CEILS Monthly Newsletter 

Issue #100 | November 2023

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CEILS 100th Newsletter!

Today’s 100^th newsletter is a milestone in CEILS history, representing 9 exhilarating, thought-provoking, and joyous years of learning with you! Your dedication and commitment to your roles as instructors and compassion for your students have kept us inspired and energized. The divisions of Life and Physical Sciences have made incredible progress toward the goal of inclusive excellence in teaching using evidence-based and equitable teaching practices. 

We are so proud to provide a service to support and empower the thousands of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates through a global pandemic and recalibration of our work through the lens of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. 

As one example of the impact of CEILS and your own efforts here at UCLA, check out the capstone report of the impactful work completed in the five year partnership with Dean Johnson and the HHMI Inclusive Excellence grant. 

In the days ahead, CEILS will continue to educate, encourage, and learn from you; as you engage students in their educational journeys at UCLA with compassion and care. 

Sincerely,

Rachel Kennison, CEILS Director

on behalf of the CEILS Team

End of Quarter

CEILS Happy Hour

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

Hershey Hall South Courtyard

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.

Get Your Syllabus Ready for Winter Quarter!

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

December 8th, 2023 | 9:30 - 11am

Virtual on Zoom (link will be provided after RSVP)

View our CEILS guide on Designing an Inclusive Syllabus here.

Featured Resources

The Teaching and Learning Center has created a resource guide on navigating emotionally charged discussions in the classroom, written with the current situation in mind. This resource also offers valuable advice with regard to offering flexibility in equitable and transparent ways. This link to the guide will take you to Box first, then redirect you to Google Docs — you will need to sign in using your UCLA Logon ID: Teaching Strategies to Support Academic Continuity Through Difficult Times (PDF)

Recent Publications - Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

• UCF staff have published an open-source book of ChatGPT assignment prompts to use in your classroom today: View Here
• ASCN Teaching Evaluation Change Initiative Repository Blog: View Here
• Kramer, L., Fuller, E., Watson, C., Castillo, A., Oliva, P. D., & Potvin, G. (2023). Establishing a new standard of care for calculus using trials with randomized student allocation. Science, 381(6661), 995-998. Read Here
• A Comparison of Study Behaviors and Metacognitive Evaluation Used by Biology Students
• Literature Reviews, Theoretical Frameworks, and Conceptual Frameworks: An Introduction for New Biology Education Researchers

SABER West 2024

Building Bridges For Equity in STEM

University of California, Irvine

The eighth annual SABER West conference will be held face to face on January 13-14, 2024 with pre-conference workshops on Friday January 12, 2024.

Early registration is open now through November 17th!

CSU Symposium on Teaching and Learning: 2024 RECONNECT

February 23-24, 2024 (in-person)

March 1, 2024 (virtual)

California State University, San Bernardino

Register Here

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

• Nov. 17 & Dec. 1 | Creating Accessible STEM Teaching & Research Documents
• 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.

ASCN presents Change Theories in Practice: A Discussion Series

November 28th, 4-5 pm ET/ 1-2 pm PT

The panel session will be on "When things don't go as planned... what happens then?” 

Register here

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 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.