The Call for Presentations Will Be Opening Soon!

Track One: Teaching that Engages, Inspires, and Connects
To spotlight high-impact teaching practices that promote meaningful learning, student motivation, engagement, and a sense of connection across diverse learning environments. This track aligns with the following Guided Pathways practice areas: Keep students on path and Ensuring that students are learning across their programs by showcasing effective teaching strategies that foster student connection, motivation, and success in varied educational settings.

Proposals might include:

• Instructional approaches that reflect and honor students’ backgrounds, interests, and goals
• Teaching strategies that foster active participation, curiosity, and peer collaboration
• Examples of teaching innovation that led to stronger engagement and improved learning outcomes
• Student perspectives on what teaching practices make them feel seen and supported
• Integration of micro-credentials, digital badges, or modular learning

Track Two: Holistic Student Supports in Action
To explore integrated strategies that honor students’ academic, social, emotional, and financial realities—ensuring students not only get in but thrive and complete with purpose. This track aligns with the following Guided Pathways practice areas: Clarifying paths to student end goals, Helping students get on a path, and Keeping students on path by emphasizing holistic supports that address students’ academic, social, emotional, and financial needs.

Proposals might include:

• Onboarding, orientation, and advising models that build early trust and connection
• Cross-functional teams and technologies that track and support student progress
• Initiatives that address mental health, wellness, housing, childcare, and basic needs
• Programs designed to increase belonging, engagement, and campus involvement
• Strategies for supporting adult learners, parenting students, or students working full-time
• Partnerships between academic and student affairs to coordinate wraparound support

Track Three: Strategic Partnerships that Guide Student Transitions
To highlight innovative and effective partnerships that support students as they transition from college to meaningful next steps—whether entering the workforce, transferring to a four-year institution, or pursuing additional credentials. Sessions in this track will showcase collaborative efforts between community and technical colleges and external partners such as employers and universities. This track aligns with the following Guided Pathways practice areas: Clarifying paths to student end goals, Keeping students on path, and Ensuring that students are learning across their programs by showcasing strategic partnerships that create clear transfer and career pathways, connect students to support and guidance throughout their journey, and ensure students acquire the skills needed for successful transitions to employment or further education.

Proposals might include:

• Collaborations with workforce, industry, and transfer institutions
• Programs co-designed with industry partners that lead to internships, apprenticeships, or direct-to-hire pipelines.
• Articulation agreements, dual-admission models, or co-advising initiatives with universities to ensure seamless student transfer.
• Initiatives aligning curriculum with regional workforce needs.

Track Four: Bringing Dual Enrollment into Focus
To share practical approaches that support effective dual enrollment partnerships, instruction, and student success. This track aligns with the following Guided Pathways practice areas: Clarifying paths to student end goals, Helping students get on a path, Keeping students on path, and Ensuring that students are learning across their programs by sharing collaborative models and practices that guide dual enrollment students to explore options, enter well-aligned pathways, stay engaged, and achieve meaningful learning outcomes that count toward college and career goals.

Proposals might include:

• Coordinating with K–12 partners on scheduling, curriculum, and student preparation
• Supporting and credentialing instructors teaching dual credit courses
• Advising and onboarding dual enrollment students
• Managing program logistics and aligning instructional expectations
• Evaluating student outcomes and using results for program improvement
• Teaching strategies that foster engagement, college readiness, and student-centered learning experiences in dual credit classrooms

Track Five: Future-Focused Practices and Policies Around AI
To explore emerging technologies and forward-looking strategies that are reshaping the landscape of community college education. This track aligns with the following Guided Pathways practice areas: Keeping students on path and Ensuring that students are learning across their programs by exploring how emerging technologies and innovative strategies create clear academic and career pathways, support students as they enroll and persist, and ensure that learning outcomes remain relevant in a rapidly evolving educational landscape.

Proposals might include:

• Creative applications of generative AI in instruction, assessment, curriculum design, or student engagement
• Building data literacy and promoting responsible, ethical use of AI among faculty, staff, and students
• Integrating virtual, augmented, or extended reality in workforce training and lab-based learning environments
• Innovative models that anticipate and adapt to evolving workforce needs and technological disruption

Track Six: Transformative Leadership for Student-Centered Change
To equip department chairs, deans, senior leaders, and aspiring college leaders with tools to champion and sustain student-centered transformation across their institutions. This track aligns with the following Guided Pathways practice areas: Clarifying paths to student end goals, Helping students get on a path, Keeping students on path, and Ensuring that students are learning across their programs by equipping leaders at all levels to champion and sustain comprehensive, student-centered transformation that drives large-scale institutional change, fosters broad engagement, and advances equity and continuous improvement across their colleges.

Proposals might include:

• Leading efforts to redesign curriculum or launch new programs that better meet student and workforce needs
• Building trust and navigating resistance during times of change or institutional transformation
• Creating leadership development or coaching programs that support faculty growth and innovation
• Applying leadership approaches that prioritize student needs, shared decision-making, and collaborative cultures
• Centering student voice in strategic planning, goal-setting, or continuous improvement initiatives
• Aligning efforts across departments and divisions to support college-wide Guided Pathways implementation