About the Summit
Mark your calendars for this year’s Great Ideas for Teaching and Learning Summit on March 28th, 2025! This year’s theme is “Real Talk: Embracing the Challenges of Teaching and Learning”.
We will start the day with Dr. Jessamyn Neuhaus’s opening keynote: “Real Talk about Teaching: Normalizing Educators’ Setbacks, Struggles, and Snafus”. Dr. Neuhaus will discuss the myths and misconceptions that contribute to the popular and the scholarly discourse depicting the idea of the perfect professor, and of teaching as something that can ever be perfect. She shows why we urgently need to normalize the ongoing challenges of effective teaching. She argues that one specific, proven way we can normalize mistakes as both individuals as well as institutions is by talking more about teaching.
The event will also include:
- Lightning Talk presentations from educators across campus on the topic of “Real Talk about Student Success: Normalizing setbacks and snafus”
- Lunch and teaching award ceremonies
- A workshop, facilitated by Dr. Neuhaus, on “Normalizing a Growth Mindset to Support Student Success”
- Roundtable discussions led by CTL Student Partners and Faculty
Registration will open on February 28th.
The event will take place in the Jordan Ballroom in the Student Union Building (SUB). Stay tuned for more event details coming soon to this webpage.
The Great Ideas for Teaching and Learning Summit is a collaboration between the Center for Teaching Learning, University Foundations, and the eCampus Center.
Call for Lightning Talks is open to all campus educators! Submit your lightning talk by February 24, 2025.