Welcome by Dr. Fay Yokomizo Akindes, Director, Systemwide Professional & Instructional Development (OPID) and Dr. Tracy Davidson, Associate Vice President, Office of Academic Affairs (OAA).
Dancing Together – UW-Stevens Point students an excerpt of HOMELAND.
Choreographer:
Michael Estanich, Professor of Dance, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Performers:
Madilin Beckel, Erin Bohn, Erin Clementich, Sarah Dickinson, Clara Douglas, Scarlett Hildebrand, Aubree Leitermann, Ellie McGillivray, Grace Meyer, Olivia Rosenberg, Marcella Schneider, Natalie Shrock, Josiah Stevens
Music:
Swarms by Clogs, African Solstice by Fiddlers 4, Pickin the Devil's Eye by Fiddlers 4
Original Text:
Michael Estanich, Professor of Dance, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Program Note:
HOMELAND is a work about how we remember. Nuanced, specific, and personal movement episodes support the telling of poetic stories which create a vivid landscape of the home that lives in our sensations and memories.
Plenary by Dr. Peter Felten. Our Centering Students theme is intentionally tied to the expertise of this year’s plenary speaker. Decades of research demonstrate that the quality of student-faculty, student-staff, and student-student interactions are foundational to engaging, inclusive, and purposeful learning. Educational relationships profoundly influence motivation, learning, belonging, and achievement for all students, and particularly for new majority students. Drawing on more than 400 interviews with students, faculty, and staff across U.S. higher education, we will explore relationships as a flexible, scalable, equitable, and humane approach to ensuring that all students experience welcome and care, become inspired to learn, and explore the big questions that matter for their lives and our communities. You will leave with practical ideas for research-informed ways that you can cultivate educationally powerful interactions in your work with students in and beyond the classroom.