Into Practice, a biweekly communication distributed from the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning to active instructors during the academic year was inspired by a successful 2012 HILT grant project. The e-letter highlights the pedagogical practices of individual faculty members from across Schools and delivers timely, evidence-based teaching advice, contributing to and strengthening a University-wide community of practice around teaching.

Below is a catalog of all the Into Practice issues sorted by the publication date. To subscribe to Into Practice, please sign-up via our Mailing List page.

• Enriching learning through student-led provocation

  Though Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature, Public Policy, and Education, plays an integral role in class discussions for his course Stories of Slavery and Freedom, students are responsible for leading the majority of classes through an exercise McCarthy refers to as “provocation.” “The provokers do not come in and give a summary of what we’ve read or a mini-lecture about the top-line themes that might emerge from the assigned readings. I really want them to find some way to literally provoke us into conversation, get the juices flowing, and try to get all the students to think about something urgently at the outset of class.”

• 2019 HILT Spark Grants Kick-off + Networking Event

  February 7, 2019  3:30pm-5:30pm Discovery Bar, Cabot Science Library.  Come and learn about HILT's Spark Grants for faculty and staff. This event is in advance of our spring 2019 application deadline to help potential applicants hear tips on how what make successful HILT Spark projects, meet recent awardees, and network to find potential teammates and collaborators.

• Data Science and Applied Statistics Education Workshop

  Friday, January 25th | 10:00am—3:00pm in CGIS Belfer Case Study Room. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Data Science Initiative, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, this event will focus on data science and applied statistics and bring together a select set of faculty, student teaching fellows, and staff to: Illuminate how these domains are taught and learned in various ways across Harvard; Demonstrate tools recently developed to support that pedagogical work; Share results of cross-University curriculum mapping efforts in these domains; Meet colleagues from other departments and schools who are teaching similar content

• Reimagine African Schools 

   This project envisions the creation of a pan African affordable private K12 schools network (i.e. ReImagine Schools).

• Utopia

  The vision of Utopia is to provide the high-quality curated content for early childhood development.

• STEMtelling

  STEMtelling is a set of interactive diagnostic tools designed for secondary students that promote the individualized discovery and learning of STEM, based on each student's own life, experiences, and relationships.

• rankED

   The goal of our platform is expanding the reach of recruiting from top-tier and prestigious universities to underrepresented populations.

• Our Voices Matter

   The purpose of this project is to teach public speaking and advocacy skills to low-income middle school students of color.

• Oklahoma Science Project

  The Oklahoma Science Project is an online resource with the goal of improving access to and promoting STEM education in Oklahoma.

• MuRealities

  The media experiment project aims to workshop digital surveys that explore these main research questions: how does this mural serve as an “interactive” map for storytelling and navigating narratives?