TLC Fall Quarter Collaboration Day, October 26, 2017, is designed to provide an opportunity to work collaboratively on important matters that require joint effort. All employees are invited to participate in Collaboration Day, but participation is voluntary. Faculty who participate during their class time should make alternative arrangements for their classes. Supervisors are encouraged to support participation of classified and professional staff. Questions? Please contact Coryl at or phone 934-3776.
GENERAL SESSIONS – Thursday, October 26, 2017
TIME/PLACE / FACILITATOR / TOPIC
10:00 – 10:30 AM
CC 1161 / Renee Infelise / Creating a Culture of Inclusion on Campus. In this workshop we will cover the importance of campus culture and learn how to create a space and environment that is welcoming and inclusive for all students, staff, and faculty.
10:30 – 11:00 AM
CC 1161 / Melanie Farrar, Toni Anderson, and Renee Infelise / Making Learning Visible/Making Teaching Visible Symposium Info. Spring 2018 will be the TLC’s 13th annual, learning showcase event in Spring Quarter, and our 3rd annual co-located collaboration with Student Leadership’s annual SPRING FEST event. Faculty are invited to assign MLV participation to student teams or individuals who may create posters, presentations, performances, videos, or other evidence of learning which they display for the entire campus community. Faculty may also participate in MTV, and as a division, like the Art Department’s Steam-roller Printing demonstration at the 2017 event last June. If you would like to find out more, please join us for this short information session on how you can show off your students’ learning achievements and your instructional successes next spring.
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
CC 1161 / Michaelann Allen / Phi Theta Kappa, Jack Kent Cooke, and Other Great Ways to Help Students. Enjoy homemade treats (Michaelann is a fabulous baker!) and find out about wonderful ways to help students succeed here at North and beyond. IMPORTANT KEYWORDS: Scholarships, Leadership, Service Learning, Phi Theta Kappa.
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
LB 2236 / Chilan Ta / Bystander Bias Intervention Training. Develop strategies for interrupting bias. This training is modeled after curriculum from the Southern Poverty Law Center Teaching Tolerance resources for educators.
12:00 – 12:45 PM
CC 1161 / Farideh Faraz / Open Lab for 25 Live. Do you have questions about how to schedule rooms for meetings and events in 25 Live, the college’s new integrated, District-wide system for room reservations? Bring your questions for Farideh, North’s 25 Live system administrator.
12:30 – 2:00 PM
TLC - LB 3231C / Kathleen Chambers / Accessibility. Do you create documents in Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, PowerPoint, or Pages in Canvas? Are your documents accessible for everyone, including students and our community with disabilities? This session will provide quick, easy tips for creating accessible documents. There will be short demonstrations, time for hands on practice, and a brief introduction to the social model of disability. Work with your own documents (please bring electronically) or practice on a doc we provide. For faculty and staff.
2:00 – 2:50 PM
TLC - LB 3231C / Shireen Deboo, Ana Villar / Integrating Information Literacy Into Your (Online) Classroom. Join us to learn about easy, efficient, andeffective ways to integrate information literacy into your course. The ideas shared in this workshopcan help support assignments and IL outcomes big or small. Strategies for bothin-person and online classrooms will be discussed.
2:00 – 3:30 PM
CC 1161 / Toni Anderson and Faculty Academy Members / Introduction to NSC Faculty Academy. Attention new faculty! This information-packed one and a half hour session will provide useful information to support your successful Fall Quarter at North Seattle College, including:
·  Basic campus information and location of important departments
·  Where to find ongoing instructional and technical support
·  Connect with other faculty and staff
·  Open discussion about teaching
·  Drink coffee, tea and munch on treats!
GROUP SESSIONS – Thursday, October 26
TIME/PLACE / FACILITATOR / TOPIC
OCTOBER 26
1:00 – 3:00 PM
ED 2843A / Marty Reinsel / DeEscalation Training: Improving Safety Through Purposeful Communication & Behavior. We can help improve the safety of our environment by learning key concepts of productive verbal and non-verbal communication that are most helpful when interacting with people in distress. Join Marty Reinsel, MA, LMHC, Clinical Educator and Therapist at Navos Psychiatric Hospital to learn basic intervention and de-escalation approaches including verbal and non-verbal communication, environmental and safety considerations and basic non-violent physical defense.
(PLEASE NOTE: WORKSHOP CAPACITY IS 50.)
OCTOBER 26
6:30 - 8:50 PM
CC 3359
/ Sarka Faltinova / ESL Collaboration Evening.We will discuss topics and issues we face in both daytime and evening ESL program groups, so everybody is welcome to participate.
Agenda:
1.Warm-up activities
2.Attendance Policies
--Students' pass/no pass expectations and tardiness/absences in class
3.Grading categories weight
--Do your students understand the concept of weighing grade categories?
4.Our Next Faculty Development Evening
PLEASE SAVE THESE FUTURE DATES! THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8! THURSDAY MAY 10!
2018 Winter Quarter TLC Collaboration Day AND the new Faculty Professional Development Days!