Administrator Initiating Item: Renée M. Kilmer, Vice President, Instruction

Academic and Professional Matter Yes No Final Disposition If yes, Faculty Senate Agreement Yes No Senate President Signature

AGENDA ITEM BACKGROUND

TO: GOVERNING BOARD DATE

January 9, 2012

FROM: PRESIDENT

SUBJECT: Spring 2012 Flex Week Activities ENCLOSURE(S)

Page 1 of 1 Flex schedule

REASON FOR BOARD CONSIDERATION

INFORMATION ITEM NUMBER

D.4 BACKGROUND: The Staff Development Committee has organized five days of workshops and activities to take place primarily between Monday, January 30 and Friday, February 3, 2012. Special events outside of flex week include a 4-day advanced workshop for designing learner-centered curriculum, and a 1-day basic skills symposium. Faculty can choose to attend workshops, perform individual projects, or assist in student advising during registration. Fifty-five workshops are planned between Monday and Thursday of that week. On Friday, February 3, College divisions and departments will meet. The theme for Spring Flex Week is “Teach Locally, Think Globally.” Faculty are invited to participate in a number of workshops focused on student learning outcomes, diversity, and promoting student achievement. There will also be several events highlighting how instructors make a difference both in the classroom and through their scholarly work. Scheduled events include a kick-off Breakfast with Brian on Monday morning, January 30, featuring an informal dialog on student success. Flex also provides opportunities for College-wide discussion on such initiatives as the Accreditation Self-Study, Chancellor’s Office regulations affecting curriculum and student matriculation, and using statistics to evaluate student success related to transfer and degree completion. Additionally, the Basic Skills and Learning Communities programs, in conjunction with the Planning and Research Office, will look at strategies to track student cohorts through math, English, ESL, and reading. Several sessions address issues that arise with our diverse student population. Topics include strategies to support foster youth, effective teaching of students with disabilities, and understanding the impact of gangs, and the educational struggles of students with language barriers. The first annual Cabrillo Reads project will discuss issues of identity, social justice, race and politics raised in the book “Invisible Man.” The focus will be on ways to integrate these topics across the curriculum. The Spring 2012 Flex Calendar was approved by the Staff Development Committee on November 17, 2010 and approved by Faculty Senate on November 29, 2010.

The Spring 2012 Flex Calendar is available on the Cabrillo website at: http://go.cabrillo.edu/flex Members of the Governing Board are invited and encouraged to participate in these staff development activities.

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SPRING 2012 FLEX WEEK JAN 30–FEB 3 TEACH LOCALLY, THINK GLOBALLY

SPECIAL EVENTS

Title V Presents… On Course II Workshop: An Advanced Workshop for Learner-Centered Educators January 24 – January 27, 2012 Advance registration is required by December 15, 2011. Participants must commit to attending the entire workshop. To register please contact Sheryl Kern-Jones at shkernjo@cabrillo.edu.

At the On Course I Workshop, you learned strategies for empowering students to become active, responsible learners. In the On Course II Workshop, you'll not only add to your repertoire of student-empowerment strategies, you’ll also learn to design and deliver learner-centered educational experiences that help students move from superficial to deep learning. These advanced design and facilitation skills are drawn from best practices in academic curriculum design, brain research, learning styles, active-learning principles, corporate training methodology, and personal development strategies. Strategies presented in this workshop improve both student academic success and retention. View data from a number of colleges and universities at www.oncourseworkshop.com/ (click on DATA). Join us for this major on-campus professional development event and learn proven methods for empowering your students to achieve their greatest potential in college…and beyond.

Workshop schedule Presenter: Jonathan Brennan Room: Sesnon 1804

Tues, Jan. 24 1–5pm Wed, Jan. 25 8:30am–5pm Thurs, Jan 26 8:30am–5pm (with an optional evening session from 6:30–9:30pm) Fri, Jan 27 8:30am–12pm

Light meals and refreshments provided.

About Jonathan Brennan

Jonathan Brennan has presented experiential learning workshops in student success to faculty from colleges and universities across North America. Since 2000, Dr. Brennan has been working as a co-facilitator with Dr. Skip Downing, the creator of the innovative On Course student success workshop series. Dr. Brennan is a faculty member in (and former chair of) the English Department at Mission College in Santa Clara, CA, and holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English, an M.A. in Counseling Psychology, a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies (U.C. Berkeley), an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Change (Fielding Graduate University), and he has been trained as a Life Coach.

He designed and coordinated an On Course Program at Mission College that has significantly improved the retention and academic success rate of students in developmental English, Mathematics, Reading, and ESL. He has chaired the Student Success Committee as well as Accreditation, served as Vice President of the Academic Senate, and teaches composition, African American and Native American literature, and life skills classes.

He has served as director of an academic mentoring program for basic skills students, developed the freshman seminar Learning Communities project, and directed research grants for the state of California’s Fund for Student Success and Fund for Instructional Improvement programs. He was voted Faculty of the Year at Mission College in 1999–2000, and was awarded a NISOD Teaching Excellence Award. In 2005, he was awarded the Stanback-Stroud Diversity award from the California State Academic Senate, and in 2008 was awarded the California State Hayward Award for Excellence in Education. His publications include two books on Mixed Race and Black Indian Literature from Stanford Press and University of Illinois Press, and a forthcoming textbook on high school student success.

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Finding the Global in San Francisco Saturday, February 4, 2012 Before teaching locally, Our Gang will look globally, starting with a trip to San Francisco. Plans are to tour the Asian Art Museum, eat dim sum at the highest rated dim sum restaurant in San Francisco, and visit a Latin American agricultural-product processing facility (a chocolate factory), and make a few other stops as time allows (such as the Ferry Building). The costs are: Asian Art Museum and Tcho chocolate factory tours, $20 total. To reserve a spot, pay Spanky in advance. Space is limited to 15 people. Contact Spanky at paharvel@cabrillo.edu to reserve and get an update of scheduled activities. Off Campus 8am–4pm Spanky, Alfalfa, Froggy

Basic Skills Symposium Friday, February 24, (registration begins at 9:30am) Since the California Basic Skills Initiative in 2007, basic skills committees across California community colleges became established, and many have been engaged in exciting work. This workshop will provide an opportunity to showcase and share the results of the basic skills committee work that has been taking place at Cabrillo, Hartnell, Gavilan, and Monterey Peninsula colleges. Featuring basic skills committee members from all four campuses, participants will share, in roundtable discussion format, effective practices and initiatives—including successes and challenges—that their local basic skills committees are employing in an effort to improve persistence and success rates for basic skills students. Sponsored by the California Community Colleges' Success Network (3CSN), this four-college event is open to the public, and a complimentary light breakfast and lunch will be provided for all registered participants. To register, please go to: http://cabrillobsisymposium.eventbrite.com Registration ends on February 16. If you have any questions, contact Victoria Banales at vibanale@cabrillo.edu or 479-6112. Hort 5005 10am–3pm Victoria Banales

Spring 2012 Cabrillo/High School English and Math Summit Wednesday afternoon in March (date tbd) This event will bring together high school administrators, teachers and Cabrillo faculty to discuss clear pathways for high school students to be successful in Cabrillo English and math courses. Agenda forthcoming. Mark your calendar! Location (tbd) 2–4pm Wanda Garner and Jim Weckler

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MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012

Breakfast with Brian Student Success —Flavor of the Month or Moral Imperative? In this workshop we will dialog about Cabrillo's Santa Cruz County College Commitment, the Cabrillo Governing Board’s commitment to student success, and the challenge of working to improve student outcomes in a time of declining state support. Forum 450 8:30–10am Brian King

Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Civility in the Health Care Professions and Beyond Incivility and bullying are a major problem in the health care professions and in our communities. The costs are dramatic in terms of depleting vitality and effectiveness in work environments, with a direct cost to patient safety. This presentation draws from data and work within academia and the nursing profession, and is applicable to all areas where civility and responsible exchange of ideas is critical. We will discuss how incivility and bullying is defined, when it is most likely to occur, how we do it, the cost, and a call to action. Strategies will be presented that mitigate incivility and bullying and promote civility and quality discourse. College policy and campus resources for confronting tough situations will be presented. Everyone is welcome—bring your concerns, experiences, and ideas. HW 2214 10am–12noon Dorothy Nunn and Sesario Escoto

Accreditation Self-Evaluation Standard Teams Meeting All are welcome to this session, especially members of the standard teams. Attendance is mandatory for all co-chairs. Whether you’re already serving on one of the Self-Evaluation Teams, or you’d like to find out more about the Accreditation Self-Evaluation project (and perhaps join a group this semester), plan on attending this informative workshop. In addition to going over the outlines that teams submitted last semester, there will be discussion of strategies for developing the first draft of the Self-Evaluation in spring 2012. Hort 5005 10am–12noon Renée Kilmer and Rory O’Brien

Repaving the “Yellow Brick Road:” Ideas for Roadwork Improvements on the ESL-Transfer Track The linguistic journey that an ESL student takes from beginning to transfer level courses is fraught with potholes, detours, washouts and dead ends. This workshop will discuss some of the obstacles and difficulties faced by our ESL students in their journey to English fluency, and allow participants to share experiences in order to maximize students’ chances for success. ESL students continue on to transfer level courses in all disciplines; let’s discuss how best to help them succeed. Room 410 10am–12noon Zarmina Dastagir, Adela Najarro, and Stan Rushworth

Teaching Human Rights in a Global Context at the Community College This workshop will introduce Human Rights Education (HRE) as teaching model, share teaching materials, and provide an opportunity for participants to draft an HRE-inspired lesson for use in their classes. There will be an overview of the model that will allow participants to discuss the ways they are already using similar methods in their teaching, followed by sample HRE teaching materials, pointing to ways they embody HRE, and concluding with small groups to draft teaching modules that incorporate HRE components. Sadie is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, having received a Human Rights Fellowship from Stanford’s Teaching Human Rights Education Institute (SHREI). Room 313 10am–12noon Sadie Reynolds

STARS Title V Update Participants will discuss findings and statistics from the first cohort of the First Year Experience pilot, impacts of other grant-funded initiatives (smart classrooms, reading collections, Faculty Inquiry System, professional and curriculum development) and a report on the progress of this year’s activities, including the second FYE cohort (2011–12). Room 1091 1–3pm Rachel Mayo, Sheryl Kern-Jones, Terra Morris, and Eric Grabiel

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MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012

Three Strikes and You’re Out! Not Just for Baseball Players Anymore . . . Beginning summer 2012, “three” will be the magic number for students at the California Community Colleges, including Cabrillo. A student who receives a D, F, NP, or W three times for the same course will not be allowed to enroll for a fourth try. Come discuss this new development in higher education in regards to equity and access with English department faculty. We will review the policy, the rationale behind the policy, and discuss the probable impact on students. Room 406 1–3pm English Department

Make it Easy on Yourself: SLO Work for Program Chairs Program Chairs are in charge of organizing and orchestrating the SLO process for their departments. This workshop is designed to be both global and local, presenting you with an overview of the SLO universe at Cabrillo and with specific details about the SLO tasks you must perform. The theme is how to accomplish it all with ease. Come find out where you should be on the revolving wheel of assessment, how to easily organize those tasks and fill out the required forms. Hort 5001 1–3pm Marcy Alancraig

Datatel Web Interface UI 4.3 This is an informational presentation for Datatel users on the new interface. Participants will view a video on the new look and features of this version and discussion will follow. Room 1096 3–4pm Loren Washburn

Program Chair Meeting Program Chairs will meet to discuss the effects of TBA (to be arranged) hour regulations, repeatability limitations, and budget cuts on our programs. Hort 5001 3–4:30pm Michele Rivard

Teaching, Learning, and Assessing SLO’s in Early Childhood Education We will share teaching techniques and approaches, and identify those that support student success in ECE courses. SLO assessment results from fall 2011 will be discussed. Members of the Early Childhood Education department are encouraged to bring a specific activity, presentation, or viewpoint they use in their classroom to share with other ECE faculty. Room 1508 5:30–7:30pm Jean Gallagher-Heil and Ofelia Garcia

Orientation for New Adjunct Faculty This workshop is designed for new adjunct faculty to introduce them to the college and familiarize them with college processes and procedures. How do you handle a waitlist and add codes? What about disruptive students? What accommodations might a student with a learning disability request of you? What is WebAdvisor and how are you expected to use it? Get answers to these and other questions and handouts vital to a successful first semester at Cabrillo. SAC East 225 5:30–7:30pm Rock Pfotenhauer

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012

Part-Timers Solidarity Breakfast Join your part-time colleagues for breakfast and discussion of pertinent issues. Room 1804 8–10am Sadie Reynolds, John Govsky, and Maya Bendotoff

Intro to Blackboard This workshop is strongly recommended for all faculty who want to use the new Blackboard Learn system and have not participated in prior training events. Or come if you want to brush up on the basics. Reservations required. Send an email to tlc@cabrillo.edu. Room 507 8am–10am Francine Van Meter

Instructional Program Planning Programs beginning the instructional planning process this spring will meet to review the process and obtain planning data specific to your department. There is a mandatory meeting for faculty whose programs are beginning the instructional planning process in spring 2012: Business, English as a Second Language (ESL), Culinary Arts, Early Childhood Education (ECE), Geography and Meteorology, Radiologic Technology, Stroke Center, Education Centers, Engineering, Dental Hygiene, Music, and Photography. Room 403 9–12noon Renée Kilmer

Effective Teaching of Students with Learning Disabilities As an instructor, you have the privilege of working with many students from the learning disabled population. Beyond providing accommodations often administered outside the classroom, there are other opportunities for instructors to meet unique needs students who have different learning styles. Topics investigated will include legal responsibilities to students with disabilities, developing an understanding about students’ perceptions of themselves within the classroom, dealing with confidentiality issues, directing students to the correct resources, and assisting students during office hours. Room 1091 10am–12noon Deborah Shulman and Laurie Shipley

Moneyball—Can stats show if your students are getting On Base? When a new way of looking at athletes’ performance allowed one of the poorest baseball teams to topple teams with famous players and much larger payrolls, it signaled the beginning of a new era. Are we in education at a point – like professional baseball in the eighties and nineties – where we could benefit from a fresh look at our core statistics? Success rates, completion rates, retention rates, transfer rates…all seem to have something important to tell us, but are we overlooking or undervaluing something that is right in front of us? In an effort to move beyond our traditional data sources, newly developed data such as Campus Climate data on student engagement, technology use, service usage, and cognitive activities will be presented and potential new data sources will be considered and discussed. Examples (including grade inflation) of four information inefficiencies that may be interfering with our potential will be discussed. Note: you do not need to know anything about baseball to participate in this session! Room 312 10–11:30am Craig Hayward and Natalia Cordoba-Velasquez

Deepening Our Understanding of the Impact of Gangs and Other Forms of Social Violence on Our Students’ Lives It is well known that many of our students who are “at risk”—due to class or racial inequalities, educational struggles, immigration status, language barriers, etc.—enter at the basic skills level, facing a real uphill challenge in completing their math, English, and other college requirements. But what about our basic skills students who are “high risk”—meaning, students who present ultra “risk” factors such as: incarceration, gang affiliations, substance abuse, and more? Featuring community leader Jaime Molina and Cabrillo College students, this workshop will explore gangs/social violence in our community, its impact on our youth, and realistic strategies for Cabrillo faculty and others on what we can do to help. SAC West 202 10am–12noon Gail West, Cathy Diaz, and Victoria Banales

CCEU Fall Luncheon The Cabrillo Classified Employees Union will discuss current challenges ahead and build some solidarity— all together in one place. Lunch will be provided. Hort 5005 12noon–2pm Stephanie Stainback

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012

Research Globally—Get it Locally, the Library Tired of doing random research on international topics? Join information professionals from the Library - and share your own knowledge - as we navigate our databases, locate e-books and books printed on paper, and calmly sail across the Web to our desired locations. In this journey we will explore the seas of geographical, cultural, literary, and historical information. Join us and catch the wave! Library 1051 1–3pm Eve Hinkley and Laura Dickie

SLO’s and Program Planning—Be Prepared! This workshop is designed especially for Instructional programs two years away from presenting their program plans to the Council for Instructional Planning: Psychology, Communication Studies, Chemistry, Geology/Oceanography, Honors, Articulation, and MESA. We will review strategies for completing SLO Assessment tasks required for Instructional Program Planning, for establishing a regular process of assessment and dialogue within a program, and for making the process worthwhile. In addition, you’ll learn how you can modify the student survey so your department can find out exactly what it needs to know from students and also learn what data requests you can make of the PRO office. Though designed especially for these departments, the workshop is open to all. Room 508 1–3pm Marcy Alancraig and Rick Fillman

Basic Skills and Learning Communities Advisory Council (BSLCAC) Born out of the California Basic Skills Initiative, BSLCAC was created at Cabrillo as a way for faculty and staff to meet and discuss best ways to serve our basic skills (pre-transfer level) students and programs. This meeting is divided into two parts: in the first hour, PRO will demonstrate a powerful new tool that allows faculty to track cohorts of students through the basic skills sequence in math, English, ESL and reading; the second hour will be devoted to learning communities. Come learn about a new tracking tool, our recently inaugurated Learning Communities Center, a forthcoming Basic Skills Symposium, and other exciting collaborations that are taking place here at Cabrillo and with other California community colleges! SAC West 202 1–3pm Victoria Banales, Craig Hayward, and Rick Fillman

Triangle Speakers Panel We belong to a DIVERSE local and global community! Join us for a discussion with a panel of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to discuss sexual orientation and gender diversity issues at Cabrillo College. Community member volunteers on these panels are very open, bring your questions. Room 312 1–3pm Alyssa Steiner, Dennis Bailey-Fougnier, and Triangle Speakers Panel

The Newly Revised Student Rights and Responsibilities Handbook There are new procedures in the Student Rights and Responsibilities Handbook for dealing with disruptive student behaviors. Learn about the new sections on academic integrity and distance education, and how to use the new online report forms. Let’s be clear about what your rights are as staff and faculty and let’s be clear about student behavior expectations and how to address them. SAC East 225 3–5pm Sesario R. Escoto

Faculty Senate Attend the first Faculty Senate meeting of the spring semester at the Watsonville Center. Take advantage of this opportunity to catch up on the latest news affecting faculty. At this meeting you will learn about how the senate functions as an integral part of the shared governance process on campus. Help plan our future adventures and find out how to participate in Senate activities. WatA150 (4350) 3–5pm Michael Mangin and Steve Hodges

Blackboard Assessment and Communication Tools This workshop is for faculty who have previously participated in an introductory Blackboard workshop. Blackboard’s new tools will help instructors generate more effective instructor/student contact, and configure assessment triggers for early intervention with students who lag behind. Topics include managing graded discussions forums, wikis, blogs, and working with the Grade Center to set early alert notifications and running grade totals. Room 507 3–5pm Francine Van Meter

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Applications Created by Individual Math Teachers That Are Used to Describe the Real World Teachers are expected to share applications of math that they have developed for their lectures that go beyond the usual Cabrillo textbook examples. Room 708 8–10am Dave Viglienzoni

Up, Up and Away—Cloud Computing with Google Apps This workshop provides an overview of Cabrillo’s Google Apps available to all faculty and staff. Learn about Google Calendar, Docs, Sites, and Forms; how to manage shared documents, integrate cloud computing into your workflow, and access from mobile devices. Choose one of the two times offered. Room 1096 8:30–10am or 3–4:30pm TLC Staff

Assess Locally, Think Globally: Assessing SLOs in Math. Math Faculty will meet to assess SLOs. One SLO from each course will be assessed by individual faculty with the general results reported back to the entire department at the program meeting. Room 711 10am–12noon Dan Morgali

“The Ape Capers—Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Primates” The great apes have been driven to near extinction in the wild through deforestation, poaching and the exotic pet trade for profit, and for animal testing, despite their being poor test subjects. In this session we’ll talk about how our local and national practices contribute to the continued exploitation of the apes, what research tells us about our nearest kin, and what we can do to help end these practices. Room 431 10am–12noon Michelle Merrill, Robin McFarland, and Renée Kilmer

Cabrillo Reads: Ellison’s Invisible Man Everyone in the Cabrillo community is invited to join in the First Annual Cabrillo Reads project. Our novel for this activity is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. All interested faculty and staff are encouraged to read the book over the month of January and to come to this Flex activity to discuss the issues of identity, social justice, race, and politics raised by Ellison in the novel. This workshop will share teaching strategies for those instructors in multiple disciplines who might want to make Ellison part of their curriculum in the future. We will also be discussing organizational issues involved in planning for the large public event planned for early in the spring 2012 semester. The Cabrillo Reads Ellison project is jointly sponsored by the Cabrillo Library, the Cabrillo Honors Transfer Program, and the Cabrillo English and History departments. Room 425 10–12noon Michael Mangin, Ekua Omosupe, and Leticia Scott-Curtis

Using One’s Expertise in Service to the 3rd World—Developing an EMS System in Uganda This workshop is a presentation of how one individual faculty member used her field of study and instruction toward positive global impact to help develop an entire country’s Emergency Medical Service. Kris Hurst, a Cabrillo Fire Tech faculty was invited through an International NGO by the government of Uganda to cast the vision, develop and implement a major infrastructural model that will impact millions of Ugandans. She has a niche of expertise and she used it. If she could make a difference so could you. This workshop is to create a challenge and show tangibly how one person can be a change agent for good at a global level. Room 312 10–11am Kris Hurst

The 6th SJC Kickoff: Grassroots Effort to Help Everyone Become a Better World Citizen Join us to make the 6th Social Justice Conference a great opportunity for everyone to think globally and act locally. Our goal is to create an inclusive Social Justice Conference (SJC) based on grassroots efforts from our college campus and local community. We welcome your input on how to make SJC a unique learning opportunity for students, and how to extend the SJC into the community at-large. We are working on a multisensory kinesthetic learning experience and a post-conference publication, a cover-design contest, and more. Yummy stuff to boost your appetite for the CCFT luncheon will be served. Hort 5010 11am–12noon Yaming Shen and Janus Blume

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012

CCFT Luncheon Enjoy lunch with your colleagues and learn about the highlights of the recent state- and college-wide budget developments and related collective bargaining issues. Bring your own plate to get bumped to the front of the line. Hort 5005 12noon–1pm Paul Harvell

CCFT All Faculty Meeting Participants will take a more in-depth look at the current budget and related bargaining issues, and solicit faculty input. There will also be a presentation on disturbing trends regarding for-profit colleges, student success, and federal grants. Hort 5005 1–3pm Paul Harvell, Vicki Fabbri, and John Govsky

Cabrillo’s Role in Supporting Foster Youth in Our Community Cabrillo has a unique role in supporting foster youth in Santa Cruz County and California. A categorical program of the community colleges, Foster and Kinship Care Education Program, provides training and support for all of the county-licensed foster homes in Santa Cruz. Weekly classes in the Independent Living Program, where teens in foster care learn skills for independent living, are held at Cabrillo. Recent legislation requires that foster youth receive priority registration at community colleges. This workshop will provide information about the role of Cabrillo in providing services that improve the lives of children and youth in foster care. SAC West 214 1–3pm Deborah Helms, Sheila Anderson, and Panel

Emergency Preparedness Learn about important things to consider before an incident occurs and what you can do to help out during an incident on campus. Forum 450 1–3pm Harry Bidleman, Paul Ramos, and Joe Nugent

Teaching for Global Sustainability How do we prepare our students to deal with the complex challenges of a world with over 7 billion people? How can we help each other become the teachers our students and our planet need us to be? Sustainability encompasses the social, economic and environmental aspects of global citizenship. Learn what we are doing right at Cabrillo, and how we keep faculty and students aware and involved in Cabrillo’s progress toward sustainability so we can act locally together. We’ll share information and resources from our Engaged Interdisciplinary Learning for Sustainability grant, and launch a Sustainable Curriculum Working Group. Room 406 3–5pm Michelle Merrill, Karen Groppi, and the Climate Initiative Task Force

Ten Great Ways to Improve Your Instructional Planning Curriculum Haven’t considered your curriculum since the last Instructional Planning cycle? Or never considered your curriculum before at all? This session is devoted to offering practical solutions for departments in the midst of Instructional Planning. The tips offered also work great for faculty interested in course development at any time. After the first hour there will be a short break, followed by a business meeting for the Curriculum Committee (Mandatory for Curriculum Committee representatives.) SAC West 202 3–5pm Mike Strunk and Dale Attias

Watsonville Center Faculty Meeting and Orientation Meet other faculty over dinner and get information on procedures and resources at the Watsonville Center, including office assignments, alarm codes, keys, and an orientation to the smart technology in classrooms. Student Health Services and the Sheriff's office will join us to talk about responding to medical and behavioral health emergencies and incidents – what to do after calling 911. If you would like to go on a special tour of the new Green Technology Center, please arrive at 5pm. WatA130 (4330) 5:30–8:30pm Rachel Mayo, Tera Martin, Marcelo Nogueira, Marion Brodkey, Paul Ramos, Dianne Avelar and Betty Fairhurst

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Blood Borne Pathogen Training The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a standard (Section 5193 of Title 8 of California Code of Regulations) that provides various methods to reduce your risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens. The standard covers employees who can reasonably anticipate contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials as a result of performing their assigned job duties. Training is required initially upon hire and annually thereafter. This training is introductory in nature and designed to provide a basic understanding of bloodborne pathogens, workplace transmissions, exposure control plan, standard precautions, reducing risk, etc. Select one of two session times offered. Room 833 9–10am or 3–4pm Pamela Gangloff

Teach Globally, Award Locally Join us for the pleasure of reading and evaluating the best of our student writing in English and ESL classes. From basic skills to literature and film, English and ESL students are writing on topics that range the world over. English and ESL instructors are invited to read superb student writing from composition, creative writing, and literature classes and award top honors (and prize money) to the winners. Winning student authors will later be celebrated in a spring awards ceremony and reading. Room 406 9am–1pm Writing Awards Committee

Ride the Wave of Emotional Self-Regulation Come and see how emWave technology, an easy to use software program with heart rhythm monitors helps students to become better global citizens. The emWave assists students to reduce learning and performance blocks such as test anxiety, poor memory recall, low motivation, and behavioral problems due to anxiety and stimulation overload. In spring 2012, students will have access to the emWave on 10 computer stations in the Math Learning Center in Aptos and in the Integrated Learning Center at the Watsonville Center along with TestEdge and The Inside Story. Room 1063 10am–12noon Pattie Tomnitz and Barbara Schultz-Perez

Forum for Foundation in the Visual Arts (Art 2A, 2B, 4, 5) Have you ever wondered about how other instructors teach visual art foundation courses, Art 2A, 2B, 4, and 5? Together let’s identify pedagogical priorities, preferred sequencing of units, and ways to increase student engagement and successful projects. Please bring your course curriculum and/or specific projects to share. VAPA 2008 10am–12noon Rebecca Alex, Claire Thorson, and Rebecca Ramos

Art Photography SLO Assessment and Preparation for Program Planning Members of the Art Photography Department will discuss their individual assessments of SLOs from Fall 2011. We will share various techniques and approaches identifying those that support student success in Art Photography courses. Room 2025B 10am–12noon Gordon Hammer and Susan Hoisington

The Future of Communication Design Communication design is evolving, especially for print media. We know HTML5 and design for social and mobile media is something we need to pay attention too. But what will communication design in general look like five years from now? With big publishing houses going digital, how will communication design companies adapt and thrive? This session will host members of Jaquar Design Studios in a discussion of the directions digital media education should take in aligning its curriculum with emerging trends. Room 1096 10am–12noon Digital Media Faculty

Learning Skills Program (LSP) Luncheon Meeting LSP faculty and staff will meet at Deborah Shulman’s house for their annual spring flex week luncheon meeting. Off campus 12noon–2pm Deborah Shulman

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Music/Theatre Arts Lab Procedures Music/Theatre Arts Lab instructors are invited to discuss new procedures that address TBA (to be arranged) hours for Music courses. Room 5131 1–2:30pm Michele Rivard, James Durland, and Michael Strunk

Visual Arts Scholarship Committee – Building Success The Visual Arts Scholarship Committee will verify and set dates for the 2011 scholarship schedule and portfolio review location, analyze the 2010 scholarship process, application policies and instructions, edit materials for clarity and ease of student use, discuss strategies for student advisement and/or mentoring, update available scholarship information and amounts, and discuss current funding sources, needs and areas for growth. Room 2022 1–3pm Susan Hoisington

Got Grammar? Best Practices and Suggestions for Teaching Grammar Please join the English department as we review how to teach grammar as part of the writing processes and as a rhetorical strategy. Too often when we teach grammar, students fall asleep or they zone out. Other times we effectively teach the rules, however we don’t see improvement in student writing. Let’s figure this one out and energize our classrooms; let’s discuss how grammar focuses on choices writers make to facilitate communication and that grammar usage is fluid depending on the writer’s desires and audience expectations. Got grammar? Let’s talk. Room 406 1–4pm The English Department

Culture Connection: Global Awareness and World Languages As language and culture are inextricably bound, an awareness and understanding of culture is essential to language study. How do teachers of a foreign language effectively expose their students to the practices and perspectives of a given culture? How do we integrate culture into our face-to-face classes and online language lab? The focus of this workshop is to share our ideas, methodology, and materials for teaching culture. Workshop participants are invited to bring a favorite classroom or lab activity that focuses on culture. Room 315 5:30–7:30pm Nancy Stucker and Meredith Babbe

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012 — DIVISION/DEPARTMENT MEETINGS

BUSINESS, ENGLISH, AND LANGUAGE ARTS DIVISION HUMAN ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION 8:30–10:30AM 332 8:30–10:30AM 1804 Academy for College Excellence 2-5PM 313 Anthropology 11AM–1PM 431 BARE 11AM–1PM 506 Communication Studies 11AM–1PM 834 Business, Accounting and Finance, Real Estate Culinary Arts & Hospitality 11AM–1PM 1803 Computer Applications and Business Technology Early Childhood Education* 5:30–8:30PM 1508 11AM–1PM 507 Global Studies 11–11:30AM 425 English 11AM–1PM 312 Global Studies Dept Mtgs 11:30AM–1PM 425 ESL 11AM–1PM ESL lab Economics, Education, History, Geography/

Meteorology, Political Science, Women’s Studies Journalism 11AM–1PM 407 Philosophy 11AM–1PM 403 Reading 4–6PM 1063 Psychology 11AM–1PM 401 World Languages 11AM–1PM 316 Public Safety 11AM–1PM 1605 CAREER EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (CEED) Sociology 11AM–1PM 432 9AM–1PM SAC 225 *Thursday, Feb. 2 COUNSELING AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES DIVISION NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES DIVISION 8:30–9:30AM SACW 202 9–11AM 5005 Counseling 9:30AM–12NOON SACW 202 Astronomy 1–3PM Obsrv Disabled Students Programs and Services Biology 11:30AM–1:30PM 616 11AM–12:30PM SACW 214 Chemistry 11:30AM–1:30PM 614 HEALTH, ATHLETICS , WELLNESS , AND KINESIOLOGY DIVISION CS & CIS 11:30AM–1:30PM 2502 9–11AM HW 2214 Construction and Energy Management Adaptive PE 12NOON–2PM 1107 12NOON–2PM 1301 Dental Hygiene 12NOON–4PM HW 2113 Engineering 12NOON–2PM 715B Health Science 12NOON–2PM 831 Engineering Technology 10AM–7PM 1306 Human Services 12NOON–2PM 831 Geology/Ocean/ES 12NOON–2PM 705 Medical Assistant 12NOON–4PM HW 2210 Horticulture 12NOON–2PM 5015 Nursing 11:30AM–3:30PM HW 2225 Math 11:30AM–1:30PM 711 Kinesiology/Athletics* 9:30–11:30AM 1118 MESA 1:30–3:30PM 714 Radiologic Technology* 12NOON–3PM HW 2105 Physics 11:30AM–1:30PM 830 Stroke Center 12:30–2:30PM HW 1110 Welding 10AM–7PM 1306

*Thursday, Feb. 2 VISUAL, APPLIED, AND PERFORMING ARTS DIVISION Library 9–11AM VAPA 1001 Department 9–10:30AM 1040 Art History 11AM–1PM VAPA 1014 Reference/Instruction 10:30AM–12NOON 1040 Art Photography 11AM–1PM VAPA 2022 Potluck 12NOON 1040 Art Studio 11AM–1PM VAPA 2005 Dance 11AM–1PM VAPA 1117 Digital Media 11AM–1PM VAPA 1003 Music 11AM–1PM VAPA 5148 Theatre Arts 11AM–1PM VAPA 4116

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FLEX GUIDELINES

The flex calendar affords faculty the time and format in which to examine instructional concerns outside the traditional classroom setting. It offers an appropriate prelude to the school year as well as a checkpoint between semesters to refresh our sense of educational mission. This publication is your guide to the principles and process of staff development flex days at Cabrillo College. If you have any questions after reading it, please consult with your Dean or the Staff Development Coordinator.

General Guidelines:

1. Required flex time:

Faculty may fulfill their flex requirement by attending workshops on flex days, participating in advisement at registration, or performing individual projects on designated flex days. Any exceptions to this policy must be approved by your Dean.

Full-time faculty have a minimum time commitment of 24 flexible hours per year plus two fall semester mandatory days and one spring semester mandatory day.

Partial contract faculty are required to participate in a specific number of days, which is prorated on a percentage basis of an individual's contract. Adjunct faculty are required to participate in at least one hour of flex activity per teaching unit each semester.

2. Special exception:

You may perform flex activities on days other than the scheduled flex days, as long as they are not your regular teaching days. Weekends and holidays are permissible as are days when you are only teaching in the evening, or evenings when you are only teaching during the day. You must obtain approval of your Dean.

3. Deadlines:

The deadline for submitting your flex agreement is the end of flex week. This contract needs to be signed by you and your Dean. The deadline for submitting your individual activity is the end of flex week. This contract needs to be signed by you and your Dean.

4. Nonparticipation:

Should you decide to refuse to participate in the flex week, you will have your pay reduced by the number of days of nonparticipation (maximum of five days fall semester and four days spring semester). All flex activities must be completed within the academic calendar.

CABRILLO STAFF DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

Renée Kilmer, Marcy Alancraig, Mark Hopkins, Isabel O'Connor, Patrick Meyer, Beatriz Perez, Sue Slater, Francine Van Meter, John Govsky, Sesario Escoto, Loree McCawley, Sylvia Winder, and Yasmina Porter

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Special thanks to Francis Sweetman, Margitta Dietrick-Welsh, Sandi Moore, and Barbara Rigg for room scheduling.

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