SSWCA hosts digital roundtables on various topics of interest to secondary school writing and peer tutoring center directors and tutors throughout the year.
All meetings are held on Zoom and last approximately one hour. As always, our member schools participate in these sessions for free; join or renew your membership here. For the 2025-26 school year, Digital Roundtables are free for all registrants, whether they are SSWCA members or not.
All individuals who want to participate must register ahead of time for each digital roundtable of interest. Space is limited to allow participants to engage in small-group, collaborative discussions. Registered participants are emailed a Zoom link and guiding questions a prior to the digital roundtable. For security reasons, we cannot admit individuals who are not pre-registered, so please ensure the name on your Zoom account matches the name you used to register.
Questions and suggestions for future roundtable discussion topics can be emailed to admin@sswca.org.
UPCOMING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
Margins and Milestones: An End-of Year Director’s Debrief
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 – 7:00 pm EST
Join us for Margins & Milestones, a digital roundtable designed exclusively for Writing Center Directors to reflect and debrief on the past academic year. This isn’t a formal presentation or a data-heavy seminar—it’s an open forum for the people who keep the gears turning.We’ll be sharing the “marginalia” of our year:
- The Wins: Which new initiatives actually stuck?
- The Friction: How did we navigate the evolving landscape of AI and academic integrity?
- The Growth: What did we learn about our tutors (and ourselves) in the process?
Whether your year was a masterpiece or a messy first draft, let’s celebrate the milestones and troubleshoot the smudge marks together.
Facilitated by Lisa Fisher of The Hockaday School in Dallas, TX and Amanda Holliday of Cape Fear Academy in Wilmington, NC
Eventbrite Registration Link
PAST ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
From Policing to Pedagogy: Writing Centers as Leaders in the AI Conversation
Neurodivergence in the Writing Center
Everyone’s a Writer! How Writing Centers Can Support Writing across the Curriculum
You’re Not Home Alone: The Excitement–and Craziness–of Being a New Director!
Tutor Shop Talk: Conference Proposal Prep
AI in the Writing Center
SSWCA 101 for Tutors
Director Tips & Tricks for Conference Travel
Workshop for Directors: Writing an Article for JPTSS
Open Forum
New Director
Determining Areas of Growth
The Elective Course
Talk with The Journal of Peer Tutoring in Secondary Schools Editors
Director Speed Dating: Making Professional Connections
Tutor Recruitment
All-subject Learning Centers
Goal Setting and Prep for Next Year
Tutor-led open forum discussion
Converting your conference presentation into a JPTSS article
Beyond the English Department (Writing Across the Curriculum initiatives, etc.)
Managing goals/expectations and setting boundaries
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