Note: This session will be offered in person only.
This session uses a World Café–inspired structure to engage faculty in focused, practice-centered conversations about the questions we are actively navigating in our teaching right now. In this collaborative problem-solving space, participants explore challenges such as how AI is reshaping what we ask students to do and how we assess learning, how to facilitate meaningful dialogue across difference, how to balance rigor, belonging, and academic freedom in the classroom, and more.
Participants rotate among small-group tables, each centered on a carefully designed question grounded in real teaching challenges. At each table, participants share experiences, share ideas, and capture key insights, tensions, and strategies directly on table paper. As groups rotate, conversations build on one another, allowing participants to see how different approaches emerge across disciplines and contexts.
The session prioritizes shared understanding, intellectual rigor, and mutual listening, generating a collective record of concerns and themes. This format is especially well suited for moments of uncertainty and rapid change. Rather than aiming for quick consensus, the session supports faculty in learning from one another, surfacing what is working, and identifying new approaches to try. By the end of the session, participants will leave with practical ideas, language, and questions they can bring back to their own teaching, along with a stronger sense of shared purpose in navigating today’s challenges.
Assistant Director of Learning Design, Georgetown University
Kim Huisman is Assistant Director of Learning Design at Georgetown University’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) and adjunct faculty in Justice and Peace Studies. Her current work focuses on inclusive, experiential, and dialogue-based teaching practices... Read More →
Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the Center for Security Studies (CSS), Georgetown University
Professor Rebecca D. Patterson is the Associate Director of the Center for Security Studies and Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and Professor of the Practice of International Affairs in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Professor Patterson’s research... Read More →
