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Celebrating Mentoring at the Harvard Ed Portal

December 2, 2018

The Harvard Ed Portal, which is celebrating ten years of community partnership between Harvard and Boston, shared the work of K-12 students and their mentors at a community reception on December 2.  Susan Johnson, the Bok Center’s Assistant Director for Socially Engaged Learning, works with a cohort of 20-25 undergraduate mentors each semester, helping them to create age-specific curricula and develop as educators.  

Read more about the Ed Portal mentoring program and the community reception - attended by President Larry Bacow - in this Crimson article.

2018 Oct 23

Faculty Lunch: How can we motivate young scientists to grapple with important, but unanswerable ethical questions?

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

50 Church St. Room 308

Steven HymanSteven Hyman, Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, and Former Provost of Harvard University

Several years ago, Steve Hyman embarked upon a pedagogical experiment aimed at taking (mostly) science concentrators—including pre-meds—out of their intellectual comfort zone.... Read more about Faculty Lunch: How can we motivate young scientists to grapple with important, but unanswerable ethical questions?

2018 Oct 01

Faculty Lunch: How to Overhaul your Curriculum and Live to Tell the Tale

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

50 Church St. Room 308

Suzannah ClarkSuzannah Clark, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Chair, Department of Music

As a veteran of successful curricular reforms at both Oxford and Harvard, Suzannah Clark has developed a keen sense for how to build consensus and align an undergraduate program with the intellectual priorities of its faculty.... Read more about Faculty Lunch: How to Overhaul your Curriculum and Live to Tell the Tale

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Winners of the 2017-18 ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize Announced

September 6, 2018

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2017-18 ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize!

ABLConnect is an online database of active learning exercises developed by Harvard instructors and used in Harvard classrooms. The competitive Teaching Innovator Prize recognizes instructors from across Harvard institutions for their use of active learning. This year’s winners are:

... Read more about Winners of the 2017-18 ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize Announced

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