February 24, 2023​
Location: Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences, 850 Greenfield Road Lancaster, PA

8:15am - Arrival and Continental Breakfast (Auditorium Lobby)

8:45am - Welcome & Keynote 

​​Christina Katopodis, PhD
Associate Director and Postdoctoral Research Associate of Transformative Learning in the Humanities, at the City University of New York (CUNY)
“The learning process is something you can incite—literally incite—like a riot.” – Audre Lorde
  • How do we make the transition from the hierarchical, inequitable, output-driven academy we inherited from the nineteenth century to a higher education that empowers all students to be their own best selves, modeling a more democratic, flourishing, and just society?
  • How do we make this transition in our own teaching?
  • What about in our methods for grading and evaluation?
​In this interactive session, Dr. Christina Katopodis, innovator in higher education and co-author of The New College Classroom (Harvard University Press, 2022), presents what the latest science of learning tells us about inspiring, effective, and inclusive learning. The rigor of active learning gives students agency, boosts student engagement, prepares them to be active citizens of the world, and eases some of the burdens of teaching so the responsibility for student learning isn't shouldered by the professor alone. Speaking from experience as an educator and administrator, Katopodis shares equitable practices and strategies that anyone can adapt easily and effectively in every field, starting small with changes you can begin implementing in your classrooms and office meetings today. She provides case studies of participatory learning, ungrading, antiracist pedagogies, and grab-and-go activities that educators around the world are using to ensure their students’ lifelong success—and to revitalize their own commitment to a better world.

Christina Katopodis, PhD, is the Associate Director and Postdoctoral Research Associate of Transformative Learning in the Humanities, a three-year initiative at the City University of New York (CUNY) supported by the Mellon Foundation. She is the winner of the 2019 Diana Colbert Innovative Teaching Prize and the 2018 Dewey Digital Teaching Award. She has authored or co-authored articles published in ESQ, ISLE, Synapsis, MLA’s Profession, Hybrid Pedagogy, Inside Higher Ed, and Times Higher Ed.  She is the co-founder of Better to Speak and Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities. With Cathy N. Davidson, Katopodis is author of The New College Classroom (Harvard University Press, 2022), a book that, in effect, draws from bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Paolo Freire to offer practical examples and extensive research on how to actually do active, equitable, inclusive teaching in any classroom, any discipline, at any kind of university, in both introductory and specialized classes. → Twitter

10:00am - Breakout Sessions (50 minutes)
​​​→ Creating an Engaging Classroom with GIMKIT? 
→ Flipped Learning: Student & Faculty Experiences
→ How to build community online for Graduate and Adult Learners
→ Creating Coaching Opportunities: Design Thinking-Infused Coaching Practices Across Campus

11:00am - Breakout Sessions (50 minutes)
→ Think Like Fink: Leading Significant Learning Experiences
→ Modeling Preservice Teachers’ Technology Self-Efficacy to Enhance Classroom [Mathematics] Instruction
→ Making the Most of Office Hours
→ Teaching and Learning: Moving Forward
→ What Happened? Lessons for Leadership and Teaching from the COVID-19 Instructional Adaptations

12:00pm - Lunch (Atrium)

1:00pm - Breakout Sessions (50 minutes)
→ Competition to Collaboration: Enhancing the Course Design Experience between SME & ID
→ Growing Culturally Responsive Citizens: Planning and Assessing for Change
→ Creative connections: Bridging a public health gap through disciplinary objectives and a study-away program 
→ Learning in a Post-Pandemic Era: From a Little to Fully Asynchronous and Anywhere in Between

2:00pm - Breakout Sessions (50 minutes)
​→ Using Mindfulness and Yoga in the Classroom
→ Battling the Bots: Education in the Age of Jasper and ChatGPT
→ Cultivating Resilien-C: An Educator’s Remedy for Conquering Adversity
→ Leading & Learning Starts Here: What is Right with You?

3:00pm - Breakout Sessions (50 minutes)
→ DIY Instructional Video Tips & Tricks
→ Did You Do the Reading? Engaging Students to Deepen Their Reading Though Structured Discussion Strategies
→ From the room, to Zoom, and back again!
→ Leveraging Course Design to Improve Academic Quality and Student Engagement
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