About Us

Pedagogical Support

Lee Warren
Director of Professional Pedagogy
617-496-6255
lee_warren@harvard.edu

Lee Warren is Director of Professional Pedagogy at Harvard Kennedy School and Associate Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning at Harvard University.  Providing teaching support to faculty, she offers HKS faculty one-on-one and group training in case teaching, course design, classroom management, and other pedagogical skills.   She leads workshops and seminars, and makes videotapes for training sessions.   Her particular interests center around leadership, classroom diversity, and case teaching.

Lee has taught in Leadership Executive Programs at the Kennedy School for the past ten years.  She has done consulting work for over a hundred colleges and universities other than Harvard, as well as for public and private organizations ranging from the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare and Mass General Hospital to John Hancock, Sun Systems, and Oxfam America.  Lee holds a BA from Wellesley, an MA from Michigan, and a Ph.D. from Stanford.

SLATE Faculty Committee

John D. Donahue
SLATE Faculty Chair & Co-chair: Curricular Materials
617-496-1323
jack_donahue@harvard.edu

Dan Levy
SLATE Faculty Co-chair: Teaching Capacities
617-496-4281
dan_levy@harvard.edu 

Richard Light
SLATE Faculty Co-chair: Assessment Tools
617-495-1183
richard_light@harvard.edu

Administrative & Case Program Support

Anne Drazen
Associate Dean, SLATE Initiative
617-496-8735
anne_drazen@harvard.edu

Rebecca Loose
Associate Director, SLATE Initiative
617-496-5448
rebecca_loose@harvard.edu

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Below is a listing of SLATE's services and program offerings.

Personal and confidential teaching support
Class visits, viewing taped classes, individual confidential consultation, reviewing student feedback, preparing syllabi, training in classroom skills, course management, course design, individual coaching and general discussions about teaching (Contact: Lee Warren)

Faculty teaching seminars
Monthly teaching workshops to share best practices in teaching at a professional school (Contact: Lee Warren)
     Collaborative Group Projects and Grading (3/9/09) 
     Making Lectures Interactive (3/30/09)
     The Value (or Not) of Student Evaluations (4/27/09) 

Take a colleague to lunch
Invite a faculty colleague to attend one of your classes, go out to lunch with him/her to talk about your class, and the Kennedy School picks up the check. (Contact: Anne Drazen)

Class and program assessments
Assess student learning within classes or program (Contact: Dick Light)

New faculty teaching workshop
Multiday orientation program on teaching and learning for new faculty (Contact: Lee Warren)

Case and curricular material development and access
Develop interdisciplinary teaching training, tools, experiences and materials that extend professional pedagogy into the curriculum, access to all HKS and HBS cases, faculty incentives for case development, case writing training and support for student-developed cases (Contact: Anne Drazen)

Mid-course evaluation support
Create online surveys and provide reports on student evaluations, review student feedback (Contact: Anne Drazen)

Disseminate and integrate key research on professional-school teaching and learning
Integrate lessons from HKS experience with the scholarly literature to frame guidelines for matching pedagogical approaches to subject matter, student audience, and teaching objectives