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Let’s talk!

I regularly give keynotes, presentations, and facilitate workshops about college teaching and learning. If you are interested in having me participate in your event, get in touch and let’s talk.

  • My highly interactive workshops offer practical, evidence-based tools for increasing student learning and empowering teaching self-efficacy. For faculty groups of any size from 5 to 50.

    • STIR (Stop, Think, Identify, and Repair) Strategies When Things Go Wrong in Teaching and Learning

    • Normalizing Setbacks, Struggles, and Snafus in Learning and Teaching

    • Scripts, Care, and the Art of the Apology: Some Strategies For When Things Go Wrong

    • Introduction to Using Un-Grading to Empower Authentic Student Learning

    • Alternatives to Timed Exams

    • Five Ways to Increase Inclusivity and Student Learning

    • Getting Useful Student Feedback on Your Teaching

    • Practicing Gratitude While Teaching in Troubled Times

    • Using Un-Essays to Increase Student Engagement and Inclusion

    I pay close attention to the myriad ways that employment status, campus culture, and identity—race, ethnicity, age, gender expression, socioeconomic class, sexual identity, and so on—shape teaching and learning. All of my workshops reflect this awareness and offer extensive opportunities for faculty brainstorming, discussion, and reflection.

  • If you are looking for a keynote speaker to discuss evidence-based teaching and learning techniques from the perspective of an intellectual pedagogy geek with 20+ years in the classroom—with absolutely NO jargon, humorless pontificating, or terminal pomposity—look no further.

    • Snafu Edu: Why Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom

    • Picture a Professor: Classroom Strategies for Counteracting Stereotypes about Faculty

    • Geeky Grading: Nerd Out about Assessment Strategies to Reduce Stress and Increase Learning

    In all my interactive talks, I explore how faculty can apply their intellectual prowess towards acquiring pedagogical content knowledge and how super-smart intellectuals, introverts, nerds, eggheads, and wonks teaching in academia can also “geek out” about pedagogy.

  • At its heart, scholarship of teaching and learning is people who care about teaching talking to other people who care about teaching, and helping each other learn. Faculty learning communities and reading groups are one of the best ways to do this. I love talking to other people about teaching and facilitating conversations for faculty and staff to offer each other encouragement, support, and food for thought. If your group has read one of my books, get in touch! I would be glad to do a virtual Q & A with your participants.

  • “Jessamyn Neuhaus offered our faculty members reassurance that they have what it takes to succeed in challenging times. Her approachable conversation style created a valuable sense of community, and our virtual attendees took away from the session not only concrete strategies and tools, but a growth mindset about teaching.”

    Susan E. Hrach, Faculty Center Director Columbus State University

  • “Jessamyn has everything you could want in a speaker and facilitator—kind, articulate, engaging, fun, thoughtful, and responsive. We need more gratitude in our lives, especially as stressed out faculty. Jessamyn knocked it out of the park. Jessamyn’s workshop on the power and importance of gratitude is still resonating on our campus.”

    Joseph Tranquillo, Teaching and Learning Center Director, Bucknell University

  • “Jessamyn’s intelligent and engaging keynote inspired our nerdy group of librarians to utilize their big brains and passion for library instruction. Participants were delighted to come away with specific strategies to better prepare for teaching effectively and helping students succeed.”

    Ashley Bean, Coordinator, Community of Oklahoma Instruction Librarians Teaching Workshop