We describe a three-week intensive and innovative faculty development program, necessitated by the 2020 pandemic, which was designed as a deliberative and purposeful initiative to help instructors make the rapid transition to remote teaching. The program, referred to as the Practicum on the Foundations of Teaching Online, was created as a collaborative endeavor by our five distinct campus units--Teaching and Learning Technologies, Distance Learning in the School of Professional Studies, the University Libraries, the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching, and AccessibleNU. Transparency was a fundamental tenet of this program, pervading all aspects of its intention, design and implementation, with a focus on transformation and meaning-making for our participants.