Newsletters

Fall 2025: Deepen Reflective, Evidence-driven, and Innovative Practices

• Includes an interview with Karen Smilowitz, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, a review of Catherine Denial's A Pedagogy of Kindness (2024), and teaching tips for enhancing learning in the age of generative AI.

Summer 2025: Community Celebration

• Includes ideas for inspiring summer readings and a celebration of the Searle Center community.

Spring 2025: Culture of Assessment

• Includes a review of Karin Hess's Rigor by Design, Not Chance (2023), an essay on classroom assessment techniques, and an interview with Lori Barcliff Baptista, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Advising in the School of Communication.

Winter 2025: Resilience

• Includes a review of Radical Reimagining for Student Success in Higher Education (2023); a educator spotlight on Cynthia Nazarian, Weinberg professor and winner of the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence; and an interview on cultivating resilience with Northwestern health psychologist Elizabeth Addington.

Fall 2024: Humanizing Pedagogy

• Includes new research on intrinsic motivation in STEM by Searle Center educational developer Erika Nadile, teaching tips on how to use generative AI tools to create and enhance rubrics, and an interview with  Elizabeth Norton, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the DEpartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Director of the LEARN Lab.

Spring 2024: Courage to Teach

• Includes strengths-based strategies to support neurodivergent students, a review of Rebecca Pope-Ruark's Unraveling Faculty Burnout (2022), and an interview with McCormick & Weinberg professor, Ben Gorvine.

Winter 2024: Student Learning

• Includes teaching tips on making large classes feel smaller, a review of The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching (2023), and an interview with KM Dennis Meade, assistant professor in Religious Studies and Black Studies.

Fall 2023: Great Beginnings

• Includes an essay on developing self-awareness to foster inclusive teaching, a review of Stephen Brookfield's Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher (2019), and an interview with McCormick & Medill Professor Patti Wolter.

• Includes teaching tips on using generative AI to implement Universal Design for Learning, a review of James Lang's Small Teaching  (2nd ed., 2021), and an interview with McCormick professor Casey Ankeny.