This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
How Can I Create a Meaningful Service-Learning Project for my Online Class?

Presentation date: March 13, 2023, and on-demand for one week
View the presentation and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material: https://mondaymorningmentors.com.

NOTE: You will need to enter the following password in order to view this week’s program: project965.

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.

Embedding Equity in the Classroom and Everyday Practice
Today, Feb. 23, 3-4:30 p.m. in the Trutter Center

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Sponsored by the LLCC Workforce Equity Initiative, this OCCRL facilitated workshop has been designed to introduce faculty to several ways to embed equity-minded approaches into the classroom through the inclusion and incorporation of culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP). Within the context of the diversity at LLCC and the surrounding community, (e.g., District 526), this workshop will be dedicated to framing awareness of CRP, its purpose and intent and an exploration of ways to incorporate culturally responsive approaches into courses and programs to advance equitable learning and training outcomes. Participants will be provided with practical examples of the use of CRP and space to consider how these examples may be replicated and scaled at LLCC. This training will conclude with faculty engaging in activities designed to allow faculty members an opportunity to examine their own course content and teaching approaches for areas of improvement utilizing culturally responsive practices.

Note: Faculty can receive two points toward their Training and Innovation professional development total for successful completion of this workshop.

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Language Variation & Linguistic Discrimination
Today, Feb. 21, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., MNRD 2202
Matthew Griffin, assistant professor, Spanish

Register for Feb. 21 workshop

The way we speak says a lot about who we are and where we come from. However, some dialects of American English are considered by some to sound “uneducated” or “improper.” In this workshop, we will take a crash course in linguistics as we look at language diversity and consider the biases that we may hold toward specific varieties of English. With this information, we will then discuss the ways in which we can better address the linguistic needs of our students.

Note: Faculty can receive one point toward their Training and Innovation professional development total for successful completion of this workshop.

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
Beyond Syllabus Policies: What Strategies Help Students Take Responsibility for Learning?

Presentation date: Feb. 20, 2023, and on-demand for one week
View the presentation and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material: https://mondaymorningmentors.com.

NOTE: You will need to enter the following password in order to view this week’s program: beyond123.

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.

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
How Can I Engage Students During a Synchronous Online Class?

Presentation date: Feb. 13, 2023, and on-demand for one week
View the presentation and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material: https://mondaymorningmentors.com.

NOTE: You will need to enter the following password in order to view this week’s program: engage574.

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.

Join AIeL today, Feb. 9, as they kick off their February workshops with Daring Dialogues and Courageous Conversations, the first of three workshops sponsored by the LLCC Workforce Equity Initiative and presented by members the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL). Please register in advance for each session in this series.

Each session has been designed to strengthen overall cultural competency, awareness, and use of culturally responsive teaching and learning practices to foster and improve equitable outcomes among students. The series will offer faculty and staff an opportunity learn more about DEI practices in education and to establish effective strategies in support of  LLCC students in both workforce and general education courses.

Note: Faculty will receive two points for each workshop in the series toward their Training and Innovation professional development total for successful completion of this workshop.

Daring Dialogues and Courageous Conversations

Today, Feb. 9, 3-4:30 p.m. in MNRD 2202
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This workshop engages faculty and staff as they examine and increase their individual and collective awareness of anti-bias and anti-racist attitudes and behaviors in efforts to reduce the impact of conscious and unconscious biases and “isms” on students, especially those in WEI-related courses, programs and workplace experiences. More specifically, OCCRL will facilitate conversations and activities that provide an opportunity for faculty and staff to reflect on their own personal identities and positionality and its impact on their teaching practices, interactions with students and students’ engagement in their courses and programs. With specific attention to demographics at LLCC and the communities in District 526, this session will broaden awareness of how various factors like race, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic, (dis)ability and immigration status impact the experiences and outcomes of our students. Finally, this session will expand understanding of concepts like implicit bias and microaggressions and discuss ways to reduce their harmful effects, foster a more inclusive and welcoming programmatic culture, and ultimately advance equitable outcomes for students in at LLCC. This training will conclude with a reflection/call-to-action activity that provides an opportunity for faculty to identify individual and collective action steps they can take to counteract microaggressions and biases in their courses, programs and departments.

Additional sessions in the series:

Embedding Equity in the Classroom and Everyday Practice

Thursday, Feb. 23, 3-4:30 p.m. in the Trutter Center
Register for the Feb. 23 workshop​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Classroom Equity Practices and Reflection Discussion

Thursday, April 6, 3-4:30 p.m. in the Trutter Center
Register for the April 6 workshop​​​​​​​

The Midwest Institute for International-Intercultural Education will be hosting the Zoom-based workshop Global Inequality & Poverty on Friday, Feb. 24, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (ET).

Global Inequality & Poverty: This workshop will examine the major factors and forces of poverty and inequality from a global perspective.  In the morning, we will discuss the trends and consequences of global inequality and poverty and efforts to reduce them and provide for basic human needs and human potential. In the afternoon, we will discuss the historical interface of inequality/poverty, colonialism, and environment.

Registration for this workshop is $25. Contact Rihab Sawah, professor of physics , (rihab.sawah@llcc.edu) with any questions.

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
How Can I Write a Course Syllabus That’s Worth Reading?

Presentation date: Feb. 6, 2023, and on-demand for one week
View the presentation and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material: https://mondaymorningmentors.com.

NOTE: You will need to enter the following password in order to view this week’s program: syllabus253.

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 faculty and staff are invited to attend “Upgrading, or Why It’s Time to Rethink How We Assess” taking place today, Feb. 3, noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom (https://go.uis.edu/CFEZoom). Stephanie Kratz, coordinator of faculty academies at Heartland Community College will be presenting. The workshop is sponsored by the Central and Southern Illinois Faculty Development Network.

The presentation will:

• Consider limitations of traditional grading methods.
• Explore how alternative grading methods — including but not limited to ungrading — help address these limitations.
• Share ideas about the future of grading.

Participants will be invited to share what grades mean to them and to consider the opportunities and challenges presented by alternative forms of assessment.