CCT Network
- organizing, in a sustainable fashion, personal & professional development, community building, and educational-innovation activities beyond the formal CCT program of studies.
- supplementing students' education through the involvement of alums.
- continuing alums' education by their involvement in the education of students and each other.
Recipient of 2009 Beacon Students Leadership Award for Best Program run by a Student Group at UMass Boston
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Contents:
Events Ahead,
Past Activities,
Rationale,
Organization,
Possible Additions
Current Semester Schedule
Spring 2020
Monday, February 24: Developing Inclusive Spaces for Creativity and Engaged Participation
Sunday, April 5: Taking Ourselves Seriously Across the CCT Community
Monday, May 4 and Thursday, May 7: Community Open House: Spring 2019 Presentations by Students (Capstone Synthesis Projects, Reflective Practice Projects)
Spring 2019
Sunday, May 5, Journeys: Changing Our Schools, Workplaces, and Lives. A conference-workshop to mark 40 years of the Graduate Program in Critical & Creative Thinking
Monday, May 6, 12:00-9:30pm ET: Community Open House: Spring 2019 Presentations by Students
Past activities
Spring 2020
Spring 2019
- Sunday, May 5, Journeys: Changing Our Schools, Workplaces, and Lives. A conference-workshop to mark 40 years of the Graduate Program in Critical & Creative Thinking
- Monday, May 6, 12:00-9:30pm ET: Community Open House: Spring 2019 Presentations by Students
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
Spring 2017
Dialogue Series: Reflective Practice in a Changing World
Fall 2016
Dialogue Series: Reflective Practice in a Changing World
Spring 2016
- Monday, February 8, CCT Community Event: Developing as Reflective Practitioners
- Monday, March 7, CCT Community Event: The Teaching of Critical and Creative Thinking
- Monday, April 4, CCT Community Event: Critical and Creative Thinking, East Meets West
- Monday, May 2 and Tuesday, May 3 (on campus), CCT Community Event: Presentations by Students Completing Synthesis and Reflective Practice projects
Fall 2015
Spring 2015:
- Monday, February 2 (online), CCT Community Event: Connecting and Reflecting with CCT
- Monday, March 2 (online), CCT Community Event: Clearness and Questions: An Indirect Approach to Promoting Critical Thinking
- Monday, April 6 (on campus), CCT Community Event: Our Lives and Other Worlds: Presentations by Graduates of the Critical and Creative Thinking Program
- Monday, May 4 and Tuesday, May 5 (on campus), CCT Community Event: Presentations by Students Completing Synthesis and Reflective Practice projects
2014:
- Monday, December 8 (at UMass Boston), From CCT to the Move Mode
- Monday, September 8 (online). CCT Student Online Gathering
- Monday, May 5 (on campus: CC 2545). Presentations by Students Completing Synthesis and Reflective Practice projects
- Monday, April 7 (on campus: CC 2540 and online). Conceptual change--an ongoing challenge to critical & creative thinkers--and to their teachers: A dialogue on the occasion of Carol Smith's imminent retirement
- Monday, March 3 (on campus: CC 2550B). Our Lives and Other Worlds: Presentations by CCT Graduates on work beyond the program
- Monday, February 3 (online). CCT Spring Semester All-student Online Orientation
2013:
- Tuesday, December 3, 4.15-7, Presentations by Students from Creativity, Synthesis and Reflective Practice Courses
- Monday, November 4, Teaching and Learning in the Key of CCT
- Monday, October 7, Our Lives and Other Worlds: Presentations by CCT Graduates on work beyond the program
- Monday, September 9, CCT Fall Semester All-student Meeting
- Monday, May 6, Synthesis Presentations of Graduating Students and Reflective Practice students
- Monday, April 1, Teaching in the Key of CCT: Teaching for and with critical and creative thinking and reflective practice at the graduate level
- Monday, March 4, Our Lives and Other Worlds (presentations by alums, connecting critical and creative thinking to work beyond the program)
- Monday, February 4, Exploring Reflective Practice through Dialogue (CC 3540)
2012
- Monday, December 3, Synthesis Presentations of Graduating Students
- Monday, November 5, Teaching in the Key of CCT
- Monday, October 1, Alum Presentations on Work Beyond CCT: "Serving Communities and Customers in Challenging Economic Times"
- Monday, September 10: Launch Event for CCT Joining University College
- Tuesday, May 1: Synthesis Presentations of Graduating Students
- Monday, Apr. 30: Synthesis Presentations of Graduating Students
- Monday, Apr. 2: Networks of Support
- Monday, Mar. 5: Taking Yourself Seriously
- Monday, Feb. 6: CCT Open House and Spring Orientation
2011
2010
- Monday, Dec. 6: Fall Presentations by Synthesis and Reflective Practice students
- Monday, Nov. 1: Storytelling and the Personal Journey
- Monday, Oct. 4: Thinking Through Science in a Changing World
- Monday, Sep. 13: Fall Orientation and Presentation by alum Ashok Panikkar: Conflict Resolution in a Multi-national Consulting Firm
- Wednesday, May 19: Nina Greenwald and Critical & Creative Thinking: 25 Years and More
- Monday, May 10: Spring Synthesis and Reflective Practice Presentations
- Monday, Apr. 5: CCT Deep Exploration and Dialogue: "Changing Direction with CCT: Finding Our True Path"
- Monday, Mar. 1: Our Lives and Other Worlds: CCT Alum presentations
- Monday, Feb. 1: Reflecting and Connecting for Lifelong Learning
2009
- Thursday, Dec. 3rd: Synthesis presentations, 4-6.30, & Reflective Practice presentations + year-end reflective activity, 6.30-9. Sci 4-64.
- Monday, Nov. 9th: "CCT Deep Exploration/Dialogue: Creativity in Families" (family structure/relationships and influences on CCT)
- Thursday, Oct. 8th: alum presentations: Our Lives and Other Worlds ("workplace innovation, leadership, and organizational evelopment")
- Thursday, Sept. 10th: "Reflecting and Connecting for Lifelong Learning" (orientation)
- Thursday, May 28, working session on initiating Reflective Practice/Metacognitive Portfolios
- These portfolios allow students to make links among your courses and the reflection/metacognition on CCT experience can enter/infuse your capstone synthesis project; see http://cctrpp.wikispaces.com/ for more details.
- April 27 & May 4, Synthesis presentations by graduating CCT students
- March 23, Panel Discussion: "How College Students Find Their Voices as Writers: Exploring What it Means to Teach and Learn Writing" with Peter Elbow as special guest, author of Writing with Power and several other works on writing.
- February 27, "Our Lives and Other Worlds III: Music, Performances, and Reflections from Graduates of the Critical & Creative Thinking Program"
- January 23, "Reflecting and Connecting for Lifelong Learning--and Teaching (an introduction to the full range of CCT instructors)"
2008
- December 15, Looking Out For Each Other: Thinking Our Way Through an Economic Funk -- reading aloud and end-of-year potluck.
- November 19, "Re-membering (with) Michael White: Two CCTer's acknowledge Michael's influence in an introduction to narrative work in our lives and communities," led by Laura Rancatore and Peter Taylor.
- November 6, The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Community Relations showcases the work of CCT graduates (as well as including presentations by current students & faculty).
- October, Weds 1st. "Our Lives and Other Worlds II: Visual Images and Reflections from Graduates of the Critical & Creative Thinking Program"
- September, Friday 5th. CCT Community event: Reflecting and Connecting for Lifelong Learning (including introduction to the new social network site ("ning") and New student orientation and introduction to compiling a "metacognitive and reflective practice portfolio.")
- June, Tuesday 10 Dialogue session by conference call (internet enhanced) on "Critical & Creative Thinking in Practice: Where have we come and what lies ahead?" Led by Jeremy Szteiter (with pre-session guidance from Olen Gunnlaugson). technical details for participants, session recording
- May, Weds. 7 &14, CCT in Practice: Graduating students' synthesis presentations
- April, Weds 16th, "Artful Thinking: Using the Power of Art to Teach Thinking Across Curriculum," featured CCT alum & Project Zero principal researcher, Shari Tishman (organized by Greenwald & Martin) (evaluation of the event)
- March, Monday 31
- Not a CCT Network event, but CCT Open House, Mon. 31st, 6.45-8.30pm, THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY BIO-LAB CONTROVERSY, An invigorating discussion with one of last semester's problem-based learning (PBL) teams (audio file linked to the report on the event)
- February, Tuesday 26
- "Our Lives and Other Worlds: Writing, Stories, and Reflections from Graduates of the Critical & Creative Thinking Program"
- Includes links to the (imperfect) sound track of this wonderful, inspiring evening*
- January, Friday 25. Session at the Teaching for Transformation conference on the impact of Processes of Research & Engagement course; CCT Community event (based around a "Bingo" activity to introduce everyone to the range of resources available on the CCT website and wiki); Organizing Group initial dialogue session.
Rationale
1. The CCT Network serves to organize in a sustainable fashion personal & professional development, community building, and educational-innovation activities beyond the formal program of studies.
2. The CCT Network enacts the "bongo" [*] philosophy of students' education being supplemented by the involvement of alums and alums' education being continued by their involvement in the education of students. In this spirit the Network stimulates alum involvement as advisors of students, contacts for professional networking, participants in events, and organizers to make the Network self-perpetuating.
- *Source for bongo philosophy: Paul Jablon, Lesley University.
Basic Organization
(updated May 08, after CCT faculty review; updated May 18 to reflect changes in technology, people, etc.)
Core Organizers
Program Director (Peter Taylor), Assistant Program Director (Jeremy Szteiter),and 2-3 other volunteers drawn from the wider CCT community (= current students, regular faculty members, part-time faculty members, alums, and other allies/associates of CCT).
The core group
- * makes sure that monthly activities (Sept-June) are organized, publicized, and reviewed afterwards;
- * nurtures any interest expressed by attendees in leading an activity sometime in the future and supports the person in making this happen;
- * brings into the core organizing group any regular attendees who are ready to make a commitment to serve in the group;
- * makes the google+ community an active site for sharing of news and activities from alums and other members of the CCT community; and
- * solicits feedback and ideas for activities from other members of the CCT community.
In time, the core group may extend its work so that it also
- * trains members of the CCT community to host interviews or recorded sessions that are readily available to listen to as podcasts;
- * coaches alum outreach in their local and professional communities in order to:
- develop CCT as one model of adult/ mid-career education, and
- publicize CCT so as to attract potential students;
- * draws active attendees into informal advisory group meetings to help keep the CCT faculty abreast of new developments and connected to the activities of the Network.
As support for the network activities, the Program will endeavor to
- * keep the CCT Directory up to date and available to members of the CCT Community.