2026 BCCE attendees can engage with five dimensions of programming. There are opportunities for collaborative dialogue (birds-of-a-feather and community conversations) and individual contributions (poster sessions, symposia, and workshops). BCCE attendees can submit program proposals to organize birds-of-a-feather, <\/span>community conversations, symposia, and\/or workshops (beginning August 1, 2025); they can also contribute abstracts to poster sessions and symposia (beginning February 1, 2026).<\/p>\n Symposia<\/i><\/strong><\/span> are collections of contributions intended to showcase and ignite discussion on the latest developments around a specific aspect of chemistry education. <\/span>Symposia<\/span><\/i> organizers are encouraged to use both <\/span>distillation<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>talk<\/span><\/i> formats thoughtfully to achieve the session\u2019s goals. <\/span>Symposia<\/span><\/i> may be \u201cinvited\u201d to curate a specific collection of expertise or experience, or may be \u201ccontributed\u201d to allow attendees to self-nominate potential contributions.<\/span><\/p>\n Poster presentations<\/i><\/strong><\/span> are ideal for engaging in informal, deep, and extended discussions of your work. These are good ways to present a new or developing project, but they can also be useful for presenting the results of mature projects. No matter your topic, <\/span>posters<\/span><\/i> are an excellent way to get rich and meaningful feedback from the community. <\/span>Poster<\/span><\/i> abstracts will be limited to 250 words.<\/span><\/p>\n Workshops <\/i><\/strong><\/span>are opportunities to engage in activities or have conversations with the broad goal of supporting chemistry learning. These activities or conversations might involve the exploration of lab pedagogies, brainstorming assessments that leverage empirical data or computational outputs, reflecting on written or video-recorded classroom data, etc. <\/span>Workshops<\/span><\/i> can also support the growth of scholarly activity in chemistry education, by providing training in proposal writing, publishing\/reviewing, research methods, etc. Importantly, <\/span>workshops<\/span><\/i> are meant to be interactive; workshop leaders and participants should work together and reflect on ways to improve chemistry teaching and learning. Workshops can be 1.5 hrs, 3 hrs, or a full day.<\/span><\/p>\n The BCCE follows a \u201crule of two\u201d concerning talks, posters, distillations, and workshops. Attendees can contribute a maximum of 2 presentations for these types of engagements. For example: 2 talks; 1 talk and 1 poster; 1 workshop and 1 distillation; etc. To allow conferees to more meaningfully engage with each other and the <\/span>Conference Contexts<\/span><\/i>, abstracts submitted for talks, posters, or distillations may be recommended for an alternate engagement format during the review process. This is in response to not only previous conference feedback, but also efforts by the ACS to limit the number of concurrent sessions at meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n To facilitate discussions around common areas of interest, BCCE attendees can engage in <\/span>Birds of a Feather<\/span><\/i> sessions (informal\/unstructured) and <\/span>Community Conversations<\/span><\/i> (structured discussions, replacing plenary sessions at the 2026 BCCE). Attendees may engage in any number of birds-of-a-feather or community conversation sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n Community Conversations<\/i><\/strong><\/span> are 60-min facilitated collaborative dialogues on forward-looking topics of broad interest. <\/span>Conversations<\/span><\/i> have a moderator and will begin with 5-min mini-presentations by 2-3 people, who can provide both researcher and practitioner perspectives on the topic. These short presentations are intended to be a catalyst for interaction, discussion, and critique, as the remaining time will be devoted to small\/large group discussions and feedback from the community. The BCCE 2026 organizing team will host <\/span>Conversations<\/span><\/i> centered on each of the Conference Contexts; proposals for additional <\/span>Community Conversations<\/span><\/i> are welcomed.<\/span><\/p>\n Birds of a Feather<\/i><\/strong><\/span> (BoaF) sessions are great ways for conferees to gather informally to network around and\/or discuss a topic of shared interest (e.g., online chemistry learning, online laboratory, AP chemistry, organic chemistry, capstone laboratory experiences, inclusive pedagogies, etc.). One-hour BoaFs can be proposed in advance, in which case the topic and location will be available in the program. As topics of interest arise at the 2026 BCCE, BoaFs can also be proposed on-site.<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/bcce2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/07\/Program-Dimensions-Website-scaled-e1721765958300.jpg\")
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