Faculty Events & Workshops

The CCP offers faculty development events to support University of Toronto instructors with designing and delivering CEL courses. CCP faculty events include course development workshops, faculty roundtables, and collaboratively delivered sessions with other units. These events cover a variety of topics and bring together instructors who teach, or are interested in teaching, community-engaged learning courses.  

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Click the arrows below for dates and registration info for all 2025-26 events!

Community-Engaged Learning Course Development Workshop Series

The three-part CEL Course Development Workshop series for faculty offers an overview of the fundamentals of CEL pedagogy and practice, support for designing a CEL course, and practical strategies for working respectfully with community partners. Offered virtually in Fall, and as a half-day intensive in Spring. 

Featuring conversations between University of Toronto CEL scholar/practitioners and invited scholar/practitioners from outside U of T, this virtual series aims to advance community-engaged learning practice and scholarship through critical reflection and discussion of societal challenges, theoretical questions, and practical pedagogical strategies.  

2026 CEL Faculty Institute: Driving Change: Scaffolding, Deepening & Sustaining CEL’s Transformative Impacts 

Wednesday, April 22, 2026
9:15 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Hart House, St. George Campus
Registration closes at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 10, 2026

The CEL Faculty Institute is an annual event that brings together CEL practitioners from across the University of Toronto, and those interested in CEL, to share and learn from each other about effective strategies for CEL teaching, informed by the latest research and on-the-ground experience.  

At our 20th anniversary Institute in April 2025, we collectively imagined what a path toward transformative change through CEL might entail. This year, we build on that visioning to consider embedded, relational, imaginative and collective strategies in CEL for fostering transformative impacts.  

Scaffolding: How can we think, coordinate and build across CEL courses for sustainability and responsiveness? How can we design within CEL courses to maximize learning and minimize harm?  

Deepening: How can we practice relationship-building over the long term? How can we support students to integrate transformative learning and commitments to social change beyond the life of a single CEL course? 

Sustaining: How do we navigate tensions around scalability and barriers to continuity? How might we leverage the disruptive, catalytic potential of CEL while practicing care for students, faculty and community partners? 
 
Join us to hear from speakers, participate in workshops and panel discussions, and build a CEL community of practice at the University. 


Missed an event? Visit our Past Faculty Events where you can find links to recordings of events.

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