Past Events and Programs

Creating Animated Videos – Spring 2022

Want to engage students in the online environment right from the start? This workshop helps faculty make their own animated videos to use in Canvas courses! Participants will be using Powtoon to create, edit, publish and share a video – either a self-introduction, welcome, or tutorial video. This interactive and hands-on workshop will help you ...

Creating Grief Informed Classrooms—NEW!

Thursday 2:30-4:00 p.m. April 17 Online Grief will show up in your classroom and in the faculty lounge, how will you show up for your students and your colleagues when it does? Discover new ways to build trust with students and faculty in this interactive grief education workshop. Participants will explore how to identify and ...

Creating Rubrics while Following UDL Standards (New) – Winter 2022

When you design an assignment following UDL standards and encourage multiple means of engagement and representation, how do you create an ideal rubric that is meaningful to you and your students? Would you like to explore how to create a single rubric where you can assess the learning outcomes and not be impacted by the ...

Creativity – Summer 2022

What is Creativity?  How can we harness this superpower? Creativity isn’t just for the artists and musicians!  What would our classrooms look like if each student believed they were creative? What tools do you need to feel empowered to design creative, provocative, interesting, and engaging course pedagogy? A recent study conducted by IBM interviewed over ...

Cultural Responsiveness: A Reflective Process of Assessing Your Course

How do your course materials fit within a culturally responsive instruction framework? Join this 3-session workshop to guide you through a self-assessment of specific aspects of your course. Through the assessment and reflection process, you will come away with strategies for a more culturally responsive classroom. This series will be particularly effective for faculty who ...

Cultural Responsiveness: A Reflective Process of Assessing Your Course, Part II

This fall, Ron Holland and Humaira Jackson are excited to offer Part II of our Culturally Responsive (CR) Instruction Self-Assessment series. In Part II, we will review how the CR framework is proven effective through brain research, engage in a rubric focusing on elements of a CR curriculum, and break into teaching triads to learn ...

Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain – Full

Culturally responsive and sustaining teaching practices work to close the opportunity gaps present in our educational system. These teaching frameworks bring together brain-based research with practices that strengthen the assets of our racially, culturally, linguistically, and neurodivergent students. Zaretta Hammond’s book leads us through how culturally responsive practices impact cognitive functions, and when done well, ...

Deep Integration of Critical Thinking into Your Discipline (New) – Winter 2023

This workshop is designed for instructors from any discipline, so that means you! If you have been engaged in how to infuse critical thinking more purposefully into your courses and/or how to assess critical thinking outcomes, this is especially for you. The goal: to lead you through aligning critical thinking assignments with appropriate assessments. The ...

Deeper Impact: Working with Community & Industry Partners on Projects

Project-based learning builds student engagement by asking students to grapple with real-world issues and create products that are similar to the types of work they might do after graduation. But how might you take the next step and engage community and industry partners in your courses? How do you have students move from creating sample deliverables ...

Designing Climate Justice Interdisciplinary Courses

This SBCTC funded program will bring together up to 7 faculty from different disciplines to design interdisciplinary courses that focus on climate justice and civic engagement. If you currently teach a course that can be adapted and taught together with a course from a different discipline under the umbrella of climate justice and civic engagement, ...