Early Career Teaching Institute

Early Career Teaching Institute

Welcome to ECTI 2025! You will be able to register for individual workshop sessions on Monday during our intention setting session.

12:00pm CDT

Lunch & Check-in Alumni Lounge

12:30pm CDT

Welcome & Intention Setting Alumni Lounge

2:30pm CDT

Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese Color Woodcuts UW-Madison CampusJames R. Wehn Glass Made Accessible: Projects for Every Classroom UW-Madison CampusKagen Dunn

8:00am CDT

Breakfast & Intention Setting Alumni Lounge

8:45am CDT

Authentic Intellectual Work: Ensuring Rigor and Relevance for Equity & Excellence TBADr. Bruce King • Tina Salzman Intro to the 2025-2026 CT Classroom Action Research group TBAKatie Nguyen • Mary Klehr Beyond Welcome: Creating Sustained Support for Immigrant and Refugee Students TBALisa Velarde Building Capacity through an Anti-Racist Cycle of Inquiry and Action: Empowering Educational and Organizational Leaders TBASandra Taylor-Marshall Imagine a world where... A hands-on introduction to computer science. TBAPeter Kirschmann Increasing Civic Engagement Through Media Literacy TBAJami Hoekstra Collins • Nick Ostrem Now You Are the Teacher! TBAJoey Lubasi

10:30am CDT

Mentor Teacher Coaching Moves TBALisa Hennessey A Joyful Teacher TBAKatie Nguyen • Kara Lawson Dually Served: teaching students at the intersection of multilingualism and neurodiversity TBAShweta Chandrashekhar • Lisa Velarde Evolving Legal Issues and Teachers' Rights TBASuzanne Eckes Strategies for Collaborative & Active Learning TBAAlice Udvari-Solner • Amy Krauthamer-Maloney Tinkering with Making: An introduction to maker education TBATarah Connolly

12:00pm CDT

Lunch & Resource Tables Alumni Lounge Coalition for Leading Anti-Racist Schools TBASandra Taylor-Marshall PBS Wisconsin Alumni LoungeMia Forslund Teacher Studio: A Community for STEAM & Hands-on Educators Alumni LoungePeter Kirschmann • Peter Wardrip

1:15pm CDT

Teachers As Policy Agents TBAAnnalee Good • Deonte Iverson • Shahanna McKinney-Baldon • Latoya Holiday • Molly Garner Carroll Contemplative Practices for Educators: Theory and Practice TBATuyet Cullen • Evan Moss Integrating Culturally Responsive and Trauma-Informed Creative Movement in Diverse Classrooms TBADr. Chell Parkins Low-Stakes Writing to Support Thinking, Connection and Community TBABryn Orum Restorative Justice as a Pedagogical and Organizational Tool to Address Racial Discipline Disparities TBAKevin Lawrence Henry Jr. Thinking routines and hands-on learning TBAPeter Wardrip Understanding and Getting the Most out of Teacher Evaluations TBAEvan Metcalf Whoopensocker Creative Sparks for Student Ideas: Theater as a Tool to Teach Creative Writing TBAAmanda Farrar

3:00pm CDT

Group Photo TBA

4:00pm CDT

Keynote: 2025 National Teacher of the Year TBA

5:00pm CDT

Reception Alumni Lounge

8:30am CDT

Breakfast Alumni Lounge

8:45am CDT

Co-teaching and Co-planning for multilingual learners in an inclusive classroom TBADaria Borokhim For the love of reading TBAKara Lawson Outdoor Education: Let's Get These Kids Outside! TBAJosie Guiney Igielski Wisconsin First Nations Educator Exemplars: Integrating Indigenous Culture Throughout the Year TBAJami Hoekstra Collins • Ron Jetty • Brian Collins • Mia Forslund

10:30am CDT

Cultivating Emotional Resilience for Teachers TBAKerry Kretchmar Making it Happen: Translanguaging Pedagogies in Practice TBALisa Velarde • Kaycee Rogers Preventing Bias-Based Bullying: Strategies to Build Stronger, Safer Classroom Communities TBAJohn Peschl Teaching Landscapes: Mapping Our Paths, Places, and Perspectives TBAMary Hoefferle Trusting your AI TBASandra Taylor-Marshall • Shamya Karumbaiah Unlocking Literacy: Teaching Beginning Reading with the Science of Reading TBASusan Syverud

12:00pm CDT

Lunch & Resource Tables Alumni Lounge School of Education Career Center Alumni LoungeZack Minnier

1:15pm CDT

Building Culture and Climate in the Classroom TBAKelly McCann so now you want to be a CT TBAEvan Moss Using a Simulation to Engage in Climate Change Science and Policy TBAJeremy Stoddard “I Have a Question!” - Questions Protocols to Keep in Your Back Pocket TBADr. Irene Ann Resenly

1:45pm CDT

Warm Calling: A Strategy to Illuminate Student Brilliance TBALisa Hennessey

8:30am CDT

Breakfast & Intention Setting TBA

9:30am CDT

Full Group Alumni Lounge

12:00pm CDT

Lunch Alumni Lounge

1:00pm CDT

Closing Reflection & Feedback Alumni LoungeKelly Hayek • Peter Kirschmann • Tom Owenby

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