Schedule

Friday, June 26th, 2026

8-9 am: Conference check-in, poster set-up, and breakfast

9:00 am: Introduction and Keynote Speaker: Lalo Gonzalez, Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies and an Associate Teaching Professor, UC Santa Barbara

10:00 am-12 pm: Session 1 Talks / Optimizing Success: Research-Based Strategies for Student Mastery and Educator Growth (5 @ 20 minutes; 15 for talk, 5 for Qs)

1. Supporting Adoption of Research-Based Instruction Through Collaboration: a Propagation Paradigm Story
   Presenter: Andrew Meyertholen

2. Correlating Representational Competence Mastery with Higher Organic Chemistry Course Success
   Presenter: Matthew Casselman

3. A discipline-specific pedagogical professional development graduate program fosters development of integrated scholars: an evaluation of the Future Undergraduate Science Educators (FUSE) program
   Presenter: Marina Ellefson
   
   Coffee break! 15 minutes
   
   

4. Restructuring Practice Assignments to Enhance Performance: Evidence from a General Chemistry Study
   Presenter: Ozcan Gulacar

5. Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Measuring the Effectiveness of Team Contracts in Predicting Team Performance in a Randomized Control Experiment Presenter: John Hartman

12:00-2 pm: Lunch and Poster Session

2-4 pm: Session 2 Talks / Inclusive Horizons: Navigating Equity, Empathy, and Systemic Support to Enhance Student Belonging (6 @ 20 minutes)

1. Cultivating empathetic engineers/scientists to holistically solve complex problems
   Presenter: Colleen Bronner

2. What happens when instructors get real about race, racism, and genetics in their courses: key motivations, enablers, and challenges when enacting change
   Presenter: Katherine L. Petrie

3. An Institutional Blind Spot Framework for Supporting Incoming Physics Majors through a Research-Based, Mentor-Driven Curriculum
   Presenter: Gurleen Bal
   
   Coffee break! 15 minutes
   
   

4. How to craft learning activities to serve all students in large online classes? An ethnographic narrative of two assignments in Cultural Anthropology Course at UCR
   Presenter: Worku Nida

5. It Takes a Village: Engaging Your Teaching Team to Provide a More Accessible Learning Experience for Students
   Presenter: Miriam E. Markum

6. Implementation of Undergraduate Learning Assistants in High-Enrollment STEM Courses

Presenter: Samantha L Scudder

4:00-4:30 pm: Break & Transition to Skye Hall for Workshops

4:30-5:30 pm: Panels / Workshops

1. From Search to Syllabus: Discovering Open Educational Resources for STEM Coursework

2. Professor of Teaching Toolkit: A New Resource for POTs and Those Supporting POTs Through Personnel Review and Beyond

3. Nurturing Culturally Responsive and Sustaining University Classroom Learning: Naming, Counter-storytelling, and Healing

4. Answer-Dependent Multiple-Choice Questions for Dynamic High-Throughput Grading

5. Teaching Tips We Would Tell Our Younger Selves
   
   

5:30 pm: Transition to Dinner

Saturday, June 27th, 2026

8 am: Breakfast by discipline

9-10 am: Birds of a Feather Panel: Flash talks and breakout groups

1. Empowering in-class discussions with LLMs

2. Ask, Edit, Roleplay: Three Classroom-Ready AI Frameworks for UC Instructors

3. Rebuilding Trust: Integrating Generative AI into writing-based courses

4. A Community of Learning: Teaching Professors, GEN AI and Campus Community Building

Coffee break! 15 minutes

10 am-12 pm: Session 3 talks / The Scalable Classroom: Advancing Large-Scale Learning through AI, Automation, and Interactive Scaffolding (5 @ 20 minutes)

1. Teaching Circuits with an AI Tutor: Implementation Strategies and Early Insights
   Presenter: Saharnaz Baghdadchi

2. Massively-scalable Auto-graded Online Assessments with Adaptive Feedback Using PrairieLearn
   Presenter: Niema Moshiri

3. AI-assisted Grading in a Large Data Science Course
   Presenter: Josh Grossman

4. Incentivizing Large Lecture Attendance with No-fault Participation
   Presenter: Steven Barrera

5. Scaffolding as Conversation: Turning Large Lectures into Dialogue

Presenter: Reshma Menon

12 pm: Boxed lunches, networking, and departure