The Creating Community Teach-In brings together faculty, staff, and students around Tulane’s campus for universally accessible programming that deepens our campus’s learning around beloved community, academic excellence, and opportunity.
2026 Creating Community Teach-in
Join us for the 2026 Creating Community Teach-in for Tulane faculty and staff! Please note you must register once for the entire 2026 Creating Community Teach-In, which will grant you access to each of the following sessions listed below. We are excited to come together as a community to learn and grow with one another in how we can bring alive our value of welcoming community.
The Office of Academic Excellence and Opportunity invites you to participate in the 2026 Creating Community Teach-In, a fully virtual, university-wide event centered on this year’s theme, Threaded TUgether.
Taking place on April 10, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., the Teach-In brings together scholars, community leaders, and members of the Tulane community for a day of reflection, dialogue, and connection.
Through keynotes, conversations, and panels, we explore how storytelling, memory, and lived experience shape our understanding of community across generations, disciplines, and relationships to place.
This year’s keynote speakers include:
Mama Carol Bebelle: opening the day with reflections on storytelling as a foundation for courage and collective connection
Johnny Tim Yellowtail, caretaker of Heart Mountain: engaging the role of memory and history in shaping present understanding
Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass: offering a national keynote on reciprocity, ecological knowledge, and the teachings of the natural world
All are welcome to attend any portion of the program or participate in the full day. All sessions are fully virtual and designed to be accessible.
The Teach-In also offers a strong opportunity for classroom integration. Faculty may wish to encourage student participation through extra credit or incorporate sessions into course discussions, as the program engages themes relevant across disciplines, including history, environmental studies, public health, education, and the social sciences.
In addition to the program, attendees will have opportunities to receive book giveaways connected to our keynote speakers.
