Find the complete information and application language here to download
Join the 2026–27 series!
ATD’s Strengthening Teaching and Learning Seminar Series is a collection of interactive virtual sessions that link teaching and learning teams from across the ATD Network to build a community of practice and develop comprehensive frameworks for high-impact professional learning at their institutions. With support from national professional development leaders, teams will support each other in a program that combines college-focused self-assessment and strategic planning with constructive cross-college community. Teams will come away with a deepened understanding of proven strategies, a cohesive college-focused Building Capacity Action Plan, and connection to a growing national network of support.
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
To help teams effectively address campus and program goals, the program will integrate multiple components:
- ATD staff, coaches, and subject matter experts will facilitate eight virtual seminars from September 2025 to April 2026, in which teams will consider new ideas, share plans and ideas, and help each other address goals and challenges.
- Participating college team members will review and discuss the Teaching & Learning Toolkit and associated resources to deepen their understanding of strategies to build a culture of teaching and learning excellence.
- Successful veterans of prior seminars will visit to share strategies and experiences, helping teams envision productive responses to campus realities.
- College teams will meet regularly outside of the seminar to apply these strategies and create a Building Capacity Action Plan, identifying the 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.
- Program leaders and ATD coaches will offer 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 application in to view offline here. Collaborate and collect responses to the application questions before entering them into the portal, and upload the letter of support from your president or CAO.
Strengthening Teaching and Learning Seminar Series
Find the complete information and application language here to download
Join the 2026–27 series!
ATD’s Strengthening Teaching and Learning Seminar Series is a collection of interactive virtual sessions that link teaching and learning teams from across the ATD Network to build a community of practice and develop comprehensive frameworks for high-impact professional learning at their institutions. With support from national professional development leaders, teams will support each other in a program that combines college-focused self-assessment and strategic planning with constructive cross-college community. Teams will come away with a deepened understanding of proven strategies, a cohesive college-focused Building Capacity Action Plan, and connection to a growing national network of support.
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
To help teams effectively address campus and program goals, the program will integrate multiple components:
- ATD staff, coaches, and subject matter experts will facilitate eight virtual seminars from September 2025 to April 2026, in which teams will consider new ideas, share plans and ideas, and help each other address goals and challenges.
- Participating college team members will review and discuss the Teaching & Learning Toolkit and associated resources to deepen their understanding of strategies to build a culture of teaching and learning excellence.
- Successful veterans of prior seminars will visit to share strategies and experiences, helping teams envision productive responses to campus realities.
- College teams will meet regularly outside of the seminar to apply these strategies and create a Building Capacity Action Plan, identifying the 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.
- Program leaders and ATD coaches will offer 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 application in to view offline here. Collaborate and collect responses to the application questions before entering them into the portal, and upload the letter of support from your president or CAO.