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49th Annual POD Conference

$75.00 – $915.00

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Accessibility and Accommodation Requests

Accessibility provisions:

  • Live captioning will be provided for the Presidential Address, Keynote Session, Awards, and Anchor Session.
  • Microphones will be available in each room and should be used by presenters and participants.
  • Inclusivity and accessibility guidelines and resources provided to presenters.
  • Gender-neutral restrooms near meeting rooms.
  • Face masks
  • Covid testing kits

 

Please list other accessibility needs, and the POD Office or Conference Committee will contact you to discuss the details and our ability to make suitable arrangements.

Childcare * 

Childcare must be requested by October 20. It will be available free of charge from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Thursday. Childcare will also be available for evening events on Monday and Tuesday.

 

The POD Office will be in touch to request additional information and share details for reserving your childcare.

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Meals

Breakfast and lunch are included in your registration. As part of our sustainability efforts, please help us to gauge attendance for meals by responding below (Check all that apply):

GPPD SIG Networking and Career Development Lunch

The invitation for this lunch is extended to anyone who belongs to, works with, or supports graduate, professional, or postdoctoral students. Hosted by the Graduate Student, Professional Student, and Postdoctoral Scholar Development (GPPD) Special Interest Group on Tuesday, November 12, this luncheon offers lightly structured conversation to facilitate community and networking.

Please indicate below if you would like to join us for this lunch.

Is this your first time attending a POD Network conference? * 

Our First-Time Conference Attendees event provides an opportunity to learn more about the conference, meet leaders in our organization, and receive helpful conference tips from experienced conference goers in small groups. It will be held prior to the conference on Monday, October 28, from 3 to 4:30 PM Eastern time zone via Zoom. The session will be recorded and shared.

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Please read 2024 POD Network Conference Waiver of Liability. Then check the box indicating that you have read, agree to, and accept the terms and conditions contained in the Waiver and agree to release POD Network as provided in the Waiver.

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W1: Getting Started: Workshop for New Educational Developers

POD24 W1: Getting Started: Workshop for New Educational Developers

A POD NETWORK PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSION
Sunday, November 10, 2024; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

This interactive workshop orients new educational developers to the field. Participants will consider educational development research, foundational frameworks, and will identify priorities for their contexts.

Includes Thursday morning breakfast and a published book

W2: Decolonizing the Game: Applying the TALLS model

POD24 W2: Decolonizing the Game: Applying the TALLS model

Sunday, November 10, 2024; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

This session introduces the TALLS (Toward a Liberated Learning Spirit) Model for developing critical consciousness that moves learning through colonized ideals of knowledge toward a liberated learning space.

W3: The Present Professor: Building Stronger Relationships Through Self-Awareness

POD24 W3: The Present Professor: Building Stronger Relationships Through Self-Awareness

Sunday, November 10, 2024; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

In this workshop, participants will gain deeper self-understanding through a series of reflection and discussion activities.

W4: Relationship-rich career development: Crafting your path and purpose

POD24 W4: Relationship-rich career development: Crafting your path and purpose

Sunday, November 10, 2024: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon

This workshop will provide an intense career development opportunity and invite participants to intentionally consider the next step in their educational development career.

W5: An “Art of Gathering” approach to creating relationship-rich environments

POD24 W5: An “Art of Gathering” approach to creating relationship-rich environments

Sunday, November 10, 2024: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon

This workshop is an invitation to treat our events not merely as a vehicle for content but as intentional structures for relationships and meaning.

W6: Beyond Algorithms: GenAI and Educational Trust

POD24 W6: Beyond Algorithms: GenAI and Educational Trust

Sunday, November 10, 2024: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon

This workshop examines the dance between generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and trust in education, guided by Felten et al.’s (2023) Trust Moves framework and enriched by Caulfield and Wineburg's (2023) SIFT model for critical web literacy.

W7: Beyond Training: Making Antiracist Learning Development and Accountability Experiential

POD24 W7: Beyond Training: Making Antiracist Learning Development and Accountability Experiential

Sunday, November 10, 2024: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon

This workshop is for those who want to build confidence in difficult dialogue and consistently reflect on their accountability. We showcase ways to get beyond mere training by building meaningful relationships between diverse facilitators and participants.

W8: Coaching skills for academic leaders: Developing collaborative relationships

POD24 W8: Coaching skills for academic leaders: Developing collaborative relationships

Sunday, November 10, 2024: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon

In this interactive workshop, you will practice several powerful brain-based coaching skills drawn from Improv games and coaching to increase skills and confidence for leadership that matters: transformational coaching conversations that build institutional collegiality, civility, and engagement.

W9: Metacognitive Equity: The Key to Effective Faculty-Student Partnerships

POD24 W9: Metacognitive Equity: The Key to Effective Faculty-Student Partnerships

Sunday, November 10, 2024: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon

This session will discuss definitions of metacognition and metacognitive equity and present causes for the metacognitive equity gap seen on many college campuses.

W10: Students as Partners 2.0: Cultivating Partnership Learning Communities

POD24 W10: Students as Partners 2.0: Cultivating Partnership Learning Communities

Sunday, November 10, 2024: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon

This workshop, co-facilitated by undergraduate student partners, aims to demonstrate that intentional, well-designed relationship structures that focus on trust and vulnerability can take SaP programs to the next level.

W11: The Teaching Effectiveness Framework: From Idea to Institutionalization

POD24 W11: The Teaching Effectiveness Framework: From Idea to Institutionalization

Sunday, November 10, 2024: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon

Participants in this session will engage with the The Teaching Effectiveness Framework (TEF), learn its history, development, and how we gained support from upper administration to adopt the TEF as our institutional framework for effective teaching.

W12: An Equity-Minded Approach to Institutional Data and Co-Creating Course Design

POD24 W12: An Equity-Minded Approach to Institutional Data and Co-Creating Course Design

Sunday, November 10,2024: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Participants will engage in an identity mapping exercise and will explore their own positions within systemic structures, setting the stage for deeper empathy and understanding.

W13: Developing Signature Coaching Capacities to Invigorate Educational Development Practice

POD24 W13: Developing Signature Coaching Capacities to Invigorate Educational Development Practice

Sunday, November 10,2024: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

This three-hour workshop features an evidence-based coaching capacities framework tool that demystifies the dispositions and expressions that support psychological safety co-creation.

W14: Directors as Catalysts: Transformative Pathways for Center and Professional Growth

POD24 W14: Directors as Catalysts: Transformative Pathways for Center and Professional Growth

A POD NETWORK PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSION
Sunday, November 10,2024: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Join experienced directors for a session that uses dynamic small group exercises to introduce tools and approaches that will help you unleash your catalytic power as a new or aspiring center director.

W15: Discovering Your Story: A Structured, Collaborative CTL External Review Process

POD24 W15: Discovering Your Story: A Structured, Collaborative CTL External Review Process

Sunday, November 10,2024: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

This session will draw heavily on two evidence-based frameworks to introduce participants to a structured and collaborative CTL external review process that is adaptable to local contexts, including different institutional types, CTL configurations and sizes, and varying purposes (e.g., initiated by policy, a request from leadership, or CTL self-interest).

W16: Facilitating Student-Instructor-Staff Partnerships in STEM Equity Learning Communities

POD24 W16: Facilitating Student-Instructor-Staff Partnerships in STEM Equity Learning Communities

Sunday, November 10,2024: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

In this workshop, we guide participants through the creation and facilitation of interdisciplinary STEM Equity Learning Communities (SELCs).

W17: Relationships Reconsidered: Enhancing Learning and Well-being through Nature Connection

POD24 W17: Relationships Reconsidered: Enhancing Learning and Well-being through Nature Connection

Sunday, November 10, 2024: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

This session gives educational developers both a personally restorative experience and a model for nature-connected approaches to teaching and center programming. By experimenting with accessible practices, participants will gain an embodied understanding of the researched benefits of using campus green spaces to cultivate belonging, creativity, collaboration, and emotional well-being elements instrumental to student and faculty learning.

W18: Teaching Effectiveness Frameworks: Relationally rich and equitable development of faculty

POD24 W18: Teaching Effectiveness Frameworks: Relationally rich and equitable development of faculty

Sunday, November 10,2024: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

In this workshop, participants will: 1) examine a variety of teaching effectiveness frameworks, contributing their own institutions’ framework; 2) collectively brainstorm the ways that frameworks connect to evidence of teaching effectiveness; 3) identify relationally rich and equitable faculty development strategies for broad faculty engagement with frameworks at their institution.

W19: Working Strategically for Relationship-Rich Educational Development and Institutional Change

POD24 W19: Working Strategically for Relationship-Rich Educational Development and Institutional Change

Sunday, November 10, 2024: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

This workshop will guide participants in how to operationalize relational practice and to build relational cultures in and through their work.

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