Imagining Learning in a Changing Academy: Equity, Ethics, and Empowerment
June 3, 2026 | 9:00am – 4:15pm
We are pleased to invite proposals for LTAT 2026, our annual Let’s Talk About Teaching conference. This year’s theme — Imagining teaching in a changing academy: equity, ethics, and empowerment — invites educators to examine how teaching practices, pedagogical decisions, and classroom environments are evolving in response to new expectations, new learner realities, and emerging opportunities.
As the teaching landscape shifts, questions of equity, ethical pedagogical practice, and empowerment become central to how instructors design learning, support students, and make decisions in complex academic contexts. We encourage contributions that imagine new and emerging futures of teaching, foreground reflective and critical pedagogy, and consider how instructors can create learning environments that are inclusive, responsive, and ethically grounded. We welcome evidence-informed work, practical strategies, and forward-looking thinking rooted in real teaching and curriculum challenges.
Call for proposals
We accept submissions from the following areas of focus:
Reflective teaching practice
Classroom or curriculum innovation
Student engagement strategies
Assessment redesign
GenAI literacy and integration
Accessibility and inclusive course design
Insights from Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) projects – completed or in progress
Experiential or community-engaged learning
Lightning Talks (15 mins)
11:00am – 12:15pm
Lightning talks are concise 10-minute presentations that introduce a focused idea followed by facilitated discussion or Q&A. These are ideal for: teaching innovations colleagues can adopt quickly; emerging ideas; snapshots of research; tools or methods addressing the theme; new ways of seeing disciplinary teaching challenges.
SoTL and Reflective Teaching Gallery Walk
12:15 – 1:30pm
Ideal for showcasing completed or in-progress scholarship of teaching and learning research projects, reflective examinations of pedagogical practice, classroom-based inquiry, and case studies. Posters should be visually clear and support informal conversation during the gallery walk.
Teach me in Thirty (30 min workshops)
1:30 – 3:00pm
Short, structured, hands-on showcases that introduce a teaching strategy, tool, resource, and design principle. Each session should offer a clearly defined learning goal, engage participants through the activity, and provide a takeaway strategy or framework.
Engagement Sessions (30 min discussions)
1:30 – 3:00pm
Engagement Sessions are facilitated, small-group discussions focused on a shared question, teaching dilemma, emerging trend, or area of practice. Hosts are asked to provide a guiding question that anchors discussion, and facilitate the conversation through light structure. No formal presentation or materials required, though brief handouts are welcome.
Submit a proposal
Submissions are due March 11, 2026 at 11:59pm. Please read descriptions of sessions before submitting a proposal.
Previous LTAT conferences
Let’s Talk About Teaching – Summer 2025
Student Academic Success by Design: Merging Rigour with Inclusion in Education
Let’s Talk About Teaching – Fall 2024
The Fall 2024 LTAT event will include a multi-access series of presentations on Friday, November 22, 2024 highlighting teaching innovation at the University of Victoria.
Let’s Talk About Teaching – Summer 2024
Generative Artificial Intelligence
Let’s Talk about Teaching 2023
Inclusion, accessibility and belonging
Let’s Talk about Teaching 2022
Connecting: Building Relationships
Let’s Talk about Teaching 2021
Looking Forward
