My sessions and trainings are designed as active learning experiences and not lecture-based trainings. Participants work with real courses, real institutional challenges, real assignments, and real teaching contexts. Across these workshops, I use backward design, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Universal Design for Learning, TILT, trauma-informed pedagogy, human-centered design, and AI integration to help educators and academic leaders build practical artifacts they can use immediately.

Offerings can be adapted for short sessions, three-hour design sprints, full-day workshops, two-day institutes, or multi-day design engagements.

Cross-Disciplinary Course Design

A two-day workshop where participants design a complete course that combines two or more disciplines. The participants use backward design, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Universal Design for Learning, and TILT framework to move from a course idea to learning outcomes, assessments, activities, and a coherent course structure.

Holistic Teaching and Transparent Course Design

A hands-on workshop focused on aligning course goals, assignments, learning activities, student support structures, and transparent communication. Participants examine how course design can create clearer, more meaningful, and more student-centered learning experiences.

Modifying Learning Outcomes Using Bloom’s Taxonomy

A practical workshop where faculty revise learning outcomes for clarity, cognitive complexity, alignment, and assessability using Bloom’s Taxonomy and backward design principles. Participants refine course outcomes so they better support assignment design, student learning experiences, course coherence, and alignment with program-level and institutional learning outcomes where applicable.

Evaluating Course Health Using Universal Design for Learning

A diagnostic workshop where faculty review the “health” of a course using Universal Design for Learning principles. Participants identify barriers to access, engagement, and expression, then redesign course elements to support a wider range of learners.

Leveraging AI to Create Transparent Assignments

A hands-on workshop where faculty use AI to redesign assignments through the TILT framework. Participants clarify purpose, tasks, criteria, process, and student-facing expectations while exploring how AI can support transparency, feedback, and assessment design.

Creating Custom AI Agents for Everyday Teaching Use

A practical workshop where faculty build custom AI agents to support recurring teaching tasks, including rubric creation, in-class activities, formative feedback, course planning, and custom teaching assistant workflows.

Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

A workshop focused on redesigning assessments in response to AI-generated work. Participants explore how to create assignments that foreground process, reflection, lived experience, context, iteration, and authentic demonstrations of learning.

Trauma-Informed Practices in Education

A workshop introducing trauma-informed principles for higher education teaching. Participants examine how stress, safety, belonging, flexibility, and classroom design affect student learning and engagement.

Designing for Student Engagement

A workshop focused on creating classroom experiences that increase participation, reflection, dialogue, and active learning. Participants redesign a session, activity, or course component to better support student engagement.

Designing for Student Experience inside Learning Management Systems

A practical workshop on designing Canvas or other LMS environments with minimal resistance for students. Participants learn how to make critical information easy to find, reduce cognitive load, improve navigation, and create a more student-friendly digital learning experience.

Understanding Human-Centered Design

An applied introduction to human-centered design for educators and academic teams. This workshop can be offered as a three-hour design sprint or expanded into multi-day design workshops around custom institutional, curricular, or student experience challenges.

Creating Institutional Frameworks for Teaching Excellence

A workshop for academic administrators focused on building institutional systems that support teaching and learning. Participants examine faculty hiring, onboarding, evaluation, promotion, recognition, retention, and professional development as connected parts of a teaching ecosystem.