September 2 – 5, 2025
Fall Cohort: Week 1
Introduction and Overview
September 2 – 5, 2025
Data-Driven Instruction
for Student Success
Faculty Learning Community
Created as an online resource for faculty across the University of Hawai‘i System, the Data-Driven Instruction for Student Success Online Faculty Learning Community (FLC) includes easy-to-adopt ideas for shaping your courses to be more inclusive.
The six module course encourages a learning mindset rather than a deficit mindset, and ultimately aims to improve student success in courses without diminishing academic quality. It is designed as a six-week hybrid program that includes asynchronous learning modules and face-to-face meetings with faculty to discuss the questions emerging from the modules.
This six-part module provides data, ideas, and resources to enhance the learning environment for students who may otherwise be struggling. We hope that this set of modules will be used to ensure that all learners, regardless of background or circumstances, have multiple opportunities to succeed and provide all our students with the best possible learning environment on our campuses.
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FLC Course Framework
- Free to join
- Time to complete: Six weeks
- Faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants from all UH campuses are all eligible to join
- Work with a team of 5–6 diverse educators across the UH system
- Reflect on your teaching practices and exchange ideas/strategies at facilitated weekly meetings
- Those who complete the course in an FLC and meet the requirements are eligible to earn the Data-Driven Instruction for Student Success FLC course badge
- FLC members who earn the badge can serve to facilitate future cohorts and act as teaching mentors
- FLC members may qualify for compensation
What Do You Gain by Being Part of the FLC?
Build confidence in creating an inclusive classroom.
The modules include resources on inclusive teaching from the literature.
Deepen your understanding of student success gaps and discover techniques to close them.
The course will provide you with a data driven approach to determine if you are achieving success using DFW rates for your classes.
Walk away with a plan for revising your course syllabus with student success in mind.
The course is designed to offer easy and targeted changes at the course level to enhance student success that can be incorporated into any class.
Develop a network of like-minded faculty to support you.
Through face-to-face meetings, you will connect with fellow educators across the campus and have the opportunity to build a community that will go beyond the FLC timeline.
This FLC experience afforded us the opportunity to learn from and about colleagues from different disciplines across the campus. A big takeaway is that student success isn’t achieved or measured in only one way, rather there are many strategies and ways to connect with students that can have a meaningful impact. While I was initially hesitant to commit the time, it turned out to be a great professional learning experience.
Given that the data shows that our pedagogical approaches play a significant role in shaping inequities in the classroom, this course should be required training for all faculty.
FLC Fall 2025 Timeline
September 8 – 12, 2025
Fall Cohort: Week 2
Transforming Higher Education
September 8 – 12, 2025
September 15 – 19, 2025
Fall Cohort: Week 3
Inclusive Learning Spaces and How to Foster Them
September 15 – 19, 2025
September 22 – 26, 2025
Fall Cohort: Week 4
Evidence-based Strategies for Student Success
September 22 – 26, 2025
September 29 – October 3, 2025
Fall Cohort: Week 5
Centering Students
September 29 – October 3, 2025
October 6 – 10, 2025
Fall Cohort: Week 6
Exploring Our Own Class Data and Developing an Action Plan
October 6 – 10, 2025
October 24, 2025
Virtual Reflection Session 1
For All Cohort Members
October 24, 2025
November 7, 2025
Virtual Reflection Session 2
For All Cohort Members
November 7, 2025
November 21, 2025
Virtual Reflection Session 3
For All Cohort Members
November 21, 2025
December 5, 2025
Virtual Reflection Session 4
For All Cohort Members
December 5, 2025
Congratulations Spring 2025 Cohort Members
Micah Fisher
Frankie Hale
I sak Kim
Allison Tsuchida
Ron Vave
Jill Edelman
Rheta Kuwahara
Keahiahi Long
Caleb Reichhardt
Sakaria Auelua-Toomey
Andrew Cheng
Ruth Hsu
Aamir Abdullah
Jennifer Kelly
Raezheen Pascua
Akhilesh Tiwari
Facilitators
Stephanie Furuta
Jayson Parba
Launched in partnership with the Office of the Vice President for Academic Strategy (OVPAS) and supported by the Lumina Foundation, this FLC programming was developed for fostering student success-focused, data-informed instructional practices and to improve faculty engagement in teaching and learning with a growth-mindset across the University of Hawaii system. The OFDAS Center for Teaching Excellence will coordinate the FLC cohorts each semester at UH Mānoa. Faculty, instructors, and TAs across the UH system are welcome to request to be included in a cohort or can complete the course individually.
Data-Driven Instruction for Student Success FLC
Digital Badge
The Data-Driven Instruction for Student Success digital badge is an official UH Mānoa digital credential. It can be earned upon the successful completion of the FLC courses—details to be determined.
Credits
Faculty Development Support
Kathleen Kane, Director of Faculty Development, UH Mānoa OFDAS (retired)
Hazel Gedikli, Interim Director of Faculty Development, UH Mānoa OFDAS
Lamakū Design
Shamila Janakiraman, Assistant Professor, Learning Design & Technology, College of Education, UH Mānoa
Development and Beta Testers
Nate Brown, Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Bruno, Faculty Specialist at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP)
Stephanie Furuta, Curriculum & Instruction, UH Mānoa
Elizabeth Gross, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, UH Mānoa
Shamila Janakiraman, Assistant Professor, Learning Design & Technology, College of Education, UH Mānoa
Jayson Parba, Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator, Filipino Language and Culture Program, Indo-Pacific Languages & Literatures, UH Mānoa
John C. Robertson, Ph.D., Mathematics, UH Mānoa
Video Production
Michael Rohrbacher, Multimedia Developer, Technology & Distance Programs (TDP), College of Education, UH Mānoa
James Park, Web Developer, Technology & Distance Programs (TDP), College of Education, UH Mānoa
Data
Kara Plamann Wagoner, Director of Institutional Research and Planning Office, UH System
Jared Takazawa, Institutional Research and Planning Office, UH System
2022 FLC Pilot Cohort
Veny Liu, Assistant Professor of Math, UH West Oʻahu
Marc Bresler, Natural Sciences, Chemistry Lecturer, Windward Community College
Jason Kenji Higa, Assistant Professor & Medical School Course Director, University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine
Morgan Andaluz, Associate Professor of English, UH Maui College
Sharleen Nakamoto-Levine, American Studies/History Instructor, Honolulu Community College
Thomas Scheiding, Associate Professor of Economics, UH West Oʻahu
Kawēlau Wright, Associate Professor of Educational Administration, College of Education, UH Mānoa
Michael Oishi, Associate Professor, Literature, Leeward Community College
Julie Iezzi, Professor of Theatre, UH Mānoa
Joel A. Kaufmann, Instructor of Chemistry & Biology, UH Hilo
Carrie Mospens, Professor of English, Hawai‘i Community College