1. ConveNing Our Community of Practice
Winter ATL Retreat
ConveNing Our Community of Practice
Jennifer Whetham
Program Administrator, Faculty Professional Development |

2. Agenda Pro-D Speed Dating Leadership Groups
Faculty Development Best Practices
Re-visioning the Role of Faculty Development
Faculty Developers as Institutional Developers
Wrap-Up and Next Steps

3. Sign Up for a Leadership Group
At 1:30 PM we will work in our leadership groups.
Use your intuition or skim the descriptions (the one pager Jen sent via or the longer packet in your handout)
Five People Per Group: Agenda Activists, Community Keepers, Critical Friends, Social Reporters, External Messengers, Organizational Brokers, Value Detectives

4. Welcome
Opening Activity

5. Pro-D Speed Dating
1,2,3,4
You get 1 minute 2 share 3 things 4 your school!
Prepare on the google doc

6. Silent Tableaux Please form two circles, one inside the other.
As you form the two circles, avoid communicating Don’t use words, hand signals, or gestures.
Be sure you are facing another person.

7. You have one minute 2 tell your partner 3 things 4 your school.
Pair and Share
You have one minute 2 tell your partner 3 things 4 your school.
Jen will set a timer.

8. Switch!
The other person gets one minute 2 tell your partner 3 things 4 your school.
Jen will set a timer.

9. Circle Shift
The inner circle will move clockwise one person. Now you have a new partner!

10. Pair and Share Round Two
Each person gets 1 minute 2 share 3 things 4 their institution.
Jen will set a timer.

11. Circle Shift
The inner circle will move clockwise one person. Now you have a new partner!

12. Pair and Share Round Three
Each person gets 1 minute 2 share 3 things 4 their institution.
Jen will set a timer.

13. Reflections
What did you notice? What did you hear? What are you thinking about as a result of this activity?

14. Sign Up for a Leadership Group
At 1:30 PM we will work in our leadership groups.
Use your intuition or skim the descriptions (the one pager Jen sent via or the longer packet in your handout)
Five People Per Group: Agenda Activists, Community Keepers, Critical Friends, Social Reporters, External Messengers, Organizational Brokers, Value Detectives

15. Lunch is served from 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM
Lunch and Networking
Reviewing Community College Faculty Voices in the Literature: An Overview
Lunch is served from 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM

16. Practicing Collective Learning
Leadership Groups
Practicing Collective Learning

17. Time in Leadership Groups
Work in your leadership groups to generate a shared understanding of your role and develop a plan of action for the retreat. Instructions in your handout.
Create a visual to highlight your group’s role and share your plan of action with the other groups.
Be ready to present at 2:30! 

18. Leadership Groups Share Out
Each leadership group gets 3 to 4 minutes to share/explain its
collective role in the large group’s learning
Visual/metaphor
Plan of action for the retreat

19. Networking & Tech Break
Take some time to chat, check , use the facilities, etc.

20. Faculty Development Best Practices
Facilitators: Melody Schneider & Kristina Jipson, edmonds CC

21. Reflection & Processing Time
Dinner is served from 6pm to 6:30 Pm

22. Calling Faculty Development to Revision Its Role
Panel Presentation

23. Pro-D Panelists Sally Heilstedt, Lake Washington
Peg Balachowski, Everett
Martin Cockroft, Olympic

24. Asking the Right Questions
Text

25. Faculty Developers as Institutional developers
Welcome Back!
Faculty Developers as Institutional developers

26. Leadership Groups
Leadership Groups briefly share out.
Agenda Activists, Community Keepers, Critical Friends, Social Reporters, External Messengers, Organizational Brokers, Value Detectives

27. Institutional Developers
Faculty Developers
Institutional Developers

28. CC Faculty as Pedagogical Innovators
At the recent WACTC meeting, the college presidents of the system shared how recent political events have deeply impacted campus climate. What kinds of climate issues are impacting faculty and students on your campus that could be addressed/mitigated with professional development?
Work in groups of 4 to identify a climate issue (campus or classroom level) that impacts teaching and learning.
Brainstorm professional development offerings that could provide support for faculty.

29. Check out from your rooms
Break
Check out from your rooms

30. Constructing your action plan
Next Steps
Constructing your action plan

31. Wrap Up and Next Steps Leadership Groups Report Back
Planning for Spring meeting in Spokane (Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017 at Spokane Falls CC)
ATL Conference Updates
Anna Sue McNeil and eLearning Award
Concurrent Sessions/Plenaries/Closing Session

32. Safe travels! See you in May!
Lunch and Departures
Safe travels! See you in May!

33. Thank you!
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