Fictional Classrooms: National Community of Practice (Fall 2025) – September 2025 Meeting

Fictional Classrooms: National Community of Practice (Fall 2025) – September 2025 Meeting

Date: Monday, September 22nd, 2025

Time: 3:30-4:30pm (AT) / 2:30-3:30pm (ET) / 11:30am-12:30pm (PT)

Sign up to join! (you may be prompted to log in to your Google account)

Fictional Classrooms National Community of Practice Description:  

Over the past three years, our very own Matthew Dunleavy (CTEI Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development) and his colleague, Robin Sutherland-Harris (York University), have facilitated the Fictional Classrooms community. The current iteration brings together educational/curriculum/faculty/instructional developers and instructors from across Canada and the US to explore and reflect on narratives of education in films, television, short stories, and novels. These works may speak to us as learners, educators, developers, researchers, artists, and/or simply as humans. 

For Fall 2025, the Fictional Classrooms community will be discussing: 

• Community S05E02 “Introduction to Teaching” (TV show) – September 22 

• “The Unknowable Pleasures” by Susie Yang (short story) – October 27 

• Legally Blonde (dir. Robert Luketic) (film) – November 24 

• And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott (novel) – December 15 

You can read about all these selections (and previous selections) in our what to read/watch list. 

To join the Fictional Classrooms Community for Summer 2025: 

Please sign up as follows:  

1. Visit https://groups.google.com/search?q=FictionalClassroomsED (you may be prompted to log in to your Google account)
2. On the right-hand side, click the small “Join” icon (next to the star) and ask to join group.
3. Matthew and Robin will approve your request within 2 working days, and you will then have access to the group, including their shared Google Folder and Calendar. 

Note from Matthew and Robin: We approach the Fictional Classrooms program with a “read-what-you-can” mentality. We understand that we can get busy and may not finish readings each month, but we encourage you to attend each session regardless of how much you have been able to engage with the text or film so we can still have fruitful conversations and build community.