MYFest 2026: Schedule

Do you feel truly seen and valued in your work, and are you helping others feel that way too? Join us for a six-session book circle exploring “Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose” by Jennifer Breheny Wallace hosted by Theresa Destrebecq.

This session shares our journey of writing a book chapter (under review) entitled: A Praxis of Emergence and Intentional Adaptation at Equity Unbound. We will share our full autoethnographic narratives ahead of time, and during the session share excerpts from them and share with participants key insights we gained from our writing. We will then invite participants to share with us how they think IEH may transfer to other contexts, and the challenges they have faced or expect to face when trying to apply it in different communities.

These sessions will be thematic and bring together 2-3 emerging scholars (i.e. somewhere between proposal stage of a PhD and recently completed it) to share their research in 10 minutes, followed by a discussion that is focused on questions the scholars themselves pose for the audience (e.g. requesting feedback, etc.)

AI is reshaping education, threatening critical thinking through cognitive offloading. Teachers must redesign tasks to embed iterative thinking, from planning and prompting to evaluating and defending, ensuring students engage deeply with AI rather than surrender their thinking to it. The goal is not to restrict AI but to reposition it as a tool that supports but never replaces student thinking.

In this session, we will offer some principles of designing hybrid events in ways that are intentionally equitable and also engaging for both online and in-person participants. The session builds on the IEH praxis of Virtually connecting (which was hybrid). Participants will have opportunities to reflect on the best and worst hybrid experiences they have had, and reimagine a particular upcoming event as intentionally equitable hybrid.