Last Call: Register for the NED Teaching and Learning Conference

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About the Conference

Minnesota State educators have asked for more opportunities to collaborate and share best teaching and learning practices across our colleges and universities – and that’s what the Network for Educational Development (NED) is all about!

The 2024 NED Teaching and Learning Conference is an opportunity to gain inspiration, connect with your peers, reflect with others, and enhance your teaching and learning strategies and techniques.

• Pre-Conference Workshop
  • A Pre-Conference Workshop is also available the morning of September 26. Learn more about the workshop, which focuses on the Racial Equity Advocates faculty development program that Minnesota State University, Mankato has initiated.
• Student Panel
  • A student panel will take place on Friday, September 27 at 11:00 a.m. This session will be available to in-person and online-only attendees.
• Poster Sessions
  • In-person and online poster sessions from Minnesota State REFLECT scholars will be available for attendees to review.
• Concurrent Sessions
  • The NED Teaching and Learning Conference has five concurrent session tracks available, all within the 2024 conference theme of “Guides for the Educational Journey.”
• Keynote: Emergent Strategies for Minnesota State

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Keynote: Emergent Strategies for Minnesota State

Emergent Strategies (2017) is a concept developed by Adrienne Maree Brown, a mixed-race, queer independent scholar who suggests that emergent discoveries in the natural and social sciences reveal that critical connections, not critical mass, are the underrecognized keystones to effect social change. Loosely, this means we do not have to seek high volumes of participants, working hours, or emails to effect change. Instead, we ask questions about the outcomes we want to model, inhabit, and generate in small spaces, allowing the transformation to change the interior and exterior of our lives. Inspired by the work of writer Octavia Butler, physicists Karen Barad and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, biologist-innovator Janine Benyus, mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, poet-philosopher Édouard Glissant, and philosopher-activist Grace Lee Boggs, this keynote addresses Browne’s radical contention that connection, done intentionally, can affect more social and academic transformation than mass in our classrooms, campuses, and communities.

Yet, how do we reconcile the lessons reverberating around us with our cherished values, long-held habits, and unique ecological-cultural milieus? What works on an urban campus may not work in a campus situated along the Eastern River’s bluff, a campus cradled by the headwaters of the Mississippi, a community lodged among the pine trees of the North woods and waters, or a campus firmly rooted in the grasslands and farmlands of the plains. To honor the diverse communities across Minnesota, this keynote will generate creative space for participants to reflect and propose embedded processes to center emergent strategies in their classrooms, departments, and campuses. To carry on with Brown’s recent work, this keynote will generate the capacity not to call one another out but to call each other into the labor and love of higher education transformation, cultivating ourselves and our students as organic intellectuals.

Learn More

Learn more on the NED Conference page.

Registration deadline has been extended to the end of day on September 16, 2024.

Contact

Network for Educational Development