Please note that Launch will not be offered in 2025 (return to this page for future offerings of this program). New faculty are welcome to register instead for one of our ‘Teaching at Brown for the First Time’ workshops on Tuesday, August 12, 10:00-11:30 am EDT (Zoom) or Wednesday, August 27, 11:30 am -1:00 pm EDT (in person and on Zoom). Please feel free to contact sheridan_center@brown.edu with questions.

In this fully online, asynchronous, self-paced program, Graduate Teaching Assistants aim to improve their students' learning and their own experiences as teachers through a reflective exploration of their own practices and beliefs about teaching.

Not sure what to do to create an inviting learning environment? Are you interested in learning more about how to work with students? Need ideas for working online? 

The Summer English Language Program (ELP) is a two-week pre-orientation program that aims to equip incoming international graduate students for whom English is not a primary language with the language skills to feel confident and successful in navigating their academic contexts.