2023 Program

Featured Speakers

Bryan Dewsbury, PhD

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Florida International University

Beyond Inclusion: Education for Civic Engagement and Participation

Equity-minded education considers not only how we develop subject matter expertise but also our current and future role in helping to shape and sustain a socially just world. In this keynote, we explore what such an approach to the classroom can look like, agnostic to the subject matter being covered. Implications for our practice and classroom will also be discussed.

Thomas J. Tobin, PhD

Faculty Developer
Professional Consultant

Scaling Up with Universal Design for Learning . . . and How to Get Colleagues to Join You

To help make educational materials and practices inclusive and useful for all learners, this interactive workshop radically reflects on how instructors and designers can adopt Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to create learning interactions that provide students with more time for study and practice in their busy days: broaden our focus beyond learners with disabilities and toward a larger ease-of-use/general-inclusion framework. Our workshop will contain three scaffolded elements: an overview of UDL, how to scale up UDL efforts beyond individual actions, and how to talk with colleagues to establish UDL communities of practice.