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Civil Discourse and Teaching Faculty Lunch with Professor Jill Lepore: Leading Effective In-Class Debates

November 03, 2026

Professor Jill Lepore kicked off our 2026-27 Civil Discourse and Teaching faculty lunch series with a talk and conversation about leading effective in-class debates. These lunches bring together FAS faculty to discuss, and learn from, how colleagues are...

From the Claude Code Workshops to the Classroom: Claire-Marie Brisson Launches Le Sillage

October 20, 2026

Faculty who attended the Bok Center’s summer workshop series “Claude for Teaching, Course Development, and Research” have begun building tools for their own courses. This fall, students in French 64 are doing their coursework inside one of them: an online...

Building a Culture of Teaching Excellence and Connection Across Harvard

October 16, 2026

As part of the 2026 HILT Conference , “The Weight of the Degree: Rigor, Responsibility, and the Modern Campus,” the Bok Center successfully proposed and co-organized an interactive breakout session titled “Teaching and Mentoring New Teachers to Foster a...

Teaching Development Fellows: Strengthening FAS Teacher Training through Peer Mentorship

October 14, 2026

This fall, the Bok Center welcomed a cohort of ten Teaching Development Fellows (TDFs). Fellows received an intensive orientation during late July and early August to prepare them to co-facilitate, alongside Bok Center staff, training sessions for over...

Beyond the Chatbox: Faculty Move From Chatting With AI to Building With It

October 08, 2026

Most faculty know AI as a chat window in a browser. This fall, the Bok Center's Learning Lab is offering "Beyond the Chatbox," a ninety-minute hands-on workshop that moves them a step further. Faculty work in the Claude and ChatGPT desktop apps, which can...

Fall Teacher Training for all TFs, TAs, and CAs

October 05, 2026

During late August and early September, the Bok Center provided in-person, interactive trainings to over 1,500 instructional support staff – Teaching Fellows (TFs), Teaching Assistants (TAs), and Course Assistants (CAs) – teaching in the FAS this fall...

Bok Graduate Fellow Orientation

August 31, 2026

We were thrilled to welcome this year’s Bok Graduate Fellows cohort at our August orientation, where fellows got ready to support projects about multimodal assignments, classroom practice, AI, civil discourse, and grading. BGFs, who come from departments...

Teaching Excellence Workshop Supports Non-Ladder Faculty Nominated for Bassett Prize

March 13, 2026

The Bok Center held a teaching statement workshop for nine non-ladder faculty nominated for the OUE’s Anya Bernstein Bassett Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Chloe Chapin, the Bok Center’s Assistant Director for Course Development, led participants...

The Bok Center Develops Oral Assessment Resources with Faculty Partners

March 11, 2026

The Bok Center recently brought together Sarah Craycraft from Folklore and Mythology and Lauren Kaminsky from History and Literature to develop practical resources for implementing oral assessments. Drawing on historical research into the traditional...

Hebrew Students Build Custom AI Practice Tools in Bok Workshop

March 05, 2026

In a recent workshop with MOD-HEB BB students, the Bok Center supported the development of custom AI-powered learning tools. Rather than relying on generic language apps, students designed interactive flashcard interfaces and vocabulary drills populated...

Prompt Engineering Workshop Supports AI Poetry Analysis in COMPLIT 126X/HUM5: Literature and/as Artificial Intelligence

March 04, 2026

The Bok Center collaborated with Moira Weigel from Comparative Literature on a zero-code workshop focused on prompt- and context-engineering techniques. Students learned to break down complex operations into discrete, chainable steps, working from human...

Learning with AI: Learning Lab Undergraduate Fellows’ Spring Projects

March 02, 2026

This Spring, the Learning Lab Undergraduate Fellows have launched their Spring AI Projects, working as part of a small cohort testing and refining AI-based course assignments developed in partnership with faculty. By experimenting with emerging AI...