From the experiences of SCC employees, we've created links to organizations, conferences and more that relate to professional learning and equity.
Vision Resource Center
The Vision Resource Center is an online learning and communication platform that offers all California community college employees equitable access to professional development opportunities and supports efforts to fulfill the goals outlined in the Vision for Success.
NCORE
NCORE® provides a significant forum for discussion and critical dialogue about race, ethnicity, and its intersections in higher education. This forum allows people and institutions to find effective strategies promoting access, social development, education, positive communication, and cross-cultural understanding in diverse settings. NCORE® hosts annual conferences and also has many resources including free webinars.
Washington Center at Evergreen
The Washington Center at Evergreen includes a Summer Institute and a Curriculum Planning Retreat. SCC has sent intentional teams to Evergreen a number of times.
The RP Group
SCC has regularly worked with the RP Group for intentional teamwork. The RP Group promotes excellence by using data and evidence to transform the lives of community college students. Sign up to receive newsletters and look for opportunities such as the Summer Institute.
Open For Antiracism Program
The Open for Antiracism (OFAR) program – co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons – emerged as a response to the growing awareness of structural racism in higher education.
Peralta Online Equity Training
The Peralta Equity Training is a professional development course. The Peralta DE Team created 8 training modules–one to address each rubric criterion–that follow the same pattern:Learn: Review what each criterion is, why it matters, and how to address it.Analyze: Explore a sample course element to determine which equity rubric criteria it addresses and to discuss how to make it better.Build: Create your own materials, activities, or course elements to address equity issues in your own courses.
Peralta Online Equity Rubric
The Peralta Equity Rubric is a research-based course (re)design evaluation instrument to help teachers make online course experiences more equitable for all students. The rubric’s criteria include: addressing students’ access to technology and different types of support (both academic and non-academic); increasing the visibility of the instructor’s commitment to inclusion; addressing common forms of bias (e.g., implicit bias, image and representation bias, interaction bias); helping students make connections (e.g., between course topics and their lives; with the other students); and following universal design for learning principles.
Center for Project-Based Learning
The Institute on Project-Based Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is the flagship offering of the WPI Center for Project-Based Learning—serving as a resource to promote and support efforts by colleges and universities looking to advance project-based learning on their campuses.
Skew the Script
Make Math What it Already is: Relevant. Skew the Script is committed to bringing relevant examples to use in the math, statistics and data science classroom.
CORA Learning
If you’re a faculty or an educational support staff interested in supporting the success of minoritized students in your class or on your campus, then these online courses are for you. There are many free webinars to access here and resources.
Hartnell Equity-minded Rubric for Service Areas
Like all CA community colleges, faculty at Hartnell College have been exploring ways to embed equity in their pedagogical practices. In 2019, with the OEI Course Design Rubric and the Peralta Online Equity Rubric in hand, the Student Success and Equity Committee began developing its own rubric for both online and f2f classroom instruction.
UT Center for Teaching & Learning
Checking for learning takes place throughout a course — before, during, and after instruction. Wherever these assessments occur, they yield information about learning that benefits both instructor and students.