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SESP Leadership Institute Info Session

08/25/2022 - 6:00pm
transfer students: For information about the SESP Leadership Institute, an academic and social program for ... SESP Leadership Institute Info Session Calling all incoming first-years, rising sophomores, and ... FGLI students, attend our virtual info session on Thursday, August 25 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Program ...
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Building equitable classrooms

co-lead the new SESP Leadership Institute (SLI) with psychology professor Mesmin Destin. Designed for ... some of the norms of traditional academic writing and asks students to think about how texts matter for ... “There is a history of these types of programs taking a more remedial approach — with a narrow focus on ...
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digital portfolios at SESP

Value Beyond the Degree (or Certificate)

portfolios. SESP is also creating new online resources for students to help them throughout the process. “Our ... collaborate with SESP IT, Northwestern IT, and our faculty to find the best ways for students to learn and ... Value Beyond the Degree (or Certificate) Use of digital portfolios at SESP Key Concepts:  Master ...
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Best Practices Forum spotlights successes in change, innovation and collaboration

to tell the SESP story about a marketing and communications platform comprised of many elements, ... that kicked off the forum, attended by nearly 200 people. “This is why the Best Practices Forum is so ... Interdisciplinarity requires collaboration, and that is what the Best Practices Forum is all about, he said. He spoke ...
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Where To Start?: A Beginner’s Guide to Alternative Assessment & Ungrading

05/09/2022 - 11:00am
how we might incorporate ungrading into our own diverse teaching contexts. About the Facilitators:  ... Where To Start?: A Beginner’s Guide to Alternative Assessment & Ungrading About this ... Workshop:  Many of us find grading to be among the most unpleasant aspects of our teaching, and yet we often ...
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The Garage

The Garage

Building on Northwestern’s history of success in research, innovation and discovery, The Garage ... provides space and programming that leverages our strengths and allows students to experiment and take ... their ideas to the next level.  Building on Northwestern’s history of success in research, innovation ...
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SESP Walk-in Advising Hours

03/04/2020 - 1:30pm
SESP Walk-in Advising Hours NCA Team members will be available for walk-in adivisng for students ... enrolled in SESP ONLY. For more information please visit this link. **hours are subject to change, please ...
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April in the Isles - Irish Tea

04/11/2018 - 1:00pm
April in the Isles- Irish Tea All you ever wanted to know about graduate education in Britian and ... Ireland. Featuring Mitchell Scholars and SESP Alumnae: Lauren Parnell Marino and Kelly Kirpatrick. Get ...
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Garage students

Faculty awards support creation of innovative curriculum

SESP is at the cutting edge of undergraduate pedagogy, and enhances our research and teaching missions ... in collaboration with and in service to our local communities.” Bang, a 2009 SESP doctoral alum, and ... in the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP), plan to develop a pilot collaborative course ...
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Study Abroad Panel

03/01/2019 - 1:00pm
Study Abroad Panel Come listen to SESP students share their study abroad experiences on March 1st ... at 1 pm in the SAO! Learn about programs, scholarships, get answers, and hear advice on how to make ...
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Searle Programs Information Session: Teaching Certificate Program

03/17/2021 - 11:00am
more about learning and teaching in higher education? Have you heard about Searle's Teaching ... hear more about the Teaching Certificate Program from Searle staff and current TCP participant, Lizzie ... Howell (PhD, History). There will be plenty of time for conversation and questions during the session! ...
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Visiting artist Jen Bervin weaves interdisciplinary stories across Northwestern

listen, especially now?” “How is a history made, on the human level?”“What do we keep in our archives and ... collaboration to be the ideal setting to continue thinking about her current projects. These productive ... actively thinking with Northwestern’s ‘brain trust’ and am hopeful about the potential of what may emerge.” ...
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Global Careers Speaker Series: A Conversation with Sam Kling

03/16/2023 - 9:30am
sustainable, equitable and human city life.  Sam earned his PhD in Urban History from Northwestern in 2017. ... He’ll speak about his time at Northwestern, his transition to the nonprofit world and his work with the ... Council. If you’re interested in learning about career opportunities beyond the academy, please join us for ...
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Combating isolation improves outcomes

a professor in the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP), also has strong ties to the university ... SESP Leadership Institute. Foundational to all these projects is a single finding from Destin’s earlier ... of where they’re going and why school is a part of it, there’s more meaning in difficult school ...
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Mar Hicks, Associate Professor of History, Illinois Institute of Technology

Digital Lineages and Digital Labor - Mar Hicks

03/09/2020 - 2:30pm
historically and in our current moment, can be a way to discuss citizenship rights. The talk will discuss an ... early example of transphobic algorithmic bias to explore how histories of the digital can connect with ... movements to protect people’s rights today. Mar Hicks is Associate Professor of History at Illinois ...
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Tricks of the Trade: Facilitating Active and Inclusive Discussions

10/24/2019 - 12:00pm
spring. She is particularly interested in thinking about creative courses designs for introductory history ... receiving feedback on their teaching. About the Facilitators:  Caitlin Monroe:  Caitlin is a fifth year ... Ph.D. candidate in the history department. She studies how practices of history education in Western ...
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Collaborative Education Research Chat

05/24/2023 - 1:00pm
Collaborative Education Research Chat SESP's Office of Community Education Partnerships is in ... this group and these ideas. Our tentative agenda for this first meetup: 1.           To discuss ...
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Segal Seminar Series: Kurt Luther, Virginia Tech

11/28/2017 - 4:00pm
History is visiting Segal to meet students and discuss his work with expert led crowdsourcing. Solving ... claims about visual evidence. Informed by this study, we built GroundTruth, a system where experts ... collaborate with crowds to geolocate unknown images. Our experiments found that by adapting an expert ...
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Backward Glances: Mediating Resistance Media and Historiography Graduate Student Conference

09/29/2017 - 9:00am
the workings of media in our present moment, but to trace the history of media’s relationship to ... by the Screen Cultures Ph.D. Program in the Department of Radio/Television/Film. Our theme this year ... is Media and Resistance. In our tumultuous political landscape of “fake news” and reality TV ...
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Building Community, Managing Difficult Content

04/30/2020 - 2:30pm
global history of the year 1948 in the spring. She is particularly interested in thinking about creative ... courses designs for introductory history classes and in discussions about building inclusive and active ... Facilitators: Caitlin Monroe is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the history department. She studies how ...
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Art showcased at the Block Museum

The Block Museum, Graduate School team up to change face of museum fellowships

year. The fellow will serve alongside the Block’s art history fellow, appointed annually from the art ... history department’s doctoral program. The new Block Museum fellowship, explicitly intended for students ... art history, engaged in research involving visual culture and museum studies. “In recent years, ...
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From Promise to Practice: Methods of Spatial History (talk + digital mapping mini-workshop)

04/29/2019 - 12:00pm
admit, however, that much remains to be understood about the outcomes of a spatial history approach ... From Promise to Practice: Methods of Spatial History (talk + digital mapping mini-workshop) With ... Mudd Library. The so-called "spatial turn in history" has promised historians compelling, ...
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Feedback that Matters: Responding to Student Writing in the Humanities

02/01/2022 - 10:00am
Feedback that Matters: Responding to Student Writing in the Humanities About the Workshop:  The ... writing feedback as a self-defense mechanism in case students complain about their grades rather than ... models of written feedback.  About the Facilitators:  Robin Pokorski is a 7th-year PhD candidate in ...
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Teaching Across Cultural Strengths for International Students

05/14/2021 - 1:00pm
Teaching Across Cultural Strengths for International Students About the workshop: International ... that facilitate a course design based on balanced cultural teaching frameworks. About the facilitators: ... been involved in outreach instruction of Hellenic culture and language. Eugenia is passionate about ...
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Instructor Bio Tips & Tricks

instructor bio, don’t just copy from a cover letter or dash off a few lines about your teaching history. Take ... students can seem pretty minor. But it is worth thinking about. The instructor bio is often the first ... about the role of the instructor and how to address the instructor is helpful to learners from all ...
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Cover detail from Susan D. Blum's book "Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)"

Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) — Susan D. Blum

03/09/2021 - 12:00pm
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) — Susan D. Blum The ... Susan D. Blum's new book, Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do ... schooling. In Ungrading, fifteen educators write about their diverse experiences going gradeless. Some ...
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TedxNorthwestern

04/27/2019 - 2:00pm
heard and to inspire visions of the future. Three SESP alumni will be speaking at TedxNorthwestern, ...
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$194,110 awarded to support campus diversity efforts

assistant dean for first-year students, director of transition programs and professor of history and gender ... approaches to promote health equity.  Borders & Identities: (Re)Imagining Our City Through Critical Youth ... Education and Social Policy (SESP), learning sciences April Alexis Navarro, SESP, undergraduate ...
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Fulbright Application Workshop for Study/Research awards

05/17/2023 - 4:00pm
will hear about the history of the Fulbright program, understand the core values that animate the ... Fulbright competition, review various kinds of awards, and hear about the Northwestern University ...
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TEACHxperts: VR/AR Experiences in Education: Immersive Computing on Campus

10/31/2018 - 12:00pm
and VR technologies. You’ll learn about the specific technologies available at Northwestern and what ... matter. After hearing from our TEACHxpert speakers, attendees will have an opportunity to experience VR ... TEACHxpert speaker series. About the Speakers: Ariel Rogers is an assistant professor in the Department of ...
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