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Aug 5 • 

Liz Norell

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April 2025

CETL Honors Graduate Student Teachers

Meet the winners of the 2024-2025 Graduate Excellence in Teaching Awards

Apr 17 • 

Emily Pitts Donahoe

2

Recap: Understanding and Supporting Executive Function

Executive functioning skills are critical to memory, attention, organizing, and planning—among many other tasks important to learning and teaching. In a…

Apr 10 • 

Liz Norell

1

March 2025

Recap: Infusing Purpose in the Classroom with Transparent Assignment Design

Last month, CETL facilitated a workshop on transparent assignment design, a framework built on research from the Transparency in Learning and Teaching…

Mar 27 • 

Emily Pitts Donahoe

1

February 2025

Thank an Instructor

We love reading the notes of gratitude students send to their instructors through our Thank an Instructor program. Here are our spring highlights!

Feb 27 • 

Liz Norell

, 

Emily Pitts Donahoe

, 

Josh Eyler

, and 

Hanna Lee

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Guest post: Journalism professor reflects on watching former student in the Super Bowl

Summer Hill-Vinson, instructional assistant professor of journalism instruction, shares a reflection on her teaching over the last 17 years--including…

Feb 25

6

Recap: Page by Page

Motivating students to embrace the desirable difficulties of reading, with Dr. Elizabeth Barre

Feb 20 • 

Winshen Liu

Recap: Reforming Grading at the University of Mississippi

Last week, we kicked off our spring semester workshops with a presentation from CETL director Josh Eyler on the topic of “Reforming Grading at the…

Feb 13 • 

Emily Pitts Donahoe

1

Roundup: CETL in the News

Members of the CETL team have been very active in the last six months. Below, we share links to the podcasts, news stories, and other resources you can…

Feb 6 • 

Liz Norell

2

January 2025

Recap: January Course Design Workshops

Plus upcoming events for spring 2025

Jan 30 • 

Emily Pitts Donahoe

5

December 2024

Recap: Developing a Trauma-Aware Pedagogy

The week before the break, CETL hosted our final workshop of the semester, “Developing a Trauma-Aware Pedagogy.” Unfortunately, the topic is more…

Dec 5, 2024 • 

Emily Pitts Donahoe

2

November 2024

CETL goes to POD 2024

Reports from the 49th annual POD Network conference in Chicago

Nov 21, 2024

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