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 Mullinix, Kevin <kmullinix@ku.edu> </span><b style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">Subject:</b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="elementToProof"> CTE

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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please note this call for proposals for CTE’s Ideas to Action program for departments (not individuals), and share the call with faculty in your department who may be interested in it.</span><br>

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<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Participating department teams will receive consultation from CTE; access to tools, dashboards, and reports; an opportunity to connect with colleagues across the University; and a $1500 fund (minimum) for

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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">For more information, please contact CTE’s director<span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#1F497D">Dea Follmer Greenhoot at<span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:agreenhoot@ku.edu" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="mailto:agreenhoot@ku.edu">agreenhoot@ku.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">,

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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 114, 196);"><b>CTE’s Ideas-to-Action Program: AY2022-23</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>

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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:black">Apply by October 21, 2022</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">CTE’s <b>Ideas-to-Action

</b>program helps academic units develop actionable plans for curricular improvements that promote equitable student growth, discovery, and success. Department teams will use institutional data to explore questions, challenges, and opportunities in their programs

 and develop a vision for course and curricular innovations. Our goal is to empower faculty teams to ask and address questions with institutional data to guide improvements in student learning and student success.

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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:#4472C4">2022-2023 Program Summary

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ideas to Action is a team endeavor. Departments will identify a team of faculty to develop questions about their curriculum or their students, explore evidence and opportunities related

 to their questions, and develop plans based on the results.  We are particularly interested in helping teams explore questions about equity, inclusion, and alignment with the current and future needs of students. The program will support exploration, ideation,

 and planning around those themes and more by providing access to data, tools, guidance, funding, and community. Department teams will have opportunities to explore questions with existing available evidence (e.g., patterns of student retention and progression,

 data on where in the curriculum students are getting stalled or leaving the program, student responses on the National Survey of Student Engagement/NSSE) and, as relevant, we will also help teams gather additional evidence and information to support further

 inquiry and problem-solving (e.g., patterns of student learning, student focus groups or surveys). 

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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:#4472C4">What Will You Do in Ideas-to-Action? 

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Department teams will:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:windowtext">Have one or more team members participate in three program meetings, scheduled for Friday November 11, Friday February 3, and Friday March 24 from 12-2pm (we’ll provide

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:windowtext">Mee</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">t on their own in between program meetings, to develop questions, discuss results, and

 envision next steps. </span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri Light", sans-serif;color:black;margin-left:0in">

<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Share their completed work with their department and the broader KU community.</span></li></ol>

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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:#4472C4">What Will Ideas-to-Action Do for You? 

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">To support your work, CTE will provide:

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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:#333333">Consultation, guidance, and support

</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:#333333">in defining high-impact inquiries; gathering and interpreting evidence (e.g., learning within courses, student learning analytics, evidence from the teaching and

 learning literature); and developing a vision for next steps.  </span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri Light", sans-serif;color:#333333;margin-left:0in">

<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Access to tools and dashboards and reports,

</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">and collaboration with data analysts in Analytics and Institutional Research, that enable use of student learning analytics (e.g., patterns of student flow through the curriculum,

 grade distributions or retention data disaggregated for student subgroups) to address inquiries.

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Opportunities to connect with

an intellectual community of colleagues from other departments who are working toward similar goals and solving similar problems.

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">A fund <b>

of at least $1500 </b>for the team (available funds may be higher depending on the number of applicants). The fund can be used for professional expenses/small stipends for team leaders and team members, to support student assistance on the project, or for food

 or supplies for department meetings/retreats). </span></li></ol>

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Any KU-Lawrence academic department is eligible to apply. Department teams should be composed of at least three faculty members who will play an active role in the activities, with demonstrated

 support of the department chair. “Faculty” include multi-term lecturers, teaching specialists, and professors of teaching who have an ongoing role in their departments.

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:black">Department teams are expected to send at least one team member to program meetings, and share their work (questions, results, and proposed next steps) in at least one department

 meeting and in a poster at CTE’s annual Celebration of Teaching held the afternoon of May 5, 2023.

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Interested departments should submit a brief application (1-2 pages) by 5 p.m. Friday, October 21 at the following link:

<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://cte.ku.edu/ctes-ideas-action-program" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">https://cte.ku.edu/ctes-ideas-action-program</a><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">.

 Applications should address the following:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:windowtext">Faculty team and leader.

<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:windowtext">Who will lead the team, and what other faculty members will participate? Why is this the right team for this work?

</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">How will you go about sharing your work with other department colleagues?</span></li><li class="x_MsoBodyText2" style="margin:0in;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri Light", sans-serif;color:windowtext">

<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:windowtext">Goals.

</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif; color:windowtext">What are your goals for participating? What sorts of questions are you interested in exploring and why? What types of actions might your team/department consider

 taking in response to the evidence you explore during Ideas-to-Action?</span></li><li class="x_MsoBodyText2" style="margin:0in;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri Light", sans-serif;color:black">

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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">How would the project connect with prior or current department efforts to support effective teaching and learning?</span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri Light", sans-serif;line-height:115%;text-autospace:ideograph-other">

<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Availability.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> Will at least one team member be able to attend the

 three working group meetings? Note that all members are welcome to attend. </span>

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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ideas-to-Action<span style="color:black"> projects should promote cooperative, integrated participation among faculty members. Preference will be given to departments that will have broad

 engagement by faculty and seek to explore questions with meaningful implications for the teaching and learning culture in the unit. We will notify departments of decisions by 11/1/22. Funds will be available in early December.

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