Leading with and through SoTL: How a SoTL mindset can transform institutions, our students, and ourselves
Dr. Sarah Bunnell is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and an Associate Professor of Psychology at Elon University. She is a past-president of the International Society of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and an ISSOTL Distinguished Service Award winner. Dr. Bunnell was recently selected as a Gardner Institute Russell Edgerton Innovation Fellow, which “recognizes distinctively innovative contributions to improving postsecondary education and student success.” A co-author of Being Human in STEM (2023, Routledge), which presents a model of pedagogical partnership as a pathway forward following student protest, she is passionate about building student-faculty-staff partnerships to enhance teaching, learning, and thriving across educational spaces. Her research merges her disciplinary training in developmental and cognitive psychology with her 20 years of work in faculty development and SoTL.
The world needs SoTL: Collective leadership for dynamic times
Dr. Joshua Hill is an assistant professor in the department of Education at Mount Royal University. Josh, his wife Melanie, and their four children live in Mohkinstsis near the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers. He is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta and his ancestors trace back to Métis and European communities. At the heart of his professorship is a commitment to ethical relationality. He strives to connect on a personal level with each student with the aim of contributing to their sense of belonging and wellbeing. As a teacher educator he is passionate about creating the conditions for teacher candidates to become the teachers they envision being. Through his scholarship, Josh invites teacher candidates, teacher educators, teachers, and educational leaders to partner with him to learn from Indigenous ways of being and (re)story education as a journey towards relationality, reciprocity, wellbeing, and sustainability. He is currently working on bringing land based learning to k-12 and post secondary education.