Breakout Sessions
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Ways to Connect Students to Basic Needs: Part 1 Presenters: Sally Calderon, MSW, Basic Needs Counselor; Susan Fila, Ph.D., LCSW, Interim Associate Dean of Health and Wellbeing; Sharlyne Massillion, MSW, Basic Needs Project Manager; Lizzy Moore, Ed.D., Foundation President & Dean of Institutional Advancement; Thaddeus Phillips, MSW, Basic Needs Counselor; Andrew Smith, MSW, Basic Needs Counselor. This two-part workshop will provide a valuable understanding of the newly developed basic needs "ecosystem" available for all students. The discourse will include a top-line overview of the state legislation naming basic needs, data supporting the impact on basic needs, and a clear road map to all of the basic needs intersections and resources employees can direct students to. |
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Coming Back to SMC with Matika! Presenter: Walter Meyer, Department Chair- Art, Center for Art History and the Digital
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Find your way to GPS : Navigating the Gateway to Persistence and Success (GPS) System to Connect Students to Resources Presenters: Greg Brookins and Lori Williams This workshop will introduce you to the SMC GPS (Gateway to Persistence and Success) system. This system enables instructors to provide students valuable in-semester feedback and to direct students to various campus resources. Aimed at faculty, come and learn how you can use GPS to support your students in ways that are likely easier than what you are already doing. GPS is an online tool aimed at promoting student success and retention. Watch this great commercial about GPS and hear some actual testimonials from our students! |
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Adjunct 411: The Basics for Week 1 Presenters: Catherine Matheson, Marianne Borgardt, and Nina Kato. This presentation will cover key classroom, technology and campus resources for recently hired and continuing part time faculty. The information will help orient them to their first week responsibilities, as well as to the resources and services they will need in order to have a successful start to the semester. |
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Equitizing Gateway Courses (EGC) Continuing to advance equity: Discussions on what works *This session is open to EGC participants only. Presenters: Dr, Tyffany Dowd and Dr. Chanté DeLoach In this session, EGC participants will have the opportunity to ideate about focused solutions to equity questions about issues of assessment, student engagement, proctoring software, grading practices, and more. Come and engage in interdepartmental dialogue about equity practices that work and leave feeling inspired and motivated to continue to advance equity! |
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Ruben Canedo Online Workshop: Continued discussion on the keynote address "(Re)Imagining
Our Collective Experience: Centering belonging, equity, and basic needs" This session is the online version for our remote audience from Ruben Canedo during the from 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. |
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Ways to Connect Students to Basic Needs: Part 2 Presenters: Silvana Carrion- Palomares, NSF Grant Project Manager; Dr. Tyffany Dowd, Black Collegian Counselor & Equitizing Gateway Courses Co-Lead; Stacey Jones, M.A. Counseling Ed, Success and Engagement Supervisor; Janet Robinson, Ed.D., Interim Dean of Counseling; Matthew Williamson, MSW, Case Management Coordinator. This two-part workshop will provide a valuable understanding of the newly developed basic needs "ecosystem" available for all students. The discourse will include a top-line overview of the state legislation naming basic needs, data supporting the impact on basic needs, and a clear road map to all of the basic needs intersections and resources employees can direct students to. |
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New Faculty Workshop: Reimagining Education, What Inclusive Instructors Do Presenter: Dr. Derek Dube, Associate Professor of Biology at The University of St. Joseph (CT) This year the New Faculty Committee's focus is on reimagining education which includes teaching and learning that meets the needs of ALL our students at SMC regardless of background and identity. All new faculty hires (both full and part-time) are invited to attend this workshop sponsored by the Office of Human Resources. Dr. Dube, will lead an interactive workshop that will focus on helping faculty understand inclusive and equitable teaching, pedagogical practices and brainstorm what methods or techniques they can implement in their upcoming courses. The workshop will be guided by the work done by Dr. Dube and his colleagues in developing the book, "What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching," which includes a national survey of instructors in higher education around inclusive teaching topics, a deep examination of evidence-based practices in the published literature, and the diverse experiences of the book's four authors. All new faculty participants will receive a copy of this book as a welcome gift from the Office of Human Resources. |
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Create and Facilitate Better Videos and Student Engagement in Canvas with Pronto and Canvas Studio Presenters: Christine Miller, Instructional Media Specialist and Sydney Dutson, Pronto App Representative This session will discuss these 2 student engagement tools that are useful with interacting with students in an online learning environment. Pronto is an app that works within and outside of Canvas to enable seamless, collaborative, and effective communication between faculty and students. Canvas Studio is a communication tool that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video and audio media. Pronto is an app that works within and outside of Canvas to enable seamless, collaborative, and effective communication between faculty and students, (think instant messenger for Canvas). In this training session, we covered how to use Pronto as a real-time chat solution along with other features like:
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