Spring Professional Activities Workshop (SPAW) 2021
Contact
Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and TeachingDewitt Wallace Library, Suite 338 651-696-6605
Toward Post-Pandemic Pedagogies and Practices: Connecting, Reflecting, and Imagining Our Future
Wednesday, May 26th and Thursday, May 27th
As we begin to have time and space to reflect on the intensity of the last 15 months, and anticipate the transition to being back on campus in the fall, you are warmly invited to connect with colleagues for this year’s Spring Professional Activities Workshop (SPAW). This year’s SPAW will offer space and opportunity to imagine moving collectively toward pedagogies that are liberatory, strengths-based, attentive to well being, grounded in environmental justice, maximally accessible, meaningfully engaged with our location, and intellectually exciting…
All faculty and staff colleagues are welcome to join us to engage in one or more conversations. Each session will be offered twice, once on Wednesday (via Zoom) and once on Thursday (in person outside, weather permitting; outdoor gathering instructions will be provided on 5/25). Zoom links will be shared via calendar invite to those who RSVP, and in an email on Tuesday, May 25th.
SPAW 2021 SCHEDULE
| Date | Time | Session title | Facilitator(s) |
| WEDNESDAY (all on zoom) | |||
| May 26 | 9:00-11:00 | Pedagogy and technology: What have we learned and how has teaching been transformed (forever?!) | Tam Perlman and Aisling Quigley |
| May 26 | 9:00-11:00 | Building a pedagogical practice with equity and well-being at the center | Hanin Harb and Dana Suttles |
| May 26 | 9:00-11:00 | Connecting strengths-based pedagogy to curricular transformation: How might we integrate pedagogical practices with changes in the curriculum in order to create learning spaces that recognize and validate the brilliance, experiences, and interests of all of our students? | Karin Aguilar-San Juan and Britt Abel |
| May 26 | 9:00-11:00 | Community-engaged pedagogy in the post-pandemic era: Envisioning new possibilities | Paul Schadewald |
| May 26 | 1:00-3:00 | The future of teaching and learning at Mac: Contemplating the continued integration of distance- and hybrid-based pedagogies | Eric Handler and James Heyman (EPAG) |
| May 26 | 1:00-3:00 | The future of a liberal arts education in the face of climate and societal crisis: Engaging the urgent need for environmental justice in our pedagogies and curricula | Kiri Sailiata |
| May 26 | 1:00-3:00 | Universal Design for Learning: How pandemic pedagogy forced me to change how I teach and why I’m never going back to my old ways | Melissa Fletcher and Victoria Malawey |
| May 26 | 1:00-3:00 | What do we want “community” to look like in the post-pandemic era? | Joan Ostrove and Kelly Stone |
| THURSDAY All outdoors – in person – weather permitting | |||
| May 27 | 9:00-11:00 | The future of teaching and learning at Mac: Contemplating the continued integration of distance- and hybrid-based pedagogies | Victoria Malawey (EPAG) and Tam Perlman |
| May 27 | 9:00-11:00 | Universal Design for Learning: How pandemic pedagogy forced me to change how I teach and why I’m never going back to my old ways | Britt Abel and Melissa Fletcher |
| May 27 | 9:00-11:00 | The future of a liberal arts education in the face of climate and societal crisis: Engaging the urgent need for environmental justice in our pedagogies and curricula | Christie Manning |
| May 27 | 9:00-11:00 | What do we want “community” to look like in the post-pandemic era? | Karin Aguilar-San Juan and Joan Ostrove |
| May 27 | 1:00-3:00 | Community-engaged pedagogy in the post-pandemic era: Envisioning new possibilities | Paul Schadewald |
| May 27 | 1:00-3:00 | Pedagogy and technology: What have we learned and how has teaching been transformed (forever?!) | Britt Abel, Eric Handler, and Aisling Quigley |
| May 27 | 1:00-3:00 | Building a pedagogical practice with equity and well-being at the center | Hanin Harb and Dana Suttles |
| May 27 | 1:00-3:00 | Connecting strengths-based pedagogy to curricular transformation: How might we integrate pedagogical practices with changes in the curriculum in order to create learning spaces that recognize and validate the brilliance, experiences, and interests of all of our students? | Donna Maeda and Ruth Janisch |
Thanks to all of the Serie Center staff/affiliated staff as well as colleagues in the Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship, the Department of Multicultural Life, the Hamre Center, the Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, Disability Services, Digital Liberal Arts, Sustainability Office, and Academic Technology for your collaboration in developing this SPAW.