Flex Day

Join us on campus if you can, we'd love to see you in-person. The folks who attend in person will be treated to a delicious on-site breakfast and an unlimited supply of caffeinated beverages (coffee). Raffle prizes abound! Please REGISTER so we have plenty of food for you!

Capped at 25 participants. The AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course trains participants to provide first aid, CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC). The AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for their job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements, or anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting. Participants who complete this course will receive their CPR certification card.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Identify framing in terms of assets vs framing through deficits. Switch out deficit framing for framing in terms of assets. Explore the implications of framing for syllabi, assignments, and assessments.

Do you want to have a voice in shaping the College’s institutional priorities, which not only provide direction to all other College activities and plans, but also inform resource allocation? SPARC representatives will offer an overview of the strategic planning process currently underway. Workshop participants will be weighing in on a set of draft goals for the 2023-2028 Education Master Plan (EMP), and will be brainstorming strategies for each goal. The new EMP will provide the framework for initiatives and work plans that will be considered through Comprehensive Program Review (CPR) and Annual Resource Requests (ARRs) over the next five years.

What do grades really measure, anyway? Do traditional grading practices foster inequity? Have you heard the chatter about grading for equity, ungrading, or alternative grading practices? Come to explore some options you can try on a smaller scale, such as the single point rubric, mastery grading, or emphasizing feedback. Bring your laptop and ideas to share with your colleagues.

Learn about and experience Intergroup Dialogue, a form of communication that encourages understanding across differences to build affective self-other relationships through personal storytelling and sharing, empathic listening, and interpersonal inquiry. In this workshop, participants will explore gender bias and socialization in an experiential exercise, engage in open and constructive dialogue in a facilitated setting, and consider collaborative actions for social change and social justice.

Wondering what the Early Alert System is all about and how it can help students? Join this workshop to learn more about how it works, how it integrates with both Canvas & Salesforce, and most importantly how you can use early alert to support our students. During this workshop, participants will dive in and work with the Early Alert system to create alerts, claim alerts, and become familiar with the early alert process.

Expand your assessment repertoire and flip the script! Let your students shine and demonstrate learning through student-centered assessments. Join our instructional designers and colleagues across the district for an interactive, hands-on session. You will come away with concrete strategies and ideas to further your thinking about assessment. To maximize the benefit of our time together, bring an assessment to work on from one of your courses!

This workshop will provide an overview of where male students of color lay within the SMCCD District, dive into an activity that will help stakeholders develop skill base when building rapport with MSOC, and close out with a student panel where faculty can hear male students of color's experience navigating community college during distance learning. The California Community College Chancellor’s Office equity report identified Male students of color (MSOC) as a disproportionately impacted subgroup with adverse degree completion rates. According to the Chancellor’s Office, “disproportionate impact is a condition where some students’ access to key resources and supports, and ultimately, their academic success may be hampered by inequitable practices, policies and approaches to student support.”

Do you coordinate course level assessment for your program? Then this workshop is for YOU! Improve (formerly Tracdat) was upgraded. Among its many benefits: faster navigation within the platform, side-by-side viewing of information needed to complete question fields, and eventually Canvas integration for importing and filtering of results when needed, including for ISLO assessment. Long term, this new platform will be a one-stop shop where you can engage in both SLO assessment and program review. Please note that this workshop is for SLO coordinators with Improve user accounts. If you need an account, consult with your dean and current SLO coordinator(s) for approval.

Do you have a deep interest or passion? Poetry? Board games? Science? Have you thought about how to use that to connect with students outside of the classroom? Consider coming to this workshop to learn about being a club advisor at Skyline; requirements, commitments, and enrichment. Stay to build community with student life staff and other potential advisors on how to better support club life on campus and our student leaders. We have been waiting for you.

Intended Audience: Faculty, Staff, Administrators, and anyone who likes to groove Combining the energy and grittiness of urban dance with fitness, U-Jam is a cardio dance experience that feels more like a 90's House Party than a workout. U-Jam brings funky, adrenaline-based beats from around the world with easy-to-follow choreography, so everyone, everywhere can get their Jam on.

This workshop will introduce participants to the California Community Colleges Zero Textbook Cost degree & certificate pathways vision. We'll look at what it takes to build a ZTC pathway, including who and what needs to be involved in the process. Finally, we'll examine local faculty and student data to inform next steps, identify potential pathways, and discuss how we can set faculty, departments, programs, and students up for success. This workshop is for new and seasoned/experienced ZTC & OER faculty and supporting team members.

AFT presents this workshop to inform our faculty members of the new contract that went into agreement in May, 2021. There are some brand-new features that we won--the workload point system for full-time faculty, written pay parity goals for part-time faculty, a fair investigation process and more. Come to this workshop to learn more about what is in the new contract and how it impacts you and your colleagues.

Do you want to have a voice in shaping the College’s institutional priorities, which not only provide direction to all other College activities and plans, but also inform resource allocation? SPARC representatives will offer an overview of the strategic planning process currently underway. Workshop participants will be weighing in on a set of draft goals for the 2023-2028 Education Master Plan (EMP), and will be brainstorming strategies for each goal. The new EMP will provide the framework for initiatives and work plans that will be considered through Comprehensive Program Review (CPR) and Annual Resource Requests (ARRs) over the next five years.

sorry cancelled due to rain... We have 10 targets on campus so we can allow 20 participants in this session. So relieve some stress, meet fellow staff and faculty and improve your hand eye coordination at the same time.

Guess what's new! Skyline College has a HyFlex classroom with some new bells and whistles. What's HyFlex? Hybrid Flexible, or HyFlex is an instructional approach that gives students the option of attending in-person or online. In today's climate, institutions must prioritize flexible, accessible learning constructs to retain student enrollment and HyFlex may be a way to do that. In this session participants will have the opportunity to role play as students in a HyFlex classroom to see firsthand the experiences of students in the HyFlex modality. To participate actively in this session, you will need to BYOD (bring your own device). The device can be a laptop, smartphone, I-pad, etc. The device will need to have the capability to connect to Zoom during the simulation. At the end of the simulation, participants will discuss their thoughts about the experience and the possibilities and challenges of the HyFlex modality. In this session participants will have the opportunity to role play as students in a HyFlex classroom to see firsthand the experiences of students in the HyFlex modality. To participate actively in this session, you will need to BYOD (bring your own device). The device can be a laptop, smartphone, I-pad, etc. The device will need to have the capability to connect to Zoom during the simulation. At the end of the simulation, participants will discuss their thoughts about the experience and the possibilities and challenges of the HyFlex modality.

Participants in this workshop are invited to explore cross-discipline collaboration opportunities. In this discussion and brain-storming style session, we will take time to get to know one another, share our curriculum, and explore where our lessons overlap, parallel, and hold possibilities for collaborative planning that supports student success. All college faculty are invited to think outside the box and engage in robust discussion designed to break down discipline silos and manifest collaborative teaching and learning experiences for students.

Stress is detrimental to productivity and personal health. This session highlights the sources of stress and teaches practical solutions for maintaining composure in stressful situations. Learn effective stress reducers that have short and long term benefits.

Join us for a high-level demonstration and discussion about our updated teaching and learning spaces throughout the district.

San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD) is developing the District’s first comprehensive climate action plan. As a key sustainability stakeholder on campus, you’re invited to participate in a “Climate Action Plan Design” meeting. The meeting will be hosted by the Office of Sustainability and Brailsford & Dunlavey (B&D), the consulting firm supporting climate action plan development. This meeting is scheduled for one-hour, but the Office of Sustainability and B&D will be available for an additional 30-minutes, post-meeting, to wrap up discussion and questions.

In this hour-and-a-half interactive workshop, you’ll learn how we calculate your CalSTRS monthly retirement benefit, the options you can choose if you want to provide a lifetime monthly benefit to your survivors, and how each option would affect your monthly benefit. The options you can choose if you want to provide a lifetime monthly benefit to your survivors—and how each option would affect your monthly benefit. Your choices for receiving the funds in your Defined Benefit Supplement account, if you have one. Ways to submit your Service Retirement Application. What you need to know if you return to work in the California public school system in retirement. For a more personalized understanding of the information covered, bring your most recent Retirement Progress Report, which you can print from your myCalSTRS account.

Learn about important information and resources that are critical to supporting our foster youth students. Students with experience in the foster care system often have unique needs, and as a result, the state has developed several programs and resources targeting this vulnerable student population. While these efforts are valuable, equally valuable is ensuring that staff and faculty are educated on how to work effectively with foster youth students and refer them to the available supports. This training will provide tips for bringing a trauma-informed lens to interactions with students who have experience in foster care, providing effective support regardless of your role on the campus, and an update on all the newest policies in place to help these students be successful.