CLDT on The Carpentries

The Carpentries Partnership Program is Now Live!

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After many months in the making, we are thrilled to announce that The Carpentries Partnership program is finally launching today!

This is an exciting outcome of efforts by The Carpentries Core Team and broader community to redesign our former Membership program into a program that is responsive and best meets the needs of our partnering organisations and institutions.

Over the coming weeks, we will release a series of blog posts expanding on the value of having a Partnership with The Carpentries. In this blog post we provide an outline of the service offerings that can be included in a Partnership agreement beginning today.

Welcoming new Lesson Developer Trainers

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Carpentries is delighted to welcome five newly-certified Lesson Developer Trainers!

Thomas Cason
Sally Chang
Johan Hidding
Nathaniel Porter
Jannetta Steyn

This new cohort of Trainers enriches the existing group teaching Collaborative Lesson Development Training (CLDT), bringing a wealth and diversity of experience to share with our lesson developers. These five community members completed a seven-week program of Trainer Training to gain certification, combining relevant reading tasks and reflective discussions with support from members of the Curriculum Team and Maintainers of the CLDT curriculum.

What Part Two of The Carpentries' Collaborative Lesson Development Training (CLDT) Taught Us About Sustainable Lesson Design

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This blog post was first published on LinkedIn. It is republished here with only slight formatting variations to ensure conformity with The Carpentries blog posts style guide.

Fresh off the pilot, we went into the second phase of The Carpentries Collaborative Lesson Development Training (CLDT2), with a clearer understanding of our learners’ needs and a list of ways to make the lessons even better.

The second phase of The Carpentries training helped us fine-tune what we had started: improving lesson flow, refining exercises, and enhancing accessibility features across the board.

Become a Lesson Developer Trainer

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Do you have experience in lesson/curriculum development? Want to share that expertise with others in The Carpentries community? Interested in helping to build the Carpentries Incubator community? If so, apply to join the upcoming round of Lesson Developer Trainer Training!

What do Lesson Developer Trainers do?

Certified Lesson Developer Trainers teach The Carpentries Collaborative Lesson Development Training to community members who want to learn how to design and develop open source lessons in collaboration with others. They lead training events and join community meetings with other Lesson Developer Trainers to discuss topics relevant to the training and lesson development in general.

Lessons on Lessons: How The Carpentries' Collaborative Lesson Development Training (CLDT) is Shaping our Approach

Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This blog post was first published on Deborah Udoh’s personal blog site, and again on the Software Sustainability Institute’s news and blogs hub. It is republished here with only slight formatting variations to ensure conformity with The Carpentries blog posts style guide.

On the 25th to 28th of March, the Pre-Seeds team participated in Part One of The Carpentries’ Collaborative Lesson Development Training (CLDT). It was an enriching experience, and we are deeply grateful to our facilitators, Toby Hodges, Aleksandra Nenadic, and the larger Carpentries leadership team. We learned a lot and want to share our reflections on what worked well, what could be improved, and how this training will shape our approach moving forward.

Collaborative Lesson Development Training

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Carpentries is launching a new program of Collaborative Lesson Development Training.

Following a couple of pilot events for the curriculum, and a first round of Lesson Developer Trainer Training, today we open up the training program for registrations.

What does the training teach?

The Collaborative Lesson Development Training curriculum teaches skills and concepts in three broad categories: