CPAD’s Contribution to the A & A’s 2020-2025 Strategic Plan

Submitted 9/30/22 by Susan Russell, CPAD Director

Cultivate transformative arts and design opportunities and experiences.

Prompt

Adoption of Prompt as resident academic journal for CPAD, and the publication of 2 spring issues – led by Jeanmarie Higgins Trainor and Michael Schweikardt

Graduate Online Teaching Practicum: Certificate Program, Anna Divinsky

The Graduate Online Teaching Practicum was offered asynchronously during Spring 2022. In addition to the variety of resources, the students were asked to view previously recorded sessions. The topics covered: Best Online Teaching Practices: Humanizing the Classroom The Schreyer Institute: Writing Your Teaching Statement Connecting Through Communication and Compassion Effective Personal Feedback The Schreyer Institute: Collecting and Giving Feedback That Promotes Learning Teaching Students Who Learn Differently TLT: Advancing Inclusive Pedagogy via the Intersection of Instructional Technology and DEI Graduate Online Teaching Practicum: Graduate Presentations

The Graduate Online Teaching Practicum featured public graduate presentations in March and April. Graduate students from the College of Arts and Architecture (Visual Arts, Music, and Architecture) discussed their research and innovative teaching.

The graduate students will write articles about their presentations which will be archived on C-PAD’s website and shared with the public.

Graduate Online Teaching Practicum Presents: Research Sharing and Discussion with Art Education and Music Education Graduate Students Facilitated by Anna Divinsky Friday, March 18th, 2-4pm EST C-PAD Teaching Lab “Addressing Critical Multiculturalism through Online Museum Education” Eunkyung Hwang, Doctoral Candidate in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies “The Care in Research, Organizing, and Preparation. My Journey: A Feminist Teaching Art Residency (In)formed by an Ethics of Care” Zena Tredinnick-Kirby, Doctoral Candidate in Art Education “Re-defining Contextual Learning in Online Settings” Rainamei Luna, Doctoral Student in Music Education “Art-ful Intelligences and Media Art Pedagogy” Ye Sul Park, Doctoral Student in Art Education

The Graduate Online Teaching Practicum will continue offering the Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching (synchronously/asynchronously). It will also feature monthly graduate presentations in-person and online. Finally, it will invite guest speakers and collaborate with graduate students outside of the College.

CPAD commercial, student generated

CPAD sizzle reel, student generated

Open House Series

Open House Friday Series offering University-wide multimedia Workshops for Youtube Channel; news articles; TLT symposium presentation on teaching creativity; student feedback; visibility and increased reservations, participants, technology-based learning (the room and beyond); TLT media commons pilot program 360-Video projects (40+ students engaged in VR for the first time, who creating their own virtual exhibitions); Greater Penn State campaign closing project

Events

• Collaborations with Jackie Bortiatynski (CESE/CPAD events for Graduate Students in Art and Biology)
• Events for the Faculty: Guest Speakers, Panel Discussion on Innovative Teaching
• CPAD Shares: Online exchange of ideas and innovations
• Monthly CPAD Co-Work Sessions in the Lab facilitated by Cookie Redding
• Community Book Discussion facilitated by Adam Smith CPAD Welcome Event (for Fall Semester: one for faculty/staff and one for graduate students)
• End of Term Social Community Articles publication via web and social media

CPAD Livestreaming Projects with constituent partners like Raymond Sage’s One Body One Voice

Establish a culture of anti-racism and anti-oppression that embraces individual identities, fosters a culture of inclusion, and promotes equity through our curricula, values, standards, ideals, policies, and practices.

• Completion of 4-year IRB approved research project on The Moral Moments Project – led by Crystal Ramsey, Susan Russell, and CPAD GAs Fouz Alzahrani and Tugce Aldemir https://moralmoments.psu.edu/
• First-Year Engagement Series: July 8, 2021 – The Moral Moments Project Susan Russell, Ph.D. School of Teacher and Crystal Ramsey, Ph.D. Research Project Manager, Teaching and Learning with Technology Responding directly to the call for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion coursework, the Moral Moments Project offers Morals, Ethics, Actions, and Faith as discussion frameworks for racism/antiracism, implicit bias, racial justice, community building, and peace. Using proven techniques of communication, community building, and critical thinking, the course works to create communities where having difficult conversations become a skill set for any teacher and any student can learn and practice.
• Moral Moments at the ECoS! A four-part Moral Moments encounter with Eberly College of Science faculty, staff, and administration “A Year in Three Acts” When: May 10, 2021, 9:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. What: A guided and interactive exploration of teaching and learning in 2020-21 Who: Grad/undergrad students, faculty, staff, and administration How: Asking ourselves, “What can I take with me, and what, with gratitude, can I leave behind in 21-22?” Where: Zoom Why: Because we are in it together https://cpad.psu.edu/cpad-academy-2021/

Advance innovative practices in teaching and learning, research, creative activity, performances, and professional development.

• IRB Approval and first year research on students/instructors in The Lab – 3-year project headed by Crystal Ramsey, Bryan Nichols, and CPAD GA Fouz Alzahrani
• Adoption of Prompt as resident academic journal for CPAD, and the publication of 2 spring issues – led by Jeanmarie Higgins Trainor and Michael Schweikardt
• First-Year Engagement Series: July 15, 2021 – Learning Science and Metacognition Patrice Kucker, Ed.D. Director of the Stuckeman School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Graphic Design As Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon stated “learning results from what a student does and thinks and only from what a student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn”. This workshop will focus on neurodiversity in the classroom and how the brain works when learning. It will help faculty to better understand the students in their classrooms and the important role that metacognition, or the science of learning, plays in supporting independent student learning and life-long learning habits. Helping first-year students understand how their learning is unique will assist them in building the skills needed to make the most of their college experience.
• July 21, 2021 – Creating Communities Online Teaching and Learning with Technology How can you replicate the engagement level of in-person courses in an online space? This session covers how to take your online students and turn them into a community of engaged learners. Topics include planning for community, building community into assignments, humanizing both instructors and students in online environments, building humor into your courses, and specific technologies that can be used to facilitate the community in your class.
• July 22 and 23, 2021 – Planning for Student Engagement Teaching and Learning with Technology Do you need to revise a Fall 2020 course to a blended or online format and aren’t sure where to start? This session covers how to plan your course content to maximizing student engagement. Topics include adapting course objectives to include the online environment, choosing which aspects of the course to offer synchronously vs. asynchronously, and creating or adjusting your communication plan to help students be successful in your online or blended course.
• July 29, 2021 – Who Are You Not Reaching? Chris Gamrat, Instructional Designer for the College of Information Sciences and Technology, and Lynette Yarger, Associate Professor for the College of Information Sciences and Technology and Assistant Dean for Schreyer Honors College Reaching students can be a significant challenge for any course. Research suggests that we gain a broader response when attending to principles of inclusive teaching and best practices in inclusive course design. In this interactive session, attendees will review a series of best practices for inclusive teaching and course design which are designed to be implemented in a variety of courses. The session will cover setting course expectations, establishing norms for professional communications and collaborations, and iterative improvements. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss and reflect on the challenges of including students across multiple aspects of courses.
• The Graduate Online Teaching Practicum was offered asynchronously during Spring 2022. In addition to the variety of resources, the students were asked to view previously recorded sessions. The topics covered: Best Online Teaching Practices: Humanizing the Classroom The Schreyer Institute: Writing Your Teaching Statement Connecting Through Communication and Compassion Effective Personal Feedback The Schreyer Institute: Collecting and Giving Feedback That Promotes Learning Teaching Students Who Learn Differently TLT: Advancing Inclusive Pedagogy via the Intersection of Instructional Technology and DEI Graduate Online Teaching Practicum: Graduate Presentations
• The graduate students will write articles about their presentations which will be archived on C-PAD’s website and shared with the public.
• 2022 Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology C-PAD Grants: Innovative Teaching and Learning in the Arts Anna Divinsky, Charlene Gross, Zena Tredinnick-Kirby March 19, 2022

Develop strategic alliances, partnerships, and collaborations to broaden impact and promote a culture of research and creative activity.

• The completion of the new CPAD website https://cpad.psu.edu/
• IRB Approval and first year research on students/instructors in The Lab – 3-year project headed by Crystal Ramsey, Bryan Nichols, and CPAD GA Fouz Alzahrani
• Moral Moments at the ECoS! A four-part Moral Moments encounter with Eberly College of Science faculty, staff, and administration “A Year in Three Acts” When: May 10, 2021, 9:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. What: A guided and interactive exploration of teaching and learning in 2020-21 Who: Grad/undergrad students, faculty, staff, and administration How: Asking ourselves, “What can I take with me, and what, with gratitude, can I leave behind in 21-22?” Where: Zoom Why: Because we are in it together https://cpad.psu.edu/cpad-academy-2021/
• CPAD Livestreaming Initiative – First collaboration is with “One Body, One Voice” – A national musical theater voice conference led by PSU SOT faculty members Raymond Sage and Gwen Walker and hosted by CPAD in The Lab – funded by the conference creators and running August 5-7, 2022 TLT 360 Video partnership Vice-Provost Summer Storytelling Internship Project (Multimedia Internship Team)
• Prompt: A Journal of Theatre Theory, Practice, and Teaching is a generative space where artists, educators, and scholars converge to exchange ideas that prompt new thoughts and practices. It was created in response to a moment when digital space became the default site of learning and storytelling, as a way to investigate issues of materiality and liveness in those places. It has become an online journal that continues to encourage experimentation in form and content. A new peer reviewed section will collect essays that reflect on the uses and challenges of interdisciplinary across arts and design disciplines. https://cpad.psu.edu/research/prompt/
• 2022 Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology C-PAD Grants: Innovative Teaching and Learning in the Arts Anna Divinsky, Charlene Gross, Zena Tredinnick-Kirby March 19, 2022

CPAD Community

Susan Russell, Jeanmarie Higgins Trainor, Michael Schweikardt, Crystal Ramsey, Tugce Aldemire, Patricia Kucker, Anna Divinsky, Stephanie Swindle Thomas, Courtney Redding, Adam Smith, Chris Stubbs, Brendan Berthold, Bill Rose, Bryan Nichols, Ryan Russell, Fouz Alzahrani, Sa’ida Bronner, Patrick Dudas, Natalie Gonzalez, Curtis Craig, Cody Goddard, James Cooper, Tess Dubler

Presenters: Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson, Yang Deng, Eunkyung Hwang Rainamei Luna, Ye Sul Park, Zena Tredinnick-Kirby, Rui Wang, Tess Dubler