FEBRUARY 26, 2026 | 2:00 PM ET
Acclaimed educator Flower Darby shares how small shifts can bring more joy and engagement to your teaching, and help students flourish. Register now!
Want to feel more energized in your teaching? In this timely session, acclaimed educator and author Flower Darby shares how insights from positive psychology can bring more joy, resilience, and engagement to your classroom.
You’ll be introduced to PERMA, a practical framework built around five key elements of well-being: positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment. Together, they offer a powerful lens for designing learning experiences that energize, connect, and inspire.
With practical strategies and relatable examples, you’ll learn how small, intentional changes can help you and your students flourish—online, in-person, and everywhere in between.
The happier the teacher, the better the learning experience. In her latest book, Flower Darby draws on learning science, human flourishing, and decades of teaching to share practical strategies for building connection, presence, and purpose in online courses, helping instructors teach more sustainably while creating more engaging student learning.
An internationally-renowned instructor, author, and speaker, Flower Darby inspires educators to bring an equity-minded lens to enhance their teaching practices. As Associate Director of the Teaching for Learning Center at the University of Missouri, she draws on 28+ years of teaching across diverse subjects and modalities. Darby’s work empowers faculty to create inclusive learning experiences, and her publications include The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching (2023) and Small Teaching Online (2019).