Academic Senate PD
Weekly Professional Development Opportunities
April 28, 2025
Empowering Students With AI: Preparing Community College Learners for the Future
1-2 p.m.
PD: 1 hour
In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, AI literacy is no longer just advantageous—it's essential. Reports indicate that over 60% of new jobs require basic AI skills, yet less than 20% of college students feel prepared to utilize AI effectively (WEForum). As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integral across all sectors, students must have the knowledge and skills to navigate, utilize, and innovate with AI technologies.
Our panel will focus on how California community colleges are addressing AI literacy, discussing both successful institutional initiatives and the challenges they face in preparing students for an AI-driven workforce. Discover how integrating AI literacy into your curriculum can profoundly impact student success, maintain academic integrity, enhance employability, and ensure responsible technology use.
CalSTRS Presents: My Retirement Benefits
4-5:30 p.m.
PD: 1.5 hours
Find out more in-depth information about your CalSTRS benefits, the difference between earned and purchased service credit, and ways to bridge the gap between your CalSTRS benefit and your retirement income goal.
April 29, 2025
Math Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours
9-10 a.m.
PD: 1 hour
The OERI is pleased to offer a series of Math OER office hours throughout the term. These office hours will serve as a questions and answers session where attendees bring in their math OER needs, requests, and questions. Attendees can also use this space to receive guidance and ask questions pertaining to MyOpenMath.
Communication Do’s and Don'ts
10-11 a.m.
PD: 1 hour
Learn simple tools to manage conflict and express your feelings in this one-hour seminar
How AI Can Support the Student Life-Cycle
Presented by the Chronicle of Higher Education
11-12 p.m.
PD: 1 hour
In this virtual forum, “How AI Can Support the Student Life Cycle,” technologists and college officials will discuss how AI can:
- Enhance student recruitment and admissions outreach.
- Increase retention through personalized support and early intervention.
- Streamline operations to ease administrative burdens.
- Strengthen alumni engagement and career connections.
Open Educational Resources (OER) for Kinesiology: Maximizing Impact
12-1 p.m.
PD: 1 hour
Join us for a focused conversation on the future of OER in kinesiology, homing in on curriculum areas we can meaningfully direct our efforts, and possible collaboration to maximize impact. We will also address a critical need: solutions for creating and sharing high-quality, accessible lab videos. Please join us - your input is vital as we shape our OER strategies
Distance Education Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) Webinar
Presented by the CCC Chancellor’s Office
12-1
PD: 1 hour
The webinar is designed to support faculty, administrators, and classified professionals to learn more regarding RSI standards for accreditation, including best practices to meet these standards.
Think You Know Zoom for Education? Discover how Whiteboards and AI are Changing the Classroom
Present by Zoom
12-1
PD: 1 hour
Be our student for the day in this informative, practical session where we’ll dig into some of the surprisingly powerful ways Zoom Whiteboard is being used to spark creativity, boost engagement, and make collaborative learning smoother—whether you're in a physical classroom, a Zoom Room, your LMS, or somewhere in between.
April 30, 2025
Lifelong Learning for Health and Wellbeing
7-8 am
PD: 1 hour
Join representatives from eucen, UPCEA, AAACE and CAUCE for eucen's annual Seminar Across the Atlantic. This online event is an open event offered by the coordinating associations. Register for this important conversation around lifelong learning for health and wellbeing.
Conflict Management and Problem-Solving in Relationships
8-9 a.m.
PD: 1 hour
Confronting problems can be challenging. Heightened emotions, irrational thinking, impaired judgment, and distorted perceptions impact our ability to solve problems quickly. Learn strategies for effective problem-solving and conflict management in this one-hour seminar
Managing Anxiety in the Workplace
10-11 a.m.
PD: 1 hour
Discuss common anxiety triggers and strategies for managing stress, setting boundaries, and building resilience
Short-Term Reward, Long-Term Harm: How Current Transfer Practices Hurt Learners and Institutions
Presented by Inside Higher Education
11-12 p.m.
PD: 1 hour
Learn how to build better incentives and structures that support transfer and remove barriers for today’s learners.
What’s The Right Way to Assess Academic Programs?
Presented by the Chronicle of Higher Education
11-12 p.m.
PD: 1 hour
Colleges are navigating a challenging landscape that is forcing them to rethink their academic programs and curricula. Faced with financial constraints, decreased confidence in the value of higher education, and student expectations that degrees must correlate with career success, defining a “successful” curriculum has become challenging.
How can programmatic review assessments help align the curriculum with the skills employers are looking for? And how should academe approach programmatic review while managing other challenges, such as financial and enrollment constraints?
AHC Presents: Asian Pacific Heritage Celebration
12-1:30 p.m.
PD: 1.5 hours
Location: G-106
Enjoy music, food, student performers, a student panel, and keynote speaker Chellis Ying Hood.
AHC Faculty Learning Lab
4-5 p.m.
PD: 1 hour
Location: I-216
On behalf of the Learning Outcomes and Assessment Committee (LOAC) and the Academic Quality Committee,you are invited to Faculty Learning Lab, co-led by Institutional Effectiveness Analyst Erik Arevalo and Megan Selby. Following our last SPOL training, several of you requested another opportunity to work on entering learning assessment data before the end of the semester. This session will offer hands-on guidance and support as we navigate the process together with Erik’s expertise.
Laptops will be available, and light refreshments will be provided.
CalSTRS Presents: Retire Now or Later Webinar
4-5:30 p.m.
PD: 1.5 hours
Are you trying to decide when to retire? Understand your retirement options, access CalSTRS’ online resources and calculate your own retirement estimates with the guidance of a CalSTRS benefit specialist. Learn how to determine if you can retire now or later.
You’ll use myCalSTRS during this webinar, so be sure you’re registered and that your account information is up to date.
May 1, 2025
Navigating Work-Life Balance
8-9 a.m.
PD: 1 hour
Achieving a balance between personal and professional responsibilities helps people to avoid job burnout and promotes employee engagement, retention, and productivity. Learn practical strategies to create balance in your busy life, with actionable tips & inspiration to prioritize what matters most.
Open Educational Resources (OER) in Agricultural Business: A Conversation
9:30-10:30 a.m.
PD: 1hour
Let’s connect to discuss OER in Agriculture Business. We’ll explore what’s available, identify what’s needed, and look for opportunities to collaborate.
Advanced AI Assistance with Course Materials
Presented by CVC@ONE
10-11:30 a.m.
PD: 90 minutes
If you’ve tried using AI in your teaching practice but want new approaches, please come and explore with us! We’ll discuss the following ways to extend AI use beyond basic task completion:
- New ideas for AI teaching assistance from Khanmigo Teacher Tools in Canvas
- Creating personalized AI teaching assistance workspaces with custom bots, Claude Projects, and Google’s NotebookLM
- Getting feedback on how we can improve our pedagogical approaches
- Practicing assertiveness with AI: articulate what you want and don’t settle for mediocrity
- Prompting AI to take tasks step by step
- Metaprompting: asking AI to help us use it better
- Asking for multiple, contradictory responses to get ourselves to decide what’s most important
- Generating podcasts about course materials in NotebookLM
- Voice mode: Chatting out loud with AI about course planning.
You’ll leave with new ideas for creative experimentation with AI assistance to build advanced AI literacy and pursue your own teaching goals.
AHC Program Review Help for Art and CTE Faculty
12-1 p.m.
Meeting ID: 452 992 7509
If you are working on your Annual Planning or Core Topic documents and need assistance, you are welcome to join one of the weekly Zoom meetings listed below. You can also contact Nancy Jo Ward at nward@hancockcollege.edu
Eight Strategies For Creating Inclusive Classrooms
Presented by the National Humanities Center
4-5:30 p.m.
PD: 1.5 hours
Missed assignments, minimal attendance, checked out students, low test scores. As teachers, we’ve all been disheartened by these student behaviors. Yet, sometimes behaviors that seem apathetic or disengaged are instead indicators of exclusion—a sign that our teaching is reaching only some students while making others feel frustrated, alienated, and marginalized. Inclusive pedagogy encourages us to think differently, to be self-reflective and critical as we consider: Who are we teaching to and for? How do our methods exclude learners? How can we actively foster inclusion through our teaching methods? In this workshop, we guide participants in addressing these questions and provide eight strategies for creating inclusive, energized learning environments.
May 2, 2025
Marketing Your Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Efforts: Why and How
10:30-11:30 a.m.
PD: 1 hour
Why should local OER advocates and ZTC leads care about marketing? Join us for an overview of the reasons that effective marketing is critical to a successful OER and/or ZTC program, a discussion of approaches to launching an effective marketing campaign, and examples of marketing tactics that you can employ.
Holocaust Awareness: Preventing History From Repeating Itself
Presented by AHC instructor Mark Miller
1-3 p.m.
PD: 2 hours
Location: C-40 Forum
Mark James Miller will present a special extended version of his Holocaust lesson, with a focus on preventing history from repeating itself. Come and earn two hours of professional development and learn some facts about the Holocaust that may be new to you.
AHC Program Review Help for Non-CTE Faculty
1-2 p.m.
Meeting ID: 849 8489 0465
If you are working on your Annual Planning or Core Topic documents and need assistance, you are welcome to join one of the weekly Zoom meetings listed below. You can also contact Patrick McGuire at pmcguire@hancockcollege.edu
to schedule a face-to-face meeting or arrange a different time.
Featured Recordings
Contact Information
Diane Auten
Chair, Academic Senate Professional Development Committee
Phone: 1-805-922-6966 ext. 3709
email: dauten@hancockcollege.edu