Benefitting from Student-Instructor Partnerships in Professional Development: An Example from the C2C Workshop

The Courses to Careers (C2C) workshop is a dual-thread, professional development (PD) experience that is centered on creating faculty-student partnerships to address ableism in physics courses and careers. With both faculty and disabled students in the room, this workshop employs a unique model that elevates and centers disabled students' expertise and lived experience to aid in course reform, while the same disabled students also benefit from faculty expertise in potential STEM career pathways. In the creation of the workshop, many sessions were designed to facilitate building partnership through shared conversations, experiences, and feedback. In this poster, we highlight the design of the C2C workshop, the impact of the partnerships between faculty and students in the workshop, and the challenges to creating mutually-beneficial partnerships.