Monday, August 17, 11:00am - 12:00pm - Webinar

Did you know that there is a science behind learning names? Names are an important part of identity and key to establishing rapport as you build your learning communities. Facilitating learning names by everyone in your class increases a sense of belonging and enhances opportunities for engagement. In this session, you will reflect on personal and global naming conventions, identify cognitive challenges with learning names, prioritize learning names as a pedagogy of care, and apply science of names to classroom practices. Register

Thursday, August 20, 11:00am - 12:00pm - Webinar

International students bring real strengths to a classroom: multilingual skill, cross-cultural insight, and experience moving between very different academic systems. Yet even a well-designed course can quietly work against them. Many courses rely on unspoken rules about how to participate, how to write, and which English is “correct,” and students often discover those rules only by breaking one. This highly interactive workshop helps faculty see those hidden rules in their own teaching and make them visible. Through short cases and shared problem-solving, participants leave with a handful of concrete, low-effort changes that make a course easier to navigate for international students. Register

Tuesday, August 25, 10:05am - 11:20am - In-Person

Are you equipped to provide accessible content that meets the needs of all your students? Come prepared - with your laptop (if possible) - to gain hands-on experience of applying digital accessibility best practices during this session.

This workshop will provide guidance for applying accessibility practices to your documents appropriately and how to prevent potential barriers people experience due to disabilities. An overview of disabilities and the challenges they cause will be provided including types of assistive technologies (AT) that help alleviate those challenges.

Artificial intelligence (AI) will be touched on related to its part in developing accessible content. Integrated automated accessibility checkers of Microsoft and Blackboard platforms will also be covered. These automated tools can identify accessibility issues and provide guidance to resolve them.

Attend with curiosity to help lead toward innovative and inclusive content design strategies. Leave with a strong sense of applying accessibility best practices that opens the path of better experiences for all your students. It is strongly advised that you bring a laptop or tablet to follow along with the presentation.  Register

Wednesday, August 26, 11:00am - 12:00pm - Webinar

Bias doesn't announce itself. It surfaces in an offhand comment, a casually chosen example, the student whose hand you don't see or feedback that lands differently than intended. But bias doesn't operate in isolation, it's amplified or interrupted by power dynamics: who holds authority, whose knowledge is centered and how participation is structured. Interrupting Bias in the Classroom is a highly interactive, practice-focused workshop that moves beyond awareness into action. We treat participants as practitioners refining a difficult skill, noticing bias and the power structures that enable it in real time, then respond in ways that preserve learning and relationships.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

• Identify personal cultural lenses and positional power that shape teaching choices and where bias might surface.
• Recognize different types of bias, including cognitive, identity-based, professional/disciplinary and systemic in classroom vignettes.
• Practice call-in (private dialogue), call-out (public naming of harm) and call-up (inviting students to co-create norms) interventions and refine their approach through peer feedback.
• Draft a bias interruption statement that includes a restorative prompt for syllabi or lesson plans.  Register