Fall 2025 Events
Fall 2025 Event Registration
Workshop - Slow Looking: The art of paying attention
Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Time: 11:30AM – 12:30PM
Location: TMEC 227
Slow looking is a powerful way to cultivate deeper understanding—an approach that asks us to look beyond a first impression and linger with what we see. Whether in classrooms, laboratories, museums, or digital spaces, this practice invites thoughtful observation as a pathway to richer insight. In this interactive workshop, Dr. Shari Tishman will guide participants through slow looking strategies and discuss how this learnable practice can enhance critical thinking, creativity, and social-emotional engagement in teaching, research, and professional life.
Shari Tishman is a Senior Research Associate and Principal Investigator at Harvard Project Zero, where she formerly served as Director. Her research focuses on the development and teaching of thinking, the role of close observation in learning, and learning in and through the arts. Along with Project Zero colleague Liz Dawes Duraisingh, Shari co-directs The Open Canopy project (formerly called Out of Eden Learn). Shari is the author of numerous books and articles, including the book, Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation. Along with colleague David Perkins, she is also the co-host of the Thinkability podcast.
PAST EVENTS (FALL 2025)
Workshop - Curriculum in Motion: Confident Curriculum Redesign for the Next Wave of Tech
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2025
Time: 11:30AM – 1:00PM
Location: TMEC 227
Emerging tools—LLMs, adaptive quizzing, AR/VR and whatever’s next—keep shifting what’s possible in university teaching. This fast-paced, hands-on workshop gives you a clear, evidence-based way to decide what to adopt, what to defer, and how to redesign a syllabus element accordingly. We’ll lean on widely used frameworks and backward design to align tech to outcomes and assessment, then stress-test plans with learning-science essentials. You’ll leave with a one-page Tech Integration Blueprint, a draft course policy, and a peer-reviewed redesign you can ship next term.
Workshop: Teaching in Tandem — Using Values to Strengthen Co-Teaching
Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Time: 11:30am-12:30pm
Location: Longwood Campus (register for room location)
Description: Discover strategies for successful team teaching. In this interactive workshop, you’ll explore the benefits and challenges of co-teaching, reflect on your own teaching values, and learn how to align course design with a partner while maintaining your individual style.
Presented by: Aimee Hollander, Curriculum Fellows Program Director & Irene Wong, Therapeutics Graduate Program Curriculum Fellow
Career Panel - Teaching & Learning Careers in Higher Ed
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom
Join us for a panel discussion exploring diverse career paths in teaching and learning within higher education. Panelists from Northeastern University, Harvard Medical School, UMass Amherst, Tufts University, and Virginia Tech will share their experiences as faculty and educational leaders, discuss opportunities and challenges in academic teaching roles, and answer your questions about building a career in this field.
Journal Club - Register Here
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Where: Zoom, register for link
Paper: Use of personal storytelling in educational videos promotes student engagement and science identity in undergraduate biology courses
Presenter: Lorenzo Gesuita, PhD, Program in Genetics and Genomics Curriculum Fellow