CxC Teacher Development Opportunities

C-I Teaching Lab: New to C-I Teaching
Launched in 2021 for faculty interested in teaching a C-I Course; occurs annually in August

Expanding from LSU’s previous award-winning annual Faculty Summer Institute model, C-I Teaching Labs are interactive workshops where teachers from across colleges explore, collaborate, and share practical strategies for integrating Communication-Intensive (C-I) teaching and learning into their existing undergraduate courses. Throughout the Teaching Labs, participants focus on updating their course designs to efficiently and effectively advance students’ learning of course content and discipline-specific communication skills. 

Are you interested in developing a department- or college-specific C-I Teaching Lab for New C-I Teachers? Reach out! 

 

C-I Teaching Lab: Experienced C-I Teachers
Launched in 2023 for faculty interested in teaching a C-I Course; occurs annually in January

C-I Teaching Labs for Experienced Teachers allow faculty to build on initial orientation to C-I teaching, and further explore topics and strategies now that they’ve been teaching C-I Courses. Throughout the Teaching Labs, participants explore the possibility of a new mode for an existing course, refine their course designs to address disciplinary challenges and developments, and continue to build community among peers across disciplines.

 

Faculty Summer Institute
2005–2019

Each summer, CxC hosted a multi-day interactive faculty workshop focused on the high-impact undergraduate learning and teaching practices of Communication-intensive pedagogy. University objectives of the Faculty Summer Institute included engaging and energizing LSU faculty to think critically about their teaching, equipping LSU faculty with the skills and resources needed to integrate Communication-Intensive pedagogy into their courses for deeper content learning, empowering faculty to improve the discipline-specific communication skills of their students, and encouraging interdisciplinary networking to spur new ideas for teaching and learning across campus.

These sessions are organized by topic, occurring each semester and by request. Delivery varies by topic and time of year, and ranges from single-hour to half-day sessions. Sessions can be adapted for GTAs serving C-I courses.

Discipline-Specific C-I Teaching Strategies Workshops

• Teaching C-I in Coast & Environment
• Teaching C-I in Honors
• Teaching C-I in Humanities & Social Sciences
• Teaching C-I in Math
• Teaching C-I in Mechanical Engineering
• Teaching C-I in World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 

Are you interested in developing a department- or discipline-specific C-I Teaching Strategy Workshop? Reach out! 

 

Evaluation and Assessment

• C-I Friday: Conducting Mid-Semester Pulse Checks
• C-I Friday: Making Space to Reflect on Our C-I Teaching
• C-I Friday: Using Rubrics & Criteria Sheets as Conversation Tools at all Stages of Course Design to communicate expectations and assess student learning

 

Feedback Strategies for C-I Courses

• C-I Friday: Feedback for Different Cultures
• C-I Friday: Feedback Using Peer Review
• C-I Friday: Student Perspectives on Feedback
• C-I Friday: Using Class Discussion within a C-I Framework
• Workshop: Culturally Responsive Feedback
• Workshop: Tech Tools for Effective Feedback
• Faculty Meet-Up: Meaningful Class Discussions for Online Settings

 

General C-I Teaching Topics

• C-I Friday: Leveraging AI for Learning in C-I Courses
• Collaboration with Faculty Colloquium: C-I Faculty Discussion Hour with Spring 2023 keynote speaker Dr. José Bowen
• Collaboration with LSU’s Learning & Teaching Collaborative: Teaching Teamwork Roundtable 
• Collaboration with Faculty Colloquium: Roundtable Discussion on Dr. Linda B. Nilson’s  Spring 2020 keynote presentation
• Faculty Meet-Up: Introduction to Communication Coaching and Studio Resources
• New Faculty Roundtable: Introduction to C-I Teaching
• Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Team Communication Skills 
• Roundtable: Student Perspectives in C-I
• Workshop: Considering Our Students As Our Audience: Communicating with Cultural Competency
• Workshop: GTA Training for C-I Courses
• Workshop: Flipped, Blended and Just-in-Time Teaching in C-I

 

Mode-Specific C-I Teaching Strategies

• C-I Friday: Tales of the Technological Mode 
• C-I Friday: Visual Mode Examples & Discussion
• C-I Friday: Using Class Discussion within a C-I Framework
• Faculty Meet-Up: Meaningful Class Discussions for Online Settings
• Discussion: Unpacking the Technological Mode in C-I
• Faculty Meet-Up: Structuring Effective Oral Presentation Projects 
• Faculty Meet-Up: Sessions for Writing-Intensive Faculty

 

Teachers as Communicators

• CxC Faculty Meet-Up: Essential Approaches to Teacher Communication 
• CxC Faculty Idea Exchange: Restructuring C-I Teaching and Assignment Design for Online
• CxC Faculty Meet-Up: Preparing for Sensitive Content in the Classroom
• CxC Faculty Meet-Up: 1-1 C-I Teaching Consults Between C-I Teachers & Undergraduate Communication Peer Coaches
• Workshop: Using Backward Design and Alignment Strategies to Explain to Students How Their Learning Comes Together
• CxC Faculty Meet-Up: Setting the Stage for Trust and Engagement in the C-I Classroom

Faculty Learning Communities (FLC) 
FLC frequency varies depending on faculty interest, collaborative opportunities and/or external support. Some FLCs are ongoing, while others occur over a single semester or full academic year.

• Ongoing Faculty Workshop/Training: ePortfolios: Best practices for successfully mentoring Distinguished Communicators (launched in Fall 2016, occurs 1–2 times each semester)
• Multi-Week FLC Topics (Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2017–Fall 2017) include:
  
  • C-I Transparency in Learning & Teaching (with support from the Louisiana Board of Regents)
  • AAC&U 4-week series on Teaching with AI
  • Essential Approaches for Teachers as Communicators
  • Communication as Inquiry: It’s about the process, too
  • C-I Teaching Tool Swap
• Faculty Meet-Up: How to Talk About Your C-I/CxC Work (Fall 2022)
• Faculty Discussion: Planning for Potential Transition to Online Teaching (Spring 2020)
• Faculty Writing Groups (Fall 2019–Spring 2020)
• Teaching Roundtable: Writing in Larger Classrooms (Spring 2018–Spring 2019)
• Faculty Book Club (Fall 2017, Fall 2016)
  
  • What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
  • Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang

 

Collaborative Projects
As a highly collaborative unit, CxC often participates in unique projects across disciplines, departments, and colleges when goals align. These are a few examples of past projects. If you have a project that might benefit from collaboration with CxC, please contact cxc@lsu.edu.

• AAC&U Curriculum-to-Career Innovations Institute with Computer Science (Fall 2022–Spring 2023)
• Faculty Meet-Ups for Conference Proposals related to C-I Teaching (Fall 2018)
• Unconference for Louisiana Writing Teachers (Summer 2017)
• Wikipedia

C-I Teaching Toolkit
Launched Fall 2024

This digital toolkit is an ever-evolving repository of teaching and learning resources for C-I faculty. Resources include sample rubrics, sample C-I Course applications across disciplines, instructional YouTube videos for in-class use, sample worksheets for various C-I assignments, and more.

Teaching C-I Substack
Launched Fall 2024

To provide further context around C-I teaching and learning, the CxC team publishes a bi-monthly Substack focusing on the ins and outs of C-I Teaching. Posts include exploring the four modes a C-I Course can be certified in (written, spoken, visual, and technological), trends that inform C-I teaching (like AI), and insight from teachers implementing the high-impact practice in their courses.

C-I Teaching Fellows
Launched Fall 2023

Annually, CxC selects a group of C-I faculty to serve as Teaching Fellows for the academic year. These fellows engage in various programming, uniquely tailored to their skill set and influence within their departments. This can range from developing teaching and learning materials specific to C-I courses to helping to expand the number of C-I Courses taught in their disciplines, and many variations in between. C-I Teaching Fellows are consistent champions of students and C-I teaching and receive a stipend for participating in the program.

Celebrate a Teacher
Launched in Fall 2020

Each Fall, students are asked to share which teachers are doing an exceptional job of communicating and connecting with them. Students anonymously submit names and optional comments, which are then shared with the teachers and their deans/department chairs. The Celebrate a Teacher Campaign exhibits consistent trend data that reflects effective teaching practices noted at the national level and transcends instructional delivery modes and campus contexts. Year over year, students have indicated that the actions taken by their teachers consistently help them connect and succeed.

C-I Faculty Awards
Launched in 2016

In conjunction with the Office of Academic Affairs’ Outstanding Faculty Awards program, CxC facilitates two faculty awards for C-I Teachers: C-I Teaching & Service Excellence Award (originally launched in 2016 as the Outstanding CxC Faculty Award) and the Lillian Bridwell-Bowles Innovative C-I Teacher Award (launched in 2025). Recipients of these awards are celebrated at the annual University-wide awards ceremony and receive a cash award.

 

Faculty Impact Reports
Launched in Spring 2023

More than 350 faculty members teach C-I Courses each year, making a marked impact on advancing and recognizing the communication skills of LSU students. CxC compiles several data points for C-I teachers to see the full scope of that impact, starting with their first interaction with CxC. This report encompasses C-I Course data, professional development activities/training with CxC, and engagement with students through the LSU Distinguished Communicator program. C-I Teachers use it for annual reviews, tenure and promotion packages, annual awards, and/or grant proposals.