Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT)
Teaching Minds, Touching Hearts
“You can perform miracles by touching the hearts of those entrusted to your care.”
– Saint John Baptiste de La Salle, Meditation 180.3
Mission and Vision
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching promotes academic excellence by awakening, nurturing, and empowering the university community to be effective, transformative, and holistic educators who ensure quality student learning across all academic offerings at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.
Values and Outcomes
CELT is animated by the deeply held Saint Mary’s value that education has the capability to transform lives, evangelize, and be the conduit for one’s vocation/calling in life.
Saint Mary’s community members who participate in development opportunities organized by CELT will be able to:
- Promote human flourishing and dignity through integrating character education, virtue formation, and mature technology-adoption within their classrooms, units, and programs
- Apply the practical wisdom of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Lasallian charism that proceeds from it to pressing concerns for higher education and our shared communities
- Embrace and develop innovative educational practices following emerging scholarship of teaching and learning
- Create whole-person learning environments in which students can develop and reach formation goals in the context of their unique vocations
- Confidently respond to different learning and leadership contexts with their own educational artistry informed by innovative and effective educational practices
Upcoming Events
All events are free and are designed to bring faculty and staff across campuses together to grow in community as Lasallian educators.
Announcing the AI Commons
An Invitation to Foster Human Dignity in the Age of AI
The Saint Mary’s community is invited to adopt and apply guidelines for prioritizing Human Dignity, fostering Ethics Driven Character Education, and promoting Individual and Societal Human Flourishing as we work together to respond with practical wisdom to the adoption of AI. Through these collective efforts, Saint Mary’s University will create an environment that supports responsible innovation, strengthens ethical decision-making, and reinforces its commitment to the well-being of the community.
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Teaching Innovation
We support faculty in developing innovative, relationship-rich Lasallian teaching practices.
Instructional Technology
InTech helps you make excellent use of technology in service of teaching and learning
FLGs
Our Faculty Learning Groups are groups of Saint Mary’s people exploring topics in teaching and learning.
Teaching Support
We offer coaching, collaboration, and consultations on course design, instruction and environment issues, assessment, and can even observe your course (online or face-to-face).
Trainings and Workshops
We offer trainings and workshops in technology, course design, and new developments in teaching and learning.
CELT Initiatives
Empowering Ethical Leaders
Following the university’s distinctive Lasallian charism, which views education as an expression of Christian humanism that is fundamentally transformational, evangelical, and focused on the dignity of the poor, CELT supports the university’s mission to promote human flourishing through forming ethical leaders through various partnerships.
Effective and Excellent Education
CELT informs and supports the “educational artistry” of faculty through programming and training opportunities steeped in innovative and effective practices in course design, community building, technology integration, and relational teaching across modalities.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
So that faculty may be energized to apply research to their own teaching and develop their own SoTL projects, CELT offers research-sharing discussions, facilitates connections with journals and conferences, and provides material support for attending the annual Grading Conference.
Events, Webinars, and Workshops
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Our Mission
Enriched by the Lasallian Catholic heritage, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.