This month, we’re introducing a new Featured Faculty series as part of the CITL monthly newsletter. It’s part of an ongoing effort to highlight the thoughtful, creative, and often incremental ways instructors are enhancing teaching and learning across our campus.

What You’ll Find in Each Feature

Each month, the newsletter will include a brief snapshot of a faculty member’s work, accompanied by a photo and a short description of a strategy they are currently using in their classroom. From there, readers can follow a link to a longer blog post that explores the approach in more depth, offering context, reflection, and practical insights that others might adapt to their own teaching.

Highlighting “Small” Teaching Wins

Our goal is to focus on small, meaningful wins: practices that are already in motion rather than fully polished innovations. These might include designing more effective group-work structures to improve student participation, experimenting with custom classroom GPTs or other AI tools to support learning, rethinking assignment design to encourage deeper engagement, or making incremental improvements to accessibility in online or hybrid courses. Faculty might also be trying new approaches to formative assessment, building in low-stakes opportunities for feedback, adjusting lecture formats to incorporate more active learning, or developing strategies to foster a stronger sense of belonging in the classroom.

By sharing these examples, we hope to create a more collegial, peer-to-peer space where instructors can see what their colleagues are trying, reflect on their own practices, and find ideas that feel both practical and achievable. Rather than positioning teaching innovation as large-scale transformation, this series emphasizes progress, iteration, and the value of learning from one another.

How to Get Involved

If you are interested in being featured, or if you have a colleague whose teaching practices others could learn from, we invite you to reach out to CITL. We welcome nominations across disciplines, formats, and experience levels, and we are especially interested in highlighting a wide range of approaches and perspectives!