TLCo-op Faculty Mentors and Contributions

Presenting the TLCo-op Faculty Mentors s and their contributions to the Teaching and Learning Cooperative resource collection. 

2025

2025 faculty mentors will be selected in Nov./Dec. 2024. Visit TLCo-op Faculty Mentors to learn more about the TLC faculty mentor role and how to apply.

2024

2024 faculty mentors are currently engaging in the following work. See TLCo-op Canvas course for details (WWU sign-in required to join).

• Jennifer Riepl, Education Leadership and Inclusive Teaching
  • ⁠Presentation: First Steps: How to Begin Decolonizing Your Content
  • TLC Post: ⁠First Steps: How to Begin Decolonizing Your Content
• Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, English
  • Presentation: How Can I Increase Student Buy-in in My GUR?
  • TLC Post: How Can I Increase Student Buy-in in My GUR?
    
• ⁠Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy, Theatre and Dance
  • Presentation: Abolishing the “Cop in Your Head:” Working Toward Student Empowerment in the Classroom
  • TLC Post: Abolishing the “Cop in Your Head:” Working Toward Student Empowerment in the Classroom
•  Kamarie Chapman, Theatre and Dance
  • Presentation: Unlocking Learning: Generative AI for Equitable Learning Practices
  • TLC Post: Unlocking Learning: Generative AI for Equitable Learning Practices

2023

2023 faculty mentors are currently engaging in their mentorship work. Presentation details are listed in the TLCo-op Canvas course (WWU sign-in required to join).

• Kamarie Chapman, Theatre and Dance
  
  • Presentation: Alternative Grading: Using Contract Grading Effectively
  • TLC Post: Alternative Grading: Using Contract Grading Effectively
• Brenda Miller, English
  • Presentation: Rethinking Peer Review and Classroom Workshop Models
  • TLC Post: Rethinking Workshop Models: The “Ikebana” Workshop Method
• Tara Perry, Communication Studies
  • Presentation: Dismantling Anti-Blackness Through Anti-Racism in Higher Education and in the Classroom
• Cathy Wineinger, Political Science
  • Presentation: Promoting Equitable Engagement by Helping Students Overcome a Fear of Failure

2022

2022 faculty mentors engaged in the following work. Presentations are listed in the TLCo-op Canvas course.

• Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Assistant Professor, English
  • Presentation: Using The Great British Bake Off to increase respectful communication and collaboration
• Rita Daniels, Associate Professor, Communication Studies
  • Presentation: Deconstructing the instructor-self: What you see affects your learning and my teaching
  • TLC Post: Reclaiming and Diversifying College Office Hours
• Debi Hanuscin, Professor, SMATE/El.Ed.
  • Presentation: Struggling to Learn: Is it the students or the course design?
  • TLC Posts:
    • Getting Started with UDL
    • Making Your Office Hours Accessible
    • Do you think all student can learn? Think again.
• Katie Rupe, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
  
  • Presentation: Creating Inclusive Assessment Systems

2021

• Rebecca Borowski, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
  • Presentation: Strategies for Providing Meaningful Feedback beyond Pandemic Learning
  • TLC Posts: 
    • Building Accountability During Breakout Rooms
    • Building a Wiki Page in Canvas
    • Making Group Assignments Manageable
• Karen Dade, Professor, Secondary Education
  • Presentation (recording): Through Students Eyes: Anti-racist Concepts for the Classroom
• Tara Perry, Communication Studies
  • Presentation (recording): Centering Online Assignments on Anti-racism (WWU sign-in required)
• Meg Weber, Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Community Outreach and Executive Ed.
  • Presentation: Creating Authentic Learning Experiences
  • TLC Post: Top Tips for Online Student Engagement