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Faculty scholarly working papers on teaching and learning
HKS Faculty Working Paper Series on Teaching and Learning -
Making classroom minutes count
Awardees plan to use active learning strategies, peer instruction, and “flipped classrooms” to transform the core curriculum of their school’s flagship degree program. -
Community Development Project
Harnesses the academic and professional resources of Harvard University to facilitate civic engagement in community and economic development projects in underserved communities. -
Social Innovation and Change Initiative
Our mission is to develop research, pedagogical content, and educational programs that help students, social innovators, and organizations around the world, navigate the challenges of initiating and implementing social change. -
Harvard STS Circles
The STS Circle at Harvard is a group of doctoral students and recent PhDs who are interested in creating a space for interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to people in fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. -
The Future Society
The Future Society focuses on policy research, executive education, convening and incubation. -
SLATE: Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence
Created to reaffirm the Kennedy School's commitment to top performance in professional education, ensuring that HKS faculty match their intellectual distinction with a mastery of classroom skills. -
GSD/HKS Community Development Project (CDP)
CDP is a joint student group comprised of students from the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Participating students are Masters or Doctoral candidates in any range of degree programs at the GSD and HKS. Throughout the course of the year, students work collaboratively on 1 – 2 projects in the Greater Boston and New England region. CDP members have skills and interests, including: creative strategies for community and civic engagement, innovative urban policy and planning interventions, architecture and urban design, or research and writing. CDP works directly with local governments, organizations, and community members to develop a dynamic work-plan and a clear deliverable for the course of a semester or school year. -
HKS Office of Career Advancement
Provides career advice, employer outreach, job search skills workshops, and connects SEAS students to in-term, summer, and post-graduating opportunities. -
HKS Educational Technology
The educational technology team at Harvard Kennedy School provides our community with technologies to support teaching and learning and to facilitate innovation in the classroom, online, and in the field. Examples include: - Communicating and collaborating before and after class via the course website and associated tools - Engaging with digital course content outside of class and completing related online assessments to show evidence of learning - Gathering in-class anonymous feedback via classroom response systems to gauge understanding and solicit opinions - Bringing in a guest speaker virtually to speak with the class - Providing enrolled students with access to recorded class sessions through the course website for post-session review - Offering live online office hours with teaching staff
