Burian, Conny2017-07-102017-07-102017-05Last name, FN. (2017). Title of Paper, University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching: Creating a Learning Culture: Conversations that Matter, Calgary, May 2-3. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary.http://hdl.handle.net/1880/52132My poster presents an early stage project, entitled Enhancing Educational Leadership, Student Engagement, and Community Ties: The Untapped Potential of Block Week Courses. It explores how various meaningful conversations—with colleagues, researchers, students, and teaching assistants—can help develop concrete guidelines and much-needed resources for instructors of five-day block week courses. My presentation highlights a particularly challenging aspect of the research: the process of engaging colleagues and students in meaningful conversations, and of developing resources for instructors teaching classes in this still unusual format. Drawing on Roxår’s & et al.’s network approach, the poster depicts the various ways in which workshops, conference presentations, interviews, community of practice meetings, and informal conversations can ignite change and contribute to improving teaching practices.Presentation10.11575/PRISM/10267