BYTE

Branding Your Teaching Excellence

Too many educators feel stuck—overwhelmed by expectations and unsure how to advocate for their work. BYTE empowers teaching-focused professionals to turn their expertise into a compelling teaching brand. Our signature framework blends pedagogy, brand science, and career strategy to help you:

  • Clarify your teaching identity

  • Assemble powerful, evidence-based narratives

  • Navigate promotions, awards, and reviews with confidence

Whether you're an individual educator or an institution supporting your faculty, BYTE helps make teaching excellence visible—and professionally transformative.

What We Do

Series & Cohorts

From the first job to the final promotion, BYTE programming supports faculty across ranks.

BYTE Signature Series

Our three-part BYTE workshop series, as delivered to POD Network & faculty at Indiana University Bloomington, is rooted in our signature faculty development framework. We help educators craft persuasive professional documents that tell purposeful, evidence-driven stories about their teaching excellence.

Digital Creativity Cohorts

Our Adobe Campus and Canva Campus Cohorts empower faculty to use design tools to level up their digital creativity and communicate their brand across digital spaces.

BYTE for Current & Future Administrators

This series, designed for current or aspiring leaders, empowers administrators to support their faculty as they define their careers and pursue teaching excellence.

Custom Workshops

We tailor standalone workshops using the BYTE framework to meet the unique needs of your context & faculty.

BYTE partners with institutions to deliver impactful faculty development workshops rooted in our signature framework but adapted to their unique context. In addition to custom workshops delivered in consultation with the sponsoring institution, we offer individual workshops on:

  • Remediating Your Teaching Philosophy Statement

  • Digital Portfolios & Professional Websites

  • Telling the Story of Your Teaching Excellence on LinkedIn

  • Strategically Maximizing Faculty Use of Annual Reporting Systems

  • BYTE for Writing Program Administrators

  • Branding Your AI Strategy

Retreats

BYTE retreats spark collaborative reflection, creativity, and strategic planning.

We offer immersive, in-person half- or full-day experiences for programs and departments. Retreat topics include, but are not limited to:

Signature BYTE Retreat

A deep dive on the BYTE framework with time for hands-on portfolio building and peer feedback

Digital Creativity Retreat

Faculty explore digital tools like Adobe Express or Canva to produce and revise course and portfolio artifacts

Building a Culture of Scholarly Teachers

Spark department-wide reflection to collaboratively define and cultivate evidence-based teaching excellence.

Keynotes

We deliver inspirational, high-energy virtual and in-person talks fueled by the BYTE framework.

Schedule us to speak at your next faculty development event, retreat, or conference.

Keynote topics include, but are not limited to:

  • The Scholarly Teacher Mindset

  • Faculty as Storytellers

  • Branding as Educator Self-Advocacy & Empowerment

  • The Win-Win: Branded Teaching Drives Student Success

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