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Rosenkranz Awards for Pedagogical Advancement

The Rosenkranz Award for Pedagogical Advancement provided full-time Yale instructors with up to $10,000 in funding to implement significant teaching interventions and/or curricular innovations that are designed to improve learning by encouraging student engagement. Awardees had two years to spend their Rosenkranz Award funding and present the results of their implementation at a showcase at the end of this period.

Important Dates

  • The Rosenkranz Award for Pedagogical Advancement is no longer accepting applications and awarding recipients. The final awards were given in 2024, and the final Rosenkranz Award Showcase will be in the spring of 2026.
  • October 15: Applications open
  • October–December: Information sessions hosted by the Poorvu Center
  • December: Applicants invited to sign up for one-on-one consultations by emailing rosenkranz@yale.edu if they have components of their application that require support from the Poorvu Center (e.g. Yale Broadcast for a video component, CanvasPress, guidance on the assessment for their teaching intervention or curricular innovation, etc.)
  • January 15: Applications close
  • End of March: Applicants notified of their award status
  • Early May: Rosenkranz Award Showcase

How to Apply

Full-time Yale ladder and instructional faculty with a primary instructional appointment who will teach a course during the following academic year in which they are applying (e.g. if submitting an application in January 2024, then the course for which the applicant is applying should be taught during the 2024-2025 academic year). Funding must be spent while fulfilling an appointment at Yale.

Faculty may email their completed Rosenkranz Award application as a PDF to rosenkranz@yale.edu by January 15. They will be asked to provide information on the proposed project and an itemized budget/timeline for the funding request.

The selection committee will consist of faculty serving on the Poorvu Center Advisory Board and staff representatives from the Poorvu Center. This group consults with the Center for Language Study and the School of Medicine’s Teaching and Learning Center where collaborating expertise is helpful.

 

The selection committee will consider the following criteria:

  • Goals: What is a learning goal that has been a challenge to meet related to student engagement?  What is your proposed teaching intervention and/or curricular innovation to address this challenge and achieve this learning goal?   
  • Implementation: How will you implement your teaching intervention and/or curricular innovation? 
  • Student Impact: What is the expected depth (deepness of learning) and breadth (number of students in a course/program) of impact that your teaching intervention and/or curricular innovation will have on student learning?
  • Assessment: How will you assess the extent to which the teaching intervention and/or curricular innovation influenced student learning? Suggest measurable outcomes to collect during the project and/or at the end of the academic year.  
  • Longevity: What are the way(s) that the teaching intervention and/or curricular innovation will continue beyond the two years of the Rosenkranz Award funding?
  • Timeline/Budget: What is your timeline and budget for the proposed project over two years beginning with May of the year the award is funded and ending in May two years later when awardees will participate in the Rosenkranz Award Showcase?

Funding may support:

  • labor for undergraduate and graduate students
  • travel to collect data/resources
  • software or hardware designated in perpetuity to grant project
  • external contractors
  • dissemination activities such as conference presentations
  • costs associated with content creation such as the production of videos, podcasts or other media

Funding may not support:

  • continued website or software subscriptions (initial subscriptions for the two years of the award timeline are acceptable for no more than 25% of requested support funds–may be used as leverage to secure departmental/external funds)
  • purchase of computers, tablets, or other equipment that will be repurposed after project is complete
  • gift cards
  • salary support for instructor(s)

Some of the Previous Awardees

Kyle Dugdale: Modeling the History of Architecture

Dmitry Kozhevnikov: Managing Acute Decompensation in Life-Limiting Illness (MADLI)

Brett Smith, Pam Sargent, and Itziar Ochoa de Alaiza: Exploring Calculus with Stories

James Bonz: Just in Time (JiT) Education

Angela Lee-Smith: Multiliteracies Podcast at Yale (MPY)

Yonghee Cho: Fixing the Stitch: A Suturing Video Curriculum to Guide the Independent Learner

Ivano Dal Prete: The Earth of the Ancients through Digital Eyes

Christophe Schuwey: Les Caractères Digital Edition & Interfaces Lab

Marlyse Duguid, Mark Ashton, Damaris Chenoweth, Rosa Goldman, Laura Green, Jess Wikle, Karam Sheban, Adam Houston, Jenn Lawlor, and Sam Feibel

Ian Adelstein and Sudesh Kalyanswamy: Curriculum Development in the Calculus Sequence

Stan Mathis: A Clinical Tool for Organizing Environmental and Social Determinants of Health

Monica Bravo: Visual Culture of the National Parks

Erik Harms: Southeast Asian Neighborhoods 360

Kaveh Khoshnood, Stefan Uddenberg, and Dumingu Aparna Gomes: Using Interactive Life Simulations to Train Public Health Students to Respond to Violent Conflicts and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

Sara Schaefer and Jeremy Moeller: Interactive Video-Based Patient Encounter Simulations in Movement Disorders

Sarita Soares and Bryan Brown: Sugar-Coated Science

Stephen Stearns, Larry Bowman, Madelon Case, Eric Erkenbrack, Nikunj Goel, Daniel MacGuigan, Evlyn Pless, Maud Quinzin, Nathan Upham, and Anna Vinton: Training 21st Century Educators to Explain Science to the World

Edward Vytlacil and Nicholas RYan: Introduction to the Economic Analysis of Data

Ellice Wong, Christopher Tormey, and Alexa Siddon: A Multi-Disciplinary, Interactive, Digital Peripheral Smear Course for Medical Students and Beyond

Questions?

For questions about previous awardees or the Rosenkranz Award Showcase, please contact rosenkranz@yale.edu