Events
Teaching and Learning Communities
Cortland's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offers a place for everyone to gather. Whether you're interested in working on a project with like-minded colleagues, learning together in a book club, adapting new ideas for a course redesign, or sharing your ideas at the Teaching and Learning Conference, we love building community and fostering collaboration across disciplines and departments.
Communities typically meet on their own schedules, but generally, they meet for one hour per month during fall and spring semesters. For 2025–2026, the CTL will host communities on the following topics:
- AI in Teaching and Learning
- Online Teaching with Online Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR)
- Teaching to Create Belonging
Learn more and sign up
Spark Workshops 2025/2026
CTL offers a variety of short teaching effectiveness Spark. These virtual workshops last 30 minutes. In the first fifteen minutes, the presenter shares an innovative teaching method, a novel use of learning technology, a successful assessment technique, or an overview of a pressing topic in teaching and learning. In the second fifteen minutes, the participants ask questions, share ideas and feedback, and discuss how they might adapt their teaching with the new information.
If you have an idea for a teaching and learning workshop, sign up to lead a session.
View the Fall 2025 workshop schedule and sign up
Book Clubs
If you love book clubs like we do, you might like joining the CTL Book Club. We will read a new book related to teaching and learning in higher ed every semester. The CTL provides a copy of the book to every participant. You just have to read and share your ideas. Sign up to join one of our book clubs.
Fall 2025
Small Teaching: Every Day Lessons from the Science of Learning
Small Teaching is one of our favorite books because Lang focuses on small, practical changes instructors can incorporate immediately that lead to significant improvements in student learning. Lang's book provides carefully researched teaching strategies from a wide-variety of disciplines with personal anecdotes from his own classes to present a thoughtful argument for the importance of helping students build lasting knowledge as well as skills.
Spring 2026
Reach Everyone Teach Everyone: Universal Design in Higher Education
Keeping our Title II work in mind, we'll be reading Reach Everyone Teach Everyone by Thomas Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling. This book offers practical guidance for making college teaching more inclusive and accessible. Tobin and Behling introduce Universal Design for Learning (UDL) strategies that help instructors create flexible learning environments benefiting all students—not just those with accommodations.
Development Days
Join us for one of our faculty development days. The CTL hosts a variety of gatherings through out the year. These sessions are designed to help faculty share effective teaching practices and learn from one another. In the 25/26 year, the CTL will be hosting four development days.
Adjunct Development Day
This virtual event is designed to support our adjunct community. New, interactive workshops, will be offered each hour and adjuncts are encouraged to bring their questions and ideas to share with everyone. We know that many of our adjuncts are very experienced teachers, so these sessions are designed to support sharing of information across disciplines and give adjuncts the space to build community. Learn more and register for the 2025 Adjunct Development Day held on Friday, August 15th from 9-4 in Teams.
AI in Teaching and Learning Showcase
Teaching and Learning Conference 2026
Information Coming Soon!