LTC26-ProgramDay1
Day 1 - Program Schedule
2026 Learning & Teaching Conference | May 11鈥�12
LTC Day 1 - Monday May 11, 2026 - Schedule at a Glance
| Time | Event |
9:30鈥�10 a.m. |
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CELT & OSI Showcase: |
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10鈥�10:50 a.m. |
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10:50鈥�11:50 a.m. |
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12鈥�12:50 p.m. |
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YSGPS Presents: From Oversight to Insight: A Growth-Oriented Approach to Graduate Supervision |
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1鈥�2:30 p.m. |
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| 2:30鈥�2:45 p.m. | Networking break |
| 2:45鈥�4 p.m. | Panel discussion |
Questions or concerns? Please email askcelt@torontomu.ca (opens in new window)
May 11-12
Learning and Teaching Conference
- Two days, in-person on 成人大片鈥檚 campus with community building, refreshments included
May 13-14
IT Conference
- Day 1: In-person on 成人大片鈥檚 campus with a keynote address, networking, breakfast, lunch included
- Day 2: Virtual, including a cybersecurity keynote address
Day 1 - Program Schedule
CELT & OSI Showcase: Highlights From Our Past Year Featuring 成人大片 faculty
Come learn how faculty have integrated insights from CELT and Office of Social Innovation (OSI) programming into their learning and teaching activities. Choose from six sessions including round table discussions, interactive workshops and project spotlights. We welcome all faculty, contract lecturers, staff and graduate students to register in advance for this in-person event.
A1. Roundtable
Rethinking the A-F grading system: experiences with alternative grading at 成人大片
Panel discussion featuring:
- Alyssa Counsell, Associate Professor, Psychology
- Yukari Seko, Associate Professor, Professional Communication
- Krystal Nunes, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biology
- Natalie Alvarez, Professor and Dean, The Creative School
- Valerie Deacon, Manager of Academic Support and Curriculum Innovation, Faculty of Arts
A2. Interactive Workshop
Replacing Hype with Hope: Designing Better Teaching Futures with GenAI
- Danielle Moed, Educational Developer, CELT
- Dr. Mathilda Dougherty, Educational Developer, CELT
B1. Intractive Workshop
Sim-Curious: Exploring the Basics and Impact of Live Actor Simulation
- Adam Bailey, Writer/Trainer, Live Actor Simulation
- Greg Morris, Writer/Trainer, Live Actor Simulation
- Amy Dionne, Manager, Experiential Learning and Live Actor Simulation
B2. Roundtable
What does it mean to be ready? Exploring the multi-dimensional nature of student readiness for experiential learning
Panel discussion featuring:
- Anamika Baijnath, Director of Experiential Learning, Quality Assurance and Strategic Initiatives, Faculty of Community Services
- Kris Erickson, PhD, Contract Lecturer (Arts Co-op Prep), Faculty of Arts
- Emily Garant-Jones, Director, Student Success & Career Navigation, Career, Co-op & Student Success Centre
- Danielle Moed, Educational Developer, CELT
- Dr. Terri Peters, Associate Professor, Department of Architectural Science and 成人大片 Teaching Fellow
B3. Project Spotlight
The 10-Year LMS Checkup: What Stays, What Goes, and What鈥檚 Missing?
- Restiani Andriati, Director Client Services, CCS
- Stephanie Goetz, Manager DMP, CCS
- Wendy Freeman, Associate Professor, School of Professional Communication The Creative School
C1. Roundtable
Teaching As Worldbuilding
Hosted by CELT & the Office of Social Innovation and featuring participants from this year's Social Justice Pedagogies Program.
YSGPS Presents
From Oversight to Insight: A Growth-Oriented Approach to Graduate Supervision
This afternoon symposium is designed to support and inspire graduate supervisors in fostering more effective and development-focused supervisory practices. The event begins with a keynote exploring how perspectives and beliefs shape learning, resilience, and engagement, and how cultivating a growth mindset can enhance both the supervisor and graduate student experiences. Following the keynote, participants will have the opportunity to connect during a brief networking session before transitioning to a panel discussion, in which panelists will share practical strategies for nurturing a growth mindset, addressing challenges with a solution-focused lens, and aligning supervisory intentions with everyday practices. We hope that the afternoon offers an opportunity to reflect upon supervision as a dynamic and growth-oriented partnership.
Dr. Elizabeth Canning
Creating a Growth Mindset Culture
Mindset beliefs (i.e., people鈥檚 beliefs about the fixedness or malleability of intelligence) operate as a 鈥渂elief system鈥� that influences the types of goals students set, how they attribute, interpret, and respond to struggles, and whether they seek or avoid challenging tasks and learning opportunities. In this talk, I will discuss my recent research on cultivating growth mindset cultures to improve equity and support the experiences of graduate supervisors and their graduate students. A growth mindset culture includes (a) supervisors鈥� beliefs and intentions for the culture they plan to create; (b) supervisors鈥� implementation of the culture, communicated by what they do and say; and (c) graduate students鈥� interpretation of the culture - including their perceptions and experiences. This culture model offers supervisors an opportunity to reflect on their intentions and practices and re-align goals for themselves and their students.
Elizabeth Canning is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Washington State University. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, Germany for the 2025-2026 academic year. She specializes in the study of achievement motivation, social inequality, and social-psychological interventions in education and organizations.
Dr. Elizabeth Canning
Associate Professor of Psychology
Washington State University
Graduate Supervision in Practice: Successes, Challenges, and Encouraging Growth
Panel discussion featuring:
- Dr. Diana Brecher, Clinical Psychologist, Centre for Student Development and Counselling, Scholar in Residence for Positive Psychology
- Dr. Yukari Seko, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Professional Communication, The Creative School
- Dr. Miljana Horvat, Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; Professor, Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Dr. Nancy Walton, Associate Dean, Student Affairs, YSGPS; Associate Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services
飥� Wrap Up | 4 p.m.
Learning & Teaching Conference Day 1 comes to a close. Remember to return the next day (May 12) for Day 2.