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30th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference (2025)

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Thirtieth Annual Teaching and Learning Conference 2025 banner featuring bold text, abstract blue, red, and black shapes, a red book icon, wavy black-and-white line patterns, and the DePaul University logo in the top right corner on a textured white background. 

Friday, May 2nd, 2025 | 10am | Online

Each year, the conference brings together roughly 300 faculty, staff, and other members of the DePaul community to share knowledge, promote effective teaching practices, and improve student learning experiences across the University. The 30th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference will be held online. The conference is sponsored by DePaul’s Center for Teaching and Learning, the Division of Student Affairs, and the Division of Mission and Ministry. The Writing Center is a key contributor to the planning of the conference.​

Register for the Conference

Please refer to the conference program for detailed descriptions of the concurrent sessions and Zoom links.

About the Keynote and Keynote Speaker
Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Keynote Speaker Katie Rose Guest Pryal, J.D., Ph.D., is a bipolar-autistic author, speaker, lawyer, and law professor. With a law degree and a doctorate in rhetoric, she is an expert in public discourse and how it influences policy. She has spent nearly two decades researching neurodiversity and how to make the world more accessible to all people. 

She is the author of more than fifteen books that center neurodiversity and mental health. Her latest book, A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education (University Press of Kansas, 2024). She is also the author Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education (Blue Crow, 2017). 

Dr. Pryal is a frequent speaker, writer, and media guest for venues such as The New York Times, Slate, Al-Jazeera, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and more, and she publishes research on neurodiversity and mental health. An avid equestrian, she founded NeuroEq, an organization dedicated to inclusion of neurodiversity in the equestrian community. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Reckoning with Mental Health and Neurodiversity in Higher Education 

Higher education communities are facing a mental health crisis that has been a long time coming—but Dr. Pryal, expert in mental health and neurodiversity in higher education communities, has answers. In this talk, she helps audiences understand what neurodiversity is, how stigma harms neurodivergent students and faculty in higher education communities, and how to bring neurodivergent community members into the fold.

Concurrent Offerings | 11:45am - 12:30pm

  • Transform Presentations with Microsoft Copilot
    facilitated by Marco Chou
    View Session Materials​
  • Ready-to-Use Templates for Supporting Neurodivergent Students
    facilitated by Molly Clementz
    View Session Materials​
  • Escape Rooms in the Classroom
    facilitated by Michelle Neuman
  • Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Using the Question Formula Technique to Foster Student Thinking Skills
    facilitated by Roxanne Owens
  • Intersectional Supervision: Integrating LGBTQ+ and Queer Theory in Clinical Practice
    facilitated by Amy Wilhelmi
    View Session Materials​

Concurrent Offerings | 1:00pm - 1:45pm

  • Teaching and Learning Through In-Class Roleplaying Games
    facilitated by Crane Benson, Silver MacAuley​, Jules Mortensen​
  • Checking in on Students: genAI, Mental Health, and Academic Preparedness
    facilitated by Sarah Brown
  • Accommodating Students in Your Classroom
    facilitated by T.C. Schneck​​ & Gregory Moorehead
    View Session Materials
  • Implementing Best Practices for Teaching Writing to International Students
    facilitated by Dan Schober

Concurrent Offerings | 2:00pm - 2:45pm

  • Compassionate Campuses: Trauma-Informed Practices for Faculty & Staff
    facilitated by Christy Beighe-Janke & Nora Murphy
  • More than a Job: Leveraging Student Employment for Academic and Career Success
    facilitated by Davis Finn, Sara Hernandez, Kaitlyn Lane, Isabella Monsalud, Manda Signore, Jazmyne Thompson & Elise Villwock
  • How and Why We Learn Through Games
    facilitated by Jes Klass
Please refer to the conference program for detailed descriptions of the concurrent sessions.