TEAL 2026: Tools for Educational Activities in Logic
A FLoC 2026 Workshop
July 25, 2026, Saturday

Goal

TEAL is a venue for work on tools for learning about logic. Our goal is to take advantage of the many groups of people who will be coming together for FLoC. Our anti-goal is to create yet another publication venue. We hope to have a lively, interactive event that focuses on exchanging knowledge and helping grow this community.

Schedule

Plenary slots will have 15 minutes to demo and up to 5 minutes for q&a. Please note that during the last minute of q&a, you need to prepare for the next speaker to set up their presentation, so please move aside and make room for them while you continue to communicate with the audience.

Shared-time demos will be organized like a poster session, with people at different stations around the room. (We are working with the organizers to figure out exactly what arrangement is possible, and will update you once we know.) If you did not have a plenary slot, you will probably want to prepare some kind of demonstration: keep this to no more than 5 minutes, so there is ample time for discussion. If you did have a plenary slot, you should think about what would be the most useful way to follow up on it, since people will have recently seen your presentation.

0900-0905 Intro
0905-0925
SAT-IT: an Online Interactive SAT Tracer
0925-0945
Carnap Ten Years Later: Lessons Learned and Next Steps
0945-1005
LogicProof: An Interactive Web-Based Educational Theorem Prover for Natural Deduction and Sequent Calculus across Classical and Constructive Logics
1005-1020 Coffee Break
1020-1100

Shared-Time Demos

SAT-IT: an Online Interactive SAT Tracer
Carnap Ten Years Later: Lessons Learned and Next Steps
LogicProof: An Interactive Web-Based Educational Theorem Prover for Natural Deduction and Sequent Calculus across Classical and Constructive Logics
Teaching Synchronous Dataflow Modelling with Learn-Heptagon
CAFÉ, an automated feedback tool to approach Formal Methods
Experiential Learning of Runtime Monitoring Using Pachinko
1100-1105 Teardown
1105-1125
Teaching LTL and ω-Automata with Spot
1125-1145
Tempus fugit: Anyone can understand temporal logic if they have to save the realm
1145-1330 Lunch
1330-1350
A Lean-based Language for Teaching Proof in High School
1350-1410
Waterproof Editor: an educational environment for proof assistants and programming languages
1410-1415 Setup
1415-1455

Shared-Time Demos

Teaching LTL and ω-Automata with Spot
A Lean-based Language for Teaching Proof in High School
Graphboard: A User Interface for Solving Graphical Problems by Drawing
DOMtutor: Automated Autograding for Logic in Computer Science
Waterproof Editor: an educational environment for proof assistants and programming languages
Tempus fugit: Anyone can understand temporal logic if they have to save the realm
1455-1510 Coffee Break
1510-1530
Logic for Fun: demonstration
1530-1540
Learning Formal Foundations of Computer Science with Iltis
1540-1550
A Tutor for Linear Temporal Logic
1550-1555 Setup
1555-1635

Shared-Time Demos

Iltis in Action: Learning Formal Foundations of Computer Science
LEGUP (Logic Engine for Grid-Using Puzzles)
LAP: Simple Command-line Tools for Teaching Logic, Algorithms, and Proof in Computer Science
Learning Formal Logic By Interactive Hypergraphical Proof Engineering in Multi-Operator Intensional Logics: Demonstrations
Logic for Fun: demonstration
Teaching Propositional Logic and Sequent Calculus to Computer Science Students
A Tutor for Linear Temporal Logic
1635-1700 Discussion

Contact

You are welcome to email the chairs at teal-2026@googlegroups.com. Please give us 2–3 days to respond.
If after that time you still haven’t heard from us, it is possible there’s an email issue, so please feel free to email us directly.

Program Committee

Archived Submission Information

The submission process is now over and we have announced decisions. Information about submission and categories are included below for archival purposes.

TEAL welcomes work on tools for learning about logic. Tools can be of many forms: tutors, restricted versions of standard logic tools, and more. They can be used at many levels: university, industrial, and more. If in doubt, you can always reach out to the chairs to check whether your work is in scope.

TEAL is not limited to papers! You can submit in any of the following categories:

  • Plenary demos, where the demonstrator shows their work to all the attendees (there is limited time for these)
  • Shared-time demos, akin to a poster session, where participants can visit several demonstrators and, as appropriate, interact with tools with the help of the demonstrators (there is time for many more of these)
  • Discussions of challenges and opportunities in logic education, such as: designing usable interfaces, evaluating educational impact, adapting tools to diverse audiences, and integrating tools into curricula
  • Regular paper presentations

If you have an idea that doesn’t fit any of the above categories, feel free to discuss it with the chairs. We will definitely consider other interesting proposals! But please do this early in the cycle, not near the deadline.

The submission form will ask you to indicate what kind of activity you are proposing. If you propose more than one, please submit each one separately, since they will be considered independently. You can submit the same work to more than one category if it really makes sense, but please do so within limits!

Plenary and Shared-Time Demos

These should describe the artifact (software, website, book, etc.) to be demoed. The submission should explain what the presentation is likely to entail. Please note that we will have a very limited number of slots for Plenary demos, so we may accept a submission only in a Shared-Time slot. Accepted submissions will receive a demo slot.

If you know you want a specific kind of demo slot, just submit for that. If you are willing to accept either, please submit twice, once for each (you can just copy-and-paste your submission), and let us know you’re submitting to both.

Discussions

These should crisply describe the topic and explain why it might lead to an interesting discussion. A topic might either be a statement of a position (asserting some claim) or a question (e.g., asking the community how it has managed to address some problem). Like a good research question, a good discussion topic should ideally not have a binary answer but instead allow for a range of views. Furthermore, a topic on which almost everyone might agree (e.g., that there is insufficient funding) is not likely to be interesting! If possible, please also include the names of potential people who might participate (e.g., as co-panelists), and tell us why they’d be interesting. Accepted submissions will receive a plenary discussion slot.

Repeat Papers

These are works strongly tied to the theme of the workshop and hence of real interest to attendees, but have already been published elsewhere. These submissions will not become part of the formal academic record of the workshop; their only trace will be a listing in the program. Authors are therefore welcome to submit an already-published paper whose copyright they may or may not own. The submission should be preceded by a cover sheet that describes why this paper is relevant, and indicates where and when it was published. The cover sheet should be in the format below, but you do not need to reformat the previously-published paper; you can instead just append its PDF (which can exceed our page limit). Accepted papers will receive a plenary presentation slot. However, please strongly consider submitting these as demos instead! It would help if your cover sheet could explain why a demo is not better.

Research Papers and Experience Reports

These should be in the usual form of a scientific paper. They must be original, unpublished work that has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Research papers are likely to have a proper evaluation, while experience reports will be more anecdotal. While we are open to experience reports, without a proper summary of portable lessons, these papers often prove to be unedifying, so we are less excited about them. The interesting ones are likely to be experimental offerings that try out new things, not routine offerings. Accepted papers will receive a plenary presentation slot.

All accepted submissions (excluding Repeat Papers) will be made available through the conference site.

Novel submissions (excluding Repeat Papers) must be at most 15 pages (excluding bibliography and potential appendices). We anticipate that Discussion Topic submissions might be on the shorter end of this range, but all the others are likely to be at least 5 pages long and probably longer. For submissions that have several screenshots, we recommend having 1–2 key ones in the main submission body and putting the remainder in an appendix.

Please use the Dagstuhl LIPIcs format.

Please submit using https://submissions.floc26.org/teal/.

There is no need to anonymize submissions. It is anyway meaningless for Repeat Papers, and for many other kinds of submissions also, either hard or unhelpful. If, however, you feel the need to anonymize (e.g., you want to make a provocative submission), you may do so.

At least one of the authors of each accepted submission is required to attend in the workshop. While we recognize that attendees may be interested in multiple simultaneous workshops, we would still appreciate presenters also attending and giving feedback to others, not only popping in just for their presentation.

Submission Deadline (FIRM, no extensions)
April 29, 2026, Wednesday (AoE)
Author Notification
May 27, 2026, Wednesday
Workshop Early Registration Deadline
June 1, 2026, Monday
Workshop Day
July 25, 2026, Saturday