Faculty Learning Pathways
Fall 2026
Choose a teaching topic that matters to you, put new ideas into practice, and earn a CTL Pathways microcredential. Faculty Learning Pathways are flexible professional learning experiences that let you build expertise in an area that matters to your teaching.
- Choose a pathway. Select one of the five pathways that best matches your interests and goals.
- Attend three pathway workshops. Attend three of the five workshops in your selected pathway.
- Complete the three associated assignments. Complete the assignment for each of the three pathway workshops you attend. Your workshop facilitator will provide more information and share the rubric. Using the rubric provided for each workshop, each assignment must be completed at a Competent or Accomplished level.
- Attend two CTL workshops outside your pathway and reflect. Attend two CTL workshops outside your selected pathway and write a reflection explaining how each connects with the pathway theme.
- Submit your work. Submit your three assignments and two reflections using the CTL Pathways Submission Form new window. (The form will be open soon)
- Earn your badge! The pathways coordinator will review your submission and contact you with any questions prior to awarding your badge. Please allow up to 3-4 weeks for this process.
Faculty Learning Pathways are optional and non-sequential. Choose the pathway that best matches what you want to explore.
Explore ethical, inclusive, and effective AI and digital fluency practices for teaching and learning, including AI-supported course design and assessment, flexible learning, workforce and transfer readiness, and critical AI literacy.
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Explore design thinking, experiential learning, collaboration, evidence-informed improvement, and future-ready approaches that connect learning to real-world challenges.
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Explore relationship-centered and inclusive approaches that strengthen student belonging, resilience, communication, and persistence, including trauma-informed and care-centered teaching and sustainable faculty practice.
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Explore learning science principles that support achievement, retention, clarity, motivation, and inclusive learning design, including neurodiversity, metacognition, cognitive load, course navigation, engagement, and belonging.
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Explore global learning, sustainability, civic and community engagement, ethical reasoning, social responsibility, and accessible, open, and equitable knowledge practices.
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Fall 2026 Pathway Workshops
For your selected pathway, attend any three of the five workshops listed below. You will also attend two CTL workshops outside your selected pathway and complete one cross-connection reflection for each.
Registration and Details: See the CTL workshop calendar new window.
Pathway requirement: Attend any three of these five workshops if this is your selected pathway.
- Designing Flexible Learning with AI and UDL — Thursday, September 17, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
- Setting Clear and Fair AI Expectations in Your Course — Thursday, September 24, 1:00–2:15 p.m.
- AI with Eyes Wide Open: Building Critical AI Literacy in the Classroom — Friday, September 25, 10:00–11:00 a.m.
- Using AI to Strengthen Course Alignment, Feedback, and Assessment — Thursday, October 15, 1:00–2:15 p.m.
- Coach for the Approach: Teaching Students to Think in the Age of AI — Tuesday, November 10, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
Pathway requirement: Attend any three of these five workshops if this is your selected pathway.
- Science of Learning Power Tools: Retrieval, Spacing and Interleaving — Friday, September 18, 1:00–2:15 p.m.
- Small Changes, Big Learning: Easy Ways to Support Every Student — Wednesday, September 16, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
- Cognitive Load Made Simple — Wednesday, September 16, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
- 3-Minute Self-Regulation Exercises for a Calmer Classroom — Friday, October 2, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
- Say My Name: Building Belonging One Student at a Time — Wednesday, October 14, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
Pathway requirement: Attend any three of these five workshops if this is your selected pathway.
- Leading with Emotional Intelligence (EI): Building Belonging Through Human-Centered
Teaching — Tuesday, September 29, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
- SMART Goal Setting for Student Resilience — Friday, October 16, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
- Teaching for the Long Term: Sustainable Practices for Faculty Success and Well-Being — Thursday, November 12, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
- From Silence to Sharing: Encouraging Every Student Voice — Thursday, November 19, 10:00–11:00 a.m.
- Trauma-Informed Teaching for Safe, Supportive, and Resilience Classrooms — Monday, November 23, 3:00–4:15 p.m.
Pathway requirement: Attend any three of these five workshops if this is your selected pathway.
- Integrating Experiential Learning into Everyday Teaching — Tuesday, October 6, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
- Designing Learning Experiences for Collaborative Problem-Solving and Inquiry — Wednesday, October 14, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
- Design Sprints for Teaching: Fast Activities that Build Future-Ready Skills — Tuesday, October 20, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
- Design, Test, Improve: Using Evidence to Strengthen Learning — Thursday, October 22, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
- Redesigning the Moment Students Get Stuck: Design Thinking in Practice — Tuesday, November 3, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
Pathway requirement: Attend any three of these five workshops if this is your selected pathway.
- Pack Your Bags, We’re Going Global! — Wednesday, October 7, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
- The Ripple Effect: Tools for Teaching Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility — Thursday, October 15, 3:00–4:15 p.m.
- Teaching for Community Impact — Thursday, November 5, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
- Eight Ways to Reduce Environmental Impact in Your Classes — Wednesday, November 11, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
- Designing Learning Resources That Work for Everyone — Thursday, November 19, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Your completed submission will include:
- Three pathway assignments — one for each of the three workshops you attended in your selected pathway. Each assignment must meet the Competent or Accomplished level on the workshop rubric.
- Two cross-connection reflections — one for each of the two CTL workshops you attended outside your selected pathway.
Submit all five items using the CTL Pathways Submission Form new window.
Questions about CTL Pathways? Contact Dr. Angela Lanier.
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