University of Toronto’s Teaching and Learning Symposium
Teaching and Learning for Human Flourishing
May 12 and 13, 2025
Special thank you to U of T Professors Aarthi Ashok, Robert Gibbs, Trimble, and Keith Adamson who participated in the Opening Plenary Panel: Learning, Leading, and Thriving for Human Flourishing: Insightful ideas to catalyze change, and to our closing keynote Jessica Riddell, Professor, Bishop’s University, who led the interactive in-person Closing Plenary Hope Circuits at a time of Seismic Change: Re-wiring our classrooms and institution for Human and Ecological Flourishing. Thanks as well to Sufia Langevin, 3M National Student Fellow and Jarislowsky Postgraduate Research Fellow, who supported Prof. Riddell’s session. Our event is richer for the conversations and reflections you encouraged.
Thank you as well to our colleagues in the Office of the Vice-Provost, Innovations in Undergraduate Education, Jen Evans and Nina Schweppe, who joined us on Day 2 to recognize our institutional teaching award winners.
We would also like to extend our gratitude to the Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship for hosting our in-person day and Natalie Wallace-Schlieffer, Steven Eliopoulos, Matthew Ramolo, and Adrian Bueno with the Tech2U Learning Space Management team for providing support leading up to and throughout the day.
And finally – many thanks to all of you! Your thoughtful contributions and meaningful engagement are what drive the success of this event.
We would like to acknowledge and thank the following:
TLS 2025 Organizing Committee
Alison Gibbs
Megan Burnett
Kelly Gordon (Symposium Coordinator)
Kathleen Olmstead
Derek Wilson
Shenae Collins
Reviewers
Lindsay Baker
Shannon Black
Megan Burnett
Samantha Chang
Cristina D’Amico
Alli Diskin
Maher Elshakankiri
Alison Gibbs
Navroop Gill
Kelly Gordon
Adriana Grimaldi
Julie Hannaford
Heather Hermant
Derek Hunt
Shayne Hyman Train
Hannah Jackson
Shone Joos
Michal Kasprzak
Cheryl Lepard
Naomi Levy-Strumpf
Alexandra Logue
Erin Macnab
Saira Mall
Cora McCloy
Karen McCrindle
Kathleen Olmstead
Sun Ooi
Fiona Rawle
Jasjit Sangha
Victoria Sheldon
Jastaran Singh
Devon Stolz
Sharon Switzer-Mcintyre
Carey Toane
Marko Piljevic
Alicja Wigglesworth
Andrea Williams
Derek Wilson
Christine Wong
Hope Summit Facilitators
Aarthi Ashok
Inga Breede
Heather Buchansky
Liz DaMaren
Jason De Melo
Stefana Gargova
Navroop Gill
Adriana Grimaldi
Elaine Khoo
Hang-Sun Kim
Naomi Levy-Strumpf
Laura McKinley
Sandra Merklinger
Sarah Peirce
Shelby Riskin
Jasjit Sangha
Meranda Salem
Karen Smith
Devon Stolz
Sharon Switzer-Mcintyre
Emily Wood
Volunteers (concurrent session hosts, plenary notetakers, website development, tech support, presenter support)
Megan Burnett
Cristina D’Amico
Alli Diskin
Jordan Holm
Anh Huynh
Mike Kasprzak
Raymond Luong
Cora McCloy
Bridgid McNulty
Marko Piljevic
Maryam Shafiei
Victoria Sheldon
Insha Sohail
Paul Steacy
Devon Stolz
Carey Toane
Yuxin Tu
Shayne Train
Derek Wilson
Laura Vanderkraan