2008 Festival of Scholarship:
Celebrating Collaborative Inquiry
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Affinity/Dialogue Groups

In the spirit of collaboration, we’ve created “affinity groups” (small dialogue groups of 10 people or fewer) that will meet regularly throughout the conference to share perspectives and experiences, as well as how your understanding of collaborative inquiry changes throughout the conference.

The letter on your nametag corresponds to the letter on your group’s table. Starting at the Thursday opening session, please sit with your affinity group and we’ll provide some guided prompts to foster dialogue.  

Return to those groups during the Friday morning plenary session and the Saturday morning plenary session. (During the other plenary sessions, feel free to sit wherever you’d like).

By the end of the conference, we hope that your group will have developed an affinity for one another through having experienced this unique conference together.