| Spring 2020- PDA Day Schedule Overview | ||
| Time | Morning Schedule | Location |
| 8:00am-8:30am | Coffee and Conversation | Burbank Auditorium |
| 8:30am-10:00am |
Opening Program and Plenary Lecture featuring Brook Tauzer Lecturer Shawn Brumbaugh |
Burbank Auditorium/Overflow in Burbank Studio Theater |
| 10:15am-11:45am | Session I Workshops - 1.5 hour session | See Session One Workshops |
| 11:45am-12:45pm | Lunch -$5.00 | Bertolini Dining Commons |
| Time | Afternoon Schedule | Location |
| 1:00pm-2:30pm | Session II Workshops - 1.5 hour session | See Session Two Workshops |
| 2:30pm-2:45pm | Break | |
| 2:45pm-4:15pm | Session III Workshops - 1.5 hour session | See Session Three Workshops |
| 1:00pm-4:15pm | Session IV Workshops - 3.25 hour session | See Session Four Workshops |
Tauzer Lecture 8:30AM-10:00AM |
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| THEME | # | TITLE | PRESENTERS | DESCRIPTION | LOCATION | |
| Tauzer Lecture | 0 |
Slow down, look, & listen: A perspective on the natural history of Sonoma County, and why nature matters.
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Tauzer Lecturer: Shawn Brumbaugh
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California, and Sonoma County in particular, is renowned for its natural beauty and rich biodiversity. From a biologist’s perspective, we live in a truly special place; in less than a one-hour drive one can be at the coast exploring tide pools, to being immersed in the quiet solitude of the redwood forest, to wandering the grassy hills and valleys marked by iconic oaks. Each of these places has its own natural history story. The last few years have been difficult for this region, which is why it is so important that we slow down to appreciate the natural beauty that surrounds us. Taking time to notice patterns in nature – developing an art of seeing – can inspire wonder and strengthen a sense of place. |
Burbank Auditorium with Overflow in Burbank studio theater | |
- Pathway: Workplace Effectiveness and Interpersonal Skills
- Session #: S1:1
Title: Effective Work Families: Harnessing Your Happiness Hormones
Presenters: Nick Lawrence - Description: This 90 minute workshop demonstrates how practicing basic kindness and other human interactions help us and our colleagues produce and maintain proper levels of happiness hormones (Dopamine, Serotonin, Cortisol, Oxytocin, and Endorphins) in our brains and bodies. We will look at the 5 Languages of Love Appreciation at Work, how the languages relate to the hormones and their functions, what we need individually, and how to use this information as a team to have a healthy and vibrant work family.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1596
- Pathway: Diversity & Demographics
- Session #: S1:2
Title: A Mathematical Travel Log of India
Presenters: Dean Gooch - Description: The speaker will present a travel log of India that will emphasize the importance, attitudes and history of mathematics in India. Much of the mathematics that is used today can be traced to the very ancient discoveries of the peoples of the Indian Subcontinent including the number system that we use. The use of a zero as a placeholder in our modern number system can also be traced to India. The speaker will also talk about a wonderful conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia that was about an early zero found in Cambodia by the late author Amir Aczel. This talk will not assume a high level of mathematics understanding.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1522
- Pathway: Diversity & Demographics
- Session #: S1:4
Title: Marxism and Science in Modern Japan
Presenters: Sarah Whylly - Description: This presentation will cover research I have conducted into the socio-political thought arising from Japanese scientists who rose to prominence from the end of the 19th century into the 20th century.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1523
- Pathway: Leadership and Management Techniques
- Session #: S1:5
Title: Fireside chat with the president and the vice presidents
Presenters: Dr. Frank Chong, Jane Saldana-Talley, Kate Jolley, Pedro Avila, Karen Furukawa-Schlereth - Description: Dr. Chong and the college vice presidents will be available to answer questions and hear feedback regarding the current status of the implementation of the reorganization
Register - Location: Newman Auditorium
- Pathway: Leadership and Management Techniques
- Session #: S1:6
Title: Dynamics of Change Management
Presenters: Joseph Skoda - Description: Change is stressful. Learning how to manage and cope with change is vital to your well-being in this ever-changing world. Even If the stress of change is unavoidable, you can learn how to deal effectively with change in the workplace and in your personal life. Discover strategies and tactics that can help you cope with change and the take charge of what can be controlled.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1696
- Pathway: Leadership and Management Techniques
- Session #: S1:19
Title: Social Security WEP/GPO
Presenters: Patrica Nicasio - Description: Social Security Representatives will address the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset. This is mostly applicable to employees who have the STRS Defined Benefit, STRS Cash Balance, Fidelity or the PERS Safety as their retirement plans.
Register - Location: Kunde 104
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning and Student Support
- Session #: S1:7
Title: Conquering Financial Aid Hurdles (and an overview of student eligibility)
Presenters: Jana Cox, Rachael Cutcher, Lauren Coburn - Description: It's no secret that finances and affording college are quite often the number one reported cause for stress for today's college student. The process of applying can be easy for some, but very complex for others. Student Financial Services seeks to make the process as smooth as possible for all SRJC students, but in cases where we require tax documents or high school diplomas, or even appeals for lost eligibility, it can feel like there are hurdles to bound. 87% of SRJC students receive some type of financial aid and this number is rising, due to the exciting opportunities between SRJC for FREE, the DREAM Application and generous SRJC Foundation Scholarships. Student Financial Services welcomes you to learn the whys and ways of Financial Aid. We'll discuss federal, state and Foundation Scholarship opportunities, the hurdles our students are facing and the ways we're seeking to support them.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1519
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, & Student Support
- Session #: S1:8
Title: Burbank Auditorium Tours
Presenters: Leslie McCauley/Burbank staff - Description: Join us for a tour of the newly remodeled Burbank and Studio Theatre addition. See the backstage, classrooms and other support spaces that make performances possible. Please meet in the lobby of Burbank Auditorium.
Register - Location: Burbank Lobby
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, and Student Support
- Session #: S1:9
Title: Equity and Success: Bringing the findings of ISSC Action Teams alive
Presenters: All 30+ members of the Integrated Student Success Committee - Description: Interested in what the Integrated Student Success Committee (ISSC) is doing this year? Get a front row seat to the work of the three Action Teams that are digging in on issues vital to the equity and success of SRJC students. The First Year Achievements Team will demonstrate their findings related to various factors playing a role in the success of first year students, including the impact of gender, student engagement, access to college resources, and empowerment in the classroom. The Student Persistence Team will raise awareness about part-time students, identify best practices to raise retention, and paint the picture of students who move from full-time to part-time. This session will host a student panel to further bring the issues our students face to light. The Completion Team identified several issues that impact student completion, including the process of declaring one's educational goal, how the college works with undecided students, and part-time status. Findings in these areas will be shared. This session will begin with an overview of the Action Teams work, and will then move into breakout sessions by Action Team.
Register - Location: Doyle NOTE: Session Overview will begin in Doyle 4246 and move into Doyle 4245 and Bertolini Senate Chambers
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, and Student Support
- Session #: S1:10
Title: Leveraging Lists
Presenters: Todd Straus - Description: Every class features content organized and presented in the form of lists. How do you deal with these beasts? Do you mostly ignore them? Do you ask your students to memorize them? Or do you bring them to life? I LOVE lists and have developed ways to integrate them into class work in order to leverage their significant, yet rarely exploited, potential. If you find yourself at a loss as to how to make lists sing, then this session may benefit your teaching. Please bring three copies of one typical list of course content (for example: a list of terms and definitions or a chart, or an illustration with elements identified, etc.) from one of your courses to this PDA session.
Register - Location: Kunde 101
Recorded
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, and Student Support
- Session #: S1:11
Title: What Is Quality Education?
Presenters: Jurgen Kremer, Eric Thompson and Julie Thompson - Description: The purpose of this seminar is to catalyze faculty conversations about the term 'quality education', a term frequently used in discussions in shared governance and elsewhere. The understanding of what 'quality education' might be underlies many current discussions that will result in important strategic decisions. However, we are lacking clear descriptions that explicate and assert what this might mean for our college. Clarity is particularly important in the face of pressures to define quality education primarily in terms of quantitative measures. The humanist tradition, the behaviorist tradition, critical theory traditions, indigenous traditions, and other traditions all define quality education differently. We will facilitate a multidimensional discussion that explores the complexity of quality education. After an overview of central issues we will kick off our discussion with descriptions that we hope will provoke a lively debate during which we imagine, posit, critique, and challenge different notions and purposes of interpretations of 'quality education'.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1509
- Pathway: Wellness & Safety
- Session #: S1:13
Title: Navigating changes and uncertainty that come with aging: a 3-step toolkit to become your best and thrive
Presenters: Pat Sanborn, MA, MS - Description: You don't see it coming and suddenly there it is: an uncertainty about your future, a body that's changing, and possibly feeling like you're starting to lose a little of who you've been your whole life. Or maybe it's a major health issue, job loss, or the loss of your parents/spouse/friends/family members, or the narrowing down of options in your future as you face changes in health and finances. Soon 20% of US the population will be over 65 years of age; aging is different for each person. Society is not kind to agers, and everybody is aging! In this 90-minute session, we look at what supports and prevents healthy aging, what we can/cannot do about it and how to make better choices and thrive as we age. I have worked and learned from agers, including centenarians; their experience guides this workshop. They say, 'If I only knew then what I know now, I would have lived life differently', 'I shoulda planned better'. How to handle things when mom goes on hospice? Dad comes out of hospital? Your sister gets cancer? Your wife gets dementia? Join this workshop where you'll learn the three steps to FEARLESS AGING, an approach to growing older that puts you in control of your aging options so you can thrive and live a long, vibrant life. Get these questions answered: Can I really create the life I want in this next stage of my life? What will aging mean for me? How can I avoid becoming a burden to others? Will I age the way my parents did? We will use a workbook with experience-based worksheets to guide small group discussions. You will learn new tools to thrive and better manage future risks in aging.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1520
- Pathway: Wellness & Safety
- Session #: S1:14
Title: Qigong Sound Healing for Emotional Alchemy
Presenters: Rhandee Lipp - Description: Experience deep relaxation, emotional alchemy and spiritual awakening through chanting sacred sounds for the 5 organ systems in Wisdom Healing Qigong. Experience transformation through the cultivation of your own inner voice and the cumulative energy of the group. Bring a mat to lie down or you may sit comfortably in a chair. Bring plenty of water, a small pillow and blanket if you like.
Register - Location: Tauzer Gym
- Pathway: Wellness & Safety
- Session #: S1:15
Title: Recovery Exercises for Stroke/ABI Survivors
Presenters: Paul Comish - Description: Physical Exercises for stroke and Acquired Brain Injury Survivors to aid in recovery.
Register - Location: Analy Village 651
- Pathway: Workplace Effectiveness & Interpersonal Skills
- Session #: S1:17
Title: Conversation with the Tauzer Lecturer
Presenters: Dr. Shawn Brumbaugh and the Former Tauzer Lecturers - Description: Inspired by the Tauzer Lecture? Join us for an opportunity to congratulate Dr. Brumbaugh and continue the conversation with your colleagues in the beautiful and more intimate setting of the Doyle Library Reading Room. This is an informal reception intended to foster brainstorming, clarification, and connection with colleagues in relation to the morning's presentation.
Register - Location: Doyle Quiet Room
- Pathway: Workplace Effectiveness & Interpersonal Skills
- Session #: S1:18
Title: PGI Q&A
Presenters: Kat Valenzuela, Rima Dasgupta - Description: The PGI committee will review the basics of PGI and share submission resources as well as answer individual questions. Feel free to bring your PGI binder.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1597
- Lunch Schedule
Santa Rosa Rotary Plaza
Menu: Taco Bar, Lemon Bars, Fruit, Churros, Iced Tea, Lemonade, Coffee
- Pathway: Diversity & Demographics
- Session #: S2:1
Title: Why is Accessibility Important? Understanding the User Experience
Presenters: Leila Rand and Corrine Haverinen - Description: Join us for an engaging overview of online accessibility, with an emphasis on the disabled user's experience. Our goal is to help creators of online content understand what the common barriers to access are for real people, and how to avoid creating more barriers. Participants will learn what it's like to navigate a complex web page using only sound and a keyboard through demonstrations by disabled users. We'll also give an overview of accessibility practices for multimedia, documents, web and Canvas pages, and of what resources are available at SRJC. Appropriate for faculty, staff, and anyone who creates online content.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1509
- Pathway: Diversity & Demographics
- Session #: S2:19
Title: Insights & Intrigue from the SRJC Student Survey
Presenters: Megan Rhodes, Blair Lamb, Greg Drukala - Description: SRJC has been running an all-student survey every three years since 2001, holding a wealth of knowledge about our students. What are their experiences at SRJC with faculty, staff, management, and other students? Do they feel welcome and supported? What are the challenges they experience both in SRJC and in their outside lives? What is their housing situation? Are they still affected by the fires? And so on. These elements can further be explored by ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and other markers that can help us direct our energy and resources to making SRJC a stronger institution for all. As the survey responses begin to come in, stories will begin to emerge that show us what we are doing well and what we can do better as classified, faculty, and management.
Register - Location: Doyle 4421
- Pathway: Leadership and Management Techniques
- Session #: S2:2
Title: Board of Trustees Panel Discussion Placeholder
Presenters: Dorothy Battenfeld, Maggie Fishman and Mariana Martinez - Description: Join a discussion with three members of the Board of Trustees on how the Board can contribute to creating a culture of inclusion at SRJC. What are key issues to prioritize? How can the Board collaborate with the college community to implement, fund and assess programs and policies? How can the Board advocate for the college at the local, state and national levels to achieve better support?
You are encouraged to send questions in advance.
Register - Location: Doyle Quiet Room
- Pathway: Leadership and Management Techniques
- Session #: S2:3
Title: Creating a Positive Work Environment
Presenters: Joseph Skoda - Description: The key to a positive work environment is mutual respect. Learn various ways to convey respect, as well as how to address negative thinking and behaviors that can have an impact on morale and teamwork.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1610
- Pathway: Leadership and Management Techniques
- Session #: S2:20
Title: Social Security WEP/GPO
Presenters: Patrica Nicasio - Description: Social Security Representatives will address the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset. This is mostly applicable to employees who have the STRS Defined Benefit, STRS Cash Balance, Fidelity or the PERS Safety as their retirement plans.
Register - Location: Doyle 4246
- Pathway: Leadership and Management Techniques
- Session #: S2:4
Title: Infinity Leadership
Presenters: Karen Hunter, 4CS - Description: Do you want to be a super hero in leadership or just learn some strengths of powerful leaders? Join Karen Hunter for a workshop on strengths to use to make you an everyday super hero leader.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1597
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning & Student Support
- Session #: S2:5
Title: SRJC Programs for Currently & Formerly Incarcerated Students
Presenters: Robert Holcomb, Pedro Avila, Regina Guerra, Rhonda Findling, Claudia Leiva, Cathy Burgett - Description: In a unique partnership between Student Services and Academic Affairs, SRJC has implemented and continues to build a Jail-to-JC pipeline that is transforming lives, reducing recidivism and crime in our neighborhoods, and increasing enrollment for the college. SRJC is one of 44 CCCs to receive a Chancellor's Office grant earmarked for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students. Come learn about the current services provided and how this new grant will help expand services and support for both SRJC's IGNITE (Inspiring Greatness Inside Through Education) jail education program and the on-campus Second Chance program. Faculty and administrators from both programs will discuss the programs' successes, challenges, community partners, and services to students. Second Chance students will also share how SRJC is helping them turn their lives around.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1592
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, Student Support
- Session #: S2:18
Title: Creating A Transformative Syllabus
Presenters: Roberto Alvarado, Liz Giron, Laura Larque, Luz Navarette Garica, AC Panella, Nancy Persons, Jerry Thao, Regina Mahiri - Description: Syllabi have the potential to serve as learning tools for student success. This workshop is not just about updating, but transforming your syllabus to include: welcoming and student-ready language, enthusiasm and passion for the course, a reframing of the instructor as one of the resources for success in the course, and contextualized information about on-campus resources.
Register - Location: Kunde 103
Recorded
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, & Student Support
- Session #: S2:6
Title: Guided Pathways and the Decolonial Imaginary
Presenters: Jurgen Kremer - Description: The documentary Schooling the World raises profound questions about the basic assumptions of Western Education. These questions apply to the countries to which Western education is exported as much as to the practice of education in the exporting centers, such as the California community college system. The decolonial imaginary provides a contrast to the imaginary of modernity and can be used as a foil to respond to neoliberal visions of education as espoused in the Chancellor's Vision. The first part of this seminar will consist of a showing and discussion of excerpts of Schooling the World. The second part will outline the decolonial imaginary and explore fundamental mission, goals, and value questions of our current crisis in education from an indigenous and decolonial perspective.
Register - Location: Kunde 102
Recorded
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, Student Support
- Session #: S2:7
Title: Burbank Auditorium Tours
Presenters: Leslie McCauley/Burbank staff - Description: Join us for a tour of the newly remodeled Burbank and Studio Theatre addition. See the backstage, classrooms and other support spaces that make performances possible. Please meet in the lobby of Burbank Auditorium.
Register - Location: Burbank Lobby
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, Student Support
- Session #: S2:8
Title: Math Department Collaboration
Presenters: Michael Ichikawa - Description: The Mathematics department will discuss and collaborate on curriculum, pedagogy, student data, and other topics.
Register - Location: Kunde 204
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, Student Support
- Session #: S2:9
Title: Santa Rosa Junior College Tutorial Center: Ask Us Anything!
Presenters: Santa Rosa Tutorial Center Team (Faculty, Instructional Assistants, Student Tutors) - Description: Are you curious about what we do in the Santa Rosa Tutorial Center? Come to this session to learn about the free tutoring services we offer to all SRJC students. Meet our team of STEM and Writing Corner Instructional Assistants as well as our wonderful student tutors. Gain insight into our work with students as we share our 'big picture' data. Faculty are invited to bring ideas for how we can support student success in your classes! Everyone who works closely with students at SRJC are warmly invited to attend this session. We look forward to a lively conversation about learning assistance and student success with our colleagues across the college!
Register - Location: Doyle Tutoring Center
- Pathway: Technology
- Session #: S2:10
Title: Jobspeaker - SRJC's New Career & Job Board Tool
Presenters: Kim Kinahan & Ann Mansfield - Description: Connect your students with Internship and Employment opportunities through SRJC's new job platform. Jobspeaker is the employment platform that will provide students the opportunity to apply online or through their mobile phone app to career related positions on and off campus. We will give an overview of the platforms features and how we can support you and your students in connecting them to great opportunities.
Register - Location: Doyle 4327
- Pathway: Technology
- Session #: S2:11
Title: VR@srjc
Presenters: Robert Grandmaison - Description: Experience virtual reality and the future of srjc. Examine possible course related materials to improve student study retention and engagement. Tour virtually the lindley center and the student housing project. 24 seats available
Register - Location: Kunde 152
- Pathway: Wellness & Safety
- Session #: S2:12
Title: Rainwater Harvesting for Landscapes Large and Small: Thriving through Cycles of Drought & Deluge
Presenters: Jesse Savou - Description: This workshop will cover the benefits, principles and practices of rainwater harvesting: Active versus passive systems, small versus large systems, low-tech versus high-tech systems; and applications for small (e.g. home) vs. large (e.g. campus-scale) landscapes.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1607
- Pathway: Wellness & Safety
- Session #: S2:22
Title: Develop Your Art of Seeing through Yoga!
Presenters: Nancy Persons - Description: Come together with your colleagues in community in this energetic vinyasa flow yoga practice. The theme of this session will be Inquiry. How do you engage with our college community? What are your reactions to frequent change? How do you feel at the end of the day? Would you like to arrive home after work feeling decompressed, reinvigorated, and with a sense of contentment and renewed attention? What tools can you use to achieve a new perspective in your daily living? Nancy Persons is a RYT200 yoga teacher practicing and teaching Baptiste-inspired vinyasa yoga who finds that Yoga provides the tools to help us all discover our potential. This workshop session is for any body, from the complete novice to the regular practitioner of flow yoga. We will practice together in community to an inspiring playlist. This session will be a workout! How challenging it will be is completely up to you. Newcomers please arrive promptly at 1:00 for brief demonstration of frequent poses and alternative options. Practice begins at 1:10 sharp. Participants are encouraged to eat a light lunch at least an hour before the practice if not more. Participants are encouraged to bring a mat, hand towel (for sweat!) and water.
Register - Location: Tauzer Gym
- Pathway: Wellness & Safety
- Session #: S2:14
Title: Working with Multicultural Students and Mental Health
Presenters: Tyler Alvarez - Description: This presentation will explain the importance and differences that culture plays into the presentation and treatment of mental health. It will also review how mental health issues are manifested in people of different cultures, and best ways for faculty and staff to respond when appropriate.
Register - Location: Kunde 101
Recorded
- Pathway: Workplace Effectiveness & Interpersonal Skills
- Session #: S2:17
Title: Stress-free Fiscal Year-End Closing
Presenters: Accounting Office Staff - Description: Geared for department admins and program managers, this presentation will explain the year-end process and go over the steps necessary to close out the fiscal year including timesheets, requisitions, accounts payable, accounts receivable, employee payments, balancing accounts and more. A checklist and tips will be provided to ensure that your year-end is manageable and stress-free!
Register - Location: Emeritus 1596
- Pathway: Workplace Effectiveness & Interpersonal Skills
- Session #: S2:21
Title: Strength in Numbers: A United Faculty Dedicated to SRJC's Educational Excellence
Presenters: Anne Donegan, Eric Thompson, Julie Thompson, Sean Martin, and Karen Frindell Teuscher - Description: The Academic Senate and AFA continue our tradition of hosting a PDA forum focused on concerns that are of importance to the faculty and that fall within the Senate's and AFA's areas of responsibility. We are currently working on issues related to the College's reorganization, the hiring of a large cohort of new faculty members, evaluations & tenure review, professional development, budgetary oversight, and the distinct and overlapping purviews of the Senate and AFA. We invite all faculty members to join us for a conversation about our work, immediate and long-term goals, and ways to get involved.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1588
- Pathway: Diversity & Demographics
- Session #: S3:1
Title: Living Aloha in the Community
Presenters: Liko Puha and Brandon Browning - Description: Join us to learn methods for adapting the core values of 'Living Aloha in the Workplace' to 'Living Aloha in the Community.' Previous participation in the 'Living Aloha in the Workplace' PDA workshop recommended but not required. Live Aloha!
Register - Location: Emeritus 1692
- Pathway: Diversity & Demographics
- Session #: S3:2
Title: Pathways to Higher Education Abroad for Community College Students
Presenters: Jody Benecke - Description: An overview of my sabbatical leave trip to Germany and Austria covering: Cargo ship travel across the Atlantic, Visits to university programs in Germany and Austria, Interviews with International students studying in Europe, and A description of ideas for community college instructors and staff who want to advise students about how to set goals within our own SRJC programs that can lead towards Bachelor's and Master's programs abroad.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1509
- Pathway: Leadership and Management Techniques
- Session #: S3:3
Title: Management Team Retreat Follow Up
Presenters: Management Liaison Group - Description: Join the Management Liaison Group to debrief and continue to move forward on the shared agreements and toolkit development. We will review the notes and select a few areas to identify actionable steps.
Register - Location: Doyle Quiet Room
- Pathway: Leadership and Management Techniques
- Session #: S3:4
Title: Outclass the Competition- Business Etiquette Present Yourself With Confidence and Authority
Presenters: Beth Ayers & Will Crawford - Description: This is an opportunity to spend an hour with Elizabeth Ayers Corporate Etiquette and International Protocol Consultant. During this session, attendees will learn: Benefits of etiquette and protocol intelligence, The principles of professionalism, Eye contact, Making an entrance o Handshaking: at home and abroad, Skills check: break out exercise, Interaction Intelligence o Protocol for business introductions, Honorifics and forms of address, Networking and mingling proficiency, Elevator pitch, Skills check: break out exercise, Communication methods, Business card protocol, Phone etiquette o E-mail etiquette, and Closing remarks and certificates
Register - Location: Doyle 4421
- Pathway: Leadership and Management Techniques
- Session #: S3:18
Title: Update on current Measure H bond and facilities projects
Presenters: Serafin Fernandez - Description: Senior Interim Director Serafin Fernandez will provide an update on the current status of major projects within the district. This session will begin with a presentation followed by time for Q&A.
Register - Location: Kunde 102
Recorded
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning & Student Support
- Session #: S3:5
Title: Open Educational Resources: Discovery, Delivery and Advocacy
Presenters: Canon Crawford, Jen Carlin-Goldberg, and Michelle Larkey - Description: This hands-on session will review the most common repositories and initiatives related to open access textbooks and instructional materials. A portion of the session will be dedicated to reviewing the OER Commons, Merlot and Openstax with your presenters. A brief discussion of licensing, accessibility, printing and advocacy will follow the review of open educational resources. See Also: https://libguides.santarosa.edu/oer
Register - Location: Doyle 4327
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning & Student Support
- Session #: S3:6
Title: Teaching Interactively: The Sociology Workbook and Other Strategies
Presenters: John Stover, AC Panella, David Kraztmann, Michelle Hughes Markovics, Michael Traina - Description: What makes your students sit up, pay attention, and really, REALLY engage with the materials? In this interactive session, SRJC Instructors from multiple disciplines will highlight activities, projects, pedagogies, and strategies that have proven successful in substantively engaging students. Sociology Instructor John Stover will begin by highlighting The Sociology Workbook, an original, co-authored workbook he uses in Soc01 Intro2Soc. Plenty of time will be dedicated to idea sharing and brainstorming across areas of expertise.
Register - Location: Kunde 103
Recorded
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, & Student Support
- Session #: S3:7
Title: Fostering Meaningful Careers from a Liberal Arts Education
Presenters: Abigail Zoger, Lauralyn Larsen - Description: Interested in teaching students about career exploration in your field and some of the tools available at the JC to help them get there? If we want our students to study something they are passionate about, then we need to teach them how to become successfully employed in that field. As teachers we are motivated to help students acquire a love of learning, become empowered to handle complexity, diversity and change and to be financially stable. As part of an NSF grant focused on mentorship, in spring 2019 and with the help of Lauralyn Larsen, Abigail Zoger created and offered a new course: Careers in STEM. It is a one unit course that covers how to do free self-inventories, learn about the diversity of jobs associated with STEM majors, conduct informational interviews and create a networking plan both short term and long term. The class is a model for faculty interested in helping their students create a pathway to a career in Arts, Agriculture, Health Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Technology, Business, Language Arts and all majors and certificate programs. Come to the workshop to learn tools to implement ideas in your current classes, and the steps necessary to create a similar course in your field.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1610
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, and Student Support
- Session #: S3:8
Title: Reading Apprenticeship (RA)
Presenters: Ann Foster - Description: In this workshop, participants will explore metacognition's role in learning and the four dimensions of the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) framework to generate and refine teaching/learning ideas that support students' reading and writing processes. Participants will engage in reading-based discussions to explore how the RA framework and dimensions support inclusivity and critical reflection in integrated reading and writing courses, no matter format for delivery. Emphasis will be placed on using the Reading Apprenticeship framework in online, hybrid, and face-to-face composition courses.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1592
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, and Student Support
- Session #: S3:9
Title: Addressing the Climate Crisis: SRJC's Climate Action Plan
Presenters: Genevieve Bertone, David Liebman, Alexa Forrester, Katie Gerber, Sara Jones, Sophia Porter, Guy Tillotson - Description: A discussion about what SRJC is doing to address the Climate Crisis.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1614
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, Student Support
- Session #: S3:10
Title: Burbank Auditorium Tours
Presenters: Leslie McCauley/Burbank staff - Description: Join us for a tour of the newly remodeled Burbank and Studio Theatre addition. See the backstage, classrooms and other support spaces that make performances possible. Please meet in the lobby of Burbank Auditorium.
Register - Location: Burbank Lobby
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, Student Support
- Session #: S3:11
Title: Research & Discovery Through the Library's New Search Platform
Presenters: Eve Miller, Nancy Persons - Description: This workshop will give faculty and staff the opportunity to learn about the library's new article, book & media combined search platform. This session will give a brief overview of the Library Services Project that, for the first time ever, has allowed 112 of the California Community Colleges to utilize the same library system. Topics covered will include: how to customize your research experience and basic tips and tricks to maximize benefits of the new system.
Register - Location: Doyle 4420
- Pathway: Technology
- Session #: S3:13
Title: Care and feeding of your inbox, and other Security strategies
Presenters: Kevin Snyder and Randy Gallimore - Description: How YOU can help the District protect all our data.
Register - Location: Kunde 101
Recorded
- Pathway: Technology
- Session #: S3:14
Title: VR@srjc
Presenters: Robert Grandmaison - Description: Experience virtual reality and the future of srjc. Examine possible course related materials to improve student study retention and engagement. Tour virtually the lindley center and the student housing project. 24 seats available
Register - Location: Kunde 152
- Pathway: Workplace Effectiveness & Interpersonal Skills
- Session #: S3:19
Title: Strength in Numbers: A United Faculty Dedicated to SRJC's Educational Excellence
Presenters: Anne Donegan, Eric Thompson, Julie Thompson, Sean Martin, and Karen Frindell Teuscher - Description: The Academic Senate and AFA continue our tradition of hosting a PDA forum focused on concerns that are of importance to the faculty and that fall within the Senate's and AFA's areas of responsibility. We are currently working on issues related to the College's reorganization, the hiring of a large cohort of new faculty members, evaluations & tenure review, professional development, budgetary oversight, and the distinct and overlapping purviews of the Senate and AFA. We invite all faculty members to join us for a conversation about our work, immediate and long-term goals, and ways to get involved.
Register - Location: Emeritus 1588
- Pathway: Leadership and Management Techniques
- Session #: S4:1
Title: Uplevel Your Career
Presenters: Jennifer Silverstein - Description: Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Start with just one thing. The BeWell Method; Leadership for Life is an efficient and systematic way to help you identify that one thing that you need to develop within yourself be be ready to take your career to the next level. Identify and align actions with goals, Develop a new skillset and adjust your mindset for success, Gain insight into assumptions that may be holding you back, Clarify your intentions and create an improvement goal and Leave with a roadmap and real-time actions for success
Register - Location: Emeritus 1523
- Pathway: Teaching, Learning, and Student Support
- Session #: S4:2
Title: Building a Culture of Health in Nursing: Best Practices for Student Success in Standardized Testing
Presenters: Dr. Anna Valdez, Diane Donnelly, Katherine Magee - Description: This workshop will be an opportunity for faculty to dialogue about pedagogical strategies and informed direction of test item development to align with recently updated standardized (NCLEX) test plan. It is vital for faculty to adapt current teaching practices to be current with the new standardized testing methods. Nursing students must apply learned knowledge, skills and critical thinking necessary to practice as a clinical nurse in the standardized testing environment to achieve licensure. Faculty must prepare for this testing update to promote student success by customizing and improving curriculum to meet new testing expectations. Changes to the standardized test include increased and improved emphasis on culture and spirituality and more robust evolving real-life patient care scenarios with enhanced critical reasoning application. These changes are critical to validate entry-level nursing competency and license nurses who are well versed in a culture of health, assuring best practice to sustain safe quality care within our communities. The Life Cycle of the NCLEX Test Plan and Updates to the 2019 NCLEX-RN Test Plan provided by the NCSBN - National Council of State Boards of Nursing, will be used as a platform for faculty to collaborate on themes for curriculum and testing format modifications. Through conversation and shared ideas about these changes, faculty can support best practices for our students to prepare and succeed in passing the NCLEX test upon graduation.
Register - Location: Race 4061