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✨ Celebrating 10 Years | 🏛️ Empowering Teaching & Learning at Yale | 🤝 Promoting Equity & Engagement | 🎓 Helping Students Own Their Journey #PoorvuProud

Joined October 2015
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On Nov. 11, faculty, staff & students explored AI tools like Clarity, Copilot & Firefly during AI Coffee Talks, sparking discussions on their ethical & cultural impacts. #Yale #AI
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Grateful for a decade of learning, teaching, and growing together. 🦃🍂 Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at the Yale Poorvu Center! #Thanksgiving2024 #GratitudeInLearning #PoorvuProud
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We celebrated our 10th Anniversary at the Faculty Innovations in Teaching event! 🎉 Jenny Frederick and former President Peter Salovey kicked things off, followed by a panel on teaching innovations led by faculty experts. Thanks to everyone who joined us! #Yale #PoorvuProud
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That's a wrap! 📆 On Oct 11, we concluded Faculty Bulldog Days at the Humanities Quad. Professors Joseph Wolenski & Marvin Chun led discussions as faculty and grad students shared experiences, fostering collaboration. Thanks to all who joined! #Yale #TeachingExcellence
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Happy Dictionary Day! 📖 We’re putting our Writing Center students to the test with some tricky spelling challenges and favorite word picks. Drop a 📝 if you’re cheering them on! #Yale #PoorvuProud #DictionaryDay
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Grad students from the US, Canada & UK gathered at @thehuntington on July 14 for a workshop organized by Gina M. Hurley & Tarren Andrews (#Yale), with sessions by Vanessa Wilkie, Louise D'Arcens, Ruen-Chuan Ma, Bridget Whearty & Jessica Brantley on manuscripts, equity & more. 🎓
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Join our Teaching & Learning Conversations event as part of Poorvu's 10-year celebration. 🍰🎉 Share your thoughts on the question 'Where were you ten years ago?' displayed at the Poorvu Center until October 18. Join the conversation below! 👇 #Yale #PoorvuProud
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"Check out our role in Yale’s 2024 New Faculty Orientation! 🎓 Yale students shared advice on inclusive teaching—active listening, tough topics, & accessibility. What stands out to you? #InclusiveTeaching #Yale"
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Connie Steel, Ph.D., and Madeline Gupta kicked off the #AI Coffee Talks for Humans at the Poorvu Center! ☕🤖 30 attendees explored Clarity, #Yale’s new AI, and discussed its ethical impact. Missed it? Join us on Oct 25! 👉 Register here: cglink.me/2dA/r2281553
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Happy National Punctuation Day from the Poorvu Center! 🎉 We asked our Writing Center staff to share their favorite punctuation marks—can you guess which ones they picked? Let us know your favorite! ✍️ #NationalPunctuationDay #WritingTips #PoorvuCenter
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The Poorvu Center is marking an important milestone this year: our 10th anniversary! Join us in a year-long celebration of teaching and learning excellence at Yale and help us shape the future of education. Celebrate With Us: poorvucenter.yale.edu/poorvu…
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Through the annual Faculty Bulldog Days program, Yale professors engage with new ideas — and perhaps pick up some new tricks of the teaching trade — by sitting in on their colleagues’ classes. @PoorvuCenter #Yale news.yale.edu/2024/02/29/see…

Seeing Yale from the other side of the lectern

Each year Faculty Bulldog Days encourages faculty to step out of their own classrooms to observe how colleagues across campus practice the craft of teaching.

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YaleNews: ‘Nilay’s Chemistry Videos’ blends science & educational equity The video series is funded by Poorvu Center's Rosencranz Award for Pedagogical Advancement. Apps are due January 15! poorvucenter.yale.edu/Nilay_…
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We're delighted to share highlights from 2022-2023 academic year. In a world of change & uncertainty — from Covid-19 to AI — we support students & faculty w/ resilience, flexibility, & collaboration. We invite you to read & connect with us! Annual Report: poorvucenter.yale.edu/News-A…
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”—Margaret Mead Proud to be working as part of ID2EA! Thank you Meghan Bathgate 🤓@PoorvuCenter @YaleIMed @YaleMed @Yale
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.@Newsweek featured the @PoorvuCenter for the range of courses offered through Yale Online. We're proud to be among the top 10 universities & the top Ivy offering online undergraduate & graduate programs. ➡️ newsweek.com/how-get-ivy-lea…
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The Modern Instructors series is an initiative from the YPA Mentorship Committee and the Poorvu Center @PoorvuCenter.
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Congratulations to our own Jackie Testamark, among 4 Yale College seniors selected for a Rhodes Scholarship! Jackie’s exceptional intellect, compassion & generosity make her an incredible Writing Partner in the Yale College Writing Center. Read more: news.yale.edu/2023/11/13/fou…
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Assessing Yale's “AI readiness”: @PoorvuCenter, @yalelibrary, and @TsaiCITY join 18 academic institutions in 2-year project to develop a proactive, coordinated approach to AI in teaching & learning library.yale.edu/news/librar…
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Lecture capture — tech allowing instructors to record classes for later viewing — helps students to review difficult sections & add captions for accessibility. Poorvu Center, ITS & facilities staff are upgrading AV systems in dozens of Yale classrooms: your.yale.edu/youryale/advan…
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