Upcoming Workshops

Presenter: Fellow, Dr. Mary Ruettgers
Date: January 22
Times: 10-11AM  or 1-2PM
Location: Learning Academy (LACR Rm. 09)

Attendees will learn what a Professional Learning Community is as well as tips for creating and implementing effective Professional Learning Communities within their departments. Dr. Ruettgers will share ideas for technology integration within the PLC along with fun thought-provoking ideas to build a collaborative culture needed for productive PLCs.

This will be the first of four PLC workshops. 

Please RSVP here.

Leadership and Supervision Fellow, Angie Royal, and Technology Proficiency Fellow, Dr. Mary Ruettgers, are in the data collection phase and will use what they gather to form their projects in the near future. Click here to participate in their survey.

Liz MacDonald and Sue Edele will be hosting their second workshop on scholarly communication Thursday, November 29th at 2:30 in the LARC theater. This installment will be a session titled, “Marketing Your Department”.

The session will cover the following:

• Tips on messaging and describing in a clear, concise way what your department does.
• Tips on how to reach specific populations (i.e. staff, faculty, students, alum, and populations outside of the university.)
• Guidelines for appropriate messaging.
• How to utilize Marketing and Communications services available to you on campus (i.e., website review, graphic design, photography, media relations, content review, etc.)

You can Zoom in or watch the recorded session at your leisure. The link will be provided prior to the session. 

Please feel free to contact Liz MacDonald or Sue Edele with any inquiries. 

Dr. Stephanie Afful has already created quite a buzz around campus with her Whistling Vivaldi professional learning communities, see details on the Learning Academy webpage. She has 95 participants to make up 10 face-to-face groups and 1 online. The PLCs meet every 2-3 weeks and many of them are using the Learning Academy space for their group sessions. Stephanie and PLC participants are thinking about initiatives for the Spring based on the book discussions.

Kevin Manley has made enormous strides already. The first service vlog fully edited and posted on the Learning Academy webpage. Kevin has also offered to lead the ‘Champions Council’ for the Q2 Service Excellence initiative.  As the council chair, Kevin, will lead the Q2 champions to keep the following in mind as we facilitate the Q2 workshops to the university, one division/department/school at a time.

Champions will:

• Provide valuable feedback to Q2 facilitators
• Keep moral and momentum high
• Focus our teams and help them obtain the resources they need to be successful
• Serve as an interdepartmental point of contact
• Anonymize concerns that may need to go higher/affect other departments
• Update each other on progress and challenges

Kevin has also written a lesson plan on “Breaking Bad News to Students” and will be presenting this information in conjunction with the Q2 Service Excellence initiative. Finally, he has also written several scenes for the service excellence game that he is creating. He recently obtained the software he needed and will begin creating his gaming vision soon!