Past Events and Programs

Publish Your Climate Justice Lesson

Have you created and taught a climate justice lesson at Bellevue College? Would you like to make your lesson available for use by educators beyond Bellevue College? If yes, you are eligible to receive compensation to publish your lesson to the Curriculum for the Bioregion (C4B) Online Activity Collection, a highly regarded archive of engaging ...

Publishing Your Climate Justice Lesson with Curriculum Writer – NEW!

The Curriculum for the Bioregion (C4B) Online Curriculum Collection is a large database of engaging teaching activities used by higher education faculty. The Collection receives over 5 million unique visits per year from around the world. Publishing to this data base makes your climate justice lesson widely available, while at the same time helping you ...

Putting on Your Oxygen Mask: Breathwork for Challenging Times

Do you ever find yourself holding your breath when stressed? Are you looking for ways to promote wellbeing for yourself and your students and create a calm and supportive learning environment?  “Breathwork,” or intentional breathing exercises and practices, can help. Breathwork is grounded in centuries of cultural and spiritual practice, yet its efficacy is supported ...

Quality Online Pedagogy

This summer, discover how to be a more effective online educator! This pedagogy workshop focuses on investigating current evidence-based practices in teaching online/hybrid courses. Discussions and exercises center on topics such as effective course navigation, universal design, accessible content, copyright and fair use, effective discussions and transparent assessments, diversity and equity in online learning, and ...

Quality Online Pedagogy – This workshop is full!

This summer, discover how to be a more effective online educator! This pedagogy workshop focuses on investigating current evidence-based practices in teaching online/hybrid courses. Discussions and exercises center on topics such as effective course navigation, universal design, accessible content, copyright and fair use, effective discussions and transparent assessments, diversity and equity in online learning, and ...

Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching -FULL

Join Marie and Jean this summer to explore the complex ways in which English language teaching is related to power, race, and privilege. In her book, Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-racist Practice, Suhanthie Motha “provides innovative ideas about ways to implement interventions and teaching strategies that will enable students ...

Reimagining Sustainable Cities – Winter 2022

What would it take to make urban places greener, more affordable, more equitable, and healthier for everyone? Please join to explore the answers to this question. In recent years, cities have stepped up efforts to address climate and sustainability crises. But progress has not been fast enough or gone deep enough. If communities are to ...

Rethink and Redesign Writing Assignments with One-on-One Support

How often do you get long-term, one-on-one support in your lesson design!?? Well, look no further; here you have it. We believe in the power of writing across the curriculum and the positive impact writing has on students’ learning. We want to support faculty across disciplines in designing effective, accurate, and well scaffolded assignments that ...

Reviewing Your Program through an Equity Lens

Over the 2020-2021 academic year, faculty in the Parent Education and Psychology programs committed to reflecting on their student data, teaching practices, and goals through an equity lens. Join Jamie Cho, Parent Ed, and Deepti Karkhanis, Psychology, to learn from their work to transform their programs by breaking cycles of systemic inequities and building new ...

Rubrics for Universally Designed Assignments

Join us to discuss connections between rubrics and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This offering is for you if you’re creating assignments that allow students a choice in their approach to completion, but aren’t sure how to structure a single rubric to meet the variety of assignments you may receive. You will learn how to ...