Thursday, January 29, 2026
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Data-Driven Practices For Maximum Involvement & Impact

Faculty and student success professionals are striving to create all-encompassing, engaging classroom environments — yet many find themselves discouraged when students seem disengaged or disconnected. While research consistently shows that belonging and growth mindset improves student success, translating those values into daily practice remains a challenge.

Join us January 29, 2026, for an engaging and practical session that will help you move from intention to impact by embedding strategies and practices for maximum involvement directly into your teaching and course design. Our expert presenters will share how they used student response data to uncover hidden barriers to belonging and redesigned teaching practices that measurably increased student motivation and performance.

Equip your faculty and staff with immediately actionable tools and strategies to translate belonging from an abstract value into an everyday classroom reality — one that strengthens relationships, deepens learning, and helps students thrive.  Reignite your own sense of purpose as an educator and support institutional retention initiatives.

Topics Covered

You will gain crucial, empowering takeaways that will help you:

• Create classrooms that apply belonging and growth mindset principles that foster student motivation, stronger academic performance and persistence.
• Interpret and use student engagement data to identify barriers and make informed changes in course design and delivery.
• Collaborate across departments to align student success efforts and reduce silos between academic and student support teams.
• Design flexible, inclusive learning environments that honor different learning preferences and cognitive strengths- improving outcomes for all students.
• Build and sustain faculty learning communities that encourage experimentation, reflection, and continuous improvement.
• Apply belonging and growth mindset principles to classroom practices that foster student motivation, persistence, and academic success.

Presenters

Dr. Amy Buechler-Steubing currently serves at the Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Learning Innovation at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) an R1, Hispanic Serving Institution.
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Dr. Mary Dixson is currently a Professor Instruction in Communication at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
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