Dates: February 26, 27 & 28, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: North Campus

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Institute is a three-day in-person immersive professional learning experience for Humber faculty.  During the UDL Institute, Humber faculty will reflect on and create opportunities to adopt a UDL framework into their teaching practice, examine their current curriculum practices and design learning experiences that integrate an Antiracism and UDL framework. Faculty who participate in the UDL Institute and successfully complete the final assessment will receive a micro-credential.

Learning outcomes: 

1. Identify the rationale, goals, and principles of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework 
2. Examine methodologies and strategies that are associated with UDL in higher education 
3. Consider ways to incorporate UDL Principles into teaching practice 
4. Re-design a learning experience, either a lesson or an assessment, using a UDL Framework

This year we will be joined by two pre-eminent experts, Dr. Eric Moore and Ms. Andratesha Fritzgerald. They will be facilitating your Monday and Tuesday sessions, respectively.

Eric Moore, PhD, author of UDL Navigators in Higher Education
Date: Monday, February 26

Andratesha Fritzgerald, EdS, author of Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning
Date: Tuesday, February 27

Faculty who submit a registration form will be contacted via email to confirm their spot in the UDL Institute. By completing this registration form, you are committing to attend all three days.

Note, if you register for the UDL Institute, you do not need to complete a separate registration for the keynote sessions. Space is limited.

Register now

Innovative Learning

We are excited to share details of the 2024 Support Staff Professional Development (SSPD) Event, which focuses on professional development for support staff. This year will mark our 34th year celebrating a support staff development event.

This year, the sessions will be delivered in-person and online over the course of four days from Monday, February 26 to Thursday, February 29.

Our support staff are vitally important in helping us deliver on our programs and services to students and employees. This year’s professional development sessions focus on growth and development, sustainability, and personal well-being and mental health. There will be 13 different workshops delivered on these topics.

Registration for the sessions is open to all support staff employees (full-time, part-time, casual, temporary) to participate in.

Please visit the Support Staff Professional Development Event website to view and register for the sessions.

Questions? Please email us at oe@humber.ca. 

Dates: February 26, 27 & 28, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: North Campus

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Institute is a three-day in-person immersive professional learning experience for Humber faculty.  During the UDL Institute, Humber faculty will reflect on and create opportunities to adopt a UDL framework into their teaching practice, examine their current curriculum practices and design learning experiences that integrate an Antiracism and UDL framework. Faculty who participate in the UDL Institute and successfully complete the final assessment will receive a micro-credential.

Learning outcomes: 

1. Identify the rationale, goals, and principles of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework 
2. Examine methodologies and strategies that are associated with UDL in higher education 
3. Consider ways to incorporate UDL Principles into teaching practice 
4. Re-design a learning experience, either a lesson or an assessment, using a UDL Framework

This year we will be joined by two pre-eminent experts, Dr. Eric Moore and Ms. Andratesha Fritzgerald. They will be facilitating your Monday and Tuesday sessions, respectively.

Eric Moore, PhD, author of UDL Navigators in Higher Education
Date: Monday, February 26

Andratesha Fritzgerald, EdS, author of Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning
Date: Tuesday, February 27

Faculty who submit a registration form will be contacted via email to confirm their spot in the UDL Institute. By completing this registration form, you are committing to attend all three days.

Note, if you register for the UDL Institute, you do not need to complete a separate registration for the keynote sessions. Space is limited.

Register now

Innovative Learning

Internationally acclaimed jazz trumpeter Ingrid Jensen performs with the Humber Jazz Big Band and the Forward Motion Ensemble on Friday, February 23, 2024. 

Hailed as one of the most gifted trumpeters of her generation, the New York-based Canadian will be the featured artist-in-residence, performing a sizzling set with the powerful 18-piece Humber Jazz Big Band led by composer/arranger Shelly Berger. The concert program will also feature new modern jazz pieces for trumpet and the funk groove-based Forward Motion Ensemble, directed by acclaimed bassist Rich Brown. 

Originally from Victoria, BC, a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Jensen went on to solidify a reputation as one of the most in-demand trumpet players on the global jazz scene, after the release of her albums Vernal Fields (Enja label, 1994); Here on Earth (1997) and Higher Grounds (1999).  

After touring Europe with the Vienna Art Orchestra, Jensen remained to teach jazz trumpet, becoming, at age 25, the youngest professor at Austria's Bruckner Conservatory. In 1994 Jensen settled in New York City where she joined the big band DIVA Jazz Orchestra and the innovative jazz ensembles of Maria Schneider (1994-2012) and Darcy James Argue (2002-present). In addition to leading her own bands and performing with Grammy-winning drummer, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jensen is the current Dean of Jazz Arts at Jensen at the Manhattan School of Music and a dedicated jazz educator. Humber Music is pleased to have Ingrid Jensen as the featured artist-in-residence this year, to work with the students in an intensive period of lectures, workshops, rehearsals and concerts.

This will undoubtedly be one of the most memorable concerts taking place in the GTA this year.

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