Higher Education
Kallion provides time, resources, and encouragement to humanities educators who want to realize their potential as leadership trainers–and as agents of leadership in their own right.
Our signature program is the Study-to-Practice Faculty Development Workshop, a multi-day event in which humanities educators and Kallion facilitators come together to revise their teaching practices and lesson plans and infuse them with leadership development. Depending on the needs of the individual faculty members, Kallion facilitators can help with any of the following challenges of leadership
development through the humanities:
- Explaining to students, administrators, and fellow faculty how the study of the humanities can inform leadership development
- Helping students make connections between the work they do in a humanities course and the leadership they are already showing or plan to show later in life
- Integrating leadership development assignments into an existing course
- Identifying humanities works that are particularly effective for leadership appreciation and development
- Developing a course from scratch that has leadership development at its core
- Preparing students to do leadership development through the humanities after their course is completed, both with social and professional peers
- Program length and modality can be customized to each institution, though we recommend at least a 1-day in-person kickoff session.
Students share their insights about leadership development with faculty participants at the Study-to-Practice workshop at Duke University (2023).
Kallion also offers Individual Curriculum Consultations, in order to provide humanities educators with focused feedback from an experienced Kallion facilitator on their teaching materials, including syllabi, assignments and activities, and program curricula. These sessions offer a deeper level of feedback and support, a private space to experiment with new ideas, the perspective of someone outside one’s home institution or discipline, and flexible scheduling.
Kallion shares free Teaching Resources for anyone who wants to see examples of what humanities teaching as leadership training can look like in practice, learn more about the outcomes of this
teaching model for students, or to integrate new content into their own courses.
- Open Access Courses
- Beyond the Boundaries of Fantasia: An Ancient Imagining of the Future of Leadership
- American Pi: Ancient Leadership in the Era of Donald Trump
- Developing Democratic Leadership in Jamie Raskin’s Unthinkable
- Notes from the Classroom
- “Developing Democratic Leadership with Congressman Jamie Raskin’s Unthinkable”
- Leading Thinkers podcast episodes
- Virtual Pedagogy Conference: Teaching Leaders and Leadership Through Classics
(2017)
To learn more about bringing Kallion programs to your college or university, connect with us
here.