Program and Schedule

These sessions provide intense professional development opportunities that result in participants acquiring new skills. Workshop proposals should identify specific learning goals or outcomes for attendees. In Chicago, pre-conference workshops will be half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours) in length. In order to attend, participants need to register for pre-conference workshops and pay an additional registration fee.

Want to learn even more about the POD Network before the Conference. Participate in Virtual Pre-Conference Committee and SIG Meetings. Click the link for each meeting to add it to a Google calendar.

 

Monday, November 4

11 am -12 pm CT | Earth-Centered Pedagogy SIG 

12 pm -1 pm CT | STEM SIG

1 pm – 2 pm CT | Professional Development Committee (PDC)

2 pm  -3 pm CT | Adjunct and Part-time Faculty SIG

3 pm – 4 pm CT | Award Committee

 

Tuesday, November 5 

11 am – 12 pm CT | Co-Creation Through Partnership SIG

2 pm – 3 pm CT | Supporting Mentorship Practices and Programs SIG

 

Wednesday, November 6

1 pm – 2 pm CT | Learning Analytics Community (LAC) SIG

2 pm – 3 pm CT | Healthcare SIG

 

Thursday, November 7 

11 am -12 pm CT | Mindfulness and Contemplative Pedagogy SIG

1 pm – 2 pm CT | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Committee

2 pm – 3 pm CT | Graduate Student, Professional Student, and Postdoctoral Scholar Development (GPPD) SIG

 

Friday, November 8 

11 am -12 pm CT | Scholarship Committee 

12 pm -1 pm CT | Community & Technical College SIG

3 pm – 4 pm CT | Digital Resource & Innovation (DRI) Committee

Committees, Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and Affinity Groups will be hosting meetings and gatherings throughout the conference.

	Monday, November 11	Tuesday, November 12	Wednesday, November 13
8-9 AM		All Affinity Group Breakfast Co-Creation Through Partnership SIG	Immigrant Affinity Group 2SLGBTQ+ Affinity Group Scholarship Committee Meet and Greet
12-2 PM		Adjunct and Part-time Faculty SIG Community & Technical College SIG Disabled Affinity Group Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Journal Information Session Equity in Education SIG Earth-Centered Pedagogy SIG Healthcare SIG Latinx/Latine/Hispanic/Latin American Affinity Group Mindfulness and Contemplative Pedagogy SIG Scholarship Committee STEM SIG
5-6 PM	Asian/Pacific Islander/Asian American/South Asian Affinity Group Black/African/African-American/Afro-Caribbean Affinity Group	Learning Analytics Community (LAC) SIG Meet and Greet Excursion	Professional Development Committee Programs Mentor-Mentee Reunion

These sessions showcase a research project, program, activity, and/or initiative. Posters may be projects that are completed, in progress, or in their beginning stages. Conference attendees can visit the poster gallery and talk with presenters on Monday and Tuesday, 10:30 to 11:45 in Prairie A & B.

POD Network President Christine Rener, Vice Provost for Instructional Development and Innovation Director, Robert and Mary Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Center at Grand Valley State University will give remarks to share highlights and information with the membership. The Presidential Address will be live-streamed and recorded for POD Network members.

Join fellow POD Network members and conference attendees for a reception, followed by a Karaoke Party on Monday, November 11 at 7 pm. Get your songs ready!

Over the span of almost two decades of friendship and professional co-conspirators, Amanda and Z strive to live and practice in forms of liberatory world building. From desiring worlds otherwise to those where Native students face systemic monsters (Tachine, 2022) to those through which trans students embrace kinship networks as a strategy of resilience against institutional transphobia (Nicolazzo, 2017), Amanda and Z have co-sought, co-created, and co-demanded better for and through educational spaces.

In this shared keynote, Amanda and Z evoke scenes of ongoing in-relations practice of seeking what bell hooks (1994) called education as “a practice of freedom.”

Scenes weave themes of an ethic of love, solidarity, slowness, and presences with each other and the world. Amanda and Z will be alongside members of the POD Network to vision possible futures for teaching, learning, and education otherwise.

On Tuesday, November 12 the Graduate Student, Professional Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Special Interest Group (GPPD SIG) will host a networking lunch for graduate students and postdocs. The goals of the lunch are to connect graduate students and postdocs interested in teaching; to create opportunities for professional networking between future faculty developers and current faculty developers; and to create connections across institutional contexts. You will be able to sign up for the lunch when you register for the conference.

This lunch is open to graduate students, professional students, postdoctoral scholars, and educational developers working with these groups.

The agenda is as follows:

12:15-12:20: Welcome remarks by GPPD representatives and POD President, Christine Rener.

12:20-1:00: Lightly structured conversations at tables.

1:00-2:00: Focused table discussions on various topics, including teaching certificate programs, semester-long program support, international graduate student support, networking for sole full-time staff members supporting graduate students, and networking among graduate, professional, and postdoctoral scholars. Participants can move between tables based on their interests.

We encourage attendees with multiple commitments to join or leave at a convenient time.

Join us for an Improv Show inspired by the historic improv culture of Chicago on Tuesday, November 12 at 5:00 PM

The Career Fair will be held on Wednesday, November 13 at 9am. This is an informal opportunity to look for a position and also to advertise a position for your center or institution. The conference team will be announcing a call for participation in an upcoming newsletter.

The annual awards presentation will take place on Wednesday during lunch. We will honor our POD Network members who are contributing new knowledge or tools to the field of instructional, faculty, and organizational development and exemplifying the values of the POD Network. 

The selection process is underway for the following awards.

• Robert J. Menges Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Development
• POD Innovation Award 

Nominations for the following awards will open soon. 

• Bob Pierleoni Spirit of POD Award
• The Christine A. Stanley Award for Diversity and Inclusion Research in Educational Development

The Resource Fair will be held on Wednesday, November 13, from 2:15-3:30 pm and seeks to provide a venue for participants to share or freely exchange information and resources relevant to our work as educational and organizational developers. This is an opportunity to socialize while acquiring new information or by sharing activities, resources, and services that benefit the POD Network community. The Resource Fair features tables from college- and university- affiliated programs, centers, and POD Network committees and SIGs. The conference team will be announcing a call for participation in an upcoming newsletter.

Join us for a final plenary session to conclude the conference on Thursday, November 14.

The POD Network is grateful to our sponsors from other educational organizations, commercial enterprises, technology services, publishers, and consultants. Sponsor Sessions (designated in the program) are intended to reflect the engaged and research-based approach of the POD Network while showcasing services or products. The sponsor sessions and the sponsor exhibits are the only times at the conference when items or services may be promoted or offered for sale. For information about sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities visit our sponsor page.