General Schedule
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:00 A.M. - 8:30 A.M. | Welcome (light breakfast and coffee available starting at 7:30 A.M.) Navajo Rm |
| 8:30 A.M. - 9:30 A.M. | Keynote: Dr. Deborah L. Harrington, Navajo Room) |
| 9:45 A.M. - 10:45 A.M. | Break Out A Sessions |
| 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. | Break Out B Sessions |
| 12:00 P.M. - 12:30 P.M. | Break (Lunch available in the Navajo Room) |
| 12:30 P.M. - 12:50 P.M. | Foundations for Student Success Recognition of Service |
| 12:50 P.M. - 1:50 P.M. | Common Session, Navajo Room |
| 2:00 P.M. -3:00 P.M. |
Break Out C Sessions |
Session Descriptions
Keynote: Creating a Common Space to Serve Underserved Students
Presenter: Dr. Deborah L. Harrington, Dean of Student Success, Los Angeles Community College District
Session Description: This interactive keynote will demonstrate how teams of faculty, staff, and administrators across California have participated in networked communities of practice designed to increase student access, success, equity, and completion, particularly amongst underserved populations. We will examine success stories of campus transformation, highlighting the role of networking and relationship building in institutional change. We will also look at the way that participating colleges in California have grown to serve as regional professional learning hubs, facilitating and sustaining engagement in research based practices for student success. During the presentation, audience participants will discuss ‘ideal’ initiatives for their respective programs/departments. Participants will also have an opportunity to outline next steps: how can the principles for transformation outlined in the keynote be put into practice at your college?
Time: 8:30 - 9:30 Room: Navajo
Breakout A Sessions
A1 Course Redesign
Session Description: Competency-based course mapping provides a design framework to ensure learner accountability for course mastery. Develop modules for students to construct knowledge of major course concepts that is documented through assignments with competency-based learning outcomes. Consider the conceptual sequence, resources and experiences that will reflect a logical, accessible course plan.
Presenter: Megan Garvey, Center for Teaching and Learning, Mesa Community College
Time: 9:45-10:45 Room: TBD
A2 Overcoming Communication Barriers: Strategies for Communicating with Students Effectively
Session Description: Professor Mims and Swaba both have extensive experience on the student and academic support side of the student experience prior to taking on roles as residential faculty in the Communication discipline. In this interactive session we'll discuss and model the importance of communicating clear expectations to students while also communicating genuine support for their academic and personal success. Creating an environment that is both nurturing and academically stimulating is an important pedagogical goal, let's discuss how to get there together.
Presenters: Joseph Swaba & Chris Mims, Communication, Gateway Community College
Time: 9:45-10:45 Room: TBD
A3 Small Group Stations
Session Description: This session gives faculty members a chance to discover how a stations-based classroom grabs the attention of adult learners and effectively differentiates instruction. Participants will explore how stations can be used to provide active learning experiences within a variety of subject areas. This strategy can be put into place easily for test review or become a more integrated method of teaching.
Presenter: Ashley Stich, Reading, Mesa Community College
Time: 9:45-10:45 Room: TBD
A4 Creating a Culture of Transfer
Session Description: MCC students demonstrate high university transfer aspirations. As a campus, how can we encourage and sustain student aspirations? What practices can we adopt that will promote transfer and provide the support necessary for students to successfully transition to a 4-year college/university?
Presenter: Rosina Wright, Foundations for Student Success, Mesa Community College
Time: 9:45-10:45 Room: TBD
Breakout B Sessions
B1 Instructional Scaffolds
Session Description: Like scaffolds used in construction, effective instructional practices utilize techniques that offer support and guidance for students to make meaning out of new knowledge. Scaffolds are systematically integrated into lesson design and delivery for students to access prior knowledge while developing strategies to process and retain new information. Participants will experience lessons and activities that model techniques to embed instructional scaffolds for learning.
Presenter: Megan Garvey, Center for Teaching and Learning, Mesa Community College
Time: 11:00-12:00 Room: TBD
B2 What do you teach? Learning outcomes outside the classroom
Session Description: While not everyone at Mesa Community College is classified as faculty, every MCC employee is a teacher. A focus on learning promotes student success, and provides everyone with the tools to carry out MCC’s mission to “excel in teaching, learning, and empowering individuals to succeed in our local and global community.”
This session will make the case for adopting a student-learning approach within every college office, interaction, and activity. The facilitator will share resources for and examples of student learning outcomes for student affairs, academic support, and administrative areas. Participants will gain practice writing and mapping student learning outcomes for their own functional areas – identifying what they want students to learn, as well as how, and by when, students will learn it.
Student learning outcomes demonstrate how work once thought to be purely transactional can truly be transformational.
Presenter: Julie Voller, Research and Planning Strategist, Chancellor's Office
Time: 11:00-12:00 Room: TBD
B3 Adventures in Acceleration: The Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) at Mesa Community College
Session Description: This session will provide an overview of MCC's English ALP program, and discuss how it serves developmental students and the college, as indicated by data-driven evidence. Further, a student panel of former ALP students will respond to questions about their experiences in the program. Presenters will then explore possible plans for future growth, as well as some logistical challenges and solutions. Finally, participants will be asked to consider further applications of similar accelerated models.
Presenter: Leanna Hall, English, Mesa Community College
Andrea Osteen, English, Mesa Community College
Time: 11:00-12:00 Room: TBD
B4 Civic Engagement Campfire Stories
Session Description: Come learn about civic engagement and service-learning, and how MCC is supporting students and faculty. We will fill your backpack with ideas, resources and projects the College is involved in with the goal of helping individuals to become better citizens
We will share how to apply for faculty and student mini grants, student scholarships for engagement, and ways you can become an engaged employee on campus and in our community!
Presenters: Duane Oakes, Dawn Rhodes, and Christin Franco, The Engagement Team, Mesa Community College
Time: 11:00-12:00 Room: TBD
Foundations for Student Success Recognition of Service
The Vice President of Academic Affairs will be recognizing the faculty leads of the Foundations for Student Success grant for their exceptional service to the college. (Lunch Available)
Time: 12:30-12:50 Room: Navajo
Guided Pathways to Success and Student Support Programs and Services
In this interactive session, participants will explore student support programs and services and examine the ways they might be integrated through Guided Pathways to Success. Session includes a poster session and guided conversation with student support programs and services from across the college.
Presenters: Vivian Miranda, Carmen Newland, Karla Gonzalez, Rosina Wright, and , Marcus Chinn
Time: 12:50-1:50 Room: Navajo
Breakout C Sessions
C1 Emotional Intelligence
Session Description: Emotional Intelligence, what is it? And how does it impact my ability to be effective in the classroom?
Come and find out!
Presenter: Dwayne McIntosh, Counseling, Mesa Community College
Time: 2:00-3:00 Room: TBD
C2 Foundational Advising: A Holistic Approach to Retention
Session Description: This presentation will focus on the best practices of advising the students who tested into developmental level areas beyond enrolling in classes, including intrusive advising materials and college systems transparency.
Presenter: Zhaowen Ruan, Foundation for Student Success, Mesa Community College
Time: 2:00-3:00 Room: TBD
C3 When Your Roadmap Has No Street Names: Creating Research Assignments and Handouts for Student Success
Session Description: This presentation will focus on: Myths of the Digital Native (and how to get them back to basics), Information Literacy for your discipline, creating better instructional handouts to help your students navigate the research process, and suggestions for research projects beyond the research paper.
Presenter: Elizabeth Simpson, English, Mesa Community College
Time: 2:00-3:00 Room: TBD
C4 Guided Pathways to Student Success (GPS) from a Loss/Momentum Perspective
Session Description: Using the GPS Framework, explore the student experience at MCC from a Loss / Momentum perspective. Students interact with MCC in numerous ways and each of these interactions can either boost a student's momentum towards completion or cause them to lose momentum and not complete. During this session, participants will identify loss / momentum opportunities within the areas they interact with students and discuss strategies to increase student success.
Presenters: Carmen Newland, Dean of Enrollment Services, Mesa Community College
Jennifer Fay, Exercise Science, Mesa Community College
Time: 2:00-3:00 Room: TBD