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This paper focuses on how the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is being integrated into the teaching excellence culture at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), a premier Canadian polytechnic institution in Alberta, Canada. The Institute’s particular culture is discussed along with the emergence of SoTL within NAIT in the context of recent changes in Canadian Higher Education. A number of initiatives to foster SoTL undertaken in the one year of official CASTL affiliate membership are described. In addition, efforts to foster a culture of SoTL at NAIT are discussed in relation to faculty assessment tools and faculty development efforts. The paper closes with an examination of the challenges and opportunities facing the future of SoTL at NAIT.