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CTE NEWS

August 4, 2026

As you prepare for launch into the fall semester, count on the CTE to fuel your flight. We’re here to propel your course planning and teacher-scholar journey with grant opportunities, mission-critical resources from your colleagues, and timely readings.

Upcoming Deadlines and Events

Get Support for Future Teaching Innovations - Major Teaching Project Grant Proposal Deadline: October 15, 2026

Submit a CTE major teaching project grant proposal ($3,000). These grants encourage curricular and pedagogical innovations that result in more engaged and improved student learning. Innovations may be at the course, department, division, and/or university levels.

Info and Proposal Form

News and Information

Resources Created by Miami FLCs

The CTE website houses resources to support effective teaching that have been created by past Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) on these topics:

Agile (Improving Engagement, Assessment, and Learning Outcomes)

Experiential Learning

Media and Information Literacy

Publicly Engaged Teaching and Scholarship Resources

Resources for International Faculty and Teaching Assistants

Weave the Story: Teaching Old Miami/New Miami

X-Teach: Excellent Teaching in Large Classes Resource

Learn more about FLCs and these outcomes of their engagement in scholarly teaching practice here.

Designing Classes Students Show Up For

This Faculty Focus article describes three course design moves so that students value class sessions as “the place where learning happens.”

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Using Content Disclosures for Sensitive Course Topics

Prepare your students for a positive learning experience with these techniques for approaching sensitive or potentially distressing course content that will make them feel both challenged and supported.

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