RISE Learning Institute Spring 2022 Professional Development

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Infographic about "Ways to Combat Food Insecurity," including to volunteer, donate, host a fundraiser, contact an elected official, make a community garden, and use your voice.
Applying course content to help communities change behaviors. By Sharice Lee in METR 111, Winter 2022.

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about the professional development opportunities available this Spring for faculty across the Washington CTC system. The RISE Learning Institute at Bellevue College has been working hard the past six years to build faculty capacities in high-impact practices – Undergraduate Research, Project-Based Learning, and Service-Learning (now called “Community-Engaged & Civic Education“). And we are excited to collaborate with you for the same.

The workshops below are for instructors across the Washington CTC system who are interested in integrating experiential practices into their courses. You will learn practical skills to integrate into course design, build community with other similarly-minded instructors, and feel more confident in implementing high-impact teaching practices. Details, dates, costs, and registration are given below.

Questions? Reach out to Sapan Parekh, Associate Director, Service-Learning & Community Engagement.

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What is RISE?

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The RISE Learning Institute works across Bellevue College and with the surrounding community to provide opportunities for students to learn through experiences, with the goal of helping them identity, articulate, build, and apply strengths. Through experiential learning, students develop skills that can help them succeed after leaving Bellevue College. In order to support these learning opportunities, RISE additionally provides professional development for faculty and builds relationships with the community.

The RISE Learning Institute brings together the college’s Center for Career Connections, the STEM to Stern and Navigators (Neurodiversity Navigators and Disable Students Navigating STEM) cohort programs, the RISE MakerSpace, and faculty and student support in high impact practices such as Community-Engaged & Civic Education (CECE), Undergraduate Research (UGR), and Project-Based Learning (PBL). To learn more about the impact made by RISE last year, review its 2020-2021 Annual Report.

RISE also organizes the quarterly showcase of student learning, Making Learning Visible, which has been virtual since Winter 2020. Feel free to see what students recently learned and created in Education, Economics, Interior Design, Meteorology, Psychology, Theatre Arts, and more.

Spring Professional Development Offerings

The RISE Learning Institute is excited to offer these workshops and learning communities to help with your professional development. All the opportunities below have been previously offered to Bellevue College faculty. In the future, RISE hopes to provide professional development to you in the areas of project-based learning and undergraduate research. You can see past opportunities here: Fall 2021 | Winter 2022

Before registering, check with your department or division about the following:

  • PD & Promotion: The Professional Development Hours – as per Bellevue College’s system – you can earn for attending the workshops are given below. Check with your institution whether these workshops can count for your promotional needs, and whether the PD hours earned would match the amounts given below.
  • Payment: There are two ways to pay, via credit card or paper check. Talk to your department about the best way to pay, and whether you can apply for reimbursement if you pay. The preference is credit card, though if you pay by check, make it out to “Bellevue College” with RISE/CCC in the Memo, and mail it to c/o Vicki Kazachenko, Bellevue College, 3000 Landerholm Cir SE, Mail Stop N258, Bellevue WA 98007. The check must be received before the start of the first workshop or session.

Journal Clubs

Friday, April 22, 2:30pm-3:30pm

Do you want to deepen student engagement with the course material and enrich your curriculum with a look at the current scholarly literature in your field? Journal clubs can help with that. Journal clubs create a community of practice where student groups read scholarly sources and present them to their classmates. Students gain literacy skills like breaking down jargon, and they build confidence by going “behind the curtain” of knowledge creation and by eavesdropping on—and engaging with—conversations between experts. Journal clubs are easy to set up and manage, and librarians can support your students looking for journal articles. 

Cost: $25 | 1 PD hour

Registration Deadline: April 22, 9:00am (register earlier if paying by check)

If you or your department plans to pay by credit card (preferred method), please register at Brown Paper Tickets.

If you plan to send a check, complete the registration form below:

(Make the check out to “Bellevue College” with RISE/CCC in the Memo, and mail it to c/o Vicki Kazachenko, Bellevue College, 3000 Landerholm Cir SE, Mail Stop N258, Bellevue WA 98007. The check must be received before the start of the workshop.)

Defining a Driving Question CANCELLED

Tuesday, May 3, 1:30pm-2:00pm

Defining a driving question is the first step toward designing a project-based learning program. A driving question is integral to project-based learning. It aligns with course outcomes while engaging students in their learning process. During this half-hour meeting, we will go over approaches and rubrics of PBL driving questions and brainstorm possible driving questions for your course.

Free | Registration Deadline: May 3, 12:00pm

Stepping Out & Stepping Into: Ethical Community Engagement for a More Equitable World

Thursday, May 5, 1:30pm-3:30pm

So, you want to make a difference in the world around you? Perhaps you want to encourage your students to do the same? But maybe you feel uncomfortable, unprepared, and uncertain. Join us as we examine how to engage with, learn from, and contribute to the community in an ethical manner. We will examine how bias, anti-racism, privilege, storytelling, and more fit into how you step into new community situations, so you have more confidence to step out and make the world a better, more equitable place.

This interactive workshop has been designed with inputs from the community and from other academic institutions.

This virtual workshop will be offered again in Fall 2022.

Free | 2 PD hours | Registration Deadline: May 5, 12:00pm

Project-Based Learning in a Hybrid or Fully Online Environment

Tuesdays, May 17 & 24, 1:30pm-3:00pm

Project-based learning (PBL) requires students to work in small teams to address open-ended, authentic issues. This requires coordination among students, which is inherently challenging in online and hybrid classes. But challenging is definitely not impossible. Several BC faculty in multiple departments use PBL in online courses, and BC is actually something of a national leader among community colleges in this regard. In this two-part workshop, you’ll have time to revamp an assignment sequence and get feedback from colleagues across the CTCs. You’ll also investigate approaches like:

  • Creating synchronous “moments” vs. wholly asynchronous methods of coordinating teams
  • Providing structure and scaffolding for projects in the online environment
  • Utilizing team-based projects in in-person, online, and high-flex settings
  • Strategies for creating team-based deliverables

Participants must be available for both parts.

Cost: $75 | 3 PD hours

Registration Deadline: April 17, 9:00am (register earlier if paying by check)

If you or your department plans to pay by credit card (preferred method), please register at Brown Paper Tickets.

If you plan to send a check, complete the registration form below:

(Make the check out to “Bellevue College” with RISE/CCC in the Memo, and mail it to c/o Vicki Kazachenko, Bellevue College, 3000 Landerholm Cir SE, Mail Stop N258, Bellevue WA 98007. The check must be received before the start of the workshop.)

Elections! Misinformation! Us vs. Them! Bringing the Civic into the Classroom CANCELLED

Fridays, May 27 & June 3, 1:30pm-3:00pm | Virtual | Faculty

Later this year, the United States will continue with its more-than-annual civic responsibility of voting for officials and on important initiatives. Whether someone is eligible to vote, anyone residing in the United States will be inundated with advertisements, yard signs, and pundits. Elections promote partisanship and an us versus them mentality. Misinformation can run rampant. And those who can vote might be too turned off to do so.

No matter what you teach, the elections matter. Misinformation and the sense of polarization matter. Join RISE as we explore different ways you can address these issues while teaching your course content. Through these two 90-minute workshops, you will think through how best to integrate these topics into a Fall course, and you will walk away with a plan to foster civic-minded students who can cut through the noise and see the connection of their course to the world around them. The topics tentatively will be:

  • Session 1 – May 27 – Elections and Misinformation
  • Session 2 – June 3 – Polarization and Dialogue

Participants must be available for both parts.

Cost: $75 | 3 PD hours

Registration Deadline: May 27, 9:00am (register earlier if paying by check)

If you or your department plans to pay by credit card (preferred method), please register at Brown Paper Tickets.

If you plan to send a check, complete the registration form below:

(Make the check out to “Bellevue College” with RISE/CCC in the Memo, and mail it to c/o Vicki Kazachenko, Bellevue College, 3000 Landerholm Cir SE, Mail Stop N258, Bellevue WA 98007. The check must be received before the start of the workshop.)

Undergraduate Research Faculty Showcase CANCELLED

Date & Time TBD | Virtual | Faculty & Staff

Faculty teams in Biology, Chemistry, and Psychology have worked over both Winter and Spring quarters to integrate undergraduate research into a series of courses. This scaffolded learning will reinforce the powers of iteration, information literacy, question design, and more. Join us as these teams discuss what they’ve learned, how their courses have changed, and the benefits of undergraduate research for both their students and themselves.

Free | Registration Deadline: TBD

Last Updated October 10, 2022