Ensuring Teaching and Learning:
Instructional Strategies for Connection and Completion
April 2-4, 2025 | Hyatt Regency Houston - Houston, Texas
Introduction to the Institute
Ensuring Teaching and Learning: Instructional Strategies for Connection and Completion builds on the past successes of Texas colleges which have been working to better serve all types of students in achieving their aspirations for a better future. This institute will pay particular attention to the design of program learning outcomes (PLOs) and the assessment of PLOs for program improvement, strategies for improving teaching and learning across all classes and programs in the college, implementation of effective corequisite instruction and supports, the scaling of mandatory and systematic basic needs supports, and professional development plans that promote a culture of student wellness and belonging. College leadership teams seeking to better understand the instructional experiences of their students will reflect on disaggregated key performance indicators associated with students’ success in their first math-, reading-, and writing-intensive courses.
Agenda-at-a-Glance
| Wednesday, April 2, 2025 | |
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| 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM | Pre-Institute Workshops (Lunch provided) |
| 2:00 – 3:15 PM | Opening Plenary |
| 3:30 – 4:45 PM | Team Strategy Time 1: Scaling Effective Classroom Practices |
| 5:00 – 6:30 PM | Reception |
| Thursday, April 3, 2025 | |
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| 7:00 – 8:50 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:00 AM | Concurrent Session 1 |
| 10:15 – 11:30 AM | Team Strategy Time 2: What Does the Data Tell Us? |
| 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM | Lunch |
| 11:45 AM – 3:30 PM | CEO Roundtable |
| 1:00 – 2:00 PM | Concurrent Session 2 |
| 2:15 – 3:30 PM | Problem of Practice: Networking & Problem Solving |
| 3:45 – 5:00 PM | Team Strategy Time 3: Connecting the Dots to Move Toward Action |
| 5:00 PM | Adjourn - Dinner on Your Own |
| Friday, April 4, 2025 | |
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| 7:30 – 8:40 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:45 – 10:15 AM | Closing Plenary |
| 10:30 – 11:30 AM | Team Strategy Time 4: Action Planning for Transformational Change |
| 11:30 AM | Adjourn |
