High Impact and Practices
2027 APSA Teaching & Learning Conference
Portland, Oregon, February 5-7, 2027
Deadline: October 7, 2026, 11:59 PM PDT
High Impact practices are effective pedagogical techniques that have significant impacts on student learnings. This track seeks to explore how high impact practices can prepare students to be participatory democratic citizens. These practices could include the value of capstone courses, active learning techniques, e-portfolios, undergraduate research programs, experiential learning, internships, service-learning, writing, problem-based learning, collaborating across differences, independent research or study abroad experiences. This track would welcome submissions on how educators are using any of the practices and the successes/challenges of implementation.
- Submit your proposal for the 18th APSA Teaching & Learning Conference.
- All TLC 2027 proposals must be submitted by October 7, 2026, 11:59 PM PDT.
- Explore all TLC 2027 track descriptions or view submission instructions.
About the APSA Teaching & Learning Conference
Join political science teacher-scholars and students for the 2027 APSA Teaching & Learning Conference, held in Portland, Oregon, February 5-7, 2027. The conference theme is “Building Bridges: Dialogue and Discovery in Political Science.” Partisan polarization is at all time highs, and the value of higher education, the liberal arts, and social science knowledge is under scrutiny, Political Science is in a unique position to address both threats by building bridges across differences. The TLC is a unique conference that provides a highly interactive forum for scholars to share research and innovative tools for political science education. The conference focuses on promoting the scholarship of teaching and learning, equipping faculty with new techniques and resources for teaching, and enhancing the role of teaching in the discipline of political science.
All attendees will be asked to select a track when registering and will expected to attend each session in the selected track. Workshop and roundtable attendance is not determined by track, and these sessions are open to any conference attendee.
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