Consulting

Consulting

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It is a great pleasure to be available for one-on-one coaching, keynotes, and workshops.

For all speaking engagements, please contact Jamie Brickhouse at redBrick Agency.

If you’re an individual looking for one-on-one pedagogical coaching, please email me directly.

Need help with thinking through teaching philosophies? Designing courses, assignments, and assessments?  Creating dynamic experiences for your students?  I work collaboratively with faculty, staff, and graduate students around the world to help them rethink, reframe, and re-energize their course offerings.  I’m experienced in working with brand-new educators and seasoned teachers alike, and offer a collaborative approach to thinking critically about pedagogical highs and lows.

I have convened both general and history-specific workshops for faculty and staff at dozens of colleges and universities in the United States, as well as Monash University in Australia, and the University of Nottingham and Kings College, London, in the United Kingdom.

I’ve presented on pedagogy at the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians’ annual meeting, and the Illinois History and Social Science Teachers’ Conference.  I was a historical and pedagogical consultant for Bringing History Home, an Iowa-based, ten-year professional development program for K-12 teachers, and for Iowa Native Spaces, a public humanities project headed by Professor Jacki Rand, then at the University of Iowa (now Associate Vice-Chancellor for Native Affairs at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).  I’ve also been proud to write content for the 11th grade social studies curriculum for the New York City Department of Education.

Kind words about my work:

“Cate helped me re-evaluate and redesign my introductory course. We had begun the process before the pandemic, but her assistance, expertise, and support have proved essential in ways we never could have anticipated in January of 2020. Cate is exceptionally honest, responsive, and intuitive: she guided this process but always with my objectives and particular circumstances in mind, and she expertly improvised as demanded by ever-changing external conditions. She provided ample and always personalized resources, and I know that I will return to these in future iterations of the course.  I begin this semester excited to teach an entirely redesigned, student-centered course, fully confident that I can handle those bumps in the road that are sure to arise, particularly in this very uncertain Fall 2020 semester. Asking Cate to work with me this year has been one of the best pedagogical decisions I’ve ever made. I’m an experienced and accomplished educator, but I still have much to learn, and I’m glad to have learned so much from Cate.”

Associate Professor Jennifer Foray, Purdue University

“Dr. Cate Denial was the Fall 2023 keynote speaker for our Kindness Initiative, a year of programming inspired by hearing her talk at the AAC&U conference on General Education and Assessment. I reached out to Cate about visiting our campus, and she responded enthusiastically. During the planning phase, she was very communicative and flexible. When on campus a week before classes started, she delivered a talk, facilitated a syllabus workshop, and met with several constituency groups. She was a pleasure to host and a very effective and unflappable speaker and workshop leader. One participant commented on a feedback form, “The energy and engagement during the afternoon workshop were remarkable and brought a renewed vibrancy to [our campus] that has been absent for quite a while.” Our investment in Cate’s visit was well worth it, and we hope to have her back.”

Vice-Provost Lauren Ingraham, The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.

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