How this is organized

The fellowship’s four categories and eleven practices

The E3 fellowship at the University at Albany groups its work into four categories holding eleven practices. This site keeps that structure and that order rather than reorganizing it.

The four categories

Authenticity and building trust is about being explicit and transparent: saying what the course is for, saying that difficulty is normal, and saying which parts of the field are unsettled.

Evidence and growth is about knowing where students are and where they can go: how feedback is framed, and how you find out what landed before the exam tells you.

Value and pragmatism is about connecting course content to student development: active learning, group work, and how a session is broken up.

Sustainability and flexibility is about recognizing the whole student: whose examples appear, what the policies allow, and where pressure sits.

A fifth group, course design, holds the summer workshop material on backward design, learning goals, scoping, semester mapping, and transparent assignments. None of the eleven practices names any of it, and most of them depend on it. It has no practice code, which is why those pages carry a gray label rather than a colored one.

The A1 to S3 codes are a convenience for referring to the practices in a fixed order. The fellowship lists them in this order but does not letter them.

What each page contains

The practice as the fellowship framed it, then how to run it, then wording you can paste, then how it is being built into EPI 601, then what the research behind it actually supports.

The color on a practice code tells you which category it belongs to and nothing else. It is not a rating.