Schedule

Dietary requests will be provided according to requests. We will be in touch.

• Granola Bars  GF, V, DF
• Fruit Skewers GF, VG, BF, DF
• Greek Yogurt V
• Boiled Egg GF, V
• Juice and San Pellegrino
• Fair Trade Organic Coffee/Decaf and Tea

Amanda Coolidge, BCcampus
Segal Rooms 1400–1430

Leva Lee and Helena Prins, BCcampus
Segal Rooms 1400–1430

Leva Lee (she/her) is an advisor of Learning + Teaching at BCcampus. She has many years of experience leading online learning projects and professional development opportunities for the secondary and post-secondary education sectors in B.C., with a background in open and distance learning and educational technology. Her special interests are micro-learning design, fostering communities of practice, and creative facilitation practices for learning engagement. She is a Liberating Structures practitioner and an enthusiastic promoter of the B.C. post-secondary community and those committed to improving the student experience. When not online, you can find Leva inspecting her fledgling flower and vegetable garden, reading one of too many recipe books, or trying to eke out time in the day to sketch or do art.

Helena Prins (she/her) Helena is an advisor of Learning + Teaching at BCcampus and coordinates the FLO portfolio. She began her career as a high-school teacher in South Africa. Over the past 20 years, Helena has taught students of all ages and stages on four continents. A golden thread throughout her teaching experiences has been breaking down barriers to learning. She is a certified career strategist with Career Professionals Canada and associate faculty at Royal Roads University. When not online, Helena enjoys cooking and beach combing with her family and pup.

Kathi Hemphill Camilleri
Fletcher Theatre

In her keynote presentation, Kathi Hemphill Camilleri will share wisdom from her Village Workshop Series. She will explore the idea richly rooted in First Nations history that Indigenous peoples have, since time immemorial, gathered together to encourage and inspire resilience rooted in respectful engagement and collaboration. Kathi will also explore how teachers and facilitators do the important work of creating cultural safety for all learners and themselves.

In 2012 Kathi’s work was nominated for the Premier’s Innovation and Excellence Award for Leadership, the British Columbia Reconciliation Award, and the Nesika Award for Excellence in Diversity.

“Kathi uses humour, kindness, and wisdom to hold a safe space for us while we change how we see the world and how we forever interact with people with Indigenous heritage. It is easy to learn because of her gentle ways and her respect for all people.” — Workshop participant

This session will be live streamed.

Kathi Hemphill Camilleri (Spotted Doe) is of Métis/Cree Ancestry. She holds a Master of Arts in Leadership and certificates in CBT and DBT. She is a cultural safety consultant and facilitator of the Village Workshop Series. She facilitates strategic planning sessions, keynotes, and experiential Village Workshops about Canada’s policies of assimilation and colonization with all levels of government, students and educators, and frontline workers in communities across the country. Kathi and her husband, Chris, have a blended family with six boys and one (brave, tough) girl.

Dietary requests will be provided according to requests. We will be in touch.

• Peanut Butter Protein Balls V, DF
• Fair Trade Organic Coffee/Decaf and Tea

Dietary table

• Gluten Free Pastry Platter V, GF
• Coconut Bliss Balls NF

Sanders Whiting and Sarah Turner, Simon Fraser University (SFU)
Fletcher Theatre

Improvisation for Life: Facilitation, Collaboration, and Teaching: Step gently and brazenly into the unknown! In this interactive session, you will experience a variety of improvisation exercises that stretch your capacity to collaborate creatively and expansively when meeting unexpected challenges in group situations. We’ll reflect on how and why you could bring this to your work and life. Be prepared for a few giggles along the way.

Sarah Louise Turner is an educational developer with the Centre for Educational Excellence at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where she has been part of its teaching and learning support units for the past 17 years. She regularly co-facilitates the Certificate Program for University Teaching and Learning, the Instructional Skills Workshop, and Rethinking Course Design, and she contributes to institutional, faculty, and departmental initiatives that span curriculum planning, assessment, and the creation of educational media. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Indiana University and is passionate about arts-based practices in higher education, which informs many collaborations at SFU, such as those with the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography.

Sanders Whiting is a voice and presentation skills specialist with the Centre For Educational Excellence at SFU. He has been coaching and creating programming for faculty, staff, and teaching assistants at SFU since 2014 and specializes in voice production, dynamic speech, body language, and building confidence. His knowledge and experience come from an extensive career as a professional actor, certification in Estill Voice Training, and degrees in education, theatre, and music. Sanders’s priority when working with clients is to increase their performance comfort, competence, and confidence.

Britt Dzioba and Gwen Nguyen, BCcampus
Segal Room 1410

Positionality refers to the dynamic relationship between an individual and their various personal and social identities, encompassing dimensions such as gender, race, class, ethnicity, ability, and place, among others. For facilitators, developing a positionality statement becomes a critical self-reflective practice that shows how biases, histories, and intersectionality influence teaching practice Embracing this process not only models reflexivity but also becomes a powerful strategy for fostering student success (Harrington, 2022).

This experiential, studio-based workshop is designed to give you space to craft powerful and meaningful positionality statements through the arts. Embracing the transformative potential of the arts as a tool for reflection, this workshop will guide you in exploring your worldview and intersectionality in relation to your teaching practice. No prior artistic experience is necessary. All you need is an open mind to step into the world of creativity and self-reflection as you embark on this enriching positionality journey.

Gwen Nguyen (she/her) is a learning and teaching advisor at BCcampus. Prior to BCcampus Gwen worked as a learning experience designer at the University of Victoria, supporting educators with developing and delivering courses in all the modes: face to face, hybrid, and online. She has also worked as a university lecturer and researcher at the University of Victoria and the Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan. Gwen holds a PhD in education studies and an MA in applied linguistics. Her research interests include poetry inquiry as a reflection practice in education, digital pedagogies in higher education, and participatory action research. Gwen has experience with positionality as an instructor and researcher.

Britt Dzioba (she/her) is an advisor on the Learning and Teaching team at BCcampus and holds a Master of Education, specializing in adult learning. Her graduate research focused on digital literacy education in community-based programs. As a researcher working with community partners, Britt has invested a lot of time into thinking about her positionality and incorporating it into her academic and professional work.

Tracy Roberts, BCcampus
Segal Room 1420

This session will be a fun, fast-paced hour where you play with some fundamental visual practice techniques anyone can use in their classrooms or workshops. No drawing experience necessary. In this session you will learn a few tricks for making anything you write by hand pop (e.g., flip charts, whiteboards, agendas, notes); prove you can, in fact, draw; and experience and take away at least one activity you can use in your classes and workshops to get learners drawing as an alternative way of expressing themselves.

This session is based on drawing with markers on paper. Materials will be supplied, some of them scented, but you’re welcome to bring and use digital drawing tools or tablets instead. This session is designed for anyone who’s ever said, “I can’t even draw a stick person!” You will be able to draw at least five alternatives to the traditional stick person by the end of our time together.

Tracy Roberts is a settler on lək̓ʷəŋən territory, with ancestors from the southwest of England, Ireland, and Scotland. She is the director of Learning and Teaching at BCcampus and came to that role after many years working in teaching, learning and educational technology centres at B.C. post-secondary institutions as an instructional designer, faculty developer, facilitator, and leader. She has a special interest in facilitation and visual practices, particularly Liberating Structures, graphic recording, and other forms of professional doodling.

Lucas Wright, University of British Columbia (UBC)
Segal Room 1430

Join us in a focused 50-minute workshop that will explore generative AI and effective prompting to enhance teaching and learning experiences. This session will offer hands-on activities for designing meaningful prompts that stimulate dynamic learning scenarios. We’ll touch on the exciting potential of bot creation, highlighting its role in fostering learner engagement. Throughout the workshop you will collaborate and critique, shaping a vibrant learning environment.

Embark on this journey to enrich your educational and design approaches with the strength of generative AI.

For full participation, please bring your device to the session.

This session will be live streamed.

Lucas Wright is a senior educational consultant at the University of British Columbia, where he specializes in learning technology and its role in enhancing and supporting teaching and learning. With a deep understanding of educational technology, Lucas has helped faculty understand and navigate emerging tools, ensuring their effective and responsible use in the classroom.

Dietary requests will be provided according to requests. We will be in touch.

• Butternut Squash Soup – GF, VG, NF, DF
• Spicy Lentil – GF, VG, NF, DF
• Harvest Salad – GF, VG, NF, DF
  • with cinnamon spiced yams, pears, hemp hearts and pear ginger dressing
• Mixed Greens with Apples V, GF, NF, DF
  • with apples, pumpkin seeds and cranberries with fig dressing
• Assorted Beverages
• Fair Trade Organic Coffee/Decaf and Tea

Kathi Camilleri
Segal Room 1420

Traditionally we had many ways of treating one another that
affirmed our belief that everyone is a sacred gift. This version of the Village Workshop Series will help you understand traditional Indigenous ways and values. You will explore your personal goals and your roles in supporting the revival of these values, used for thousands of years. We’ll focus on lateral kindness. This workshop was inspired by Jann Derrick’s teachings about the circle and many Elders’ teachings. It’s geared to solutions and provides a great forum for questions.

Kathi Hemphill Camilleri is Métis Cree. She has a master’s degree in leadership studies from Royal Roads University and has been a facilitator and counsellor for 28 years. She has facilitated workshops in communities throughout Canada to rave reviews. One participant said of Kathi: “It is easy to learn from Kathi because of her gentle ways and her respect for all people.” Kathi is also a Studio23 keynote speaker.

Leeann Waddington, Gillian Sudlow, Nishan Perera, and Lisa Gedak, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU)
Segal Room 1410

This 90-minute session will include a structured presentation followed by a choose-your-own-learning-adventure activity. The opening presentation will highlight the why of eportfolios and how they are a tool for change in higher education, both inside and outside the classroom. Examples from Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s (KPU) teaching and learning community will be presented to inspire creativity. You will be encouraged to consider why and how eportfolios can be a transformative tool in your own context, then to explore the why and the how in one of two interactive breakout workshops:

• An in-the-classroom assignment redesign, where you will workshop a redesign of a current assignment you think would benefit from eportfolio pedagogy. You will be supported by the eportfolio experts from KPU’s Teaching and Learning Commons.
• An outside-the-classroom workshop modeled after the Liberating Structures Celebrity Interview, where participants will have the opportunity to interview KPU’s associate vice president of Teaching and Learning, Leeann Waddington, about all things related to institutional eportfolio implementation.

Afterward, the group will be brought back together to share key takeaways. By the end of the session, you will be able to recognize eportfolios as a tool for change in higher education, identify how eportfolios support teaching and learning, and explore the possibilities for eportfolios in your own context in or out of the classroom.

Dr. Leeann Waddington is the Associate Vice President, Teaching and Learning at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) where she is responsible for the strategy and leadership of the Teaching & Learning Commons. Previously an experienced faculty member, Leeann holds a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration, a Post-Masters Certificate in Curriculum Design, and a Doctorate in Education from Athabasca University. Leeann’s background in nursing and health care was instrumental in the development of her leadership style, where transparency, care, and team work are the foundation. She is also an Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator and Trainer and brings this strength-based lens to her relationships and the projects she leads. Leeann is an advocate for the culture of folio thinking pedagogy and its potential to revolutionize KPU’s learning landscape.

Dr. Nishan Perera (he/him) is the director of Learning Technologoies and Educational Development at the Teaching and Learning Commons at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He works with a team of teaching and learning strategists and educational developers to support faculty in their pursuit of teaching excellence through resources, training, and individual faculty consultation on all topics related to program, course, instructional design and delivery. He supports learning technology infrastructure and participates in university-wide communities to provide teaching and learning expertise. He loves to use technology for teaching and has a deep appreciation for integrating technology with pedagogy to enhance teaching and learning.

Lisa Gedak (she/her) is a teaching and learning strategist at KPU and is passionate about supporting meaningful learning experiences and philosophical approaches that support learner-centred education. She values building on the strengths of the faculty she partners with and uses an appreciative inquiry approach to inform her design consultation. Lisa is passionate about nature, and in her free time, she can often be found in the forest or by the ocean soaking in the splendour.

Gillian Sudlow (she/her) is passionate about her roles at KPU. She is the educational consultant for eportfolio advancement with the Teaching and Learning Commons and a faculty member of the English Upgrading Department in the Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation. Gillian believes in meeting students and faculty where they are to support and inspire them to meet their individual learning goals.

Afsaneh Sharif and AC Deger, University of British Columbia (UBC)
Fletcher Theatre

This workshop will explore the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the importance of accessibility in education. You will learn how to apply UDL principles to instructional design and content and explore tools and techniques to make education more accessible to learners with a wide variety of strengths, needs, and abilities. Together, you will work toward building an empowering and supportive environment for teaching and learning that embraces the uniqueness of each individual.

This session will be live streamed.

Afsaneh Sharif is a faculty liaison and senior project manager with over 20 years of instructional design experience at the University of British Columbia. She is interested in putting research findings into practice and works closely with faculty members to ensure course and program design and development meet best practices. Afsaneh is a member of the B.C. Digital Learning Advisory Committee at Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills. Her expertise in online learning and instructional design is recognized nationally. She serves on a few international editorial boards, including Advances in Online Education, and she’s a visiting professor at Rovira i Virgili University in Spain.

A. C. Deger is part of the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Accessibility’s Alternate Format team, facilitating conversations between instructors, advisors, and students to ensure students can confidently self-advocate and that instructors have the resources and training they need to ensure their students succeed. A.C. partners with the school’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology as part of the Open Educational Resources Grant Program, which aims to improve accessibility and affordability for students by supporting instructors as they develop course materials that are accessible and open for all users.

Dietary requests will be provided according to requests. We will be in touch.

• Vegan Salted Chocolate and Rosemary Cookies GF, VG, NF, DF
• Pesto Hummus and Rice Crackers GF, VG, NF, DF
• Fair Trade Organic Coffee/Decaf and Tea

Fletcher Theatre

This session will be live streamed.

Leva Lee and Helena Prins, BCcampus
Fletcher Theatre

Segal Rooms, 1400-1430

Immediately following the sessions on November 1, join us for an unforgettable mixology party where we will enjoy a demonstration of three customized Studio23 drinks. This is a special gathering for all to connect and engage in an atmosphere designed to spark ideas, share practice, and foster creative collaboration.

Appetizers, drinks, along with non-alcoholic drinks, will be provided. Our social event will begin at approximately 4:30 p.m. and conclude at around 6:30 p.m. Complimentary taxi vouchers will be offered when you leave the event. Please don’t drink and drive.

Appetizers

• Wild Mushroom and White Bean – NF, DF, V
  • with truffle caviar on crostini
• Seared Tuna – GF, NF, DF
  • truffle olive tapanade, tomato caper relish
• Brussel Lollipops – GF, DF, VG
  • toasted pecans, barrel aged maple syrup
• Mini Samosas – NF, DF, VG
  • with fruit chutney
• Lemongrass Thai Chicken Skewer – NF, DF
  • with sweet cucumber chili dipping sauce
• Wheat Free Squash Pakoras – GF, VG, NF, DF
• Chicken Saltibocca Lolly – GF, NF
  • prosciutto wrapped chicken, sage and white wine marinade
• Cuban Sliders – NF
  • with Swiss, dijon mustard and sweet pepper garnish
• Cheese and Charcuterie
  • with local and European cheese, local salamis and cured meats, mixed nuts, olives, gherkins, red pepper jelly, honey served with house-made ciabatta and focaccia

Dietary requests will be provided according to requests. We will be in touch.

• Breakfast Deli Platter Served with Assorted Breads and Toaster – NF
  • Assortment of ham, prosciutto, emmental, applewood cheddar, provolone, sliced hard boiled eggs, and tomatoes
  • Gluten free bread will be provided
  • Meats, cheeses, and eggs will be grouped
• West Coast Parfait – V
  • Layered Yogurt, House-Made Granola and Seasonal Berry Compote
• Vegan Coconut Berry Quinoa Parfait – GF, VG, DF
• Sun-Ripened Fresh Fruit Presentation – GF, DF, V
  • garnished with seedless grapes and seasonal berries
• Apple and Orange Juice
• Fair Trade Organic Coffee/Decaf and Tea

Fletcher Theatre
Tracy Roberts, BCcampus

Carrie Nolan, New Brunswick College of Craft and Design
Fletch Theatre

Get ready to be inspired, re-energized, and immersed in a world of playful learning. Drawing on her extensive background in experiential education and her current context in art, craft, and design, Carrie will invite us to consider how joy can be a powerful antidote to burnout, rekindling the flame of fun and fulfillment in educational practices. You’ll leave this session with a lighter heart and a heavier toolkit to carry you forward in your teaching and facilitation.

Carrie Nolan is a proven post-secondary leader, award-winning experiential educator, and cross-Canada paddler and has been recognized as a Kickass Canadian. With a PhD in educational foundations, a master’s degree in experiential education, and undergraduate degrees in outdoor recreation and geography, she aims to increase educative encounters in higher education, leading a way to ensure students are engaged in meeting themselves, others, and the world. She is currently director of the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design.

This session will be live streamed.

Dietary requests will be provided according to requests. We will be in touch.

• Lazy Gourmet Bakery Platter:
  • Muffins, scones, pain au chocolate, sweet danish, lemon loaf slices – V
• Fair Trade Organic Coffee/Decaf and Tea

Dietary table

• Gluten Free Pastry Platter – V, GF
• Coconut Bliss Balls – NF

Katarina Thorsen
Segal Rooms 1400-1430

Dance with the inner critic and (re)discover the simple joy of drawing. This session includes an introduction to creative engagement and the use of creative process to support teaching (instructors) and learning (students), an exploration of drawing fundamentals through step-by-step “follow me” exercises, and sketching using geometric shapes, light and shadow, and negative space.

In this session you will learn to:

• Inspire active participation, priming students for deeper learning.
• Encourage dialogue and foster peer-to-peer connection.
• Understand the value of creative process in all types of learning situations.
• Participate in a simple follow-me drawing exercise.
• Address the inner critic to make learning more meaningful and engaging.
• Share art making with a group.

Materials for the session will be provided. No drawing experience is necessary.

Passionate in her belief that art can build connections, Katarina Thorsen (artist, writer, and researcher) uses creativity to engage whole brain thinking, to foster meaningful dialogue, and to provide safe and inclusive space. She has worked in custody centres, community programs, care facilities, restorative justice organizations, a variety of school districts, and within alternative schools. Katarina’s own artwork can be found in private collections in North America and Europe. Her interactive art events and street art encourage participants to become part of the creative process. Katarina published her first book, Drawn Together – Maintaining Connections and Navigating Life’s Challenges with Art, in 2013. Katarina’s current project is a graphic novel, Joseph – a true story and family saga based in Vancouver, B.C. The now 20-year project was born out of her volunteer work as researcher on the Babes in the Woods Cold Case Task Force from 2003 to 2004. Joseph, the Prologue was published as a limited edition broadsheet in 2022. The graphic novel will be published with Conundrum Press in 2025. Born in Sweden, Katarina is deeply grateful to live, work and play on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səlbílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Dietary requests will be provided according to requests. We will be in touch.

• Wraps
  • Ham and Swiss; smoked turkey; roast beef; mediterranean chickpea (VG); free range egg salad (V); tuna, dill, and cucumber; grilled chicken BLT with pesto; Canadian Italian
• Mixed Greens salad – GF, VG, NF, DF
• Fresh Fruit Platter – GF, VG, NF, DF
• Selection of Dessert Bars
• Assorted Beverages
• Fair Trade Organic Coffee/Decaf and Tea

Moderator: Junsong Zhang, Justice Institute of British Columbia, with panelists
Fletcher Threatre

The landscape of education has been continuously evolving in response to the cultural, economic, and technological changes in society. In the past decade, we have witnessed a growing establishment of studios, labs, and maker spaces in post-secondary institutions to foster creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, often through project-based experiential learning. These spaces and the resulting projects also play a role in shaping and changing our society in different ways.

This panel discussion aims to bridge theory and practice of project-based experiential learning by sharing experiences and perspectives from students. We will delve into the powerful potential of labs, studios, and makerspaces as unique learning environments that foster vital skills and competencies for today’s society. Additionally, we will discuss how we might facilitate social changes through doing, making, and collaborating with each other. By the end of the session, participants will also write up a few take-aways and thoughts/ideas for future sessions.

Student Panelists:

• Jedidiah Chiusa, UBC Biomedical Engineering
• Paola Ortiz, SFU SIAT, UI/UX
• Dong Sun, Centre for Digital Media, web developer/product management

This session will be live streamed.

Gwen Nguyen, BCcampus
Segal Room 1400

Join us in this session as we explore how the practice of reading and writing haiku can enrich your teaching, fostering mindfulness, creativity, and a deeper connection with others. We will begin by delving into the essence of Zen philosophy embodied in Matsuo Basho’s life and haiku. As an educator and a haiku practitioner, Gwen Nguyen will share her personal insights into how haiku has enriched and transformed her own teaching journey. You will engage in haiku writing during this session, allowing you to embrace the Zen mind while reflecting on your learning experiences at Studio23.

Gwen Nguyen (she/her) is a learning and teaching advisor at BCcampus. Prior to BCcampus, Gwen worked as a learning experience designer at the University of Victoria, supporting educators with developing and delivering courses in all the modes: face to face, hybrid, and online. She has also worked as a university lecturer and researcher at the University of Victoria and the Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan. Gwen holds a PhD in education studies and an MA in applied linguistics. Her research interests include poetry inquiry as a reflection practice in education, digital pedagogies in higher education, and participatory action research.

Heather Fitzgerald, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Segal Room 1410

In the art and design context of Emily Carr University, peer feedback in the form of the studio critique is ubiquitous. But just because we create opportunities for students (or ourselves as instructors) to learn from peers doesn’t mean it always works out the way we planned. What are the factors that make peer feedback effective? What gets in the way? And what role do emotions play in how we and our students give and receive feedback?

Bonne Zabolotney, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Segal Room 1420

Co-designing with Anti-Oppressive Action Frameworks: This workshop will focus on developing anti-oppressive action frameworks using co-design methods and tools. A flexible anti-oppressive framework helps liberate knowledge from marginalized sources and challenges educators and learners to rethink how their scholarly work might reproduce inequality. At the end of the workshop, you will understand the structure of the anti-oppression framework and be introduced to ways the framework can be applied in a variety of educational environments.

Dr. Bonne Zabolotney is an interdisciplinary designer, educator, and researcher who focuses on Canadian design culture — particularly anonymous and unacknowledged works — and the political economy of design. She holds a PhD in design from RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, an MA in liberal arts from Simon Fraser University, and a bachelor of design from Alberta University of the Arts. She teaches critical studies and communication design at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Tracy Roberts, BCcampus
Segal Room 1430

Liberating Structures are “serious fun” facilitation strategies that support inclusion, engagement, and the disruption of typical patterns of meeting and working together to unleash and include everyone. Whether you’re a teacher or facilitator, whether you run classrooms or meetings or lead teams through complex cycles of organizational change, you will find many useful tools to boost your practice and effectiveness in this session. We’ll explore a few of the most-loved and most-easily adopted Liberating Structures activities for teaching and facilitation practice. In this session you will:

• Experience two or three Liberating Structures, with a short debrief on each to help you consider how to use them in your context.
• Learn what is and isn’t a Liberating Structure.
• Be offered materials to take away for reference and continued learning.

Tracy Roberts is a settler on lək̓ʷəŋən territory, with ancestors from the southwest of England, Ireland, and Scotland. She is the director of Learning and Teaching at BCcampus, coming to that role after many years working in teaching, learning, and educational technology centres at B.C. post-secondary institutions as an instructional designer, faculty developer, facilitator, and leader. She has a special interest in facilitation and visual practices, particularly Liberating Structures, graphic recording, and other forms of professional doodling.

Dietary requests will be provided according to requests. We will be in touch.

• Assorted House-Made Truffles – GF, V
• Hot Chocolate

Dietary table

• Vegan Chocolate Avocado Mousse – GF, VG, NF, DF

Seanna Takacs, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Fletcher Theatre

The call to transform teaching and learning is no small feat. It asks you not only to reconsider the way you deliver content but also to reframe culture, knowledge, and accessibility. It asks you to dwell in uncertainty and to take risks. In the spirit Arley Cruthers McNeney, who died suddenly in March 2023, this talk will explore the profound implications of gift-giving in teaching and learning. How can you make community a verb? What is your moral obligation in teaching and learning in this community? Please join us in this call to transformation, courage, and joy.

This session will be live streamed.

Dr. Seanna Takacs is a faculty member in Accessibility Services at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. She has researched, taught, and consulted in post-secondary institutions on language and literacy since 2006. For the past five years, Seanna has supported faculty in their understanding and development of Universal Design for Learning across institutions in B.C., including BCcampus, the Justice Institute of British Columbia, the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Columbia College, and Okanagan College. Seanna has worked with children, teenagers, and young adults with disabilities for her entire career. The heart of her work is in belonging, growth, and being open to surprise.

Sarah Turner and Sanders Whiting, Simon Fraser University
Fletcher Theatre

Tracy Roberts, BCcampus
Fletcher Theatre