Get Your Syllabus Ready for Winter Quarter! 

Join CEILS Senior Associate Directors, Jess Gregg and Shanna Shaked for a virtual workshop on Inclusive Syllabus Design. We will share some examples, strategies, and resources to support you in getting your syllabus created. 

Friday, December 8th | 9:30 - 11am PST

Virtual on Zoom (link will be provided after RSVP)

View our CEILS guide on Designing an Inclusive Syllabus here.

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End of Quarter 

CEILS Happy Hour

Friday, December 8th | 2:00 - 4:00pm PST

Hershey Hall South Courtyard

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You're invited to celebrate the end of the Fall Quarter with food, refreshments, and quality time together! Please join us anytime between 2:00 - 4:00pm

Save the Dates for

Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings!

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Jan 23: Melissa Paquette-Smith, Assistant Teaching Professor, UCLA Department of Psychology

The Effects of Collaborative Practice Testing on Memory for Course Content in Introductory Psychology

Jan 30: Peter Fisher, PhD graduate, Social Psychology, UCLA

Leveraging Dynamic Social Norms to Motivate Conversations on Difficult Topics in the Classroom

Feb 6: Britney Robinson (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Coordinator, UCLA Physical Sciences Division) & JoAnn Roberts (Associate Director for JEDI in Teaching, CEILS)

Metacognitive approaches to prepare incoming students for STEM majors: Impacts & Lessons Learned from a Physical Sciences Bridge Program  

Annual Winter BAAE Conversation Series

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The CEILS Becoming an Anti-racist Educator (B.A.A.E) Conversations encourages honest and vulnerable dialogue with faculty, postdocs, and graduate students around the unpracticed conversations about race and racism. These in-person conversations create space for discussion of one’s own racial identity development, understanding the implications of our racial identities and other social identities in our academic learning environments (e.g., classroom, clinic/laboratory, meetings etc.), and action planning. Overall, the goal is to cultivate an environment and practice that celebrates identity and culture while still identifying and working together against inequitable systems.

The series will be on the following Tuesdays from 12:30 - 1:30 pm: February 6, 13, and 20. We will have light refreshments, but please feel free to bring your lunch!

The topics for each session are as follows. Please visit our website for more information. 

1. Session 1: Exploring Identity, Privilege, & Culture

2. Session 2: Taking Anti-racist Action: Interrupting Microaggressions

3. Session 3: Taking Anti-racist Action: From Inclusive to Anti-racist pedagogy

IMPORTANT: Session 1 participation is required to attend either Session 2 or 3.

• How AI could save (not destroy) education
• To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
• Exploring User Perspectives on ChatGPT: Applications, Perceptions, and Implications for AI-Integrated Education
• This Simple 30-Minute Belonging Exercise Could Boost Student
• Virtually the Same? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Remote Undergraduate Research Experiences
• Why You Should Rethink Your Resistance to ChatGPT
• Preparing Teaching Assistants to Facilitate Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) in the Biological Sciences: A Call to Action
• AI Pedagogy Project 
• Generative AI Resources for Faculty
• Artificial Intelligence | Office of the Provost | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
• TeachSmart is a chatgpt that provides teaching advice using 'Practical Pedagogy' by Michael Sharples.
• Humanizing STEM Education: An Ecological Systems Framework for Educating the Whole Student
• ASCN's Teaching Evaluation Change Initiative Repository
• Carnegie Is Changing How It Classifies R1 Institutions. Will Your University Make the Cut?
• Modernizing Scholarship for the Public Good
• Universities Take Promising Steps to Reward Research that Benefits Society
• The value of process in racial equity work: Reflections from a faculty learning community

Bruin Learn Workshops

Join the BruinLearn Center of Excellence and register for the upcoming training events:



• Peer review and group member evaluation using FeedbackFruits
• End-of-Term Grading in Bruin Learn & MyUCLA
• Quick Start: Preparing to Teach with Bruin Learn
• Engage, Evaluate, and Elevate: Boost Classroom Interaction with iClicker Cloud Polling Tools
• Getting Started with Perceptive Peer Review

CSU Symposium on Teaching and Learning: 2024 RECONNECT 

February 23-24, 2024 (in-person)

March 1, 2024 (virtual)

California State University, San Bernardino

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California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) is excited to RECONNECT faculty and staff across the CSU and surrounding community colleges by hosting the 22nd Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning this winter! Sponsored by CSU Innovative Teaching and Learning Programs and the CSU Faculty Development Council, the CSU Symposium on Teaching and Learning convenes educators from all 23 CSU campuses -- and those who collaborate with them -- to share research findings, pedagogical innovations, and evidence-based, culturally sustaining practices for reaching and teaching our diverse student body.

Upcoming CIRTL Events

Thursdays, Dec. 7 & 14 | Getting Started with Universal Design for Learning

Dec. 7 - April | Postdoc Teaching Practicum

Details about these events are linked in the October CIRTL Newsletter. The CIRTL Network - Spring 2024 programming will be posted on December 11th with registration opening on December 18th. The Spring semester is February 2nd - April 26th, 2024

The 2nd FREE Virtual Institute for Alternative Assessment in STEM for Higher Education: Reimagining STEM Assessment of Student Learning for the 21^st century 

Monday, January 29^th 1:00-5:00pm EST

This institute is open to everyone to attend.

This virtual institute will provide an opportunity for educators to engage with their colleagues in sharing the opportunities, methods, and challenges provided by alternative assessment in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in higher education. Join the conversation about innovative, unique assessment strategies, hear about research that is currently underway, find research collaborators, share your alternative assessment practices and experiences, ask questions of others trying something new, and learn how you can support alternative assessment in your department or faculty.

A link will be provided to registrants prior to Mon. Jan. 29^th. Join in from wherever you are in the world. Participate in as many sessions as you wish. Each presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer period. To register, please use this registration link.

For the latest and upcoming Teaching and Learning Center events, please visit the link here.

Accelerating Racial Activism in STEM Higher Education by Institutionalizing Equity Ethics

In this article authors highlight the work of several people and organizations that are working towards a justice oriented STEM, offering insight into how institutions of higher education can begin to accelerate racial activism in STEM by institutionalizing equity ethics within macro and mess-system structures, norms, values, beliefs, and practices.

Aspire Resources for Inclusive STEM Faculty

Learn more and view the resources here

The Aspire Alliance National Change Team has curated and created resources to help STEM Faculty be more inclusive. These include A Guide to Academic Advising for STEM Faculty and their Inclusive Professional Framework for Faculty.

UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) is launching four new director-level leadership positions that will oversee functional areas in the TLC that include educational development for UCLA faculty and instructors of record, graduate student and postdoc professional learning (including TA training), instructional design and media production, and assessment of the student and instructor experience here at UCLA. Below are links to the four job ads:

• Director of Instructional Design and Media Production 
• Director of Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Scholar Engagement
• Director for Assessment of Student and Instructor Experience 
• Director for Educational Development Programs

For the most current job openings, please visit our page here.

For more information about CEILS events and resources, including a list of STEM education events from previous mailers, please visit the CEILS website at www.ceils.ucla.edu or stop by our CEILS office in 222 Hershey Hall. If you wish to be added to the CEILS mailing list for future newsletters and special announcements, please send your request to media@ceils.ucla.edu. 

Please note, this monthly newsletter is circulated through many departmental listservs. Most other CEILS correspondence, including special event announcements and reminders, are sent to CEILS mailing list recipients only. If you have questions or have difficulty reading this newsletter, please email us at media@ceils.ucla.edu.