Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

• • Instructors: Jessica Lee, Elizabeth Smith
  • Participation Modality: Zoom
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    • • Winter Session 1 – February 4, 10am – 11:30am
      • Winter Session 2 – March 2nd, 1pm – 2:30pm
  • Duration: 1.5 hour sessions + 1.5 hour prep per session

This faculty learning community invites you to explore alternative approaches to grading that center student growth, transparency, and inclusion. Together, we¡¯ll investigate what traditional systems reward and how we can bend grading practices to serve student learning.

Our goal is to mix the theoretical with the practical, exploring ideas and their implementation in the classroom. We¡¯ll read and discuss emerging research, learn about approaches like ungrading, labor-based contracts, and standards-based grading, and anchor into our own classroom practices. Our goal is not to prescribe a single method but to open space for critical reflection, experimentation, and collaboration in a supportive and reflective community.

This FLC is primarily for those who have already implemented new grading systems, but anyone with an interest in equitable grading is welcome to attend. This group will offer a supportive, interrogative environment for exploring the connections between equity and grading.

These sessions will be facilitated by Michelle Kutter, temporary full-time Math faculty and Samm Erickson, CTLE coordinator and Reading/Writing/English faculty member.

This is a Hybrid FLC – You may attend in-person or remotely. Campus room location available after registration via Zoom.

• • Instructors: Michelle Kutter, Samm Erickson
  • Participation Modality: Hybrid (Remote or In Person – registration required for either modality)
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    • • Winter Session 1 – February 13th, 10am – 12pm
      • Winter Session 2 – February 27th, 10am – 12pm
  • Duration: 2 hour sessions + 1 hour prep per session

Where does information come from? How does it reach us? How do we know if we can trust it? For the last 10 years, the Association of College and Research Libraries¡¯ Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education has provided a foundation for librarians¡¯ work with students in navigating these questions. This FLC will use the Framework as a touchstone as we explore some of the complexities and currents in our information ecosphere.

This FLC is for anyone interested in thinking about information in the current day, not just librarians! Information touches us all; let’s try to make sense of it!

Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

This is a Hybrid FLC – You may attend in-person or remotely. Campus room location available after registration via Zoom.

• • Instructors: Torie Scott, Kerry Leek
  • Participation Modality: Hybrid (Remote or In Person – registration required for either modality)
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    • • Winter Session 1 – February 6th, 9am – 11am
      • Winter Session 2 – February 27th, 9am – 11am
  • Duration: 2 hour sessions + 1 hour prep per session

Join this Faculty Learning Community to explore how digital tools¡ªincluding AI and ChatGPT¡ªcan support inclusive teaching, spark connection, and create environments where all students feel they belong.

Each session offers hands-on strategies, collaborative reflection, and a chance to test out fun, low-barrier tools that blend culture and clicks to energize your course design and classroom practices.

• • Instructors: Ceci Valdenebro, Josh Evans
  • Participation Modality: Zoom
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    • • Winter Session 1 – February 25th, 12pm – 2pm
      • Winter Session 2 – March 4th, 12pm – 2pm
  • Duration: 2 hour sessions + 1 hour prep per session

We will focus on scholarship about teaching reading in the writing classroom, including theories and studies on reading pedagogy for first-year writers and the relationships among reading, thinking, and writing.

Expect to read and briefly reflect on one or two articles per session. Synchronous sessions will include discussions of the readings and our own reading practices. Participants will also complete a brief survey reflecting on current thoughts and practices on reading in their teaching of writing.

• • Instructors: Calin Anderson, Danica Fierman
  • Participation Modality: Zoom
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    • • Winter Session 1 – January 23rd, 9am – 11am
      • Winter Session 2 – March 6th, 9am – 11am
  • Duration: 2 hour sessions + 1 hour prep per session

Join Christine Fanning and Colleen Latimer as we explore using reflective practice (RP) to guide, inform, and enhance our teaching.

We will be meeting twice per term and using that time to begin writing reflections about our teaching and talking about using those reflections to implement changes to our classroom.

We want to give you freedom to explore RP in any way you want. You might want to reflect on a specific teaching topic or reflect broadly on items as they come up. We will be learning by doing, this will require you to commit to writing (or perhaps recording) a private reflection once or twice a week.

• • Instructors:?Christine Fanning[opens in new window],?Colleen Latimer
  • Participation Modality: Zoom
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    • • Winter Session 1 – January 23rd, 11am – 12:30pm
      • Winter Session 2 – February 13th, 11am – 12:30pm
  • Duration: 1.5 hour sessions + 1.5 hour prep per session

In Lived Experiences in the Classroom, we will explore how lived experiences influence curriculum and teaching/learning community while honoring identity and culture. In addition, we will examine learners’ sense of academic belonging with funds of knowledge and on how to build classroom communities.

Outcomes:
– Identify learners¡¯ and instructor¡¯s lived experiences
– ÍòÏó³ÇÌåÓý¹Ù·½Íø_ÍòÏó³ÇÌåÓý-¡¾appÏÂÔØ¡¿ instructor¡¯s cultural competence
– Recognize adult learning principles in the learning environment

• • Instructors:?Sam May-Varas[opens in new window],?Susan Stober
  • Participation Modality: Zoom
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    • • Winter Session 1 – February 20th, 9:30am – 11:30am
      • Winter Session 2 – March 6th, 9:30am – 11:30am
  • Duration: 2 hour sessions + 1 hour prep per session

This FLC is about recognizing and respecting the unique ways Deaf people experience and interact with the world. It means valuing Deaf language, culture, and perspectives, while also working together to build a society that is more inclusive and accessible for everyone.

• • Instructors:?Rosemary DiSiervi[opens in new window],?Anne Grey
  • Participation Modality: Zoom
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    • • Winter Session 1 – February 6th, 10am – 12pm
      • Winter Session 2 – February 20th, 10am – 12pm
  • Duration: 2 hour sessions + 1 hour prep per session

This FLC is open to everyone, including experienced CBL practitioners and those who are brand new to the work.

• • Instructors:?Taryn Oakley[opens in new window],?Catherine Thomas
  • Participation Modality: Zoom + In Person Activity**
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    • • Winter Session 1 – February 2nd, 12:30pm – 2pm?
      • Winter Session 2 – February 16th, 12:30pm – 2pm
      • Note: This is a cumulative FLC, and includes an in-person activity between 2/12 – 2/16 scheduled directly with the facilitators.?
  • Duration: Two 1.5 hour sessions with .5 hour prep. One In-Person 2 hour activity (scheduled directly with facilitators)

Do you teach students who are still learning English? Do you want simple, effective ways to help them succeed? Curious about how to better support ESOL, international, multilingual learners, ASL students ¡ª or even how to thrive as an instructor teaching in a second language yourself?

Join a friendly group of instructors from all disciplines as we share tips, try out new teaching strategies, and support each other. This is a space to learn, grow, and make your teaching even more inclusive. Everyone is welcome ¡ª no second language needed!

Supporting Teaching and Learning in a Second Language Environment is a cohort of instructors from across disciplines who work with students for whom the language in which the class is taught is not their first language. This includes ESOL students, many International students, and World Language students. We work together to identify and explore creative implementation of best practices for teaching and learning in second language environments, and in mixed environments, where only some of the students may be using a second language.

We will also explore best practices for instructors teaching in a second language.
The FLC will include opportunities to apply and report back on teaching methods.

• • Instructors:?Blake Schmidt[opens in new window],?Jonathan Bilbao[opens in new window],?Martha Bailey
  • Participation Modality: Zoom
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    • • Winter Session 1 – January 29th, 3pm – 5pm
      • Winter Session 2 – February 26th, 3pm – 5pm
  • Duration: 2 hour sessions + 1 hour prep per session