Previous East Hub Offerings
Equitizing the Syllabus: This workshop will differentiate between equality, diversity, equity, and justice as context to designing inclusive learning environments. It will provide an overview of culturally responsive teaching principles, as well as strategies for applying USC Rossier/Center for Urban Education’s six equity-minded principles to course syllabi. Join Dr. Tanya Scott, Associate Director of Teaching & Learning, &and Dr. Jacqueline Taylor, Leadership Coach and Teaching & Learning Coach for Achieving the dream, for this engaging workshop designed to help faculty equitize their communication in meaningful ways that better serve students in order to pursue equitable academic success inside the classroom.
Best Practices in Culturally Responsive, Inclusive Student Engagement: This workshop will provide an overview of inclusive student engagement through culturally responsive teaching (CRT) and high impact practices (HIPs). Topics will include identifying and addressing the hidden curriculum, microaggressions, and a deficit mindset, as well as provide strategies for creating a classroom culture supportive of authentic and meaningful student engagement. Please join Dr. Tanya Scott, Associate Director of Teaching & Learning at Achieving the Dream, to learn how to intentionally infuse best practices in CRT and HIPs within your own learning environment, thus promoting equity for all students from day one of class.
Fostering Inclusive Student Discussions: This workshop will provide best practices in effective and engaging online and in-person discussions. Topics will include best practices in crafting and implementing engaging discussions, as well as how to lead and moderate controversial and hot discussion topics through an equity-minded and trauma-informed lens. Dr. Tanya Scott, Associate Director for Teaching & Learning for Achieving the Dream, will lead this session by modeling an interactive and engaging environment for attendees, offering key take-aways for technology-enhanced discussions.
Holistic Student Supports: Cultivating a Culture of Academic Excellence and a Culture of Caring: Cultivating a culture of academic excellence requires that we simultaneously cultivate a culture of caring and mattering as leaders and educators for equity. In this session, you will engage in key evidence-based practices and data-informed decision making to foster equity in holistic student supports. Key student development theories will be applied to practice to help faculty and staff embrace the 2nd cornerstone of teaching and learning excellence, which promotes strong, collaborative partnerships through "shared efforts to cultivate learning and support student success". Please join Dr. Jacqueline Taylor, Leadership Coach & Teaching and Learning Coach at Achieving the Dream (ATD), for cross-collaborative training that will help your team break down silos and bring Academic Affairs Faculty and Student Success/Affairs/Services teams together to enhance teaching and learning excellence while promoting holistic student support and success for your students.
Building Community in the Classroom Through Inquiry-Based Pedagogy: Join Dr. Jacqueline Taylor, Leadership Coach & Teaching and Learning Coach at Achieving the Dream (ATD), for professional learning designed to help faculty build community in the classroom, leading students to positive gains and equity in student outcomes. The use of evidence-based, inquiry-based pedagogy will be applied to engage participants while offering a model of inquiry to help faculty promote a more equitable and just learning environment for all students. Drawing from Dr. John Dewey, Dr. Zaretta Hammond, and Dr. Rich Milner's theories of experience and education, culturally responsive teaching, and opportunity-centered practices respectively, participants will begin to draft their own assignments and action plan for implementing inquiry-based teaching that empowers students, builds community, and promotes increased success for students, faculty, and the College as a whole.
Using Technology to Enhance Instruction
Date/Time of Event: Wednesday, January 5, 11-12 and 1:30-2:30, (This event is being held through Zoom)
Description: Please join Dr. Tanya Scott, Associate Director of Teaching & Learning at Achieving the Dream, to learn how to integrate instructional technologies within your own learning environments. This workshop will provide an overview of teaching and learning strategies that integrate technology to enhance the learning experience and learning outcomes. We will review instructional technology tools to support engagement, collaboration, and connection, as well as teamwork and collaboration strategies through an equity-minded lens to support student engagement. Finally, we will discuss access considerations and brainstorm solutions to technology barriers
Does it Make a Difference? Making the Case for Professional Learning
Date/Time of Event: Wednesday, January 26, 1:00–3:00 pm, (this event is being held through Zoom)
Description: Please join Jon Iuzzini, ATD’s Director of Teaching and Learning, and Michael Bates, ATD Teaching & Learning Coach and Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Distance Education at Harper College, as they examine the evidence to support high-impact professional learning. We will present examples of professional learning programs that make a real difference in the work of educators. And we will discuss strategies for communicating to various stakeholders the importance of advancing scalable campus efforts and professional learning to support evidence-based pedagogy and student support structures. This interactive and engaging session will provide key take-aways for implementation on your campus. This workshop is designed for leaders of professional learning (e.g., Directors/Coordinators of Centers for Teaching & Learning; chairs/leaders of professional development committees/councils; department chairs and Deans, AVPs, and VPs of Instruction/Academic Affairs).
Mental Health for Educators Series: Inclusively Teaching Autistic College Students
Date/Time of Event: Wednesday, February 2, 11:00–12:00 pm, (this event is being held at Lenoir CC and through Zoom)
Description: This session will address how to account for autistic college students' learning differences and characteristics, capitalize on their interests and skills, and employ classroom strategies that will benefit not only them, but also neurotypical students in tandem. For anyone interested in learning more about autism and autistic college students, this session will offer insights on bolstering autism acceptance, embracing strengths-based approaches, and utilizing practical approaches that honor inclusivity. The session is led by Monique Colclough, Ph.D. and Brett Ranon Nachman, Ph.D., both of the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at NC State University. Participants can join in at the Lenoir CC campus and virtually.
Faculty Learning Communities: Planning for Sustained Collaboration
Date/Time of Event: Tuesday, February 8, 1:00–3:00 am, (this event is being held through Zoom)
Description: Please join Michael Bates, Achieving the Dream Teaching & Learning Coach and Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Distance Education at Harper College, for an exciting session focused on Faculty Learning Communities as vehicles for sustained collaboration in advancing evidence-based pedagogy in the classroom. We will discuss what an effective Faculty Learning Community looks like, including exemplars. We will also provide information regarding how to design, facilitate, and guide an effective Faculty Learning Community. We welcome all leaders of professional learning (e.g., Directors/Coordinators of Centers for Teaching & Learning, chairs/leaders of professional development committees/councils; department chairs and Deans, AVPs, and VPs of Instruction/Academic Affairs).
Mental Health for Educators Series: Suicide Prevention
Date/Time of Event: Thursday, February 10, 10:00–11:30 am, (this event is being held through Zoom)
Description: This session will address the QPR components of suicide prevention. QPR is a nationally recognized suicide gatekeeper program. The QPR mission is to reduce suicidal behaviors and save lives by providing innovative, practical, and proven suicide prevention training. The signs of crisis are all around us. Quality education empowers al people, regardless of their background, to make a positive difference in the life of someone they know. (QPR Institute) The 90-minute QPR Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention program teaches people how to recognize suicide warning signs, ask about suicide, and persuade people to accept professional help. (QPR Institute) Registration is open to anyone interested in learning more about the prevention of suicide, but space is limited to 20 participants. The session is led by Kathy Foster, Chairperson of Human Services Technology at Carteret CC and trained suicide prevention specialist.
Expanding Horizons: Strategies for Engaging Part-Time Faculty
Date/Time of Event: Tuesday, February 22, 1:00–3:00 pm, (this event is being held through Zoom)
Description: Engagement matters. It is critical for community colleges to find ways to engage part-time faculty who are responsible for such a significant part of most students’ college experiences. Please join Michael Bates, Achieving the Dream Teaching & Learning Coach and Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Distance Education at Harper College, as we explore models and strategies for engaging and supporting part-time faculty through professional learning. We will make connections to institutional data that can provide context regarding part-time faculty impacts on the student experience, and we will discuss the importance of each college understanding who its part-time faculty are and what they need. This interactive and engaging session will provide key take-aways for supporting part-time faculty in effective educational practice. We welcome all leaders of professional learning (e.g., Directors/Coordinators of Centers for Teaching & Learning, chairs/leaders of professional development committees/councils; department chairs and Deans, AVPs, and VPs of Instruction/Academic Affairs).
Using Technology in the Classroom
Date/Time of Event: Thursday, March 3, 1:00–3:00 pm, (this event is being held at Lenoir CC and through Zoom)
Description: Please join Dr. Tanya Scott, Associate Director of Teaching & Learning at Achieving the Dream, to learn how to integrate instructional technologies within your own learning environments. This workshop will provide an overview of teaching and learning strategies that integrate technology to enhance the learning experience and learning outcomes. We will review instructional technology tools to support engagement, collaboration, and connection, as well as teamwork and collaboration strategies through an equity-minded lens to support student engagement. Finally, we will discuss access considerations and brainstorm solutions to technology barriers. This session is open to anyone and will be held in person at Lenoir CC and virtually.
Going Virtual: Teaching Engaging Classes Students Love
Date/Time of Event: *Monday, March 14 - Friday April 15, asynchronous, online
Synchronous, virtual: 9:00-10:00 a.m. or 2:00-3:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 23
Synchronous, virtual: 9:00-10:00 a.m. or 2:00-3:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 30
Synchronous, virtual: 9:00-10:00 a.m. or 2:00-3:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 6.
Virtual teaching isn't going away, at least for a while. You can embrace virtual teaching and lead amazing online classes that students love or ignore this trend and deliver sub-par pedagogy that everyone dreads (and eventually everyone ignores). Seem dramatic? It's not. It's what is happening at colleges across the country. Students are dropping out or changing schools when the online courses are unengaging.
Here's the good news. Virtual classes don't have to be boring. Virtual classes can be meaningful, engaging, even inspiring. Join Dr. Amy Climer for this month-long, go-at-your-own-pace course. Learn to design and deliver virtual classes that you look forward to and your students love. Learn how to use technology to your advantage, design interesting class sessions that drive learning, and deliver content so it feels like you are in person. You'll learn how to get students interested in sharing out loud, focused in class, and motivated to learn, even while online. Who knows, you might even grow to love virtual learning.
*This is an asynchronous, virtual course. You will have one month to work at your own pace to complete the course. There are three dates when Dr. Climer will be available to answer questions. Synchronous dates are listed above. Space is limited to 115 participants, so register now!
Watch the video to see what this session is about: https://youtu.be/epx8d6X-DW0
EAST HUB SUMMIT (this event is being held at Lenoir CC and through Zoom)
Date of SUMMIT: Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1
Session 1: Welcoming Language in Documents, Thursday, March 31, 1-2:20 PM ET
Description: This workshop will differentiate between equality, diversity, equity, and justice as context to designing inclusive learning environments. It will provide an overview of strategies for applying USC Rossier/Center for Urban Education’s six equity-minded principles to institutional documentation. Join Dr. Tanya Scott, Associate Director of Teaching & Learning, &and Dr. Jacqueline Taylor, Leadership Coach and Teaching & Learning Coach for Achieving the dream, for this engaging workshop designed to help college institutions equitize their communication in meaningful ways that better serve students.
Session 2: Using Technology to Enhance Instruction, Thursday, March 31, 2:30-3:40 PM ET
Please join Dr. Tanya Scott, Associate Director of Teaching & Learning at Achieving the Dream, to learn how to integrate instructional technologies within your own learning environments. This workshop will provide an overview of teaching and learning strategies that integrate technology to enhance the learning experience and learning outcomes. We will review instructional technology tools to support engagement, collaboration, and connection, as well as teamwork and collaboration strategies through an equity-minded lens to support student engagement. Finally, we will discuss access considerations and brainstorm solutions to technology barriers.
Keynote Speech, What Does Student Success Have to Do with Professional Learning? Friday, April 1, 8:15 - 9:00
Description: What Does Student Success Have to Do with Professional Learning? Since there is a connection, let’s collaborate on determining and laying out the connection. This connection puts you in the middle of students and the community. We will collaborate on how faculty and staff educators constant progress connect the experience of students to what happens to them after their experience on campus. Presenter: Delores P. Ali, NC Student Success Center Executive Director
Session 3: Rubric Design, Using a Rubric as an Assessment Tool, Friday, April 1, 9:00 – 10:20 am
Description: This workshop provides information about using a grading rubric as an assessment tool. The rubric, as a teaching tool, helps instructors and students to concentrate on the expectations of an assignment or activity. For instructors, it makes evaluating the assignment/activity easier, consistent, and equitable for all students. For students, it provides a review of the assignment or activity requirements. Included in this workshop are the elements of a rubric, methods to design rubrics, and how to integrate them into your courses. At the end of the workshop, participants will develop a rubric for one of their course assignments. Presenters: Dr. Christy Rhodes, ECU Adult Education Associate Professor; Dr. Kathy Lohr, ECU Adult Education Teaching Associate Professor; Dr. Phyllis Broughton, ECU Adult Education Teaching Assistant Professor
Session 4: Feedback Attacks, Friday, April 1, 10:30 – 11:40 am
Please join retired educator Claudia Gresham as she guides faculty through an informative and thought-provoking discussion of feedback, why it's critically important (not the least of which is DOE and SACSCOC "regular and substantive interaction" requirements), and how to offer it effectively and efficiently.
Before the First Day Matters Series: Cultivating Regular and Substantive Interactions in Distance Education
Date/Time of Event: Tuesday, April 5, 1:00–2:00 pm (this event is being held at Lenoir CC and through Zoom)
Description: This training will provide an overview of the Department of Education’s new Distance Education Regulations in relation to Regular and Substantive Interactions (RSI). This collaborative session will allow faculty and leaders an opportunity to discuss how we can reach all learners through distance education. Participants will leave the session with practical applications to address the new regulations. The session is hosted by Lane Freeman, Director of Online Learning with the North Carolina Community College System, and is open to anyone interested in the DOE requirements for online courses. The session will be held in person at Lenoir CC and virtually.
Community College Student Success: Building Self-Efficacy, Career Focus, and Sense of Calling for Better Student Outcomes
Date/Time of Event: Thursday, April 14, 10:00–11:30 am (this event is being held through Zoom)
Description: Offered by Dr. Jacqueline Taylor, Leadership Coach & Teaching and Learning Coach at Achieving the Dream (ATD), the session is staff friendly and based on her doctoral research and the retention/student success and life calling and career development work. It stresses student gains in Self efficacy as a catalyst to gaining Career Focus and, even more importantly, a Sense of Life Calling and Purpose for their futures. Faculty-staff partnerships are critical to this type of work, and so it is staff friendly and creates more collaboration between faculty/AA and student success/affairs teams for holistic student development.
Inclusively Teaching Autistic College Students
Date/Time of Event: Monday, May 16, 3:30-4:30 pm, and again on Wednesday, May 18, 9:00-10:00 am (This event is being held through Zoom) (If you are from Carteret CC, please sign up through your HR department)
Description: This session will address how to account for autistic college students' learning differences and characteristics, capitalize on their interests and skills, and employ classroom strategies that will benefit not only them, but also neurotypical students in tandem. For anyone interested in learning more about autism and autistic college students, this session will offer insights on bolstering autism acceptance, embracing strengths-based approaches, and utilizing practical approaches that honor inclusivity.
Presenters: Monique Colclough, Ph.D. and Brett Ranon Nachman, Ph.D., both of the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at NC State University.
Holistic Student Supports: Cultivating a Culture of Academic Excellence and a Culture of Caring
Date/Time of Event: Tuesday, May 17, 1:30-3:00 pm and again on Wednesday, May 18, 1:30-3:00, (This event is being held through Zoom) (If you are from Carteret CC, please sign up through your HR department)
Description: Cultivating a culture of academic excellence requires that we simultaneously cultivate a culture of caring and mattering as leaders and educators for equity. In this session, Faculty, Academic & Career Advising, Academic Support, and Student Development educators will engage in key evidence-based practices and data-informed decision making to foster equity in holistic student supports. Key student development theories will be applied to practice to help faculty and staff embrace the 2nd cornerstone of teaching and learning excellence, which promotes strong, collaborative partnerships through "shared efforts to cultivate learning and support student success".
Presenter: Dr. Jacqueline Taylor, Leadership Coach & Teaching and Learning Coach at Achieving the Dream (ATD) will assist in engaging participants around cross-collaborative training that will help your team break down silos and bring Academic Affairs Faculty and Student Success/Affairs/Services teams together to enhance teaching and learning excellence while promoting holistic student support and success for your students.
Advancing Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (JEDI) Practices for Whole-College Commitment to Student Success
Date/Time of Event: Tuesday, May 17, 3:30-5:00 pm and again on Wednesday, May 18, 11:00-12:30, (This event is being held through Zoom) (If you are from Carteret CC, please sign up through your HR department)
Description: Gateway Math an English Faculty and partnering academic support educators from across the College are invited to join in this workshop to build momentum and innovation through JEDI classroom practices that serve to help transform students' lives. Participants will gain knowledge of the strategies and mindsets necessary to advance teaching and learning excellence inside the classroom to promote Gateway course success. Partnering educators in academic support will also learn how to engage in JEDI practices to support Gateway course success. Join Dr. Jacqueline Taylor, ATD Leadership Coach and Teaching & Learning Coach, in analyzing and discussing what it really means to be a practitioner for justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion (JEDI) from your sphere of influence, especially in the classroom setting. Learn how to approach courageous conversations with colleagues that promote an understanding of the intentionality and actions needed to engage the first-generation of JEDI faculty and academic support practitioners through a cross-collaborative community focused on positive student outcomes for the diversity of promising student populations you serve. Dr. Taylor will challenge you to involve educators from across the institution to break down silos in order to increase culturally responsive and affirming practices in Gateway courses and to cultivate authentic relationships of accountability in support of whole-college commitment to holistic student success.
Presenter: Dr. Jacqueline Taylor, Leadership Coach & Teaching and Learning Coach at Achieving the Dream (ATD), for cross-collaborative training that will help your team break down silos and bring Academic Affairs Faculty and Student Success/Affairs/Services teams together to enhance teaching and learning excellence while promoting holistic student support and success for your students.
Incentive and Motivations: Institutional Strategies for Broad Engagement and Change (For PLLs) July 13th 1:00-2:30.
Students Shape Teaching and Learning: Empowering Student Voice in Professional Learning Programs (For PLLs) July 27th 10:00-11:30
Session description: Colleges across the country are finding new ways to establish partnerships between faculty and students that advance the professional learning process, thereby strengthening teaching as well as student learning outcomes. One especially promising strategy is Small Group Instructional Feedback (also known as Small Group Instructional Diagnosis), in which faculty gather mid-semester feedback from students. This process enables mid-course improvements to teaching and learning, positioning students and faculty as partners in the professional learning process. This workshop will make the case for this powerful approach and will work participants through a process of envisioning Small Group Instructional Feedback on their campus.