2020
After careful consideration, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching has made the very difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Learning and Teaching Conference, Partners in Learning, which was scheduled to take place on May 14, 2020.
We recognize that the Learning and Teaching Conference is an important annual event that our community members look forward to participating in each year. The conference celebrates the Toronto Metropolitan University teaching community, and brings us together to share practices, experiences, and creative approaches to learning and teaching. We are committed to keeping our teaching community connected and providing opportunities to celebrate teaching excellence throughout the coming year.
We want to hear your ideas for how we can celebrate our community over the next few months. Please share success stories for us to highlight in our monthly newsletter, tell us about events or conversations that are happening within your programs and departments, or let us know topics you would like to learn more about and explore virtually.
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Partners in Learning
Each year at the Learning and Teaching Conference, we come together to share practices, experiences, and insights about learning and teaching. This year our theme is Partners in Learning and we are excited to celebrate our learning community. At Toronto Metropolitan University, learning is a collaboration between many partners working together, creating and sharing knowledge, connecting learning inside and outside the classroom, learning in the community and on campus. Our theme recognizes all the ways we put learning and students at the centre of everything we do.
Keynote - Jay Pitter, MES H2
Jay Pitter, MES, is an award-winning placemaker and author whose practice mitigates growing divides in urban centres across North America. Recently, Jay consulted on Edmonton’s heritage plan; co-developed the City of Toronto's new shelter design guidelines, delivered a professional development process at UN Women headquarters in New York City; and led (RE)IMAGINING CHEAPSIDE, a Confederate monument placemaking process in Lexington, Kentucky. In addition to leading numerous city‑building projects, Pitter’s extensive contribution to academia includes delivering keynotes and lectures at post-secondary institutions such as MIT, University of Alberta, University of Waterloo, University of British Columbia, and her alma mater, York University. Jay has also taught a graduate level urban planning course at Toronto Metropolitan University using Subdivided, which she co‑edited and contributed to, as the core text and she developed a certificate course focused on urban growth and social justice at the University of Detroit Mercy’s School of Architecture. Jay has been named the John Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in Planning by the University of Toronto for the 2019-2020 academic year. In the upcoming months, Jay’s HER City project will engage women in public space audits and play. Her forthcoming book, Where We Live, will be published by McClelland & Stewart in 2020.