4C/SD Conference 2016

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1 4C/SD Conference 2016 Success through Synergy: Connect, Collaborate, Create April 7-8, 2016 Doubletree Hotel Claremont, CA 0

2 4CSD Conference April 7 8, 2016 Doubletree Hotel 555 W. Foothill Blvd. Claremont CA Success through Synergy: Connect, Collaborate, Create 4C/SD is excited to announce that this year s conference was planned in collaboration with the Online Education Initiative (OEI). This partnership will allow us to share ideas for developing your online professional development presence for your distance education needs as well as campus wide professional development and community building. If you are new to professional development leadership, please join us for our first-ever, New Professional Development Practitioner s Pre-Conference Workshop on Thursday morning. Workshop sessions will focus on topics relevant to those who coordinate professional development programs, Distance Education Coordinators, and faculty, staff, and administrators who are involved with distance education. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Dena Maloney, Superintendent-President at El Camino College. Dr. Maloney will share her perspective on the significance of professional development programs and the importance of providing professional development opportunities that promote successful, synergistic, and collaborative professional development programs. On Thursday, April 7 th, the conference will begin with an optional New Professional Development Practitioner s Pre-Conference Workshop. The conference will officially begin at noon with a fun ice breaker activity, lunch, breakout workshops, and GIFTS (Great Ideas for Training Staff). The evening will conclude with a social hour, dinner, and awards ceremony. The following day, Friday, April 8 th, there will be a variety of workshop sessions with colleagues, our keynote speaker, a preview of the new Professional Learning Network, a business meeting, and board elections. You won t want to miss a minute of this conference! Come connect, collaborate, and create with your Professional Development and OEI/Distance Education colleagues take away LOTS of professional development ideas that you can use on your campus! Please see page 2 for registration information. Questions? Please contact conference chair Jan Schardt at jschardt@napavalley.edu or at (707) or Leslie Carr at leslie.carr@canyons.edu or at (661) P a g e

3 Register online at DEADLINE TO REGISTER: FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016 Conference registration fee includes lunch and dinner on Thursday and breakfast and lunch on Friday. $495 for 4C/SD and OEI members $550 for non-members Hotel Reservations: Please reserve hotel rooms directly with the Doubletree Hotel by contacting them at: ONTCLDT/index.html or by calling Please note that the conference registration fee does not include hotel accommodations. Please let the hotel know that you are with the 4C/SD conference. The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Claremont is nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains between Southern California's Inland Empire and the Los Angeles Basin on historic Route 66. The hotel is located ten miles from the Ontario International Airport (ONT). Please note Airport Shuttle service is not included in the conference registration fee. Supershuttle is offering 10% OFF transportation from all airports, including Ontario (ONT), Los Angeles International (LAX), John Wayne Orange County (SNA), Long Beach (LGB) and Burbank (BUR). Please use code Z87GL if you plan to use the Supershuttle. 2 P a g e

4 2016 4CSD Conference Agenda Thursday, April 7, :45-12:00 Conference Check-in 10:00-11:30 New Professional Development Practitioner s Pre-Conference Workshop (Optional) 12:00-12:45 Conference Welcome & Ice Breaker Activity 12:45-1:30 Lunch 1:45-3:00 Breakout Session #1 *Note Some sessions will be repeated at other time blocks. 3:00-3:30 Hotel Check- In 3:30-4:45 Breakout Session #2 SC4: Collaboration, Communication, Culture & Creativity at Sierra College Turning Professional Development into Improved Performance Strengthening Your Professional Learning Climate Through New Faculty Training Programs Cultivating Inclusive Environments Online Building a Successful DE Professional Development Program: If You Build It, They Will Come *SC4: Collaboration, Communication, Culture & Creativity at Sierra College *Turning Professional Development into Improved Performance Instructional Media: Copyright, Creative Commons, and Create Your Own *Cultivating Inclusive Environments Online Re-Envisioning Your Online Course: Using the OEI Rubric for Self- Assessment 3 P a g e

5 4:45-5:45 Continue Hotel check-in & Free Time 5:45-6:30 GIFTS- Great Ideas for Training Staff Model Best Practices and Technology Every Time You Present! Developing Guidelines for Training Facilitators Framing Canvas: Leveraging Canvas for Smart Course Design LEAP & Management Academy 6:30-7:30 Social Hour 7:30-9:00 Dinner & 4CSD Awards Friday, April 8, :30-8:30 Continental Breakfast 8:30-9:30 Preview of the NEW Professional Learning Network Paul Steenhausen, Executive Director Success Center for California Community Colleges 9:45-11:00 Breakout session #3 Onboarding at Coast Community College District Statewide Survey Results on Professional Development Are In! Staff Development and Online Student Support Services Connecting Students and Support Engaged Faculty + Active Classroom = Successful Students: Building a Success Professional Development Plan by Integrating Technology and Best Practices in F2F, Web-enhanced, and Hybrid Environments Common Assessment Coming to a College Near You! 4 P a g e

6 11:15-12:30 Breakout session #4 5 Tips for Improving Accessibility in Online Offerings Compliance and the Online Education Initiative (OEI) Using OEI Resources to Facilitate the Development of Quality Online Courses and Associated Professional Development Activities Developing a Canvas Community for the CCC Reflection & Renewal 12:30-1:15 Lunch 1:15 1:45 Keynote Speaker Dr. Dena Maloney, Superintendent/President El Camino College Dr. Dena P. Maloney will speak to the critical importance of professional development. Change from every direction is impacting our colleges in ways unimaginable even a few short years ago. Understanding evolving student needs, keeping pace with technology advances, and our institutions responsiveness to change impact the way in which we think about professional development. Ensuring that professional development for all employees is an integral part of institutional planning is a key component in institutional effectiveness and student success. 1:45-2:15 4CSD Business Meeting, Election of Board Members 2:30-3:00 Closing Remarks/Conference Concludes Notes: 5 P a g e

7 Thursday, April 7 Pre-Conference Workshop 10:00 11:30am New Professional Development Practitioner s Workshop Presenters: Leslie Carr, College of the Canyons; Sharon Beynon, Ventura College; and Katie O Brien, Rio Hondo College You are invited to participate in a special pre-conference workshop just for new professional development coordinators! The presenters will share their experience with you on how to develop a Professional Development Program Plan that addresses the needs of all employee groups. You will learn about: Committee structures Needs assessment surveys and focus groups Evaluations (workshop and program) Budgeting Hiring speakers/presenters Putting together a professional development program for all employee groups Annual reporting to the chancellor s office What is FLEX/tracking FLEX hours What counts as FLEX Marketing your professional development offerings Working with administration to garner support for professional development And much more! Questions you may have and other topics not listed above are encouraged. Thursday, April 7 Breakout Workshops Session #1 1:45 3:00pm SC4: Collaboration, Communication, Culture & Creativity at Sierra College Presenters: Josh Breese, Joan Basque, and Susan Lucyga, Sierra College The Sierra College Staff Development department will share how we provide interest based bargaining/collaborative process training for staff members at every level. Highlights include team building, trust building, and creativity exercises, all of which help create a collaborative working environment. Turning Professional Development into Improved Performance Presenter: Bob Nash, Coastline Community College Participants will learn techniques to get more from their faculty/staff development budgets of all sizes. The presenter will demonstrate Kirkpatrick s Levels of Evaluation and other tools to improve training, job performance, and institutional outcomes. 6 P a g e

8 Thursday, April 7 Breakout Workshops Session #1 1:45 3:00pm Strengthening Your Professional Learning Climate through New Faculty Training Programs Presenter: David Betancourt, Cerritos College This workshop will focus on New Faculty Orientation Programs and how they can positively impact the professional learning climate on campus; more engaged faculty, relevant PL offerings, and increased attendance. Sharing of ideas and success stories will be encouraged. Cultivating Inclusive Environments Online Presenter: Janelle Williams Melendrez and Tracy Schaelen, Southwestern College Many understand the importance and impact of fostering an inclusive environment that respects diversity and provides culturally appropriate instruction in a face-to face classroom, yet this idea has not been fully explored in distance education. How can we create an inclusive and welcoming environment for online students? Is there a connection between inclusion and retention? What role might unconscious bias play in an online environment, and how can we recognize and address its impact? This session will explore these issues and provide practical strategies for building a safe, interactive space in which all students are valued and can thrive. Building a Successful Distance Education Professional Development Program: If You Build It, They Will Come Presenters: Pat James (OEI), Micah Orloff (@ONE), Michelle Pilati (OEI), Anna Stirling (@ONE) This session will explore the benefits of providing faculty and staff members of a college with consistently offered, academy style, professional development opportunities. The presentation will include not only ideas for building your own program but strategies for changing up the way professional development is accomplished combining both traditional, in-person activities with online follow-up activities and vice versa! Building on the success of the Teaching Learning Academy at Mt. San Jacinto College, presenters will chronicle both past successes and the recent activities of the OEI PD and collaborative meeting efforts. 7 P a g e

9 Thursday, April 7 Breakout Workshops Session #2 3:30 4:45pm SC4: Collaboration, Communication, Culture & Creativity at Sierra College Presenters: Josh Breese, Joan Basque, and Susan Lucyga, Sierra College The Sierra College Staff Development department will share how we provide interest based bargaining/collaborative process training for staff members at every level. Highlights include team building, trust building, and creativity exercises, all of which help create a collaborative working environment. Turning Professional Development into Improved Performance Presenter: Bob Nash, Coastline Community College Participants will learn techniques to get more from their faculty/staff development budgets of all sizes. The presenter will demonstrate Kirkpatrick s Levels of Evaluation and other tools to improve training, job performance, and institutional outcomes. Instructional Media: Copyright, Creative Commons, and Create Your Own Presenter: Anna San Jacinto College With digital media resources becoming ever easier to locate and use as part of our instructional content, it is important to understand the rights associated with these resources. This workshop will provide a brief overview of what copyright is and to whom it applies; introduce you to aspects of copyright law that have implications for faculty and instructional designers; explain creative commons licensing; and provide you with resources for creating your own instructional media. Cultivating Inclusive Environments Online Presenter: Janelle Williams Melendrez and Tracy Schaelen, Southwestern College Many understand the importance and impact of fostering an inclusive environment that respects diversity and provides culturally appropriate instruction in a face-to face classroom, yet this idea has not been fully explored in distance education. How can we create an inclusive and welcoming environment for online students? Is there a connection between inclusion and retention? What role might unconscious bias play in an online environment, and how can we recognize and address its impact? This session will explore these issues and provide practical strategies for building a safe, interactive space in which all students are valued and can thrive. 8 P a g e

10 Thursday, April 7 Breakout Workshops Session #2 3:30 4:45pm Re-Envisioning Your Online Course: Using the OEI Rubric for Self-Assessment Presenter: Lene This workshop will explore how the Online Education Initiative s Course Design Rubric can be used during course development as a tool for assessing online courses and developing strategies for improving the overall course design, communication, collaboration, assessments, and accessibility of online courses. Friday, April 8 Breakout Workshops Session #3 9:45 11:00am Onboarding at Coast Community College District Presenter: Meg Yanalunas, Coastline Community College This session will provide information on an employee onboarding framework that can be customized to serve the diverse need of each constituent group. This framework will support institutional effectiveness best practices, accreditation standard III.A and will provide for a consistent initial professional development for all employees during their first 90 days of employment. The presentation will demonstrate the journey, wins and challenges when bringing change to a longstanding current practice. Statewide Survey Results on Professional Development Are In! Presenter: Debbie Weatherly, California Community College Classified Senate (4CS) Come find out what classified are saying their professional development needs are, and some of the issues that keep them from receiving professional development! Staff Development and Online Student Support Services Connecting Students and Support Presenters: Jory Hadsell and Bonnie Peters, OEI Providing students with access to online support services is only the beginning to expanding the availability of such services and to ensuring that the college s online students are receiving the services the college is required to provide. How can staff, counseling faculty, and instructional faculty work together to connect online students to supportive services? 9 P a g e

11 Friday, April 8 Breakout Workshops Session #3 9:45 11:00am Engaged Faculty + Active Classroom = Successful Students: Building a Success Professional Development Plan by Integrating Technology and Best Practices in F2F, Web-enhanced, and Hybrid Environments Presenter: Sharon Beynon, Ventura College The Ventura College Professional Development and Distance Education team members will offer a comprehensive guide to integrating technology and best practices into classrooms and professional development in order to build a campus culture around student engagement and success. Common Assessment Coming Soon to a College Near You! Presenter: Jennifer Coleman, Common Assessment Initiative CCCAssess will begin rolling out across the state in the fall for spring 2017 placements. Extensive professional development opportunities are being offered to colleges as they implement the robust local placement models required for student success. Come hear firsthand about how the work will directly impact you and your campus. 10 P a g e

12 Friday, April 8 Breakout Workshops Session #4 11:15am-12:30pm 5 Tips for Improving Accessibility in Online Offerings Presenter: Anna San Jacinto College When discussing content creation; accessibility is something that needs to be part of the conversation. Unfortunately, the task of creating accessible content is one that can seem intimidating or daunting at first thought; however, designing with accessibility in mind can make the task a lot easier to accomplish. During this workshop we ll discuss five things you can do to increasing the usability of your content during (or after) the creation process. Compliance and the Online Education Initiative (OEI) Using OEI Resources to Facilitate the Development of Quality Online Courses and Associated Professional Development Activities Presenters: Pat James and Michelle Pilati, OEI The OEI s Course Design Rubric provides a modifiable standard for online course quality that can be adopted locally. How can the Rubric be integrated into local professional development efforts? And how can the Rubric assist in ensuring that your courses are designed to facilitate student success and compliant with relevant regulations, accreditation standards, and law? This session will highlight the usefulness of the Rubric and share approaches to its implementation at the local level. Developing a Canvas Community for the California Community College Presenter: Greg Beyrer, Cosumnes River College One of the distinguishing features of the Canvas learning management system is its Community, which allows all of its users to find help, propose product ideas, and connect with each other. Come to this session to learn more about we in the CCC can use the Canvas Community to share our experiences and leverage our voice to ensure that the Canvas system best serves our students. Reflection and Renewal Presenter: Katie O Brien, Rio Hondo College Reflection and Renewal (R&R) is a professional development program that brings together all employee groups and provides opportunities for ongoing professional and personal revitalization. This session will offer a brief experience of the work, a summary of its history at Rio Hondo College, and explain how your campus can get involved. 11 P a g e

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