The holiday magic is back! Join us for the second annual Wesbrook Village Holiday Market, where local artisans, festive lights, and live music bring Norman MacKenzie Square to life. Snag a hot chocolate from Blenz or Doughgirls and stroll through the square while browsing some holiday goods and crafts!
The 2025 CTLT Winter Institute will be held December 8-11, both in person at UBC Vancouver and online. This series of workshops invites faculty to pause mid-year to reflect on their teaching practices and their impact on student learning. Participants will have opportunities to share insights, explore evidence-informed approaches, and connect with colleagues across disciplines […]
Series: 2025 Winter Institute During the pandemic, many of us showed remarkable care and flexibility—especially in post-secondary education, where everyone had to quickly adapt to online learning. As post-pandemic demands grow, that collective gentleness is harder to maintain. What if care wasn’t something we added only in crisis but built into teaching and learning from […]
Series: 2025 Winter Institute The labour of caring for student wellbeing disproportionately falls to Educational Leadership (EL) faculty and particularly to those from equity-denied groups. This labour is often not recognized or supported. Being drained from emotional labour of supporting students’ wellbeing means that EL faculty cannot fully engage in educational leadership activities, nor optimally […]
Are you considering using the holiday break to jump start on preparation for your professional/ career development in the new year, 2026? Have you been wondering where to start and what self-directed learning resources are available? Bring your questions to this open Q&A session. We will provide you with food for thought, resources and strategies […]
Series: 2025 Winter Institute University educators are ideally positioned to offer their students what Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, called “education in hope” – a forward-looking, critically aware, and action-oriented understanding of the complexities that affect oneself and one’s society. And yet, educators themselves face their own contentious relationship to hope amidst unpredictable times of austerity, […]