The 2026 Guidebook is coming soon!
See the session lineup:
| Presenters | Session Title | Session Abstract |
| Janice Kinghorn, Chelsea Green, Alina Hechler, Mark Peterson, Sherrill Sellers, Sarah Dumyahn | Teaching Students to Manage Wicked Problems: An Interdisciplinary Framework | Here’s wicked problems—persistent poverty, climate change, systemic inequity—resist the tidy solutions students are trained to find. This session presents a six-step pedagogical framework, developed by an interdisciplinary Faculty Learning Community, that guides students through the full arc of engagement: from scoping and goal-setting through implementation and evaluation. Grounded in current scholarship, the framework treats progress—not resolution—as success. |
| April Dickey | Celebrating Neurodivergent Strengths: Rethinking Norms for Autistic Writers | Autistic students bring distinctive strengths to writing classrooms, including attention to detail, sustained focus, and unique rhetorical perspectives. Yet traditional policies can penalize rather than celebrate these contributions. This session guides participants through analyzing implicit assumptions in common writing norms using a strengths-based framework. Participants will examine policies from their own contexts and develop alternatives that honor neurodiverse writing perspectives. |
