The document summarizes an online summit hosted by SUNY about Lumen Circles, a faculty professional development program. It includes an agenda for a panel discussion on Lumen Circles featuring SUNY faculty. Lumen Circles offers virtual learning communities where faculty can collaborate, reflect on their teaching practices, and apply evidence-based strategies over 9 weeks focusing on topics like online teaching, diversity and inclusion, or using open educational resources. The program aims to improve student success through supportive, challenging, varied and organized learning environments.

1. www.suny.edu
February 25, 2021
SUNY Online Summit
Session is being recorded.
Recordings and slides will be shared with all attendees.
LumenCircles –
A Panel Conversation

2. Today’s Agenda
• 3:00p Welcome
• 3:05p – 3:15p Brief introduction to Lumen Circles
• 3:15 – 3:20 Introduction of Faculty Panelists
• 3:20p – 4:10p Facilitated Panel Conversation
• 4:10p – 4:30 Questions, Answers and next, best steps.
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3. SUNY OER Services
No cost to SUNY faculty, staff, or students – oer.suny.edu
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4. Student Success
Leverage Excellence
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Cost
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Access

5. Faculty Success
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6. Critical Reflection
“Critical reflection is … the sustainedand intentionalprocess of identifying and checking the accuracy and validityof
our teaching assumptions.” -Stephen Brookfield, Becoming a CriticallyReflective Teacher
Critical reflection looks to clarify and investigatethe truth of teaching assumptions using four lenses:
• Students’ eyes (reflection through student feedback)
• Colleagues’ perceptions(reflecting with peers)
• Personal experience (critical self-reflection)
• Theory and Research (reflecting through critical reading)
It is not enough to learn about new teaching methods, techniques, strategies, tools, etc. You also need an iterative
process that allowsyou to learn how to applythis information given the changing nature of yourstudents and teaching
environment.
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7. How Do Lumen Circles Support Faculty?
Skill-building:
Choose your area of focus (e.g.
online teaching, OER, active
learning, etc.)
Classes Start:
Teach & apply new skills
Weekly practice, reflection&
feedback: Share, collaborate
and grow with your virtual
learning circle
Assess progress and impact on
teaching and learning
Throughout the Experience
● Skilled facilitation
● Engagedpeer community
● Framework for student-
centered teaching
● Faculty mentors to consult
on pedagogy, learning
design, use of OER, etc.
● Recommended resources
● Virtual platform for formal
& informal circle interaction

8. Lumen Circles’ Underlying Framework:
Evidence-based Teaching Practices to Improve Student Success
Supportive
A learning environmentthat
builds connections, trust,
foundations for success
Challenging
A learning environmentthat
challenges and motivates
students, using data to
optimize learning
Varied
A leanring environmentthat
makes learning personaland
relevant for diverselearners
Organized
A learning environmentthat
breaks down complex
concepts and promotes
learning by making
meaningful connections
Caring
Community-building
Transition to College
Inclusiveness
Enjoyment
Baseline Knowledge
Assessment
Feedback
Self-reflection
High Expectations
Higher Order Thinking
Differentiated Instruction
Multi-modal Instruction
Contextualization
Collaboration
Adaptability
Structured Lessons
Connections
Time on Task
Scaffolding
Adaptedfrom Mellow et al. (2015), Taking College Teaching
Seriously: Pedagogy Matters

9. Lumen Courseware
Faculty Professional
Development
Faculty using
Lumen courseware
Faculty participating
in Lumen Circles
Faculty using
Lumen courseware
and Lumen Circles

10. Lumen
Circles
Fellowships
Flagship offering:
community-supported
Duration: Nine Weeks
Audience: Any Faculty Member
Focus: Explore and apply evidence-based teaching practices with a circle
of peers.
Choose a theme:
● Active Learning
● Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (Fall 2021 start)
● Evidence-based Teaching
● Evidence-based Teaching with Lumen Courseware
● Online Teaching Foundation
● Teaching with OER & Open Pedagogy
Receive Lumen Circles Fellowship Certificate in Effective Teaching Practice
Cost: No cost to SUNY faculty or campuses

11. Success
Accelerator
Transform teaching
supported by digital
courseware
Duration: Six Weeks
Audience: Any Faculty Member using Lumen Waymaker or OHM
Focus: Faster path to effective teaching and learning using courseware
● Course design & customization
● Use of data
● Engaging students
● Peer sharing & community
Opt in to full Fellowship during 2nd term.
Receive Lumen Circles Fellowship Certificate in Effective Teaching
Practice
Cost: No cost to SUNY faculty or campuses

12. Our Faculty Panelists
Trudi E. Jacobson, MLS, MA, Distinguished Librarian, Head, Information Literacy
Department, University at Albany.
Dr. Nicole Simon Professor, Engineering/Physics/Technology, Nassau Community College.
Rob Faivre, Professor of English, SUNY Adirondack.
Sophia Georgiakaki is a Professor of Mathematics at Tompkins Cortland Community College.
Rachel Rigolino is the Coordinator of the Supplemental Writing Workshop (SWW) Program at SUNY
New Paltz.
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13. Additional Resources
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Introduction to Lumen Circles: Video
Apply for a Lumen Circles Fellowship (Fall 2021)
SUNY Faculty Perspective - Being a Lumen Circle Fellow: Video
SUNY Faculty Panelists (2/25/21)
SUNY Center for Professional Development
SUNY OER Services