Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Community of Practice
The goal of our “Converting Your Teaching Into Scholarship” series is to create a community of practice at Jacobs around publishing teaching scholarship. In each session, we will focus on the different steps necessary to convert teaching activities into publishable scholarship.
Alan J. Lesse, MD, associate dean for medical curriculum, welcomes IMC516 students to class.
Finding Literature and Identifying Journals with Health Sciences Librarians (July 14, 2–3:30 p.m.)
You've identified your research topic, but how do you begin searching the literature to find out what's been done and provide context for your work? In this third session of the series, join health science librarians to learn about best practices around literature searching for educational scholarship. We'll also discover how to identify journals to publish in.
This session will be led by Jacobs School liaision librarians Nell Aronoff and Laurel Mueller.
Identifying Topics & Learning from a Panel of Jacobs Teaching Scholars (April 29, 2026)
In this session, participants will review standards of teaching scholarship to identify a potential teaching topic that they could publish. We will also be inspired by a panel of Jacobs faculty who have published on teaching topics.
- Melissa McCartney, PhD, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
- Jennifer Meka, PhD, Associate Dean for Medical Education and Director of the Medical Education and Educational Research Institute (MEERI)
- Alysia V. Kwiatkowski, DO, Assistant Dean for Medical Curriculum
- Stuart D. Inglis, PhD, Director of Human Anatomy Laboratories
Honing Your Research Questions with MEERI (June 11, 2:00-3:30pm)
Every good study starts with a question worth asking. In session two of our series, we will dig into Glassick's criteria for scholarly work and refine your ideas about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning into questions that can actually drive a study.
This session will be led by Jennifer Meka, PhD, Associate Dean for Medical Education and Director of the Medical Education and Educational Research Institute (MEERI), and Alysia Kwiatkowski, DO, Assistant Dean for Medical Curriculum and Director of Educator Development (MEERI).
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Bishop-Clark, Cathy and Beth Dietz-Uhler. Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Stylus Publishing, 2012.
Boyer, Ernest L. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Expanded Edition. Edited by Drew Moser, et. al. Jossey-Bass, 2015.
Chick, Nancy L., editor. SoTL in Action: Illuminating Critical Moments of Practice. Stylus Publishing, 2018.
Glassick, Charles E. “Boyer’s Expanded Definitions of Scholarship, the Standards for Assessing Scholarship, and the Elusiveness of the Scholarship of Teaching.” Academic Medicine, vol. 75, no. 9, Sept. 2000. pp. 877-880.
Questions about this page can be referred to Alice Villaseñor, PhD, faculty development programs lead (alicevil@buffalo.edu)