Towards Resilience: TLC Faculty Emails during the Coronavirus Pandemic
On March 11, TLC Director Gina Rae Foster began writing a series of emails for faculty to support the transition to remote teaching and learning. These emails now cover five areas:
- the initial redesign and movement of courses to the remote learningscape during March 12-March 18
- the re-entry and support of resilience in the new teaching and learning environment
- the recalibration period from March 27-April 1
- the racial justice endeavors during Summer 2020
- the fully online remote Fall 2020 with the continuation of the pandemic, racial justice, and the presidential election concerns
- the fully online remote Spring 2021 with the introduction of the Covid-19 vaccine and change in U.S. government leadership and policies
The emails draw on Dr. Foster's training and experience in family and community trauma and resiliency as well her teaching and pedagogical work over the past three decades and more. The emails are collected here in PDF form for convenient access.
Please click on the four categories below to view the emails:
March 11: Your Week Ahead: Making the Teaching Transition Work for You and Your Students March 12.1: Beginning the Transition: Tips for Practical, Sensible Moves March 12.2: Shared Questions and Self-Care March 13.1: Emailing Students and Setting Priorities March 13.2: Frameworks, Weekend Plans, and Shared Questions March 14: Frameworks and Priorities: Our Students Need Us, NOW March 15: Building the Basics: AWARENESS, ACCESS, ABILITY, and ACTION March 16.1: Building the Basics: EVERYONE MATTERS March 16.2: Building the Basics: DEPENDENT, INDEPENDENT, INTERDEPENDENT March 17.1: Filling and Polishing: SIMPLIFY, HONOR, and RESPECT March 17.2: Filling and Polishing: ACCESS and ACCURACY March 18.1: Proofing, Testing, and Sharing: WHAT’S NECESSARY & NOW March 18.2:Proofing, Testing, and Sharing; MUTUAL & FLEXIBLE
March 19: Recovery: From TRAUMA to TRUST March 19: NEAR and FAR: Returning to the Remote LearningScape Series (Day 1) March 20: NEAR and FAR: Returning to the Remote LearningScape Series (Day 2) March 23: NEAR and FAR: Returning to the Remote LearningScape Series (Day 3) April 2: NEAR and FAR: Once More to the Remote Learningscape April 6: NEAR and FAR: Attention, Memory, Presence April 27: Approaching Our Goals: Connecting Feedback to Flexibility and Capacity May 4: Developing Shared Force and Efficacy through Capacity and Community September 14: Sustainable Meaningful Honorable Joyful September 26: Breonna Taylor Student Support November 9: Balancing Compassion and Expectations with Feedback. December 15: Essential, Balanced, HereMarch 11-29, 2020 Stability and Community Series
March 24-30, 2020 Recalibration Series
March 19-May 4, 2020 NEAR and FAR: Returning to the Remote LearningScape Series
Summer 2020 Racial Justice Series
Fall 2020 Sustainable, Meaningful, Honorable, Joyful Series
Conferences, Contributions, and Sites
Throughout the year, the TLC produces a series of local publications that include conference programs, contibutors' booklets, websites and microsites, and informational posters and flyers. A selection of these are included below:
Faculty Development Day programs, with links to presenter resources and photos, can be found on the Faculty Development Day website.
Click here to view our 2017 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Contributions booklet
Click here to view our 2018 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Contributions booklet
John Jay Open Educational Resources (OER)
Faculty Development Day (new link coming soon)
Teaching and Learning Center Strategic Plan and Annual Reports
Click here to view our 5 year Strategic Plan
Download Past Reports (PDF):
Click here to view our Annual Report 2018
Click here to view our Annual Report 2017
Click here to view our Annual Report 2016