Collective Growth: Cultivating Meaningful Change
Celebrate Learning Week 2025
May 5 – 9, 2025
CLW 2025 THEME
Collective Growth: Cultivating Meaningful Change
Meaningful change doesn’t happen in isolation; it’s shaped by the people, ideas and actions that come together with intention. At the 16th annual Celebrate Learning Week, we will highlight the ways we plant the seeds of change for lasting impacts in teaching and learning. Whether it’s taking the first step, nurturing ongoing efforts, or reflecting on lessons learned, this year’s theme centers on showcasing collective growth, meaningful change and the relationships that make it possible.
UBCV KEYNOTE: RAJIV JHANGIANI
Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning at Brock University
Designing for Justice: On Navigating Change as a Critical Pedagogue
May 6, 2025 | 10:30am – 12:00pm | Online
From pandemic pedagogies to the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence, post-secondary educators have recently had to manage the destabilizing effects of much uncertainty and change. In this presentation we will consider some ways in which educators and institutions can embrace and support meaningful change that serves our core mission to widen equitable access, empower learners, cultivate critical consciousness, and lead societal transformation.
UBCO KEYNOTE: DAVE CORMIER
Learning in a Time of Abundance
May 9, 2025 | 9:00am – 10:30am | Online
Our education systems were designed to solve the problem of information scarcity. We collected information in books, created artifacts like essays to prove that we knew how to find and handle that information and our schools were often the only places where that information could be found. The information technologies of the last 30 years have changed all of that. Information is now more abundant than ever before. Learners can access information with little or not effort. At the same time, the world is more complex and uncertain. What does this mean for post-secondary education?
ABOUT CLW
What is Celebrate Learning Week?
From May 5 to May 9, 2025, the Provosts and Vice-President Academic from UBCO and UBCV will collaboratively present this cross-campus week-long initiative showcasing teaching and learning at UBC through open lectures, poster sessions, panel discussions, workshops and more. UBC faculty, staff and students as well as community members are encouraged to participate in Celebrate Learning Week by attending and/or coordinating events. Learn more about CLW.
Participate in CLW
View a full listing of events taking place during CLW 2025.
Respect & Inclusion
Read our respect and inclusion statement which applies to everyone attending or participating in Celebrate Learning Week.
We acknowledge that Celebrate Learning Week is being hosted on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) People. The organizing committee would like to express its gratitude to those communities for all of their contributions to the teaching and learning community at UBC. We encourage everyone to learn more about the relationships between UBC and the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) People + the Syilx Okanagan Nation.