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Caroline Toscano is an instructional designer at Century College in White Bear Lake, Mn. She has decades of experience working in higher education, including at the University of Minnesota and Cornell University. She has a PhD in educational psychology and an MA in teaching English as a second language. Her academic areas of interest include trauma-informed educational practice, faculty professional development, student academic support, and DEI. Toscano is a Quality Matters Master Reviewer and a Quality Matters Course Review Manager. She is bilingual in Italian and English.
Last Updated: 3-17-2023

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  • From Research to Practice: An Instructor’s Guide for Implementing Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Higher Education
  • Applying Cultural Intelligence to Online Instruction to Maximize Student Success
    • Applying Cultural Intelligence to Online Instruction to Maximize Student Success

    • Applying Cultural Intelligence to Online Instruction to Maximize Student Success

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • Learn to use Cultural Intelligence (CQ) to effectively identify, address, and manage cultural differences in the online classroom to create a more inclusive learning environment that will benefit students and impact retention and success.
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  • How Can I Harness the Power of Story to Create Classroom Community?
    • How Can I Harness the Power of Story to Create Classroom Community?

    • How Can I Harness the Power of Story to Create Classroom Community?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • Sharing stories is a powerful tool for building connection in the classroom. Learn the connection between the power of stories and community while taking away three specific activities to create opportunity for storytelling in an academic classroom.
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  • Using an AI Chatbot: Programmed for Success
    • Using an AI Chatbot: Programmed for Success

    • Using an AI Chatbot: Programmed for Success

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • Learn how to use an AI chatbot to address critical issues of college enrollment and retention while gaining strategies for implementation and planning, assessment, and continuous improvement of a bot-supported program.
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  • Facing the Future: Educators Discuss Teaching in the Era of ChatGPT
  • From Research to Practice: Re-Energized–Focusing on Engagement to Promote Faculty Wellbeing
    • From Research to Practice: Re-Energized–Focusing on Engagement to Promote Faculty Wellbeing

    • From Research to Practice: Re-Energized–Focusing on Engagement to Promote Faculty Wellbeing

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • This Magna Online Seminar is presented by the creators of the Engagement Support Framework, a research-based framework for engaging faculty dealing with burnout which will guide you in not only better facilitating your faculty's ability to achieve student success, but also in shifting your organizational culture from glorifying burnout to celebrating wellbeing.
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  • What Are 7 Ways to Assess Students in an Ungraded Classroom?
    • What Are 7 Ways to Assess Students in an Ungraded Classroom?

    • What Are 7 Ways to Assess Students in an Ungraded Classroom?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • Gain seven assessment strategies to use in classrooms of any size and classes of any type that maintain the benefits of ungrading while effectively maintaining rigor and high academic standards.
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  • What Is Ungrading and How Can It Unleash Your Students’ Potential?
    • What Is Ungrading and How Can It Unleash Your Students’ Potential?

    • What Is Ungrading and How Can It Unleash Your Students’ Potential?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • Get practical tips for how ungrading can be brought to any classroom and how to get started while learning how ungrading takes the pressure away from high-stakes exams and instead creates a pathway for learning throughout the semester based on performance, feedback, and demonstrated growth.
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  • What Are 5 Ways H5P Tools Can Help Students Retain Course Content?
    • What Are 5 Ways H5P Tools Can Help Students Retain Course Content?

    • What Are 5 Ways H5P Tools Can Help Students Retain Course Content?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • If you are in need ideas to increase student engagement in your course, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates the value that H5P tools can provide, and examples of how to use them, to engage students in content and instructions in ways that improve comprehension and retention.
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  • What are 3 Calendar Hacks Faculty Can Use to Avoid Stress and Burnout?
  • How Can I Pace DEI Work to See Subtle Gains Now and Significant Gains in the Future?
  • How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?
    • How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?

    • How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • This 20-Minute Mentor delivers meaningful, teacher-tested activities for the first day of class, that can easily be integrated into any course, which maximize the interest, investment, and interaction for students for the rest of the semester.
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  • From Research to Practice: A Co-Mentoring Model for Women in Faculty Development Leadership
  • How Can I Create a Meaningful Service-Learning Project for my Online Class?
    • How Can I Create a Meaningful Service-Learning Project for my Online Class?

    • How Can I Create a Meaningful Service-Learning Project for my Online Class?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • Discover how to integrate meaningful communication skills with instruction and reflection to enrich the online student learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities through service learning.
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  • The Discussion Board and Beyond: How Can I Engage Students Online?
    • The Discussion Board and Beyond: How Can I Engage Students Online?

    • The Discussion Board and Beyond: How Can I Engage Students Online?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • This 20-Minute Mentor shows you how to overcome common challenges of online discussion boards while examining other options for engagement both by using the learning management system (LMS) and engaging students outside of the online classroom.
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  • How Can I Adapt 5 Popular Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) to the Online Classroom?
  • How Can I Structure Class Discussions to Maximize Student Engagement?
    • How Can I Structure Class Discussions to Maximize Student Engagement?

    • How Can I Structure Class Discussions to Maximize Student Engagement?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • For faculty who are looking to improve the quality of class discussions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides a three-step process for structuring discussions to increase participation and student engagement.
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  • What Interventions Help Students Master Deep Reading and Engage with Assignments?
    • What Interventions Help Students Master Deep Reading and Engage with Assignments?

    • What Interventions Help Students Master Deep Reading and Engage with Assignments?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • For faculty who have mixed- or low-level reading skills among students combined with course materials that are reading intensive, this 20-Minute Mentor details skills to implement that help strengthen student reading as well as instructional techniques to intervene before students lag behind.
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  • Transferable Training Skills
    • Transferable Training Skills

    • Transferable Training Skills

    • Price range: $39.00 through $299.00
    • For student affairs professionals looking to enhance the leadership skills of the students they work with, this Magna Online Seminar, presented and facilitated by Leadership Trainer, will help maximize engagement and develop leadership capacity in their students.
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  • Engaging Students with Reflective Dialogue
    • Engaging Students with Reflective Dialogue

    • Engaging Students with Reflective Dialogue

    • Price range: $39.00 through $299.00
    • For student affairs professionals looking to enhance the leadership skills of the students they work with, this Magna Online Seminar, presented and facilitated by Leadership Trainer, demonstrates how reflected dialogue can be effectively used to best engage students to create better learning and growth opportunities.
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  • Purposeful Training for Advisors
    • Purposeful Training for Advisors

    • Purposeful Training for Advisors

    • Price range: $39.00 through $299.00
    • For student affairs professionals looking to enhance the leadership skills of the students they work with, this Magna Online Seminar, presented and facilitated by Leadership Trainer, delivers development and training skills that can be immediately used in their campus advising and mentoring work.
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  • How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?
    • How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?

    • How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • For teachers whose students are struggling to keep up with course content, pace, and assignments, this 20-Minute Mentor provides effective strategies for engaging students, assessing progress and comprehension, and promoting a growth mindset.
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  • How Can You Become More Intentional About Culturally Responsive Teaching?
    • How Can You Become More Intentional About Culturally Responsive Teaching?

    • How Can You Become More Intentional About Culturally Responsive Teaching?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • For faculty desiring to improve student success by creating a more student-focused approach to teaching, this 20-Minute Mentor delivers strategies that address diversity through the adaptation of content, instruction, and materials of Culturally Responsive Teaching and its link to student success.
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  • How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?
    • How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?

    • How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • For faculty whose students are not applying feedback beyond a specific assignment, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how by creating a dialogue around feedback, students will learn not only what needs correcting in a specific assignment, but how to apply this learning to future assignment as well. Learn how to combine feedback with student engagement to create meaningful learning.
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