ILAC 2025 Session Information

We want to ensure that individuals and programs from diverse institutions, backgrounds, and experiences have opportunities to share their expertise throughout the conference sessions.

The submission period for proposing a research talk, pedagogy or disciplinary lesson, contributed session, or for requesting to join an LAA workshop facilitation team closed on May 15, 2025.  Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal or expressed interest in joining an LAA faciltation team!

  • Submission deadline: May 15
  • Submission status notification: June 16

While everyone's voice is valued, there is finite space in the agenda, and we will do our best to accommodate your great work.

There is still space available for additional poster presentations!  Posters may describe your research, your programs, course structures and curriculum materials you use in your LA-supported course, or anything LA-related.  Posters will be accepted until August 1st or until we reach capacity.

Poster Guidelines

  1. You will be able to attach your poster to a poster board that is 48 inches tall by 48 inches wide.
  2. You will present your poster in one 30-45 minute block during the Poster Session.
  3. Poster titles and abstracts will be made available to ILAC attendees. 

Types of Sessions at ILAC 2025

  • LAA Workshops: These workshops have previously been developed by members of the LAA, and will be led by experienced LAA facilitators. LAA workshop topics:
    • Transforming your Course with LAs / Active Learning
    • Supporting Faculty in their Collaboration with LAs
    • What is the Weekly Prep Session?
    • What Belongs in a Pedagogy Course?
    • Making the Case to Administrators of the Value of the LA Model
    • Ways LAs and Instructors can Foster Inclusive Learning Environments
  • Contributed Session: These sessions and interactive workshops were proposed and will be led by LAA community practioners (60-minute sessions).
  • Pedagogy and Disciplinary Lessons: These pedagogy lessons or subject-specific lessons involve active learning.  Participants will be immersed as learners during the session and will debrief the experience as a group (40-minute lesson plus 20-minute discussion).
  • Reserach Talks: LAA community practioners will share research findings with the community (25 minutes with Q&A).
  • Posters: Posters will describe research, programs, course structures and curriculum materials used in LA-supported courses, or anything LA-related.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

We will have time and space for SIGs to meet at ILAC to discuss specialized topics. Start thinking about your own special interests within the LAA community and a SIG that you'd like to continue participating in beyond ILAC.

Example topics presented at previous ILACs

Community-contributed workshops

  • Bold successes through assessment of student learning with the LA model
  • Peer observations in LA-supported courses
  • Revolutionizing learning: Dynamic strategies for active engagement in a non-STEM upper division course with the LA model
  • Doing your LAPS: Developing LA Plus Sessions to support the study cycle
  • STEM Learning Assistant personas: A tool to understand LAs' needs, goals, and science identities
  • A Call to Action: Positioning LAs as co-designers, partners, and leaders in enacting equity and justice in STEM classrooms
  • Equity, status, and smartness
  • Exploring logic with POGIL (Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning): Inquiry activities for general education math
  • Working with Learning Assistants in a POGIL classroom 
  • Collaborating with existing programs
  • Developing an academy for faculty with Learning Assistants: Reflection, guidance, and exploration (LA-RGE)
  • Canva training
  • Supercharging faculty to work with Learning Assistants: Training faculty in the art of science of teaching (the MoSI model)
  • Learning from LAs: How analyses of LA reflections can expand understanding

Immersive Pedagogy and Disciplinary Lessons
Pedagogy Lessons:

  • STEM Identity and Intersectionality
  • Puzzled and intrigued: Simulating a problem-solving session to help LAs reflect on metacognitive thinking
  • Attending to students' in-the-moment learning
  • Metacognition: Being aware of what you're trying to accomplish
  • Highlighting NACE career competencies achieved through Learning Assistant experiences

Disciplinary Lessons:

  • Partial fractions via stations
  • Translating the language of life
  • Digital versus hands-on molecular modeling in exploring molecular shapes, VSEPR

Research Talks

  • Why do they do what they do? A model to understand what drives Learning Assistant facilitation practices
  • Lessons from the ACCESS Fellowship: Developing LAs' structural lens to enact equity and justice in STEM learning environments 
  • Exploring problem-solution feedback of Learning Assistants in LA Seminar via a design thinking project
  • Learning Assistants have comparable impacts on student belonging and confidence across science disciplines and course contexts
  • The impact of Learning Assistants on the experiences of first generation students
  • What makes an LA a peer mentor? Students' perceptions of mentoring supports from LAs in undergraduate STEM classrooms
  • Undergraduate students' perception of Learning Assistants effectiveness
  • Developing Learning Assistant's facilitation practices using a mixed-reality simulator
  • Enhancing Computer Science education with LAs using AI-empowered AIELA program

ILAC 2025 Links

LAA Event Policies