Angélica offers a consulting approach that integrates best practices in learning and teaching, research-based active learning methodologies, and that leverages a global network of educational innovators.

Consulting Services

Services offered

Strategic guidance

To universities, focusing on addressing challenges related to learning and teaching, cross-sector collaborations, and the creation of institutional initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality of education.

Program design

Program design and implementation for university faculty and academic leaders to foster innovation in learning and teaching.

Each program is delivered by a team of educational innovators that will work closely with the university in creating an engaging experience with the faculty. Programs can be hybrid with online and in-person components or all online.

    • Developing pedagogical knowledge based on scientific research.

    • Implementing active learning methodologies, and

    • Supporting the implementation of these methodologies.

    • Tailor-made for the participating universities.

    • Designed to achieve results.

    • Informed by the scholarship of teaching and learning.

    • Shaped by a “learning by doing” approach.

Sample programs

Santander Skills | Innovation in Teaching Scholarships

In 2021 Laspau launched an online certificate program to enhance university educators’ pedagogical skills in partnership with Becas Santander. Through a competitive scholarship this program focused on active learning and “backward design” of curricula. This initiative benefited 150 professors across multiple countries and won the 2022 PIEoneer Award for Public/Private Partnership of the Year.

STHEM Brazil

A program for faculty and university leaders in Brazil emphasizing hands-on learning and strengthening pedagogical skills. Participants were required to introduce specific changes in their courses. This program adopted a train-the-trainer model, with each participant training 10 colleagues. Starting with 11 universities in 2014, STHEM Brazil grew to 66 universities by 2023, benefiting 34,000 faculty members who, in turn, impacted over one million students.

STEM Costa Rica

Modeled after the STHEM Brazil program, this program was implemented in partnership with SINAES in Costa Rica and benefited 27 public and private universities, eventually reaching 2,054 professors. The initiative started in 2017 with programs focused on strengthening learning and teaching in STEM fields. By 2023 it had evolved to encompass the social sciences and research in the scholarship of teaching and learning.

These programs were developed and executed under Angélica’s leadership at Laspau, a former affiliate of Harvard University.