Did you know?
I recently learned all VCCS faculty and staff have free, unlimited access to live webinars and on-demand training provided by Go2Knowledge.
There’s a wide variety of topics for all roles at the college.
The live webinars are highlighted at the top of the Go2Knowledge dashboard, but you can search through an entire library of recorded, on-demand sessions on topics including teaching and learning, campus safety, institutional effectiveness, and student success.
There’s so much to choose from!
Here are a few upcoming live webinars over the next month:
- Using Social Media to Promote Your Academic Support Programs, June 10, 1 to 2 p.m.
- First-Year Transition Issues: How Advisors Can Positiviely Impact a Student’s First Term, June 15, 1 to 2:30 p.m.
- From Recruitment to Job Placement: A Retention Roadmap in the Age of COVID, June 29, 1 to 2:30 p.m.
- Examining Asynchronous & Synchronous Strategies for Active and Engaged Learning (back by popuar demand), July 13, 1 to 2 p.m.
You can access Go2Knowledge on your MyVWCC dashboard or here: Go2Knowledge.org/vccs
This week:
NSF Spring 2021 Virtual Grant Conference. Designed to give new faculty, researchers, and administrators key insights into a wide range of current issues at NSF. Program officers will be providing up-to-date information about specific funding opportunities and answering attendee questions. June 7-11. Registration is free.
The #RealCollege Virtual Journey, sponsored by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. A series of online workshops and engaging activities led by experts and delivered free of charge. This week’s topics include How to Ungrade (June 9); and Investing in Community Colleges (June 9). Coming June 30 at 3 p.m.: Explore racism and financial trauma with Hope Research Fellow Chloe McKenzie. Register here. Recordings of previous events are available by scrolling down this page.
Knowing Our Students: Designing an Experience That Serves Students Holistically. Now more than ever, we recognize how connected a student’s personal and financial context are to their academic and career journey. This session will introduce a new guidebook developed by Achieving the Dream in partnership with the Advising Success Network designed to support higher ed institutions in better understanding their students and using these data to inform decisions about the college experience. Participants will engage in learning, discussion, and activities to ensure they leave with an understanding of the data that can be most useful, a process for using those data in their student success work, and examples of how other institutions have approached this work. Thursday, June 10, at 2:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. Register here.
The Future Trends Forum: Discussions about the future of education and technology with writer/futurist Bryan Alexander. Thursday, June 10, at 2 p.m.: How can we best teach digitally? with the University of Edinburgh’s Sian Bayne and Jen Ross, co-authors of A Manifesto for Teaching Online. More upcoming programs. Video recordings available on YouTube.
Next week:
Virginia’s Education Equity Summer Institute. June 15-17, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Virginia Department of Education hosts this conference for Virginia educators, school leaders, education policymakers, and more. Breakout sessions and keynotes will include professional development to support Virginia’s recently expanded History and Social Science standards and the implementation of the new elective course in African American History for high school students that will launch this fall. June 15: Teaching Black History: Building Teacher Content Knowledge and Instructional Capacity. June 16: Teaching through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies. June 17: Culturally Responsive and Inclusive Educator Practice at Four Critical Levels.
Thank you for reading. Why does Stephanie Ogilvie Seagle feature free learning opportunities on the Green House Grants Blog? Because we transform ourselves by learning like our students. All of us are teachers and learners, no matter our titles.