Loading…
You have found Georgetown University’s Teaching, Learning & Innovation Summer Institute, hosted by the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship. This is a private event that is only open to faculty and staff at Georgetown University. To return to the TLISI website please click here
arrow_back View All Dates
Wednesday, May 21
 

9:00am EDT

Coffee and Pastries
Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Join us for coffee, pastries, and collect your TLISI 2025 name tag and information at the registration table.
Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Great Room in Healey Family Student Center

9:30am EDT

Faculty Development & Peer Learning for Inclusive Teaching
Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
Many LEAP units have turned to faculty development, pedagogy circles, and communities of practice as key strategies for sustaining inclusive teaching. This panel will highlight examples of these peer learning models in action—what they’ve made possible, how they’ve been sustained, and what other units can learn from them.

Panelists will share concrete strategies for supporting faculty in developing inclusive, responsive teaching practices, and reflect on the value of cross-disciplinary collaboration, shared facilitation, and trust-building among peers. The conversation will explore how faculty-led communities can create space for reflection, experimentation, and long-term cultural change in the classroom and beyond.

Designed for anyone looking to support inclusive teaching within their unit or program, this session will offer practical insight and inspiration for building sustainable peer learning models that fit your own context.
Moderators
avatar for Caitlin Gunn

Caitlin Gunn

Senior Educational Developer, Georgetown University
Speakers
Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
Film Screening Room Second Floor of Healey Family Student Center

9:30am EDT

Religious Diversity in the Classroom
Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
Our students hail from a wide variety of cultural, spiritual, and religious/non-religious backgrounds, and an inclusive classroom needs to actively welcome and make a home for that diversity. In this panel, we’ll talk about the ways in which a learning environment can be, depending on the actions of the instructor, alienating or truly inclusive for students of all religious identities. You’ll also get the chance to wrestle with challenging hypothetical scenarios and generate solutions for your own current or future courses.
Speakers
avatar for David Ebenbach

David Ebenbach

Georgetown University
Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
Herman Room in Healey Family Student Center

9:30am EDT

In Your Shoes: Theory and Practice
Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Note: This is a double session
In this (double) session lead members of the In Your Shoes team of The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics will share insights from their research situating IYS in the larger context of arts and transformational learning. The team will then lead participants through a brief IYS process, followed by a discussion of the ways to engage IYS programs and leverage IYS practices to enhance classroom climate and promote learning outcomes.
Speakers
avatar for Zhuqing Ding

Zhuqing Ding

Assistant Director for Online Programs, Georgetown University
Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Social Room in Healey Family Student Center

10:45am EDT

Break
Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:45am - 11:00am EDT
Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:45am - 11:00am EDT
Great Room in Healey Family Student Center

11:00am EDT

Developing your AI Policy and Syllabus Statement
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
As generative AI becomes more present in academic work, clear and thoughtful syllabus language is essential. This session offers guidance on developing course policies that reflect your teaching goals, disciplinary context, and expectations for student use of AI. We’ll review sample statements, discuss key considerations, and engage in a hands-on activity—adapted from Harvard’s AI Pedagogy Project—to help you draft or refine your own policy.
Speakers
avatar for Molly Chehak

Molly Chehak

Director of Digital Learning Pedagogy, CNDLS, Georgetown University
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Film Screening Room Second Floor of Healey Family Student Center

11:00am EDT

Engelhard Presents: Building and Providing a Fidget Box for your Students as an Act of Care and Well-being
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
In this session, we will be discussing the value of a fidget box, as a tool that can help all your students learn and focus in the classroom, and as a tool that demonstrates your commitment to care of the whole student, and ensuring their well-being. After the short discussion, attendees will have a chance to begin to build their own fidget boxes, choosing what they want in their boxes as a beginning point in designing boxes that they and their students would find useful. Attendees will be able to take home this fidget box and use them in their classes.
Speakers
MC

MC Chan

Georgetown University
Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Herman Room in Healey Family Student Center

12:00pm EDT

Lunch + Find Seating
Wednesday May 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:15pm EDT
Choose your lunch, and find seating for our keynote presentation in the Great Room.

Wednesday May 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:15pm EDT
Great Room in Healey Family Student Center

12:15pm EDT

Lunchtime Plenary: The Role of Georgetown in a Shifting Global Landscape: A Conversation with GU Leaders about the State of Higher Education
Wednesday May 21, 2025 12:15pm - 1:45pm EDT
This plenary conversation among Georgetown leaders will address the shifting dynamics and demands being put on higher education, and how Georgetown is drawing on its values and community to navigate these challenges.
Speakers
SC

Soyica Colbert

Interim Provost, Georgetown University
PA

Paul Almeida

Dean and William R. Berkley Chair, McDonough School of Business
DD

Debora Dole

Vice Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, School of Nursing
Wednesday May 21, 2025 12:15pm - 1:45pm EDT
Great Room in Healey Family Student Center

1:45pm EDT

Break
Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:45pm - 2:00pm EDT
Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:45pm - 2:00pm EDT
Great Room in Healey Family Student Center

2:00pm EDT

Cross-School Conversations: Inclusive Pedagogy in Health Education
Wednesday May 21, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
With Georgetown’s School of Medicine, School of Health, and School of Nursing all engaged in LEAP, this panel brings faculty together to discuss shared challenges and creative strategies in advancing inclusive pedagogy across health education.

Panelists will explore how inclusive teaching practices are being embedded into health curricula to foster belonging, support diverse learners, and prepare students for equity-minded clinical and community work. From revisiting case studies to reshaping assessment, the conversation will highlight innovations that aim to make health education more responsive, rigorous, and humane.

This session will also surface cross-school insights into faculty development models that have been most effective—offering ideas for how to support educators navigating complex content, institutional pressures, and the urgent need for anti-oppressive practice in the health professions.
Moderators
avatar for Caitlin Gunn

Caitlin Gunn

Senior Educational Developer, Georgetown University
Speakers
avatar for Sarah Kureshi

Sarah Kureshi

Vice Chair of Education, Dept of Family Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Sarah Kureshi, MD, MPH is Associate Professor Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. She is a graduate of University of Central Florida (BS, Biology), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine... Read More →
Wednesday May 21, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Film Screening Room Second Floor of Healey Family Student Center

2:00pm EDT

From Trip to Transformation: Embedding Immersion Pedagogy into the Curriculum for Justice-Oriented Learning
Wednesday May 21, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Immersion experiences, when intentionally designed and thoughtfully integrated, can be powerful vehicles for transformative learning, justice-centered reflection, and curricular innovation. In this session, a team of faculty, staff, and student participants from the Center for Social Justice’s immersion experiences will share how immersion pedagogy has been embedded into undergraduate courses and co-curricular programming through the Alternative Breaks Program (ABP) and Magis Kino Border Immersion experiences. Grounded in a five-phase immersion pedagogy model—preparation, encounter, reflection, connection, and action—this session explores how faculty have partnered with CSJ to align immersions with course outcomes, institutional learning goals, and commitments to community accountability. Through recent examples, participants will learn how justice-focused experiential learning can be meaningfully scaffolded in classrooms and student programs.Participants will come away with a clear understanding of a replicable framework for immersion pedagogy and how it can be applied in curricular settings. They will also explore practical tools for deepening student reflection, strengthening the connection between immersive experiences and academic content, and fostering long-term community engagement.

Following a brief panel, participants will engage in small-group activities to imagine and begin designing a future immersion experience informed by this model.
Speakers
KH

Kim Huisman

Learning Design Specialist, CNDLS
LW

Lois Wessel

Professor
Wednesday May 21, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Herman Room in Healey Family Student Center

2:00pm EDT

Practicing Dialogue Across Difference
Wednesday May 21, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
We invite you to explore innovative approaches to dialogue facilitation in higher education. Professor Skendaj will present his model for training trainers in relationship-building dialogue facilitation. Participants will engage in an interactive session, including a demonstration dialogue, to learn how to design and implement peer-facilitated dialogue approaches that enhance critical thinking, active listening, and collaborative learning across complex and potentially challenging academic discussions.
Speakers
Wednesday May 21, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Social Room in Healey Family Student Center

3:15pm EDT

Break
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:15pm - 3:30pm EDT
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:15pm - 3:30pm EDT
Great Room in Healey Family Student Center

3:30pm EDT

Outdoor and Place-Based Teaching at Georgetown: Going Beyond “Can We Have Class Outside Today?”
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
In the 2024-2025 academic year, the Red House initiated an outdoor teaching pilot by transforming their Baker Family Terrace into an outdoor classroom. This pilot explored the reciprocal relationship between learning processes and the learning environment. In this session hosted outdoors on the Baker Family Terrace, participants will experience some of the place-based teaching approaches employed in outdoor classes on the Baker Family Terrace and learn about the techniques, activities, and best practices faculty have implemented to connect the local environment to their pedagogies. After sharing additional examples from place-based and outdoor learning from other Georgetown colleagues, facilitators will also share findings from a Red House report entitled “Context Matters: A Fall 2024 Case Study on Place-Based Teaching.” We hope that participants leave this session engaging the question of “can we have class outside today?” as an opportunity to reframe academic content in context for transformative learning.
Speakers
avatar for Peris Lopez

Peris Lopez

Student, Georgetown University - Red House & The Hub
NM

Noah Martin

Designer, Georgetown University
avatar for Ijeoma Njaka

Ijeoma Njaka

Senior Learning Design for Transformational & Inclusive Initiatives, Georgetown University
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Baker Family Terrace The Red House: 1237 37th St. NW Washington, D.C. 20007

3:30pm EDT

Teaching Critical AI Literacy in Writing Classes
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
In this panel, writing program faculty share the collective "Principles of Teaching Critical AI Literacy" that we have developed and implemented in Writing and Culture seminars. In particular, we share survey data about AI use among first-year students and detail practical activities and assignments to engage students in critically and ethically using AI to generate ideas, analyze audiences, and conduct research for writing. We also share our efforts to bring more student voices the AI conversation in higher education by developing a collaborative class project across multiple sections in which students created original multimedia web content about AI use in writing, learning, and creative arts.
Speakers
JP

J Palmeri

Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program, Georgetown University
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Social Room in Healey Family Student Center

4:30pm EDT

Social Hour and Reception
Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Join us for light hors d'oeuvres, beverages, and our book raffle event.
Wednesday May 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Great Room in Healey Family Student Center
 
Teaching, Learning & Innovation Summer Institute
Register to attend
Share Modal

Share this link via

Or copy link

Filter sessions
Apply filters to sessions.
Filtered by Date -