JANUARY 23- FEBRUARY 3
CAFE Open House
February 1st, 3:30-5:30pm
Allen Hall 308 & 310
Whether you’re new to Longwood or have been here for years, please join us for our 2023 CAFE Open House! Get to know our beautiful spaces in Allen Hall, learn about CAFE’s signature programs, and find out how we can help you reach your professional goals. Doors open at 3:30pm; chat with colleagues over snacks and drinks. At 4pm, we’ll have a welcome from Provost Larissa Smith and a brief description of programs from CAFE Director Pam Tracy. Following the welcome, we’d love to have you stay (or just arrive!) and continue enjoying the space, refreshments, and company.
See you then! Still reading? There will be door prizes! Don’t tell.
BLACKWELL TALKS CALL FOR PROPOSALS—Due January 30
Since 2009, the Monday Blackwell Talks have provided a forum for faculty to get feedback on developing research and innovative ideas. This CAFE-sponsored seminar series is an informal, friendly environment where faculty present their research to colleagues who then ask questions and provide suggestions and additional ideas.
Blackwell Talks are Works in Progress
Are you completing a dissertation? Have you recently completed one? Are you preparing for a conference? Submitting for a publication? Do you have research that has been left on the back-burner for too long and wish to breathe new life into it? Blackwell Talks are designed to showcase and support budding scholarship at its early stages.
Submissions are open to all faculty and staff and we look forward to considering your proposal for one of the Blackwell Scholar speaker slots. Blackwell Scholars will receive a $150 stipend and a certificate. All talks will be on Mondays from 12:00 to 12:50 in the Virginia Room. Snacks and beverages are provided. We encourage presenters to attend all sessions in support of their fellow Scholars.
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FACULTY AND STAFF MEDITATION
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30-11:50
Please join us during one of our meditation sessions.
Short meditation session via Zoom https://longwood-edu.zoom.us/j/97915884002?pwd=TWxuSDZLVjhKdnBWQVZjSTlCNEZwUT09.
FOCUSED PRODUCTIVITY SESSIONS
Join CAFE for pomodoro sessions again this semester. All faculty and staff are welcome. The sessions use a focused cycle: set a goal, work towards it for 25 minutes, and then take a five-minute break. You will repeat the cycle three times. Choose the session that fits your needs:
Research Writing Session: Thursdays @ 8:30-10:30am, via Zoom with Adam Franssen, https://longwood-edu.zoom.us/j/98155845624
Work Session: Mondays @ 10:00-11:30, via Zoom with Renee Gutiérrez, https://longwood-edu.zoom.us/j/95514040489?pwd=K0lZZGM3ZGR1MjV6OUxKL3AvQUFvQT09
FRIDAYS@CAFE
Same goals, different format. The focus of these interactive sessions is on teaching and/or research. Our goals are simple-- to provide an opportunity for instructors to explore a variety of teaching and/or research practices and to share their ideas with colleagues. We will provide snacks and drinks. From 3:30-4:15, colleagues will learn and discuss effective practices; from 4:15-5:00, participants will apply what they learned (and get feedback) during a work session. Need to leave at 4:15? That’s fine with us.
Starting in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)
Date: February 3, 2023, from 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Location: 308 Allen Hall
Facilitator: Scott Grether, CAFE Faculty Consultant
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SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) @ Longwood encourages faculty research focusing on teaching and learning. This workshop will introduce you to SoTL. During our time together we will: a) answer the question “What is SoTL?” b) explore examples of SoTL scholarship, c) evaluate how SoTL fits into your professional development, and d) formulate ideas for your own SoTL project.
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FRIDAYS@CAFE
Design Thinking for Faculty and Staff
Date: February 17, 2023 from 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Location: 308 Allen Hall
Facilitator: Jacob Dolence and David Hennessey
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Design thinking is a method for solving complex and human-centered problems. This in-person workshop will provide participants with a creative way to solve administrative challenges, foster innovative teaching pedagogies, and provide a framework to support students in experiential learning. The facilitators will guide participants in the history and process of design thinking through hands-on experiential activities. This is not a lecture! You will be building, creating, and acting together. We will then provide participants with an opportunity to utilize the process they just learned and apply it to a challenge in their own teaching or administrative duties.
FRIDAYS@CAFE
Backwards Design for Survey Design
Date: March 24, 2023 from 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Location: 308 Allen Hall
Facilitator: JoEllen Pederson, CAFE Faculty Consultant
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In this workshop we will discuss how to design survey questions to meet statistical objectives. Far too often, researchers design and implement surveys without considering what types of statistical analysis they want to use. Once data is collected, it is too late. The type of variables and analytical techniques often have many limitations. In this workshop, we will discuss strategies to write survey questions that create the most possibilities for analysis. Bring your research ideas! As time permits, we will work through possibilities for your research questions.