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Teaching Strategies – PDEV 79401

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Luke Waltzer @lukewaltzer.bsky.social · 20d

I talk at length here about our approach @gctlc.bsky.social to cultivating critical AI literacies across CUNY via cuny.is/criticalai.

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · 9d

Join us for “Freedom Dreams & Classroom Ecologies” on Sept 30, 3–5pm in the GC Lobby. Share memories, hopes and sparks of joy from your classroom and enjoy something sweet. #TLCEvents

GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Aug 14

@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social students are encouraged to register for PDEV 79401: Teaching Strategies! Explore inclusive teaching, lesson planning & course design with TLC Director Luke Waltzer. Fridays at 9:30 AM | Online. Learn more: pdevteaching.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Aug 13

Join CUNY Academic Commons & Manifold workshops this August for hands-on sessions, Q&As, and open office hours.For more info and registration link: tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/08/04/u...

Upcoming TLC Support for the Fall 2025 Semester – Teaching and Learning Center

2025 Teach@CUNY Late Summer Institute

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Aug 12

Join the TLC Late Summer Institute!In-person Aug 22 or Online Aug 25. For course planning tips, feedback, and more. Register now: cuny.is/tlc-august25

The Teach@CUNY Late Summer Institute will take place on Friday, August 22 at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 3317), and on Monday, August 25 online. Registration is open to all Graduate Center graduate...

Lessons from Students on AI and Writing

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Jul 15

Don’t miss new VP post on how students are actually using AI in college writing and what it reveals about learning today. Plus, ways educators can respond with care and critique. 👉 vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/07/14/l...

#AIinClassroom #CUNY #FutureOfLearning

by Angela LaScala-Gruenewald Author’s note: This blog post would not have been possible without the anonymous input of students. All credit goes to the students in my Introduction to Law and Societ…

A Project of the Teaching & Learning Center at CUNY's Graduate Center

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Jun 3

That’s a wrap on Teach@CUNY Summer Institute 2025! 🎉
Thanks so much to everyone who joined us! Big shoutout to our student and faculty panelists, and to our amazing TLC Fellows and staff for making it all happen!
#CUNY #GradCenterCUNY #TeachCUNY #thegradcenter

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · May 21

This week we release the sixth edition of our Teach@CUNY Handbook, our first revision since 2022. Version 6.0, edited by Brooke Thomas, slims down the text, integrates practical guidance into every chapter, and incorporates TLC Fellows’ resources to invite active reflection.

GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · May 20

TLC staff and fellows have run over one hundred workshops that are now openly licensed, reusable, and remixable. Visit our Workshops Archive at cuny.is/tlc-workshops.

Workshop Archive

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · May 19

This week we will feature a handful of projects that the TLC has completed this spring. First up: a new website! Redesigned after 10 years, the new site makes visible all the projects that TLC staff and fellows have developed and cared for over the past decade. Check it out at cuny.is/teaching!

TLC + Futures Initiative Showcase and Block Party

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Apr 25

Join us for the TLC &FI Showcase and Block Party!
🗓️ May 9 | 🕒 3–5 PM | 📍 Room 3317
Explore projects, connect with our community, and celebrate with pizza, music, and good vibes! 🍕🎶
RSVP: cuny.is/tlc-fi

Come to the Teaching and Learning Center and Futures Initiative Showcase and Block Party on May 9th , 3-5 PM, Room 3317. Schedule: TLC Projects 3-4PM Futures Initiative Projects 4-5PM Party 5 pm ...

Call for TLC Fellowship Applications, 2025-2026

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Mar 25

Reminder! There's still time to apply to be a TLC Fellow @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — but the deadline is coming up!

📅 Apps due: April 7, 2025
🔗 For info and how to apply:
tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/03/03/c...

Announcing: TLC Fellowship Call, 2025-2026

Loss and Grief in the Classroom – Dealing with a Student’s Death

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Mar 11

Loss in the Classroom. How do you handle a student’s passing? Brooke Thomas reflects on grief in education, the weight of uncertainty, and what it means to hold space for loss. Read Here: vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/03/03/d... #GriefInEducation #CUNY #VisiblePedagogy

—Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Virgil’s The Aeneid) And perhaps it will be a joy to remember these things one day by Brooke Thomas I found out my student had passed when another stu…

Call for TLC Fellowship Applications, 2025-2026

GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Mar 3

Join the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Center as a TLC Fellow! Support instructors through workshops, consultations & teaching resources.

💰 $30K | 📍 In-person | 🎓 GC doctoral students (years 2-7)

📅 Deadline: April 7, 2025
🔗 More info: tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/03/03/c...

Announcing: TLC Fellowship Call, 2025-2026

Heritage Students’ Visits to Galleries and Museums

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Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center @asrc-gc.bsky.social · Feb 24

CUNY ASRC Ph.D. students, submit your application today to be considered for a $1500 travel award. The conference must be related to your area of research and take place between Jan. 1, 2025 and Dec. 31, 2025. Learn more and apply by Feb. 28! bit.ly/3EQdr2R

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Feb 25

🎨🖼️ How do museum visits shape student learning?

In the latest Visible Pedagogy post, Oriana Mejías Martínez explores how heritage students connect with art, history, and identity through gallery experiences.

Read more! ⬇️ vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/02/25/h...

#ArtInEducation #thegraduatecenter

by Oriana Mejías Martínez Learning experiences can come from different kinds of practices that nourish and enrich students beyond the confines of the classroom, enhancing, in turn, curricular conte…

Equity-Oriented Teaching at CUNY

GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Feb 13

How can CUNY classrooms be more inclusive? Our latest Visible Pedagogy post explores equity-oriented teaching, the Equitable Learning Climate Framework, and projects tackling systemic barriers.

Read more: vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/02/11/e...

#EquityInEducation #CUNYTeaching

by Manju Adikesavan CUNY strives to facilitate the upward mobility of underprivileged, first-generation, and low-income students. More than 80% of CUNY undergraduates are students of color, 50% are…

Abolition Pedagogies: Dismantling Carceral Logics & Practices

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Feb 11

TLC Panel: Abolition Pedagogies is tomorrow!
Don't miss out—register now: cuny.is/ab-ped #AbolitionPedagogies #CUNY #TLCPanel

Are you searching for ways to make your classroom environment more collaborative, liberating and supportive? Have you been wondering what abolition means and looks like in an academic context? Join ...

Guidance and Resources for Supporting Immigrant Students

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PS2 @CUNY Center for the Humanities @cunygcps2.bsky.social · Feb 10

SAVE THE DATE • The Teaching & Learning Center x PS2 present Sip n Chat S25. How does your public-facing research inform your teaching (& vice versa)?

Open to all students @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — chat with your peers, grab something to eat, create community with us

Flier with red soda can reads Sip n Chat. Thurs Mat 6 3pm-4:30pm Skylight Room at CUNY Graduate Center.

How does your public facing research inform your pedagogy, and vice versa? Join us for Sip n Chat — our semesterly peer-led space for current GC students to create community and informally talk to one another about their public-facing/ community-engaged/ applied/ activist research.

No presentations or talks, just an informal gathering of community. Like all good community gatherings, we will have food and drink.

About
The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) creates and connects opportunities for GC students to grow as educators and scholars within the nation’s largest public urban university system.

PS2 housed within the Center for the Humanities, honors the past, present, & future of public scholarship at The CUNY Graduate Center.

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GCTLC @gctlc.bsky.social · Jan 30

On February 12, we'll host a panel discussion on "Abolition Pedagogies," featuring RaShelle Peck, Farima Pour-Khorshid, Conor (Coco) Tomas Reed, Calvin Smiley and Dave Stovall.

5-6:30pm, on Zoom.

Read more and register here:

tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/01/29/t...

Flyer for a panel on Abolition Pedagogies. It reads: Abolition Pedagogies. DISMANTLING CARCERAL LOGICS & PRACTICES WED. 5-6:30 PM FEB. 12 ON ZOOM. PANEL DISCUSSION HOSTED BY: TEACHING & LEARNING CENTER CUNY GRADUATE CENTER FEATURING: RASHELLE PECK FARIMA POUR-KHORSHID CONOR (COCO) TOMAS REED CALVIN SMILEY DAVE STOVALL REGISTER HERE: cuny.is/ ab-ped

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · Jan 30

Our Teaching & Learning Center (@gctlc.bsky.social) has created a guide for supporting immigrant students—ensuring your classroom is inclusive & informed. Read it here: tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/01/27/g...

Resource intended to help instructors at CUNY