Did you miss a 2024 Summer Institute?
Good news! Resources and materials from the 2024 summer institutes are now available through Canvas. Click on the links below to self-enroll in the Canvas site.
| Title & Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Designing Learning Experiences that Matter | This planning & design institute features a variety of stand-alone workshops on teaching and learning. |
| Grant Writing and Fundraising Institute | This institute focused on enhancing faculty knowledge and collaboration in securing external grants through Evergreen. |
| Evergreen the Climate School? | Encourage and help build new climate education opportunities as well as create a new pipeline for students from across the state interested in learning more about the climate crisis and how to address it. |
| Rhetorical Grammar: Antiracist Approaches to Grammar Instruction | This summer institute focuses on how to use linguistic justice and critical language awareness frameworks to support students in learning grammar and other foundational college writing skills. |
| Challenging Our Assumptions: Creating Spaces Where Neurodiverse Students Thrive | Deepen your understanding of a neurodiverse-friendly college and develop a plan for engaging neurodiverse learners in meaningful ways that promote autonomy, social belonging, and well-being. |
| Self-evals as Engagement with Learning: An Exploration | Share and shape strategies for supporting engagement empowered by metacognitive learning and teaching within Evergreen’s many learning environments. |
| Study Abroad: Changing Lives | Learn how to prepare students, make connections abroad, and glean some planning ideas involved in creating a successful international experience. |
| Contemplative Pedagogy Lab: Experiments in Shaping Attention | Slow down and become more present, using a range of practices from meditation and mindfulness contexts, experiential learning, and close reading and observation techniques used across academic disciplines. |
| Embracing Open for Equity: Integrating OER and Open Pedagogy into Your Teaching | Learn about and integrate open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy into your courses and student support endeavors. |
| Teaching Online at Evergreen | Consider practices that support engagement and social presence in both synchronous and asynchronous online learning environments. |
| Understanding Palestine/Israel and the Gaza War | Examine the historical roots of the conflict in Palestine/Israel, the human rights consequences, and the political economy of both occupation and the broader Middle East region and explore innovative approaches to learning and educating about Palestine/Israel. |
| Library Level-Up! Getting the Most out of Library Resources and Services | An overview of the resources and services available in the library including electronic and physical resources |
| Community Based Learning: Theory to Practice | Develop practices based on embodied cultural humility, sustainable planning and transformational education focusing on service, reciprocity, and empowerment. |
| Inclusive and Engaging Seminars: A Seminar | Learn and share insights about seminar elements, including facilitation strategies, in-class activities, assignments, outcomes/assessment, community agreements, and responding to conflict. |
| Write that Book! | Examine the ways in which the spectrum of writing processes can be applied to our classroom work so that diverse students can benefit from diverse perspectives. |
| Students on Committees: Supporting Successful Engagement in Shared Governance | Faculty and staff will co-develop a set of shared expectations and an on-boarding plan for collaborating with students on college governance committees in the upcoming year. |
| Jews, Judaism, and Racism: Connections, Distinctions, and Our Students | The institute will explore the complexities of Jewish identity, including its religious, cultural, racial, and ethnic dimensions, while addressing antisemitism, challenges in higher education, and ways to create an inclusive campus for Jewish students at Evergreen. |
| Re-envisioning Evergreen’s Food Systems: Finding a Path Forward | The institute brings together participants, faculty, and staff to strengthen Evergreen’s food systems through field trips, collaborative strategizing, and hands-on activities, while fostering partnerships between local and regional food organizations, the college, and its communities. |
| Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Evergreen Classroom and Beyond | The institute introduces educators to generative AI, explores its use in the classroom, and discusses its implications for pedagogy, work, human intelligence, and ethics through hands-on workshops, lectures, and collaborative curriculum development. |
Access full institute descriptions and links to Canvas sites in the 2024 Evergreen Summer Institute Program.
