Faculty Events & Workshops
The Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) hosts a variety of faculty programs and events that bring together instructors who teach, or are interested in teaching, community-engaged learning (CEL) courses. In partnership with the Centre for Research and Innovation Support (CRIS), the CCP also offers programs and events for faculty involved in community-engaged research (CER). The CCP also partnered with the Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation for the 2024 Teaching and Learning Symposium What is a Classroom.
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2025 CEL Faculty Institute: What’s Next for CEL? Charting the Course for Transformative Change
Virtual Plenary Panel: Wednesday April 23, 2:30-4 p.m. ET
In-person Gathering: Tuesday, April 29, 8:45 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. ET
The Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) invites you to attend the 2025 Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) Faculty Institute, What’s Next for Community-Engaged Learning? Charting the Course for Transformative Change.
The CEL Faculty Institute is an annual event that brings together CEL instructors from across the University of Toronto to share and learn from each other about effective strategies for CEL teaching, informed by the latest research and on-the-ground experience. The two-part event will take place over two days, the first featuring a virtual plenary panel and the second, an in-person day at the University of Toronto St. George Campus. This year’s Institute will offer an opportunity to reflect on 20 years of CEL at U of T, and to further our collective critical thinking about the future of CEL.
Join us for our three-part CEL Course Development Workshops Series. The workshops can be stand alone or completed as a series. Note: These will be participatory workshops where attendees will be invited to do some free-writing and some breakout group discussions.
These workshops will be offered again in Fall 2025 and Winter 2026.
Course Development Workshop 1: Fundamentals of CEL
In this workshop, best suited to instructors who are new to CEL, we focus on the fundamentals of community-engaged learning (CEL) pedagogy and practice. The workshop will:
- introduce you to what CEL is and how it is defined, why you might want to use a CEL pedagogy, and some models and examples for CEL courses;
- give you space and time to think through some foundational questions as you begin designing your own CEL course.
Course Development Workshop 2: Designing a Successful CEL Course
In this second workshop we focus on the three ‘Ps’ of CEL course development: pedagogy, partnerships and student preparation. Focusing on the three ‘Ps’, the workshop will: 1) provide you with some practical strategies for designing and running a CEL course and 2) provide you space and time to work on a syllabus you are designing or redesigning for a CEL course.
Course Development Workshop 3: Designing a Successful CEL Course
In this third workshop of the CEL course development workshop series, we focus on working respectfully and equitably with partners from community, grassroots, nonprofit, or public organizations. The workshop will provide practical strategies for, and space and time to discuss and reflect on, stewarding partnerships in respectful and reciprocal ways.
Opportunities for faculty across the university to learn and discuss anti-oppressive approaches to community-engaged learning and research (CEL/R)
Missed a Roundtable? Visit our Past Faculty Events where you can find links to recordings of past roundtables.
Other opportunities to explore CEL/R pedagogies and practices in partnership with other university research and teaching support offices
Missed an event? Visit our Past Faculty Events where you can find links to recordings of events.
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