TEACHx 2025: Full Schedule

1:00pm CDT

Making Space for Your Own Belonging

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

Are you feeling pushed to the margins? Stretched beyond your capacity to care? Not sure how to make room for yourself (much less support students while doing so)? You are not alone.

In this workshop, we'll engage in contemplative practices to center ourselves in our authenticity -- the heart of true belonging. After connecting with our authentic selves, we'll learn about Susie Wise's Design for Belonging framework, then use it to dream, plot, and make actionable plans for transforming our teaching work into spaces that foster our belonging.

Along the way, I'll share a few stories of how I've used Wise's design levers to cultivate a practice of transformative authenticity that makes room for my students, colleagues, and I to be (im)perfectly human learners together.

Speakers

April Andry Rahman

Assistant Director of Education Research / Adjunct Instructor, University of Illinois Chicago / Chicago State University

I'm an educational developer in the University of Illinois Chicago's Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence and adjunct faculty in the Nontraditional Degree Programs at Chicago State University. I bridge teaching and research with Black feminist homeplace pedagogies that... Read More →

Wednesday May 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Northwestern Room A

Workshop

Subject Instructor and Student Burnout and Self-Care

2:45pm CDT

Learner-Centered Syllabi: Conversation with an Assistant Professor of Instruction

Wednesday May 21, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm CDT

Northwestern Room A

One way to develop a more learner-centered atmosphere, where the students' needs are the focus of instruction, is by using a more learner-centered syllabus. Such syllabi should reflect the instructor's evolving understanding of and commitment to their students as they learn in a social and ever-changing world. This interactive presentation will promote the conference themes of Accessibility, Inclusive Teaching, and Universal Design for Learning by showcasing the characteristics of a learner-centered syllabus as well as the ways in which the instructor of a Black Feminist Though-informed, global health course has modified their course policies and assignments to address the needs of their students. The Northwestern Principles of Inclusive Teaching (2021) and Cullen and Harris™ (2009) framework for assessing learner-centeredness through course syllabi will be used to identify the ways in which the instructor's course has changed between Fall 2021 and Winter 2024. The features of this interactive presentation will include observing a dialogue between an educational developer and instructor as well as a mind mapping activity about constructing "knowledge-sharing"™ assignments. Discussion topics include: mental health days, grading grace periods, flextime, accountability days, allyship, and artificial intelligence.

Speakers

Veronica Womack

Associate Director of Inclusive Learning Communities, Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching

I love to talk about inclusive teaching, social justice, and mindfulness!

Charlayne Mitchell

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

Wednesday May 21, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm CDT
Northwestern Room A

Interactive Presentation

Subject Graduate Instructor Track

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