Gatherings
Conversations led by participant leaders in hybrid workshops, roundtables, and colloquies, routinely providing insights and strategies to rethink or establish effective teaching habits.
Apply July 1 - September 29
Life and Landscape of Early Career: Building a Courageous Career in an Unstable Context
Led by Carolyn Medine, Ph.D. and Mindy McGarrah Sharp, Ph.D, this workshop brings together early career faculty to reflect on and develop sustainable, creative, and courageous teaching practices through collaborative dialogue, shared experiences, and exploration of pedagogy, institutional navigation, and vocational identity.
Teaching Well Online: Faithful, Creative, and Human in Digital Theological Education
Monthly online sessions from January to June led by Mary Hess, Ph.D. and Jodi porter, Ed.D. this workshop brings together theological faculty across career stages to collaboratively explore how to teach faithfully and effectively online, engaging questions of dialogue, formation, community, and emerging technologies like generative AI while redesigning elements of their own courses for digital learning environments.
Tending to the Heart of Teaching: Pedagogy with Purpose
Christine Hong, Ph.D. and Mark Hearn, Ph.D. lead this workshop that invites teachers at any career stage to explore the inner life of their vocation through storywork, reflective dialogue, and communal inquiry, reorienting their pedagogical practice toward greater clarity, integrity, and hope by examining the motivations, power dynamics, and formative experiences that shape who they are as teachers.
Releasing the Imagination: Teacher as Artisan and Creative
Willie James Jennings, Ph.D. and Katherine Turpin, Ph.D. invite mid-to-late career faculty to reclaim and reinvigorate their teaching life through courageous artistic experimentation, collaborative risk-taking, and imaginative reflection that reawakens creative energy and renews their vision for the classroom.