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Uptown Campus
Tulane University’s Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) is excited to announce that Dr. Amy Baldwin, Ed.D., will serve as the Plenary Speaker for the 8th Annual Sparking Success: Faculty Development Conference.
Dr. Baldwin’s work explores how mindset, feedback, and belonging shape student learning. Drawing on the latest research and her commitment to student success at both the undergraduate and graduate/professional levels, she offers practical strategies to help students reframe failure, stay motivated, and thrive, both academically and personally. Her work highlights how small shifts in approach can build student resilience and support lasting success.
Sparking Success encourages faculty, staff, and graduate and professional students to come together, build community, and find inspiration for enhancing our shared work on campus, making Dr. Baldwin’s message especially timely and relevant.
Thursday, January 8 , 2026 Sparking Success Breakout Sessions will take place on the Tulane University, Uptown Campus.
Breakout Sessions will include:
- Beyond the Grade: Rethinking Assessment That Drives Student Success
- Bootcamps: Creating Connections for Success
- Co-Authoring Course Policies to Create a Welcoming Classroom
- Disrupting the Algorithm: Critical Writing in the Age of AI
- Feedback That Fuels: Moving Students from Stuck to Successful
- From Social Loafing to Shared Success: Using Short Team Challenges to Build Collaboration and Accountability
- From the Ground Up: Co-Creating AI Policies That Bridge Classroom and Campus
- Harnessing AI to Build Assessment Question Banks for Education
- Let Them Drive: Steering Your Class Towards Student-Centered Active Learning
- "Looking for an AI Resistant/ AI Ready Teaching Method? Consider Project Based
Learning!" - Prepping Myself & My Course for Unprepared First-Generation College Students
- Seeing is Believing: Simulation Learning for Higher Education and the Future of Workforce Readiness
