Past Events and Programs

Boost Student Learning and Engagement through Innovative Online Assessment (NEW!)

Are you feeling stuck when it comes to assessment in your virtual classes? Are you looking for innovative ways to make your assessments more equitable and relevant to students' lives, particularly in this uncertain time? In this 2-hour session, we will share creative assessment strategies and tools that can be adapted to any discipline, going ...

Breaking Bread with Colleagues 

Do you eat behind your computer? Do you wonder what your colleague across campus has been up to? Would you like to meet with people in a relaxing way? Let’s connect in the Faculty Commons over lunch. This lunchtime is for us to build community while fueling up for our busy day. The Faculty Commons has a kitchen ...

Brown Bag: Using Technology to Improve Student Learning

We just started the quarter and we may have students that are anxious and nervous. Do you know we can reduce class anxiety by connecting with your students using Canvas?   Wednesday, April 4, 11 a.m. -12 p.m. D104E For more information, contact Archana Alwar, (aalwar@bellevuecollege.edu), Adjunct Mentoring Lead.

Build Your Climate Literacy Workshop Series

Are you passionate about climate justice, but would like a better understanding of the science behind it? This workshop series is designed to provide faculty with the resources, vocabulary, and understanding of the science behind climate change. The purpose is to continue collaboration across different divisions and programs to connect social issues to the science ...

Building an Equitable Classroom Community with CATs – One Day Workshop!

Are you looking for innovative ways to ensure all your students are learning what you hope they are learning in your class? Would you like some tips for enhancing the energy and building community in your classroom? CATs may be just the thing for you! Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, non-graded, sometimes anonymous, in-class ...

Building Expertise: Sharing Reading Strategies to Boost Student Confidence and Success

Students enter the classroom with varying degrees of confidence in themselves as readers. When we share with students the many reading strategies we use in our own areas of content expertise, their reading comprehension and confidence increase. This leads to greater student success in understanding class texts and completing reading assignments. In this online workshop, ...

Carbon Criminals: Climate Crimes

Please join us for a lively discussion of the new book Carbon Criminals: Climate Crimes, which takes a criminological perspective towards the climate crisis. Unlike many climate justice books that focus on causality, and have a doom and gloom approach, this book focuses on the role that large corporations and the global political community played ...

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (New) – Spring 2022

Join us to read and discuss selections from "Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice" by Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. From the book description: "to explore the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, ...

CATs in Virtual Learning Environments – Spring

Muddiest point...exit tickets...jigsaws... These are examples of classroom assessment techniques, or CATs - simple, non-graded, often anonymous in class or online activities to quickly assess student learning. Join us as we showcase different technology tools and classroom assessment techniques you can easily implement in your virtual classes to engage your students and quickly assess what ...

Civic Engagement for Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community

The Civic Engagement for Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is fully online due to COVID-19. It involves three synchronous two-hour workshop-style sessions during Fall quarter during which participants hone their knowledge of climate justice issues and learn about ways to involve their students in civic engagement around this issue. With significant support, participants emerge ...