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Sarah Lovern, PhD, is a full professor of biology at Concordia University Wisconsin. She has a BS in biology from Truman State University in Missouri and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. After completing her dissertation entitled “Effects of Manufactured Nanoparticles on Daphnia magna,” Lovern completed a teaching post-doctoral at Augustana College in order to become a more effective instructor. She has taught physiology, oceanography, and other science courses at CUW for 13 years.
Last Updated: 02-22-2021

- How Can I Encourage Students to Stay Connected with Course Content After Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn techniques you can use to deepen student understanding of course material—after class is over—that you presented in the classroom. These techniques include creating reflection videos and cartoon making, among others.
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- What Brain-Based Techniques Can I Use to Engage Students During Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program demonstrates several techniques to engage student brains in learning. All can be incorporated into either a traditional 50-minute or a longer class period. Since each students brain is unique and may learn in different ways, the presenters offer specific techniques that help vary the learning experience during a typical classroom time frame.
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- How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program addresses how student misconceptions about course content can become barriers to learning and offers several techniques to help teachers facilitate the adoption of alternative viewpoints in their students.
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- How Can I Use Technology to Foster the Emotional Processing of Course Content?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- It is becoming more and more important to actively stimulate and engage the emotional responses of students to help them learn deeply and meaningfully. The intentional application of technology can capture an interaction with the content to develop students emotional responses to content which in turn, fosters deeper understanding and learning of important concepts and ideas.
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- What Behavioral Changes Can I Make to Inspire Enthusiasm in My Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Explore the phenomena of emotional contagion and affective crossover, both rooted in the emerging science of emotion, to develop techniques that enable faculty to inspire students, foster enthusiasm, and motivate learning.
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- How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Recent research shows that emotions have a strong impact on cognition. Instead of excluding emotion from the classroom, instructors would do well to acknowledge and take advantage of the impact emotions have on students ability to learn new material. Drawing on a proposed addition of Emotional Presence to the Community of Inquiry Framework, examine why and how emotions can increase learning and retention.
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- What Can I Do to Manage and Reduce Academic Job Stress?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Faculty will gain practical strategies for managing and reducing stress to maximize their impact in their position and obtain a better sense of wellbeing.
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- How Can I Resolve Difficult Situations in the Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this program, learn to recognize microaggressions and bullying in the online classroom and explore a strategy to effectively address these issues if and when they arise.
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- How Can I Create a Platform for Difficult Conversations in the Online Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this program, explore a simple framework to engage in a difficult conversation, apply the framework to scenarios that might come up in the online classroom, and gain strategies to have successful resolutions to difficult topics.
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- What 5 Play-based Activities Can I Use to Create an Active, Learning-centered Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This informative program brings to life college classroom-tested games that work to build student rapport, inject new life into lecture-heavy teaching, and increase success rates among students.
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- Beyond Syllabus Policies: What Strategies Help Students Take Responsibility for Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, discover best practices to follow in the classroom that will encourage students to become better learners and not engage in unproductive behaviors.
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- How Can I Plan (or Revise) My Courses More Efficiently?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Do you have a system or standard process for prepping a course you've taught before? Where do you start? Often, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. What most of us need is a strategic, instructionally sound set of steps to help guide our decision-making. This 20-Minute Mentor provides just that, a four-step model considering the big picture goals, major content areas, calendar implications, and assessments.
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- How Can Preparing to Teach Online Improve My Face-to-face Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, learn how the process of teaching online can improve your face-to-face teaching.
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- Is Coaching a Good Fit for My Faculty Development Program?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, you will identify next steps to implementing coaching, whether there is currently a mentoring program in place at your institution or not.
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- How Do I Move from Mentoring to Coaching in Faculty Development?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, learn three learning objectives that will help with your mentoring and coaching processes.
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- What Tools Can I Use to Ensure I Have Effective Coaching Conversations with Faculty?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, you will learn how to have effective coaching conversations with your faculty.
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- How Can I Most Effectively Fulfill My Citizenship Requirements?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, the goal is to help you think about ways you can be more effective in your citizenship responsibilities.
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- What are 10 Tips to Collaborate with Colleagues?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, the goal is to help consider ways to improve collaboration with colleagues. Faculty will explore how and where collaboration is appropriate, and how to get the most out of collaboration.
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- Why is Intercultural Competence Important and How Can it Improve my Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, participants learn to reflect on their own assumptions that they bring to the classroom, as well as strategies to overcome assumptions and foster a more culturally responsive approach to teaching.
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- What Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques Can I Use to Improve Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, faculty become more aware of cultural differences as well as the intersectionality of all different cultures represented in the classroom to engage with students on a deeper level.
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- What are 3 Keys to Teaching Intercultural Competence?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This 20-minute program is designed to teach participants three keys to intercultural competency so that students have a strong foundation of intercultural communication that extends far beyond the classroom.
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- What Strategies Can I Apply to Address Serious Online Faculty Performance Concerns?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn about focusing on individuals and context to personalize your efforts while maintaining consistent standards and expectations: what kinds of performance concerns are common to online teaching and why they need to be repaired, how to identify serious lapses in performance that may not appear on performance management reports, and how to work with challenging faculty.
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- How Can I Address Minor Online Faculty Performance Concerns with Coaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, the focus is on minor performance concerns that can be corrected through coaching. Learn how to differentiate between minor performance concerns that could benefit from coaching and those that require more formal performance management.
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- How Can I Build Community with My Online Faculty?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn to build community with online faculty as an essential component of performance management, effective ways to set the tone for both leading and managing online faculty, how to communicate clearly and consistently to keep faculty informed, and how to employ strategies for regular coaching outreach efforts to work with online faculty on a variety of teaching performance areas.
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