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Flexible Teaching For Student Success: A Three-Tiered Initiative To Prepare Faculty For Flexible Teaching, Devshikha Bose, Lisa Berry, Rob Nyland, Anthony Saba, Teresa Focarile

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought some unique challenges for the academic community. To counter the disruption caused by campus closure, faculty who taught in-person, blended, and hybrid courses needed to be prepared to pivot to remote instruction. This article describes the design and evaluation results of a three-tiered professional development initiative that focused on preparing faculty to teach with flexibility, whatever may be the necessary teaching environment. This design may serve as a model for professional developers building similar programs for faculty. The authors also share a resource—a Flexible Learning and Instruction Plan (FLIP).