Healthy Pedagogy integrates sincere mindfulness of the health and well-being of students into course design and the craft of teaching. By fostering caring, creative, and inclusive participation in the classroom and beyond, both teachers and students can experience engaging communities of learning. 

• Who: Faculty and Teaching Assistants

• What: A 6-week, course development certificate program on healthy pedagogy, inclusive excellence, and DEI, exploring various ways these values materialize in teaching and learning contexts. Featuring guest experts across various academic disciplines and organizations.

• When: Spring Quarter 2024

  • Session 1: “Welcome” and Introduction of Our Wellness Frameworks 

  • Session 2: “Positive Climate:” UCR Voices Panel

  • Session 3: “Anti-Racist Teaching” with Marisella Rodriguez, PhD, Inclusive Teaching Manager, UC Berkeley Center for Teaching & Learning

  • Session 4: “Culturally Responsive Teaching” with Jamiella Brooks, PhD, Director, Student Equity & Inclusion Initiatives, Office of Equity & Inclusion, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

  • Session 5: “Trauma-Aware Teaching” with Karen Costa, Author, Adjunct, Faculty Development Facilitator

  • Session 6: “Humanizing Online Learning” with Whitney Kilgore, PhD, iDesign CoFounder & CAO

  • Session 7: “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Equitable Educational Technology” with Thomas Tobin, PhD, MSLS, PMP, MOT, CPACC, Senior Teaching & Learning Developer from the Center for Teaching, Learning, & Mentoring, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Where: Online (synchronous and asynchronous), although Session 2: "Positive Climate:" UCR Voices Panel was Hybrid