Join the 2025–26 series!
Community colleges nationwide recognize that evidence-based pedagogies and student supports are key to advancing equity, student success, and career preparation. High-impact professional learning engages front-line educators in efforts to scale such equity-focused change.
ATD’s Strengthening Teaching and Learning Seminar Series is designed to help colleges strengthen their ability to engage educators and build student success. Tailored for cross-sectional teams, this interactive series empowers you to apply a comprehensive framework for high-impact professional learning to your own campus needs and goals.
Program Goals
Explore evidence-based practices that build student learning and success in a wide range of disciplines
Evaluate your campus professional development needs, assets, and improvement goals
Use ATD’s Teaching & Learning Toolkit and other resources to understand research-based principles of good practice and design more effective, high-impact professional learning programs for your campus
Learn new models for institutional structures and policies that support professional learning and educational development and identify locally appropriate strategies for related campus change
Actively learn from and with faculty and professional development leaders from ATD campuses nationwide in a supportive community of practice
Prepare to offer and support high-impact professional learning programs that engage full- and part-time faculty, as well as staff educators, and strengthen learning, teaching, and student support processes
Develop organizational development plans linking short-term actions with strategic capacity-building and institutional change
Program Features
The program will integrate multiple components to help teams effectively address campus and program goals:
Eight virtual seminars from September 2025 to April 2026
Participating college team members will review and discuss the Teaching & Learning Toolkit
Successful veterans of prior seminars will visit to share strategies and experiences, helping teams envision productive responses to campus realities.
College teams will identify steps their campus can take to build enduring capacity for change.
CAOs will partner with their teams to ensure alignment with strategic goals and gather in a CAOs Summit, sharing strategies and building national leadership.
Six hours of tailored virtual coaching, designed to help teams generate effective and actionable plans for change.
ATD will accommodate as many interested colleges as possible. If there are more interested campuses than available slots for participation, ATD will select participants based on application materials as a demonstration of the institution’s readiness to participate effectively and use the program to advance educational change.
For more information, see the FAQ document here.
With any additional questions including information about cost, please contact the Teaching and Learning team at teachingandlearning@achievingthedream.org.
Instructions: Download the ATD Strengthening Teaching and Learning Seminar Series Application. Collaborate and collect responses to enter here to the portal, including uploading the letter of support from your president or CAO.
Strengthening Teaching and Learning Seminar
Join the 2025–26 series!
Community colleges nationwide recognize that evidence-based pedagogies and student supports are key to advancing equity, student success, and career preparation. High-impact professional learning engages front-line educators in efforts to scale such equity-focused change.
ATD’s Strengthening Teaching and Learning Seminar Series is designed to help colleges strengthen their ability to engage educators and build student success. Tailored for cross-sectional teams, this interactive series empowers you to apply a comprehensive framework for high-impact professional learning to your own campus needs and goals.
Program Goals
Explore evidence-based practices that build student learning and success in a wide range of disciplines
Evaluate your campus professional development needs, assets, and improvement goals
Use ATD’s Teaching & Learning Toolkit and other resources to understand research-based principles of good practice and design more effective, high-impact professional learning programs for your campus
Learn new models for institutional structures and policies that support professional learning and educational development and identify locally appropriate strategies for related campus change
Actively learn from and with faculty and professional development leaders from ATD campuses nationwide in a supportive community of practice
Prepare to offer and support high-impact professional learning programs that engage full- and part-time faculty, as well as staff educators, and strengthen learning, teaching, and student support processes
Develop organizational development plans linking short-term actions with strategic capacity-building and institutional change
Program Features
The program will integrate multiple components to help teams effectively address campus and program goals:
Eight virtual seminars from September 2025 to April 2026
Participating college team members will review and discuss the Teaching & Learning Toolkit
Successful veterans of prior seminars will visit to share strategies and experiences, helping teams envision productive responses to campus realities.
College teams will identify steps their campus can take to build enduring capacity for change.
CAOs will partner with their teams to ensure alignment with strategic goals and gather in a CAOs Summit, sharing strategies and building national leadership.
Six hours of tailored virtual coaching, designed to help teams generate effective and actionable plans for change.
ATD will accommodate as many interested colleges as possible. If there are more interested campuses than available slots for participation, ATD will select participants based on application materials as a demonstration of the institution’s readiness to participate effectively and use the program to advance educational change.
For more information, see the FAQ document here.
With any additional questions including information about cost, please contact the Teaching and Learning team at teachingandlearning@achievingthedream.org.
Instructions: Download the ATD Strengthening Teaching and Learning Seminar Series Application. Collaborate and collect responses to enter here to the portal, including uploading the letter of support from your president or CAO.