmond), Yinishi Lerman-Tan (Trinity), Andrew Patrick (Centre), & Kaelyn Wiles (Centre)
Engaging (Outside) Communities in the Remote Classroom Final Report
Working Group: Impactful and Effective Preparation of Teacher Candidates during COVID-19: Instruction, Assessment, and Virtual Placements
Summer, 2020
Nicole Taylor (Spelman), Khalilah Ali (Spelman), Richard Benson (Spelman), Valeisha Ellis (Spelman), Andrea Lewis (Spelman), Chatee O. Richardson (Spelman), Michael Kamen (Southwestern), & Alicia Moore (Southwestern)
Working Group: Inclusive Pedagogies for Remote and Blended First-year Seminar Courses
Summer, 2020
Erika Berroth (Southwestern), Julie Sievers (Southwestern), Sasha Pfau (Hendrix), John Krebs (Hendrix), & Maureen McClung (Hendrix)
Working Group: Mathematics and Data Science Resources to Support Societally Relevant Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
Summer, 2020
Joanna Wares (Richmond), Zeynep Teymuroglu (Rollins), Marcella Torres (Richmond), Cabral Balreira (Trinity), Casey Hawthorne (Furman), & Grace Stadnyk (Furman)
Working Group: Online Undergraduate Cell Biology Lab Working Group
Summer, 2020
Triscia Hendrickson (Morehouse), Mark Lee (Spelman), Pamela Hanson (Furman), Elise Kikis, Jonathan King (Trinity), Centdrika Hurt (Birmingham-Southern), Rebecca Murphy (Centenary), & Laura MacDonald (Hendrix)
Working Group: Relationship-driven Peer Tutoring in the Age of Covid-19: How Faculty and Peer Tutors Can Work Together to Bridge Hierarchical Gaps Between Faculty and Students and Facilitate Student Engagement
Summer, 2020
Jennifer Rowe (Trinity), Jessica Reyes (Trinity), Luke Tunstall (Trinity), Jennifer Bartlett (Trinity), Shireen Campbell (Davidson), Felipe Pruneda-Senties (Hendrix), & Jean Schwab (Furman)
Working Group: Socially Distanced But High Impact: Exploring Small Group Discussions & Other Highly Interactive Activities in Socially Distanced F2F Environments During a Time of Pandemics
Summer, 2020
Rachel Newcomb (Rollins), Laurian Bowles (Davidson), Amy Jasperson (Rhodes), Shana Minkin (Sewanee), Matthew Irvin (Sewanee), & Corinna Kahnke (Sewanee)
Working Group: Vulnerable People(s) and COVID-19
Summer, 2020
Margaret McLaren (Rollins), Shan-Estelle Brown (Rollins), Chelsea Ebin, Dawn Roe (Rollins), Nolan Kline (Rollins), & Sarah Parsloe (Rollins)
Interdisciplinary Modules on COVID19 and Vulnerable Peoples