Teaching and learning takes all of us.
Better student experiences begin with a conversation.
What are you noticing at Lane? Where do students encounter barriers? What could we learn by bringing people together?
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) welcomes students, faculty, staff, administrators, departments, and programs. Bring an experience, a question, an unfinished idea, or simply your curiosity.
No proposal or ready-made solution needed.
Start a conversation with Kevin
On this page: Our approach · What’s Getting in the Way?
From conversation to possibilities
We draw on Stanford d.school’s design-thinking framework to guide collaborative inquiry. CTL’s approach emphasizes listening, understanding barriers, and exploring possibilities with campus partners. We can return to earlier questions as we learn.
1. Empathize
Listen and understand
Open conversations make room for people to share their experiences, especially students and those closest to a challenge. CTL helps create space to listen, ask questions, and build relationships.
What are people experiencing?
2. Define
Understand what’s getting in the way
Together, we look for patterns, examine assumptions, and describe barriers affecting teaching, learning, or the student experience. We work toward a shared understanding before deciding how to respond.
What challenge should we explore together?
3. Ideate
Explore possibilities with campus partners
We connect relevant people, perspectives, and expertise to brainstorm possible approaches. Different experiences help us consider options and ask better questions.
What might we try, and who could help?
4. Catalyze next steps
Connect inquiry to possible action
CTL helps participants identify a practical next step and who is positioned to carry it forward. This might be another conversation, a partner connection, or a small exploration led by a department or program.
What is a useful next step?
How we adapt the framework: Stanford’s approach also includes prototyping and testing. CTL helps connect participants with campus partners who may carry those stages forward. Decisions and implementation remain with the appropriate partners; CTL involvement depends on fit, available time, and resources.
A neutral space for inquiry. AI and other technologies may be part of a conversation when relevant. CTL does not advocate for a particular tool or predetermined solution. Our focus is relationships, learning, and the student experience.
What’s Getting in the Way?
A proposed CTL conversation series
Bring a question about the student experience. We’ll begin by listening: What are people experiencing? Where are the barriers? Whose perspective are we missing?
Departments, programs, and other campus groups are invited to help shape the series. Dates and formats have not yet been set.
Questions we could explore
- Where do college processes become confusing?
- How do students find and connect with support?
- What helps students feel a sense of belonging?
- Where could connections between programs and services improve?
These are starting points. The people participating would help shape the questions.
Let’s explore what we could do together
You don’t need to organize an event or commit to a project. A simple conversation with Kevin is enough to begin exploring how collaboration might support your work and the overall student experience at LCC.
Email Kevin Steeves, CTL Coordinator
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