Past Events and Programs

Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain – Full

Culturally responsive and sustaining teaching practices work to close the opportunity gaps present in our educational system. These teaching frameworks bring together brain-based research with practices that strengthen the assets of our racially, culturally, linguistically, and neurodivergent students. Zaretta Hammond’s book leads us through how culturally responsive practices impact cognitive functions, and when done well, ...

Deep Integration of Critical Thinking into Your Discipline (New) – Winter 2023

This workshop is designed for instructors from any discipline, so that means you! If you have been engaged in how to infuse critical thinking more purposefully into your courses and/or how to assess critical thinking outcomes, this is especially for you. The goal: to lead you through aligning critical thinking assignments with appropriate assessments. The ...

Deeper Impact: Working with Community & Industry Partners on Projects

Project-based learning builds student engagement by asking students to grapple with real-world issues and create products that are similar to the types of work they might do after graduation. But how might you take the next step and engage community and industry partners in your courses? How do you have students move from creating sample deliverables ...

Designing Climate Justice Interdisciplinary Courses

This SBCTC funded program will bring together up to 7 faculty from different disciplines to design interdisciplinary courses that focus on climate justice and civic engagement. If you currently teach a course that can be adapted and taught together with a course from a different discipline under the umbrella of climate justice and civic engagement, ...

Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self

In Digital Identities, Rob Cover makes the audacious claim that for those living in the affluent West, the divide between online and on-ground selves has become so porous as to no longer exist. We now live between the virtual and the real to the extent that differentiating between the two no longer makes sense when ...

Discipline-Specific Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community

How can the social justice aspects of the climate crisis (climate justice) be tied to the content and skills that you teach in your course to create a coherent climate justice lesson? The connections are not always clear and obvious. As busy faculty, you are likely short on the time needed to do the research ...

Earth’s Week Presentation: Working for the Non-Human World

Presenter Joshua Wright is an 18-year-old environmental activist and filmmaker. He is an organizer with the Rainforest Flying Squad, a direct-action group dedicated to defending old growth forests. In 2020, he helped launch the Fairy Creek Blockades, which have become the largest active civil disobedience in Canadian history. Multiple articles and interviews have been published ...

Embed Quizzes in Your Videos and Students Will Watch!

Do you use videos to convey key content in your courses? Do you wonder if students are watching those videos and engaging with them? Join Li to learn about the changes in her students’ engagement with the videos in her online courses after she used the feature in Panopto to embed quizzes. Li will then ...

Embed Quizzes in Your Videos and Students Will Watch! (New)

Do you use videos to convey key content in your courses? Do you wonder if students are watching those videos and engaging with them? Join Li to learn about the changes in her students’ engagement with the videos in her online courses after she used the feature in Panopto to embed quizzes. Li will then ...

Engaging Puente and Umoja for Student Success Panel (New)

Bellevue College’s Puente and Umoja programs focus on closing the opportunity gap for Latine and Black populations and play a vital role in providing holistic student services that have been known to increase retention and graduation rates. Come learn more about how you can support the Puente program from Program Lead Hector Guzman, Puente Faculty ...