Designing to Achieve
Moorpark College is committed to Professional Development through a dialogue-rich environment supporting inspiration, motivation, and culture. As an extension to this work we are excited to announce this year's theme, Designing to Achieve: Applying Universal Design to Support IDEAA: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-racism, and Accessibility
There are several opportunities to engage in professional development or to develop a professional development project. Please contact Gabby Chacon, Classified Professional Tri-Chair, and Brian Burns, Professional Development Coordinator, if you want to be a part of any future Professional Development projects.
October 26, 2022 Professional Development (Flex) Schedule
Oct 26 Professional Development (Flex) Day
Please RSVP for meals by clicking here
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
Join us for a coffee and a light breakfast
Location: Campus Center Cafeteria
9:00-10:30 Special Guest Dr. Roman Liera: Sensemaking: Moorpark College’s Campus Racial Climate
In this session, Dr. Roman Liera will discuss practical action steps for addressing our racial climate survey conducted by USC's Race and Equity Center. We will discuss proven best practices, including current work happening on campus and how to continue to support this work and engage others in this work. This discussion is equally applicable for faculty and staff and will follow-up on Dr. Liera's initial presentation at our Campus Update on October 10th.
Speaker info:
Román Liera is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership at Montclair State University. He was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, where he attended Los Angeles Pierce College before transferring to San Diego State University to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in counseling and social change. He then moved to New York City to attend Teachers College, Columbia University, where he received a Master of Arts in Higher and Postsecondary Education before moving back to Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Dr. Liera designed his research program to study racial equity and organizational change in Higher Education. Specifically, he draws on qualitative research methods to understand how organization processes, norms, and practices perpetuate racial inequity. He anchored his scholarship on a theoretical understanding of university and college campuses as racialized organizations with cultures and structures constraining administrators and faculty efforts to advance racial equity. His current research projects focus on understanding how racism operates in doctoral student socialization, the academic job market, faculty hiring, reappointment, tenure and promotion, and presidential hiring. His research appears in the Journal of Higher Education, American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Review of Higher Education among others.
Please note that Dr. Liera will be presenting via Zoom, but we will also have the Campus Center Conference Room set up for those who would like to take part in the discussion while on campus.
Facilitator: Dr. Roman Liera
Location: Campus Center Conference Room and Zoom (click here)
10:45-12:00 Zero Textbook Costs (ZTC) Open for Everyone
In this session, we will examine how free and open education resources are promoting student success on the Moorpark campus. We'll examine the intersection of open education practice (OEP) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Finally, we will offer practical examples of ZTC course design and strategies for OER search.
Facilitator: Cynthia Sheaks-McGowan and Trudi Radtke
Location: LLR-124 and Zoom
10:45-12:00 Emergency Notification System
Please join us for an important information and training session for using the campus-wide Emergency Notification System (ENS) app.
Facilitator: Dan McMichael
Location: CCCR and Zoom
12:00-12:45 Lunch—Campus Center Cafeteria
Join us for lunch in the Campus Center Cafeteria.
12:00-12:45 Cookie Decorating!
During lunch time in the Campus enter Cafeteria, everyone is welcome to also take part in our Creative Cookie Crafting Curriculum! We will have all the supplies you need to take part in this fun and creative activity.
12:45-2:00 Equity by Design Workshop
Please join us for an interactive workshop and discussion focused on exploring concrete and evidence-based approaches to designing our pedagogy with equitable outcomes in mind. Participants are encouraged to read the first chapter of Katie Novak and Mirko Chardin's book Equity by Design: Delivering on the Power and Promise of UDL by clicking here and look over the worksheet by clicking here. A key element of the talk will include working with a chart to visualize UDL approaches; you can preview the chart by clicking here. All are welcome even if you have not read the chapter!
The goal of the workshop is for everyone to gain practical knowledge and walk away with at least one tool for designing their courses with equitable outcomes in mind. During the workshop, we will have conversations focused on applying the concepts in this chapter to our curriculum and lay the groundwork for further conversations about the rest of the book in the spring. All participants will receive a free copy of the book!
Facilitator: Tracy Tennenhouse
Location: CCCR and Zoom
12:45-2:00 Document Accessibility – The Basics – LLR-126
What are accessible documents? Accessible documents are documents everyone can fully and independently access, even if they are using assistive technology, such as a screen reader or text-to-speech software. How is that done? Join us in person or via zoom as we explore the built-in elements of Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat to ensure documents we create and distribute are accessible to all.
We will have live demonstrations and hands-on exercises for the following:
- Alt Text
- Built-in accessibility checker
- Headings (identifying and modifying)
- Meaningful hyperlinks
- Tables
Facilitator Shirley Ruiz
Location:
LLR-126 or Zoom
2:15-3:30 RSI Course Heroes
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an RSI Course Hero! Join our heroes in preparing for accreditation review by exploring best practices in Regular and Substantive Interaction. See specific examples of how your super colleagues are effectively engaging their students in online coursework.
Facilitators: Christy Douglass and Trudi Radtke
(Zoom only)
2:15-4:15 Mental Health @Moorpark College: Step UP! Bystander Training
Please join us for Part 3 of Mental Health @Moorpark College: Step UP! Bystander Training. In this section, participants will learn to
- Recognize problematic events
- Explore attitudes and behaviors impacting our willingness to step up
- Gain skills in stepping up effectively
- Identify campus-specific resources
If you have already attended the BAC Team orientation and QPR training, you will receive the MH@MC Certificate as well.
Facilitators Jenna Horn, Dena Stevens, Jasmine Betka, Allison Barton
Location: Zoom
Conference and Webinar Opportunities 2022/23
Welcome to Digicon 2022 - A Universal Design for Learning Makerspace conference
October 18-20, 2022 (Online)
Are you passionate about collaborating, making, learning, exploring, and sharing UDL practices in Higher Education? Do you have the mindset of a maker – creating, tinkering, learning in a hands-on fashion, and thinking critically about UDL practices? I
Whether you are new to UDL or whether you are an experienced practitioner, join us at the third Digicon conference in Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (UDLHE) – A Universal Design for Learning Makerspace.
Registration is for $100 per participant.
Award-winning author Javier Zamora will discuss his new memoir, “Solito,” on Oct. 19 at noon as part of Moorpark College’s Undocumented Student Action Week, Oct. 17-21. The hour-long Zoom event is free to students and the community.
“We are excited to have Javier Zamora as the keynote speaker for Undocumented Student Action Week this year,” said Alex Yepez, Moorpark College counseling services specialist and Dreamers support lead. “Javier’s story and experiences reflect those of many of our undocumented student population at Moorpark College. It is critical to host a speaker such as Javier to validate and lift up the experiences of our students, especially in this current political climate.”
Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. When he was a year old, his father fled El Salvador due to the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992). His mother followed in 1995, when Javier was about to turn five. Zamora was left in the care of his grandparents, who helped raise him until he immigrated to the U.S. when he was nine. His first poetry collection, “Unaccompanied” (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), explores themes revolving around these experiences.
In “Solito” (Hogarth, 2022), Zamora retells his nine-week odyssey across Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually through the Sonoran Desert. He traveled unaccompanied by boat, bus and foot. After a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Zamora managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants.
Zamora was a 2018-2019 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University (Olive B. O'Connor), MacDowell, Macondo, the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Foundation (Ruth Lilly), Stanford University (Stegner) and Yaddo. He is the recipient of a 2017 Lannan Literary Fellowship, the 2017 Narrative Prize and the 2016 Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign.
To attend the Zoom webinar, register at bit.ly/Javier-Zamora.
For a complete list of Undocumented Student Action Week activities, visit moorparkcollege.edu/Dreamers
For additional information about “Solito” and Zamora, contact Yepez at (805) 553-4165 or mcdreamers@vcccd.edu.
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Registration is now open for the “Equitable Placement and Completion: A Racial Justice Imperative,” a joint effort between the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and The Puente Project. Our featured speaker, Dr. Christopher Emdin, is the Robert A. Naslund Endowed Chair in Curriculum Theory and Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, and author of many titles, including STEM, STEAM, Make, Dream; Ratchedemic: Re-Imagining Academic Excellence; and For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and the Rest of Y’all Too. Participants will come away with an understanding of how to move racial justice work forward through Equitable Placement in support of student success in the California Community College system. The webinar will also introduce the 2022-23 Puente Communities of Practice (ComPs) for California community college educators, which will include the following strands:
Suggested Audience: The event is open to everyone, including students. We especially encourage the participation of part-time faculty, counseling faculty, and faculty teaching transfer-level Math and English. In addition, classified administrators and professionals, educational and executive administrators, and trustees are encouraged to attend. |
In celebration of National Transfer Student Week, all are invited to the 2022 Regional Transfer Student Success Summit at CSU Channel Islands on Friday, October 21 from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM!
RSVP at http://go.csuci.edu/RTSSS2022
Please see the flyer attached below more details. Agenda highlights include presentations on Student Success Analytics (transfer success, equity, and degree completion), luncheon featuring transfer student and alumni voices, and a keynote and workshop from the authors of Power to the Transfer: Critical Race Theory and a Transfer Receptive Culture.
We are excited to build on the work of past Regional Transfer Success Summits! Please share the attached flyer and RSVP link with your networks.
Please join us for a Zoom discussion of the results of last year's racial climate survey at Moorpark College with special guest Dr. Roman Liera.
We are pleased to announce a new web series on Racelighting in schools, colleges, and universities. Starting November 3, 2022 at 11am Pacific Time.
The series will be hosted by Dr. Frank Harris III and Dr. Luck Wood of San Diego State University. The series will include pre-recorded materials and live sessions on Nov 3, 10, and 17, all at 11:00am.
REGISTER HERE!
https://bit.ly/3E9Acwh
Racelighting is an act of psychological manipulation where people of color receive racial messages that distort their realities and lead them to second-guess themselves.
NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Illness) Ventura County has an upcoming Community Cares Workshop. Space is still available for the workshop on Monday, Nov. 7 (7-9pm/Zoom). This program will be available with simultaneous Spanish interpretation.
If you would like to attend please register at https://namiventura.org/registration/?source=ccw. Please encourage family, friends, and colleagues to attend as well. For more information, please see the flyer attached below and feel welcome to share the flyer with colleagues!
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September 13, 2022 Professional Development (Flex) Schedule
Tuesday, Sep 13 2022
Professional Development (Flex) Schedule
9:00-11:00 am
Title IX and Harassment Prevention Training
During this time, all faculty and staff are invited to complete the Keenan SafeColleges online training for sexual harassment, Title IX, and prevention of harassing behaviors if they have not already done so this semester. Please check your individual email for an email from Ventura College Community College District with the subject line “Keenan SafeColleges Online Training.” The email will include instructions for how to complete the training.
We will also have an open Zoom session running during this time hosted by the Title IX Coordinators from the three VCCCD campuses to address any questions you may have about the content of the training materials.
*Please note the Zoom session is not for technical support about the training itself; the email will include information about who to contact in the case of technical problems*
Title IX Coordinators:
Leah Alarcon – Ventura College
Priscilla Mora – Moorpark College
Jesus Vega – Oxnard College
For content-related questions and discussion, click here for Zoom link
11:15-12:30 pm
QPR: Question, Persuade, Refer Suicide Prevention.
Part two of Mental Health at Moorpark College: MH@MC. If have never been trained in QPR, or your training is 3 or more years older, this training is for you! All faculty and staff are invited to join us for this important training opportunity.
12:30-1:00
Break
1:00-2:00
Special Guest Victor Rios
Sponsored by the Moorpark College Academic Senate, this session welcomes everyone, both classified professionals and faculty, to join us for an inspirational presentation and discussion from Dr. Victor Rios.
Dr. Rios presents insights from over a decade of systematic research in various school sites. His talk provides educators with an overall picture of the importance of emotional support in the lives of marginalized students and demonstrate practical strategies for implementing this support in everyday educational practices.
Bio:
Dr. Victor Rios is MacArthur Foundation Chair and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California Berkeley in 2005. Professor Rios has worked with local school districts to develop programs for students who have been left behind in their education. Using his personal experience of living on the streets, dropping out of school, and being incarcerated as a juvenile—along with his research findings—he has developed interventions for marginalized students aimed at promoting personal transformation and civic engagement. These programs have been implemented in many schools across the United States; juvenile detention facilities; and alternative high schools. He is also the author of six books including, My Teacher Believes in Me: The Educator’s Guide to At-Promise Students (2019); Street Life: Poverty, Gangs, and a Ph.D. (2011); Buscando Vida, Encontrando Éxito: La Fuerza de La Cultura Latina en la Educación (2016); and Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth (2017).
Dr. Rios has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Ted Talks, the Oprah Winfrey Network, Primer Impacto, and National Public Radio. He has had the honor of meeting President Obama and advising his administration on gun violence and policing. His Ted Talk “Help for kids the education system ignores” has garnered over 1.6 Million views. He is the subject of the documentary film The Pushouts (www.thepushouts.com
2:15-3:30
Workshopping RSI - Level Up
Building upon previous discussions of RSI, we explored our RSI toolkit, now, let's use it! Previously we outlined and explored the components of Regular & Substantive Interaction and how to practically implement them in a course. This session will build on those concepts as we discover additional ways to strengthen our RSI habits to generate inclusive, equitable, and accessible learning environments for our students.
Outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, faculty teaching online classes in Fall 2022 will be able to:
- Prepare their online sections for ACCJC Accreditation
- Develop course content that ensures Regular and Substantive Interaction throughout the Term
- Collaborate with colleagues to brainstorm RSI best practices and implementation
Facilitators: Christy Douglass and Trudi Radtke
2:15-3:30
Emergency Notification System (ENS) Training
Please join us to learn more about our campus-wide Emergency Notification System (ENS) to help us enhance safety on our campus.
Facilitator: Dan McMichael
Please note, registration for this event is closed. We will post a recording of the webinar once it is available!
The Mid-Atlantic ADA Center is hosting a free webinar titled: "What's Race Got To Do with It?: An Intersectional Approach to Disability Rights."
Join the ADA National Network for this important webinar:
An Intersectional Approach to Disability Rights
September 13, 2022
1 pm to 2:30 pm ET (10:00-11:30 AM PT)
Mark your calendars! Join the ADA National Network for "What's Race Got to Do with It? An Intersectional Approach to Disability Rights" webinar. This session will introduce the concept of intersectionality, with particular emphasis on the ways in which ableism and racism are interconnected.
Please note, registration for this event is closed. We will post a link to the recording of the webinar once it is available
August 2022 Flex Schedule
Fall Professional Development
(Flex) Schedule Aug 09-11
Theme: Designing to Achieve: Utilizing Universal Design to Support IDEAA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-Racism, Accessibility)
Schedule at a Glance
Please note all sessions on 8/9 and 8/10 will be held online.
8/11 Convocation will be held in person in the PAC
Tuesday 8/9 Online Sessions
9:00-10:00
Community Building Welcome Back Session
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/93399648455
10:15-11:30
Creativity and Teaching
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/91929911419
11:45-1:00
Teaching Women and Men of Color Advocates
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/93787383693
1:00-1:45
Lunch Break
1:45-3:00
Regular & Substantive Interaction Workshop
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/92683586098
1:45-3:00
Chrome River Training
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/91365907109
3:00-4:15
Teaching at an HSI: Insights from Project Chess
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/94821848848
3:00-4:15
Behavior Assessment and Care (BAC) Team and Mental Health
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/92678789933
Wednesday 8/10 Online Sessions
9:00-10:15
Universal Design for Learning and IDEAA Guest Speaker
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/98753412603
10:30-11:45Electronic Accessibility Basics
Session Cancelled
AFT Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89844598653
12:30-1:45
Workshopping RSI
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/92683586098
12:30-1:45
Classified Senate Meeting
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/98836373310?pwd=VFV0RzlzZEQxamZEQm1seHMweThvUT09
2:00-3:15
Program Planning
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/94214278874
3:30-4:45
Campus Safety --Emergency Notification System
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/96670754859
5:00-7:00
Adjunct Information Session
https://vcccd-edu.zoom.us/j/91373433080
Thursday 8/11 – In Person Convocation
8:00-8:30
Breakfast
PAC Patio
8:45-11:45
Convocation Programming
PAC
11:45-12:00
Academic Senate General Meeting
PAC
12:00-1:15
Lunch
HSS Grass Glade
1:20-3:00
Division/Department Meetings
By division. See program booklet pg 11
RESOURCES
Helpful Links & Tips
- At-Risk: How do I help a Student I'm Worried About? A Faculty & Staff Resource for California Community Colleges can be found at this CCC site
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Moorpark Instructional Technology & Distance Education training information can be found at MCDE website
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Vision Resource Center -- Vision Resource Center - Available to VCCCD employees through California Community Colleges Vision Resource Center. This site includes many resources for teaching and professional skills.
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VCCCD District Professional Development Page Visit here for more resources provided by the Ventura County Community College District.
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Shared Materials and Resources for Teaching (SMART), an archive of sabbaticals and best practices from Moorpark faculty, is located in MC Share. Login information for MC Share is located in the Faculty Quicklinks of the MyVCCCD Faculty tab.
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Teaching for Success login information can be found in the Faculty Quicklinks of the MyVCCCD Faculty tab.
- Faculty information about ACCESS and students with disabilities can be found on the ACCESS site.
CHARTER: The Professional Development Committee makes recommendations on the direction of professional development activities for full-time and part-time faculty and staff, including:
- Plan, implement, and assess fall and spring faculty professional development (Flex) activities
- Plan, implement, and assess classified staff professional development opportunities
- Coordinate, promote, and assess college-wide professional development activities in conjunction with other College departments and programs in alignment with the Educational Master Plan
- Evaluate applications and award professional development funds to faculty; funds to be considered are limited to those monies identified in the AFT Collective Bargaining Agreement
- Evaluate applications and award other funds provided to the professional development committee
Membership
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Co-Chair Dean |
Howard Davis |
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Co-Chair Classified |
Gabby Chacon |
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Co-Chair Faculty |
Elizabeth Gillis-Smith |
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PD Coordinator (no-vote) |
Brian Burns |
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Instructional Design Technologist |
Michael Ashton |
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(Alt: Tracie Bosket) |
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English, Learning & Student Life |
Tracy Tennenhouse |
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Physical Science & Career Ed |
Farisa Morales |
Dean |
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Brian Swartz |
Student Rep |
tbd |
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Arts, Media, & Comm Studies |
Beth Megill |
Academic Senate |
Erik Reese |
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Allison Bowman |
Classified Senate |
Kelly Little |
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Counseling & Student Support |
Samantha Zaldivar |
Classified Senate |
Matthew Spinneberg |
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Pablo Diaz |
AFT Rep |
Michael Bryant |
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EATM, Life & Health Sciences |
Dalila Sankaran |
SEIU Rep |
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Bus, Child Dev Languages, Behavioral and Social Sciences |
Perry Martin, Jr. |
Health, Athletics, Kinesiology, ACCESS, Math, Library, DE |
Katrina Topolinski |
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Rex Edwards |
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