The Teaching Commons is pleased to invite you to this year’s Annual Summer Teaching Institute, taking place over three half-day sessions between June 23-25th. Our 2025 theme is:
Working Towards Essential Requirements.

This year's Institute is designed to offer an engaging, hands-on experience focused on deepening our shared understanding of the interconnectedness between program learning outcomes, course learning outcomes, course-level assessment practices, and essential requirements, with a particular focus on accessibility and inclusive design.

We encourage colleagues from the same academic unit to attend in pairs so that collaborative work can meaningfully translate back to your programs. Because the sessions are scaffolded toward shared goals and outcomes, we ask that participants commit to attending all three half-days.

Please bring the following materials with you to guide your participation and activities:

• Your program-level learning outcomes
• Learning outcomes and assessments from 2–4 required courses in your program (across varied year levels)
• Course syllabi, if available

Please note, the Summer Teaching Institute is not an evaluation of your current assessment practices. Rather, it is an opportunity to reflect, collaborate, and better understand how intentional alignment across outcomes, assessments, and essential requirements can help us create more coherent, accessible, and meaningful learning experiences for students.

Please see the agenda below. More information and details will be provided closer to the week of the Summer Institute.  This event will be held via Zoom.

We look forward to learning with you this summer!