Dr. Charlotte Warren, Dr. Nancy Sweet and Karen Sanders presented at the CASE District V & VI Conference in Chicago on April 16 with the topic: “Partnerships, Participation and Practical Solutions to Engage Your Employers.” The CASE District V & VI Annual Conference offers the innovation, resources and partnerships to develop effective advancement practices in a changing education landscape. The conference provided the opportunity to expand networks and engage with peers throughout the Great Lakes and Mid-America regions.
Category Archives: Professional Presentations
This week’s Monday Morning Mentor is about sparking engagement in reluctant learners
This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic is, “How Can I Spark and Sustain Engagement in Reluctant Learners?” View the 20-Minute Mentor presentation and access the transcript, handouts, and supplemental material. This presentation is available April 1 and on-demand for one week. You will need to enter the following password in order to view the program: memorable36. Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.
Friday’s AIeL Workshop: Beyond Diversity: A Guided Discussion
For those who have viewed the webinar, “Beyond Diversity: How to Build a Truly Antiracist Organization,” join local leaders from the Springfield Coalition on Dismantling Racism for a deeper dive into the topics explored in this Crossroads webinar. The workshop will include a discussion on how faculty and staff at LLCC might implement anti-racist principles and practices into their daily work and advocate for institutional transformation. This workshop is co-sponsored by the LLCC Workforce Equity Initiative. Faculty participants will receive 3 points toward their Training and Innovation professional development total for successful completion of this workshop.
Friday, March 22 from 1-4 p.m. in the Robert H. Stephens Room.
Register for Beyond Diversity: A Guided Discussion.
Tinch presents at ITBE conference
Allison Tinch, LLCC ESL instructor, showcased her expertise at the Illinois Teachers of Bilingual Education (ITBE) conference in Chicago on Feb. 24. The focus of her presentation, “Family, Culture, Self: Unraveling the Motivational Forces in Adult ESL Learners,” delved into the intricate influences of family and native language (L1) community on the motivation of adult ESL learners. She shared valuable insights for enhancing responsive programs that seamlessly integrate classrooms with the social environments of learners. Along with sharing her knowledge with other ESL instructors across the state, Allison returned with valuable ESL instructional approaches, methods and best practices. Her sharing of these insights with colleagues actively contributes to the ongoing professional growth within the ESL teaching community.
Monday Morning Mentor: How to use AI to assess student understanding?
The March 4 Monday Morning Mentor topic is “How Can I Use Generative AI to Assess Student Understanding?”
From this link, you can view the featured 20-Minute Mentor, as well as access the transcript, handouts, and supplemental material. These materials will not be available to be viewed until Monday when the presentation becomes available. You will need to enter the following password in order to view next week’s program: generative81. The presentation is available on-demand for one week.
Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.
LLCC presents at NCWE conference
Dr. Charlotte Warren, president; Karen Sanders, vice president, advancement and executive director, LLCC Foundation; Josh Collins, assistant vice president, business relations; and Dr. Nancy Sweet, dean, Workforce Institute presented
“Taking the Helm for Success – Partnerships, Participation and Practical Solutions to Engage your Employers” at the National Council for Workforce Education conference in Baltimore, Md. Oct. 5.
Julie Clevenger and Tiffany Elliott Present at ICLCA Conference
Julie Clevenger, executive director, LLCC Center for Academic Success, and Tiffany Elliott, academic support program coordinator, presented a session titled, “At the Point of Need: Implementing Collaborative Embedded Support to Increase Student Success” at the annual International College Learning Center Association conference in Portland, Oregon, on Sept.26. The session included learning center directors and staff from around the world and demonstrated how the LLCC Center for Academic Success expanded an embedded tutoring program into a more comprehensive embedded support initiative that utilizes both peer tutors and professional staff to address the college’s goal of increasing student success rates, especially in their first year.
Dr. Natasha Casey presents at ALA conference
Dr. Natasha Casey, assistant professor of communication, was part of the media and information literacy panel “Addressing the Spread of Misinformation and Disinformation: The Library’s Role” at the American Library Association conference in Chicago earlier this summer. She participated alongside colleagues from PEN America, the National Association for Media Literacy Education, Dallas Public Library and City Bureau – Chicago. Dr. Casey thanks the Faculty Development & Recognition Committee, which provided funding for this trip.
Embedded tutoring online discussion
Tiffany Elliott, academic support programs coordinator for the LLCC Center for Academic Success hosted an online discussion of embedded tutoring Tuesday, May 23, to share information about best practices in designing, implementing and assessing embedded tutoring programs. Learning center professionals and administrators from 58 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada participated. Julie Clevenger, executive director of the Center for Academic Success, and Dr. Colin Suchland, professor of sociology, shared insights into the successes of embedded support at LLCC. Continued discussion and collaboration among participants in this event will take place over the summer to enhance awareness of the value and effectiveness of embedded tutoring and to provide space for learning center professionals and administrators to share their knowledge and experience, so we can all continue to enhance our support of students’ academic success.
If you are a faculty member interested in having embedded support in a course you teach or would like more information on how this program can benefit your students, please contact Julie Clevenger or Tiffany Elliott.
Laura Anderson and Leslie Stalter present at FATE Conference
Last week Laura Anderson and Leslie Stalter, professors of art, presented on collaboration and competition in art and design curriculum at the annual Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Conference in Denver.