Past Events and Programs

Integrating Social Media into Your Instruction – Winter 2022

Join this Social (Media) Club to share ideas about integrating a variety of social media into your courses. We know that our students use a variety of media to connect with friends, family, news, information, and entertainment. What are all those media out there? How can we use them to make a positive impact on our students’ learning? This is an informal, sharing community that we would like to meet ...

Interdisciplinary Climate Justice Teaching Squares

Interdisciplinary Climate Justice Teaching Squares will allow faculty to gain interdisciplinary perspectives on climate justice and integrate climate justice into their teaching. This is an expanded teaching square, involving one more meeting than a standard teaching square plus lesson development. We will start with an in-depth introduction to climate justice, followed by a brainstorming activity ...

Interdisciplinary Climate Justice Teaching Squares

Interdisciplinary Climate Justice Teaching Squares allow faculty to gain interdisciplinary perspectives on climate justice and community and civic engagements, and integrate them into their teaching. This is an expanded teaching square: it involves two more meetings than a standard teaching square, development of a climate justice lesson, and working through Canvas modules prior to meetings ...

Interdisciplinary Studies 101: Create your course! – Winter 2023

Why Interdisciplinary Studies - IDS programs provide students with valuable learning opportunities to synthesize ideas and information from multiple disciplines. They learn to see connections between seemingly disconnected areas of study, thereby developing new insights and potential innovations in areas of interest to them. They become more effective communicators, critical thinkers, reasoners, and appreciators of ...

Interfaith Student Success Panel (New) – Winter 2023

Bellevue College is a vibrant learning community with students and employees from every walk of life, including scores of faith traditions and belief systems. Our students in these communities come to campus with varying needs that can be met when we better understand their faiths and determine ways to respect and engage them. Join faculty ...

Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times

2019-2020 Climate Justice Book Club Series Facilitated by Kelli Callahan (Criminal Justice), this book club is designed to allow faculty to read about, reflect on, and discuss how we can live a positive and courageous life in the face of climate disruption and growing social inequity: How can we educate with hope in this age ...

Intro to Teaching First-Year Seminar (FYS)

Monday, April 14th, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m., via Teams Are you thinking about teaching First-Year Seminar (FYS), or just want to learn more about how it supports our incoming students? First-Year Seminar is taught by full-time and part-time faculty from across the campus and is an excellent way to introduce your discipline and perspective to ...

Introduction to Climate Justice Topics Workshops

Topic-Specific Two-Hour Workshop Options Completely new to climate justice and want to get your feet wet? Not new to the topic, but want to delve into a specific aspect of climate justice? If you answered yes to either of these questions, one or more two-hour climate justice workshops this Winter quarter may be for you! ...

Introduction to Culturally Responsive Instruction

This course is the culmination of four years of hard work by members of the Faculty Commons, the Achieving the Dream Faculty PD Committee, and multiple partners across campus.  Over 100 faculty and staff have either developed or reviewed this course, and our goal is to eventually have it become a regular part of new ...

It Starts and Ends with Feedback

As faculty working with students and peers, giving and receiving feedback is a critical aspect of our jobs. But let’s face it - a conversation involving constructive feedback is awkward at best, and truly painful at its worst. As educators, we can model how to receive feedback. In doing so, we encourage our students and ...