This conference is a 2 ½ day virtual event bringing together Washington’s most beloved annual conferences—SBCTC’s Assessment, Teaching, and Learning (ATL) Conference and the ELC’s Washington Canvas Conference (WACC)—to explore the intersections of assessment, teaching, learning, and technology. This year’s theme, “Heart. Mind. Community.” focuses on supporting one another, growing together, and building a stronger human-centered working and learning ecosystem. Come engage with colleagues from across the state and leave with fresh ideas and practical strategies that make a difference for students—and the people who serve them.
TIDL will be hosting a watch party in the Faculty Center (9-109) so that colleagues across campus can learn and discuss together!
Conference schedule
Details about sessions can be found in the Event in Zoom. Login with your Highline account to access the event.
Wednesday schedule:
1:00 to 2:30 p.m. – Preconference concurrent sessions:
- Human-Centered Learning in the Age of AI: Eight Essential Principles
- Making AI Work for Education
2:45 to 4:15 p.m. – Preconference concurrent sessions:
- Cultivating Community Care through Psychological Safety
- Ethical Instructional Materials in a Time of Banned Books
- Supercharge Canvas with Microsoft 365 LTI
Thursday schedule:
9:30 to 9:40 a.m. – Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:40 to 10:30 a.m. – Keynote #1 – Dr. Sarah Rose Cavanagh: Nurturing Academic Well-Being In a Liminal time
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Higher education has entered a state of liminality — an uncertain and ambiguous transition time when it is clear more changes are afoot but the path before us has yet to become clear. In this state of ongoing uncertainty and constant change, how can we nourish ourselves and stay well? How can we lead? In this interactive session, psychologist and educational developer Sarah Rose Cavanagh will guide us through exercises designed to identify courses of action to support student, faculty, and staff well-being in an uncertain time. She will share data from psychology, neuroscience, and pedagogy to support her proposed actions, and highlight insights from a new book project on the science of well-being. Attendees will have the opportunity for both reflection and discussion and leave with an action plan for the summer and fall.
10:45 to 11:30 a.m. – Concurrent Sessions:
- Addressing Burnout: Communities of Practice for Healing and Reflection
- Embedding EDI in Learning Outcomes: A Practical Model for Equitable Student Success
- Heart Check-up: Building Community and Connections in the Classroom using Student Feedback
- The Classroom as a Place of Belonging: Mindful Communication, Compassionate Pedagogy, and the Courage to Connect
- Unlock the Power of Multilingual Learning in Your Classroom: Embracing Translanguaging & Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy to Boost Student Success
- Using Custom GPTs to Make Outcome Alignment Clear and Useful
12:30 to 1:15 p.m. – Student Panel on AI
1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Ask, Learn, Connect session