Innovations in
Teaching, Learning & Leading
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Reflection:
What are some key things you can do this month to feel or express gratitude?
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"Even in the chaos of everyday life, moments of gratitude remind us to hold on to the good things." - Brit Morin |
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Join our LinkedIn Learning Challenge
The Center for Professional Development and the Center for Instructional Technology have launched a LinkedIn Learning Challenge for the month of November. This month is all about Practicing Gratitude!
For more information about the challenge and how to join, please click HERE.
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What are your Professional Development needs? |
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We want to hear from you! What topics do you want to explore? What kind of workshops do you want us to offer? Share your thoughts, anonymously, HERE.
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Faculty Fellows are here to support our adjunct and full-time faculty |
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Faculty Fellow Events this semester:
Wednesday 11/2 1pm: Adjunct/Faculty Roundtable
Mid-semester Reflections: Practicing Gratitude and Inquiring About Our Future, in C204
Wednesday 12/7 12pm: Adjunct/Faculty Drop in
December Diaries/End of Semester Celebration, in C204
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Maurisa Charest
Adjunct Faculty Fellow
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Kristen Sparrow
Faculty Fellow
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Racial Equity and Justice Institute Virtual Convenings |
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Utilizing a Liberatory Consciousness in Our Racially Equitable Campus Work
November 2nd, 2022 -- 12pm-3pm EST
All members of our campus are invited to attend!
This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Barbara Love and Dr. Tanya Williams, two foremost racial equity practitioners and workshop facilitators, who will offer tools to aid us in our personal and interpersonal work as we seek to lead for racial equity on our campuses.
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Racial Equity Requires More than Rewriting the Rules – It Requires Transformation
Keynote by MA Commissioner of Higher Education Carlos Santiago
December 15, 2022, 11:30-1:30 EST
All members of our campus are invited to attend!
Commissioner of Massachusetts Department of Higher Education Carlos Santiago is helping to lead the nation in offering higher education strategies for centralizing racial equity into our policies, practices and pedagogies. The REJI is indebted to the commissioner for his committed and fearless equity-minded leadership. In this keynote, Commissioner Santiago will share next steps for the equity agenda.
Agenda
Welcome 11:30-11:45
Commissioner Santiago keynote 11:45-12:30
12:30-1:00 institution-specific break out groups to discuss keynote and the ways in which this
information can inform campus-based equity efforts
1:00-1:30 Q and A with the Commissioner
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Events on Storytelling and Pedagogy |
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Stipend available for participating Faculty. Please contact Lorena Constant lconstant@necc.mass.edu |
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Digital Teaching Symposium |
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The Digital Teaching Symposium takes place Thursday, November 10 from 8:00 AM – 11:15 AM, 1:00-4:15 PM ET and then 8:00 PM – 10:25 PM ET.
The agenda includes two keynotes, 20+ sessions, 30+ speakers, 6 demos, and sessions in Spanish and Portuguese. See highlights below!
10 Tips for Effective and Efficient Course Construction in Blackboard Ultra Course View
Exemplary Course Award winners from Northern Illinois University will share their experiences designing and developing award-winning courses in Blackboard Ultra Course View (UCV) over the last two years.
How to Use Bite-Sized E-Learning Activities to Increase Engagement and Performance
Online classrooms can be overwhelming, and instructors need to continue to create excitement and engagement for students to help them retain more information. This session will take you through examples of how to use shorter activities to engage your students.
How We Finally Succeeded at Accessibility with Faculty with Anthology Ally
This presentation shows how our community college, made up of seven colleges across Chicago, launched, trained and implemented the Anthology Ally accessibility tool to widespread success.
Don't Be Scared: Teach with Emojis!
Learn some fun ways to use emojis in your teaching. They allow instructors to reinforce a point or make a comment on something emotional, encourage shy students to give more feedback, offer an alternative to providing feedback via language, and they’re just fun!
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What can you do with LinkedIn Learning? |
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Do you want to: Brush up on your excel skills? Earn badges? Make yourself more marketable?
There's so much to explore!
All NECC students, faculty and staff have access to the LinkedIn Learning Hub. Click the link to find out more!
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The Title IX team/Human Resources Office is collaborating with the YWCA Northeastern Massachusetts to offer a series of virtual workshops throughout the academic year for students and employees. All workshops begin at 12:30 P.M. and are approximately one hour.
Please join us on the following dates:
11/16/2022- LGBTQIA+ Information Workshop
Meeting ID: 850 0424 1320
Passcode: 780386
11/30/2022- Catfishing/Virtual Friendships/Communications Awareness Workshop
Meeting ID: 871 6906 4990
Passcode: 173738
1/25/2023- Stalking Awareness Workshop
Meeting ID: 836 1175 8965
Passcode: 638770
2/15/2023- Dating Violence Awareness Workshop
Meeting ID: 868 1906 0037
Passcode: 149286
3/22/2023- Coping Skills/Self-care, worth, & esteem Awareness Workshop
Meeting ID: 892 1320 0365
Passcode: 891292
4/12/2023- Sexual Assault/Consent Awareness Workshop
Meeting ID: 889 4971 5235
Passcode: 311834
Please contact the Human Resources Department at hr@necc.mass.edu for requests, questions, or event information.
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Transparency in Teaching and Learning (TiLT) |
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Facilitated by Trish Schade and Elle Yarborough, join us for the Transparency in Learning and Teaching Project (TiLT) workshop series. The workshops are carefully designed to help you help students understand the goals and rationale for each assignment, to create assignments that reduce inequities through transparency, and to develop meaningful course activities that assist students at difficult transition points.
TiLT 2.0-- For those that have participated in TiLT previously.
Tuesday afternoons, 2pm-4pm virtually
Nov 8th, Nov 15th and Nov 29th
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Join your colleagues for coffee (or tea) and connection in the Center for Professional Development in Haverhill, C204 and Lawrence, L131! Drop in for a few minutes to say hello!
Mon. November 14 10-11am, Lawrence L131
Weds. November 16 10-11am, Haverhill C204
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Critical Conversations with Jessica Rocker
Student Loans: 11/9 11am-12pm in C204 and 11/17 2pm-3pm in L244
Co-Work Day
Alone in the office? Bring your laptop and come work with us in C204!
12/1 Women’s Conference Streaming 9am-4:30pm
Hot Topics with President Lane Glenn
12/5 at 12pm in C204
2023 Vision Boards
12/12 2pm in L131
12/14 12pm-1pm in C204
Time to envision your future! Create a collage or a vision board for the upcoming year.
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There's Still Time to Join the Manager's Workshops
The Manager's Workshops have begun, but there is still time to join the workshops that interest you! The trainings will be running every other Wednesday until the end of the academic year.
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Featuring panels and workshops led by:
- Authors from a forthcoming book on Anti-Racist Community Engagement to be published by Campus Compact in Summer 2023, and
- Members of the New England Equity and Engagement Consortium on civic learning outcomes grounded in racial equity.
Held both in-person and virtually, the symposium will feature opportunities for participants from across the country to engage in conversation with each other.
Participation will be free for faculty, staff, and students from any public college or university in Massachusetts or any member institution of Campus Compact—as well as for community partners of any institution of higher education. There will be a small charge for other participants.
Questions? Contact John Reiff at Mass DHE (jreiff@dhe.mass.edu), Matthew Roy at UMass Dartmouth (mroy@umassd.edu), or Nicole Springer at Campus Compact (nspringer@compact.org)
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We are excited to announce that call for proposals and conference registration is now open for the 4th Annual Community College Showcase: Centering Care and Equity in a New Landscape!
This is a free, 2-day professional development event that will take place virtually on February 9-10, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. EST - 4:30 p.m. EST.
This annual conference is hosted by the Ed.D. in Community College Leadership program at New Jersey City University; a practice-focused, 55-credit online program, designed to be completed by working professionals in 3 years. The Showcase is a signature event in our series of year-round Community College Convenings and is open to all faculty, staff, and administrators who are passionate about the equity and success mission of the community college.
If you're interested in submitting a proposal for the Community College Showcase in February, please review the proposal requirements. Proposal submissions are due by November 15, 2022. You can also register for the free conference now! Please be sure to click on the "Register Now" link below to secure your spot!
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Get connected through Student Life |
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Become an advisor!
Student Life is seeking advisors for multiple student clubs this fall. If you are a faculty or staff member at NECC who has an interest in becoming an advisor of a student involvement group (club, organization, interest group) please fill out this form.
Sign Up for a Student Life Class Visit
If you are interested in a member of the Student Life team visiting your class to talk to your students about how to get involved outside the classroom and make the most of their NECC experience please fill out this form. For more info email Stephanie Haskell at shaskell@necc.mass.edu.
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Employee Assistance Program |
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Full-time, benefited employees can call 1-844-263-1982 any time (24/7) or visit liveandworkwell.com, which provides mental health, self-care, care providers and other references. Use access code mass4you. For TTY Support for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, please contact: 711-1-844-263-1983.
Part-time, non-benefited employees can call AllOneHealth at 1-800-451-1834 any time (24/7).
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We welcome requests for sign language interpreting and other access requests.
Please contact the event host for more information or
if you run into difficulties accessing any of these resources.
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