Spring 2025 Book Groups

Join one of the CTL’s Spring 2025 Book Groups and spark fresh ideas for your teaching practice! These engaging groups offer the perfect opportunity to reflect on your approaches, gain new perspectives, and collaborate with colleagues in a dynamic professional development setting. Our book clubs provide a supportive space to learn and grow together. Don’t miss out—reserve your spot today!

Virtual and physical copies of books will be available to participants.

Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching

The cover of a book featuring bold, white text that reads ‘The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching’ against a colorful background of overlapping, textured brushstrokes. At the bottom, the authors’ names are listed in white text: Isis Artze-Vega, Flower Darby, Bryan Dewsbury, and Mays Imad.

Method: Choice of In-person or Virtual

Begins: January 30th, 2025 • 1pm – 2pm

This guide is a hands-on exploration of the empirical research around creating equitable educational outcomes and examples of small and large teaching practices that can occur in classes of all shapes and sizes.  If you’re curious about inclusive or equity-minded teaching and wondering where to start, this book is for you!  Co-authored by a team with varied disciplinary and teaching experience, it has something for everyone. 

 

Meets 3 times, from 1-2 pm

  • Session 1 – January 30th
  • Session 2 – February 27th
  • Session 3 – March 27th

View the group page to register and learn more

The Inner Work of Racial Justice

The cover of a book featuring soft, watercolor-like gradients. The title reads ‘The Inner Work of Racial Justice.’ Below the title, in smaller text, it says: ‘Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness.’ The author’s name, Rhonda V. Magee, is written in bold black text at the bottom, with ‘Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn’ in smaller black text underneath.

Method: In-person

Begins: February 6th, 2025 • 1pm – 2pm

In this 5-session book group, we’ll read “The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness” (Rhonda McGee, 2019), exploring mindfulness practices that encourage us “to pay attention to our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way … (in order to) increase our emotional resilience, recognize our own biases, and become less reactive when triggered”.  

 

Each session will include a discussion of the assigned reading, time for reflection and dialogue, and actual practices presented in the book. These practices will help us to lean into difficult conversations about race and encourage us to reflect on social identity, making connections to its impact on our relationships with colleagues and students.  Additionally, the practices described in the book will help us to cultivate intercultural competencies, such as building empathy, nurturing curiosity, and deep listening.    

Meets 5 times, from 1-2 pm

  • Session 1 – February 6th
  • Session 2 – February 20th
  • Session 3 – March 6th
  • Session 4 – Marth 20th
  • Session 5 – April 3rd

View the group page to register and learn more