FAQs

Below are key responsibilities and guidelines for each role.

CHAIRS

Your attendance is ESSENTIAL. Here’s what you’ll need to do:

• Keep track of time, giving each presenter equal time, typically 12 minutes per paper/presentation.

• Facilitate the Q&A session (additional guidelines are below).

• Please read the abridged land acknowledgment located at the podium or table in each room.

• Use the following facilitation norms to guide the session:

  • Engage as an active listener, learner, and inquirer.

  • Share the microphone, limit interruptions, and adjust as needed to ensure inclusive participation.

  • Share from your personal experience and respect the experiences of others.

  • Avoid assumptions about identity, and don’t ask anyone to represent their social group.

  • Understand the difference between intent and impact, and take responsibility for how your words and actions may affect others.

  • Embrace disagreement and discomfort as part of the conversation, remaining engaged even when topics are challenging.

  • Offer feedback that encourages deeper thinking without dismissing others’ experiences.

  • Stay present mentally and physically throughout public and private sessions.

  • Prioritize self-care.

  • Care for each other.

If your session’s discussant is absent, please lead an open discussion with participants.

PRESENTERS

Submit your papers to the discussant by October 31, 2024

Follow these norms for your participation:

• Engage as a listener, learner, and inquirer.

• Share the microphone, limit interruptions, and adjust participation to ensure balance.

• Speak from personal experience and honor others' experiences.

• Don’t make assumptions about identity or ask individuals to represent a perceived social group.

• Be aware of the difference between intent and impact, and take responsibility for how your words and actions affect others.

• Disagreement and discomfort are part of learning; stay engaged even in challenging conversations.

• Offer constructive feedback that broadens perspectives.

• Stay present both mentally and physically in all sessions.

• Take care of yourself.

• Care for each other.

DISCUSSANTS

By October 31, 2024, you should have received the presenters’ papers. Frame your remarks as invitations to explore ideas and consider how the papers align with the conference theme.

 Use these norms when providing feedback:

• Approach as a listener, learner, and inquirer.

• Share the microphone, limit interruptions, and adjust as needed to promote inclusivity.

• Speak from your experience, and honor the experiences of others.

• Avoid assuming identity and avoid asking individuals to represent a perceived social group.

• Recognize the difference between intent and impact; be accountable for your impact on others.

• Embrace disagreement and discomfort as part of the learning process.

• Provide feedback that promotes reflection and growth, rather than undermining others.

• Practice self-care.

• Look out for each other. 

This year we used Google sheets to create this year's program schedule. As a result, each conference day's schedule is on a sepearte tab. Be sure to check each tab of the worksheet for your presentation. If you are not able to locate it, be sure to contact us. 

The Projects in Progress (PIP) sessions highlight the fluidity of educational research, teaching, and collaborations by formalizing the full intellectual process of our academic work. This space welcomes blossoming  and unpolished research projects. The format for this year’s PIPs will be presented through a poster session. Poster should be digital.