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. 

“Art & Science of Healthy Pedagogy” program development was funded through a “Digital Inclusion” grant awarded through the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) to support a community of practice for instructors to enhance their online courses for cross-campus enrollment using either: 1) at least one dimension of the UC-wide, DEI Course Design rubric, 2) the UCR DEI Course Design Rubric (or their UC campus equivalent), or 3) one suggestion from the UCR “Healthy Campus Guide to Integrating Well-Being Concepts into Learning Environments”. In Spring 2024, up to 15 University of California, Riverside instructors qualified to earn a certificate and $1000 stipend. 

Award Deliverables:

1. Participate in at least 80% of following scheduled Art & Science of Healthy Pedagogy sessions, featuring guest experts, or complete a designated "alternative" activity for a given session to account for participation:

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

   --Session 2: “Positive Climate:” UCR Voices Panel Discussion

   --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

2. Participate in program/course activities, including: 1) one or more assigned readings per topic/week, 2) asynchronous, online discussion (optional at guest expert/facilitator discretion), and 3) any other learning activities identified by guest experts/facilitators to support their topics

3. Launch a redesigned course to be offered fully online and opened to cross-enrolled students no earlier than Fall 2024 and no later than Spring 2026