Workshops and Events

Throughout each semester, the CTE sponsors workshops, speakers, and brown-bag discussions related to different aspects of teaching and learning. Upcoming events:

Trauma-Informed Teaching: Creating Classrooms for Learning, Risk, and Resilience

Oct 29, 2026 | 12:00 PM | Stinson Faculty Lounge (CLC 317)

What does it mean to teach with an awareness of trauma while maintaining academic rigor and high expectations? This brown bag will explore practical approaches to creating classrooms that foster safety, agency, connection, and resilience. We’ll consider how trauma-informed principles might shape course design, classroom practices, assignments, assessment, and policies, and what these approaches can offer all students.

Magnifica Humanitas: Human Flourishing in the Age of Technology   

Nov 05, 2026 | 12:00 PM | Stinson Faculty Lounge (CLC 317)

Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas invites us to consider what it means to be human in a rapidly changing technological and cultural landscape. This brown bag will explore the encyclical’s vision of human dignity, flourishing, technology, and the common good, with particular attention to questions it raises for teaching and learning in Catholic higher education.

CTE Fall Keynote Speaker Cate Denial “A Pedagogy of Kindness”

Oct 05, 2026 | 03:00 PM | Kennedy Auditorium

The Kind Syllabus Workshop: Xavier, October 2026 - Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BMdvbs-wluJ3bW472byiCdLvpXNzFAwAtJLu6Ziz9Ls/mobilepresent?slide=id.g8f4bd20341_0_1

The Kind Assessment Workshop: Xavier, October 2026 - Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nxtKisT2klFQFaC1uvq7w5-XrnW9EC3gtEi5qdiyie8/mobilepresent?slide=id.g8f4bd20341_0_1

A Pedagogy of Kindness: Xavier, October 2026 - Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hEJ7cvWFn8B-1KebxZ61-KXtcU09n-77xumkJdfi1Os/mobilepresent?slide=id.g8f4bd20341_0_1

Resources – Cate Denial: https://catherinedenial.org/resources/