Professional Development 2018-2019

WACC 2019 Final Numbers

270 Participants

56 Presenters

40 colleges and 5 four year represented

Registration total 18,444.67> Did not cover all expenses. Charge more next year?

Recorded sessions are captioned and uploaded to WACC site

Goals for 2019-2020

In process of being written

Focus: WACC

Connie Broughton innovation award folding into WACC (Alissa)

Co-Chairs: Sarah Griffith & Kathleen Chambers

Date: March 26 & 27

Location: Tacoma Community College

Theme: Equity (working on a title)

WACC website and domain needs to be purchased from Sarah so it is within SBCTC eLearning ownership. Sara Newman will hopefully remain the webmaster with others having editing rights

Suggested items for the Equity group regarding eLc PD

Self-awareness and reflection

Instructional strategies 

Promote and support EDI work

Group Members

Kathleen Chambers

https://zoom.us/my/kathleen.chambers

Sara Newman, 206.934.6698, Sara.Newman@SeattleColleges.edu, SaraNewman@gmail.com, https://zoom.us/my/sara.newman/ 

Sarah Griffith

Diana Benavides

Alissa Sells

Liz Falconer

Christopher Soren

Jackie Staley

Dan Taylor

Niki Fleetwood

Tina Torres

Tim Trussler

Kimberly Lothyan

Jeremy Winn

Martin Cockroft

Sarah Mickel

Goals: Professional Development Work Group

1. In order to improve equitable student success through accessible technology and universal design for learning, open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy for learning we will increase awareness, access and ease of use to professional development opportunities.

2. We will research advances to teaching and learning practices including the use of cutting edge technologies in order to increase awareness, access and ease of use to professional development opportunities.

3. We will support the instructional design work in WA State by providing professional development opportunities and collaboration for those in Instructional Designer roles. 

4. Provide faculty development

Deliverables: Professional Development Work Group will (hope to?) cover

• • Create a repository of trainings that can be shared by commons

    • Add to consortium or create a group to commons?

    • Erin and Tim will research tagging, and best ways to group our trainings we’d like to share

    • Erin and Tim will make requests monthly on specific topics, curate products.

  • Instructional Design Retreat

    • Future retreats will be in the summer and located where the summer eLC meetings are located

    • Who is in charge of running the instructional design retreat? Kathy Chatfield

  • WACC 2019

    • Create tracks on OER, Accessibility, Technology, Universal Design, Student Services

    • Provide one voucher for registration to each college. This will support our goal of access to professional development.  

WACC Project

Proposal form for WACC completed

• Includes innovation award description and links to the google site to complete the innovation award

  • Logo: Thank you Tina and Edmonds Community College

Hotels Contracted:

Courtyard by Marriott  Book by Feb. 27

10 rooms  Cost: $169.00

1515 Commerce Street, Tacoma 98402

T: 253-591-9100

Cancel 2 days prior to arrival without penalty

Holiday Inn   Book by Feb. 27  

50 rooms  Cost: $135.00 (Canvas Conference)

2102 South C Street, Tacoma 98402

T: 253-274-3997 Booking link for your group in March 2019.

(Kathleen calls Holiday Inn on Feb. 27 to cancel the rest of the rooms)

Hotel Moreno  Book by Feb. 27

20 rooms Cost: $159.00 (WA Canvas Conference)

1320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma 98402

T: 877-986-8083

Best Western Plus Tacoma Dome Hotel Book by March 13

50 rooms Cost: 129.00 (SBCTC eLearning Council)

2611 East E Street

T: 253.272.7737  Booking Link

If anyone wants  to stay outside of the rooming block dates they will need to speak to (ext. 1007) or email  Samantha groups@tacomadomehotel.com

directly since the front desk agents cannot make these changes.

• • Promotional materials: Alissa/Kathleen

    • Create a template for colleges to promote within their colleges

  • Catering: Deb, Dawn, Christopher, Patti: “The Vault” for catering is recommended by the team.

    • They can provide servers

    • Serving tables open on both sides

    • A separate table for dietary accommodations

Notes from Breakout session on 05/08/2018  (post below)

• • 3 accomplishments to date

• 1. Faculty Development: WACC 2018

  2. We distribute Alyssa's Prof Dev Calendar

  3. Instructional Design last August and comes up again this August (SBCTC's paying for the food)

  4. Created tracks on OER, Accessibility, Technology, Universal Design, Student Services

  5. Provided one voucher for registration to each college. This will support our goal of access to professional development.  

• • 1-3 action items between now and year end

• 1. Review and update our goals

  2. Combine forces with ITC

  3. Work with ITC to plan WACC 2019 - themed ENGAGE!

  4. Confirm dates and location for WACC 2019

     1.  

• • 1 thing you need input from the whole council to do

• 1. Get Council commitment to marketing WACC 2019 ENGAGE!

     1. Pick someone to own it and shop it to each campus

Additional notes:

Notes from Breakout session on 10/18/17