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The Copenhaver Institute

Keynote Speakers

  • Angela Watson

    Angela Watson

  • Trevor Muir

    Trevor Muir

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 Session Proposal and Registration for Prospective Breakout Speakers

MSCI 2025
Teaching Well:
Finding the Intersection of Required Curricula and Creative Pedagogy
June 23-25, 2025

This year’s institute will be held in person on the Roanoke College campus.

Featuring The Epic Classroom authored by Trevor Mui:

MSCI 2025 will focus on: 

  • Cultivating innovative mindsets within the context of required curricula.
  • Prioritizing educator well-being amidst the current educational landscape.
  • Exploring pedagogical possibilities relevant to participants’ contexts.
  • Fostering student engagement at the intersection of fundamental curricula and creativity.

The Margaret Sue Copenhaver Institute for Teaching and Learning provides quality professional development opportunities for PreK-12 teachers and administrators and for Roanoke College students. The Institute's emphases include:

  1. Consideration of cutting-edge perspectives relevant to the teaching profession;
  2. Determination of personal and practical ways to engage students as lifelong learners; and
  3. Examination of a variety of multimedia and instructional technology strategies and tools for enhancing students' growth as learners.

The Institute gives PreK-12 teachers the opportunity to develop and practice strategies for effective instruction in cooperation with the nation's leading educational scholars.