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The LEAPS Council and its membership work to promote and graduate leaders who will shape social justice, legal justice, and health care education.

Advancing Visionary Education

The initiative on education creates a great opportunity for educators ... along with the opportunity for UMB to become a presence in the professional education scholarly community.

UMB President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

Mission

The LEAPS Council and its membership work to promote and graduate leaders who will shape social justice, legal justice, and health care education.

LEAPS Council

Goals

  • Achieve educational excellence and value ​
  • Advance the careers of faculty and staff educators ​
  • Invigorate our culture to fully embrace the education mission
About LEAPS

LEAPS will achieve these goals by:

Developing an environment that inspires, recognizes, and rewards educational scholarship and innovation in all UMB schools, to stimulate the intellectual discourse needed to reimagine professional and graduate student education for the future.

Developing and making available resources, such as faculty development programs and mentorship, that will help advance the career path of UMB educators.

Creating a local and national reputation in professional and graduate student education and educational leadership.

Supporting sourcing of, application to, and competition for extramural funding and producing scholarly work in education.

Accepting Nominations for 2025 LEAPS Educator Scholarship Awards

Would you like to nominate yourself or a colleague for one an Educational Scholarship award? Submit an application by June 30, 2025.

Innovation Seed Grant Awardees

Explore past recipients of the Innovation Seed Grants and their groundbreaking projects.

Innovation Seed Grants Program

Educators Awardees

Review the achievements of UMB's past Educator Scholarship awardees.

Award-winning Educators

Speaker Series

Check out the semi-annual talks focused on evolving pedagogy and instructional techniques

LEAPS Speaker Series

Annual Symposium

Get insights from UMB’s annual symposium highlighting progress and achievement in educational scholarship.

LEAPS Symposium

Educational Scholarship

Do you have an idea for an educationally focused research project?

Send an email to LEAPS@umaryland.edu if you would like support with your project.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

‘Moving the Needle’ Podcast

Donna Parker, MD, FACP, and Christina Cestone, PhD, co-chairs of LEAPS, discuss this new initiative designed to support current faculty members at UMB by recognizing and rewarding educational scholarship and innovation, as well as help advance the career paths for UMB educators.

Contact

Leaders in Education: Academy of Presidential Scholars

LEAPS

leaps@umaryland.edu

We welcome your questions, comments, and suggestions.

Related Information

Distinguished Educators Innovation Seed Grants Program LEAPS Symposium LEAPS Speaker Series

UPCOMING EVENTS

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