San Diego City College

Asynchronous, Self-Paced

The self-paced activities for Day 1 of the Academy for Remote Teaching are

1. Log into the Canvas shell and read lesson pages under "Setting Up Canvas"

Synchronous Workshops

• Welcome! Academy Meet & Greet + Q&A
  9am-10am
  Facilitator: Paula Miranda
  Let's meet over morning coffee, talk about the academy, share our goals, ask questions, and begin our week of learning together.
  
  

• Opening Plenary: City College's, emerging HSI and only double digit Black/African Decent, dubbed the HBCU of the region approach to becoming an awesome professor by race
  11:00am - 12:30pm
  Flex #5180
  Facilitators: Rasheed Aden, Norell Martinez, Ebony Tyree, Dr. Erin Charlens
  This opening plenary will introduce the theoretical, ideological and pedagogic orientation of the Academy and a vision for creating a college in which students of all races are taught individually and collectively in the way they learn best. This approach incorporates their family life and students are provided an environment in which they achieve excellence and which affirms their identity without being required to assimilate to an educational culture at the expense of their race or culture. This session will also introduce the Academy focus on how to make the word "equity" meaningful by eliminating White Supremacy in teaching and the college culture. This plenary will frame the Academy's vision of being increasingly successful with minoritized communities with a Black/African Decent focus and including Indigenous/Chicana/o/x, Pacific Islander, and other students, and in the context of our Black Lives and Black/African Decent Minds Matter data with a particular context of online and synchronous teaching and COVID considerations.

• Humanizing Your Online Classroom By Validating Student's Realities, Culture and Lived Experiences
  2:00pm - 3:30pm
  Flex #5181
  Facilitator: Dra. Maria-Jose Zeledon-Perez
  In this session, we will:

• Discuss the concept of "humanizing" your online classes from a justice, engagement, and humanizing framework.
• Contextualize what "humanizing" means for our college student's demographics.
• Share tools to create a welcoming and safe environment that allows connection, validation, interaction, and engagement.
• Studentts will share their voices about what it means to them to feel welcomed, cared for, validated, challenged with support, and most importantly, feeling seen and heard in an online setting.

Asynchronous, Self-Paced

The self-paced activities for Day 2 of the Academy for Remote Teaching are:

1. Log into the Canvas shell and read lesson pages under "Establishing Presence and Intrusive Communication"

Synchronous Workshops

• Canvas Media Accessibility
  10am-11am
  Flex #5182
  Facilitator: Deka Chhabra and Crystal Velasco
  This workshop will cover accessibility for media in Canvas including video captioning using 3C Media, YouTube, and Amara, audio and podcast transcripts, and live captioning and interpreting for deaf and hard of hearing students in Zoom.
  
  
• Working with an Ethic of Love
  11:30am-12:30pm
  Flex #5231
  Facilitator: Dr. Erin Charlens
  

  This workshop will dissect the Umoja heartbeat practice "Ethic of Love" and discuss how we as practitioners can impact our most vulnerable students both inside and outside of the classroom through this practice.

• Connecting with Students in Canvas
  1:00pm-2:30pm
  Flex #5183
  Facilitator: Jessica E. Thompson
  This workshop will cover some of the ways that you can help promote student success by maintaining effective and proactive contact with them. Topics include “Regular and Effective Contact,” establishing presence and instructor-initiated communication, synchronous and asynchronous communication, and a discussion of some features and applications within Canvas that can help you toward these ends.

• Mindful Course Design
  3pm-4:30pm
  Flex #5185
  Facilitator: Tricia Ornelas
  Our “Setting up Canvas” workshop will help you prepare your online Canvas course. We will consider tactics for transparency and intentionality in design to create greater accessibility for your students. We will explore how to keep students in mind when organizing your weekly modules. Ultimately, this clarity in course design allows students to grapple with your challenging content rather than navigating unclear modules. Together, we will take an outline and turn it into a consistent, yet flexible, module structure so students know what to expect and you have room to modify and differentiate your courses throughout the semester based on need.

Asynchronous, Self-Paced

The self-paced activities for Day 3 of the Academy for Remote Teaching are:

1. Log into the Canvas shell and read lesson pages under "Supporting the Student Journey at City College"

Synchronous Workshops

• Using Assessments to Celebrate Student Learning
  9am-10:30am
  Flex #5184
  Facilitators: Darius Spearman, with Stuart Matz and Rob Rubalcaba
  In this session, faculty from Black Studies, Math, and Life Science will share how they create fair assessments that celebrate what students are learning in their class that are also easy to grade and enable them to provide substantive feedback.
  
  
• Curriculum Trauma (CT)
  11am-12pm
  Flex # 5186
  Facilitators: Abdimalik Buul and Ebony Tyree
  Curriculum Trauma are the ways in which educational institutions damage students and impede student success from matriculation to graduation. CT is by and large an academic theory that critically examines the ways in which academic systems (i.e. curriculum) directly harm students’ ability to become independent and healthy social agents. This session will further explain the theory and ways to begin to mitigate and heal the trauma inflicted on students by the institution.
  
  
• Library Open Office Hours
  12pm-12:30pm
  Facilitator: City College Librarians
  Looking to adopt affordable and/or zero-cost materials into your course but not sure where to start? The Librarians are hosting a lunch Q&A to address your questions about connecting the library with your studentsand to show you where you can find materials for your courses
  
  
• Student Success Surveys
  1pm-2:30pm
  Flex #5187
  Facilitator: Elva Salinas
  Learn how to use a questionnaire to learn more about your students, their needs, and help connect them to critical services that will help them succeed, especially in a remote learning environment.
  
  
• Strategies and Tools for Creating Videos to Connect with Your Students
  4pm-5:30pm
  Flex #5188
  Facilitator: Cy Kuckenbaker
  In this workshop, we will explore simple, effective strategies and tools for making videos that will help you connect with your students and humanize your remote learning environment.

Asynchronous, Self-Paced

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Synchronous Workshops

• Mentor & Mentees Meeting
  10am-11:30am
  Facilitator: Mentors
  
  
• Discussion: Addressing Anti-Blackness on Campus: Implications for Educators and Institutions
  12pm-1pm
  Flex #5189
  Facilitator: Selam Gebrekristos, Dr. Abdimalik Buul, and Rasheed Aden
  This is a faculty-lead discussion about anti-Blackness and its impact in our classrooms. This session continues the conversation begun in the webinar, Addressing Anti-Blackness on Campus: Implications for Educators and Institutions.
  
  
• The Promising Syllabus
  1:30pm-3:00pm
  Flex #5190
  Facilitator: Marco Anzures
  In this workshop, we will explore how a clearly written syllabus that offers an explanation of the course's promise to students goes a long way toward making your students feel welcome and supported in any course, but particularly in a remote, online learning environment. Learn how to see your syllabus as the beginning of a conversation with students that will help them understand what it means to succeed in your class.
  
  
• Supporting Students with Disabilities
  3:30pm-5:00pm
  Flex #5191
  Facilitator: Brianne Kennedy and Crystal Velasco
  In this workshop we will discuss disability accommodations in the remote learning environment, learn from student’s lived experiences at City College, share tools and strategies used by instructional faculty to anticipate students’ needs and incorporate Universal Design for Learning to increase access for all students during this pandemic.

Asynchronous, Self-Paced

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Synchronous Workshops

• Invite Me, Engage Me, Include Me, Challenge Me, Believe in Me, and Educate Me with Anti-Racist Anti-Deficit Teaching Practices
  9am-10:30am
  Flex #5192
  Facilitators: Doc Rivera and Rob Rubalcaba
  In this workshop you will be provided theory and research, an equity model and City College faculty will provide you practical teaching examples that you can use to close equity gaps in your classroom by race, particularly with Black/African Decent males, Indigenous(brown) and Pacific Islander students. The workshop is designed as the first in a series of four to increase your competence/knowledge, skills, motivation and vision for your success as a teacher of our City College students by race. The information provided will help eliminate White Supremacy narratives in attitudes and unconscious belief systems that impede Black/African Descent and other minoritized student success. The elements presented in this workshop will provide tools for use in a lifetime of personal and professional growth in your capacity to create and experience your students saying you knew how to love their academic achievement and success, by the way you taught to the way they learn, excel and grow by race.
  
  
• Closing Plenary: Dialogue, Inquiry, Reflection
  11am-12pm
  Flex #5193
  Facilitators: Selam Gebrekristos Doc Rivera, Salem Berhanu,
  Dr.Abdimalik Buul and Dra. Maria-Jose Zeledon-Perez
  The closing session will be an opportunity to reflect on how each participant can identify ways to apply the knowledge and energy experienced in the sessions, problem-pose, identify challenges and goals for individual and collective growth, challenge the ideas and methods presented in the Academy, ask questions, provide feedback, and reflect and integrate the ideas as a community in dialogue.