Educational inequity remains one of the most persistent and intractable problems in our society, but instructors can play an active role in disrupting these inequities.

Join us for this TLL Speaker Series talk to learn about recent work demonstrating that opportunity gaps—differential performance between minoritized students (BIPOC students as well as low-income students) and over-represented students—were reduced by 75% in college STEM courses when instructors incorporated active learning strategies, but only when active learning was implemented in a majority of class time.

Guest Speaker

Elli Theobald, PhD

Elli Theobald is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. Prior to her current position, she worked as a middle school and high school teacher, completed her PhD in ecology, and transitioned to discipline-based education research as a postdoc. Currently, the heart of Theobald's research program revolves around how to be a better teacher, with particular emphasis on how to achieve equity in college-level STEM classes.