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The Office of Professional Development in collaboration with Title V—Gateway to Success and Guided Pathways presents Fall 2021 Teaching & Learning Series
Welcome
Our goal is to provide our ELAC family with
workshops on self-regulated, active, research-
based principles for building inclusive communities
and teaching to increase student learning as well
as developing a first-gen mindset. In addition, T&L
Series workshops consider how information about
who our students are and how they are performing
can be used to ensure their success.
Workshop themes:
Adapting into a 21st Century Instructor
Ensuring Equity and Inclusion
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Our Community of Practice (CoP)
Our CoP offers a forum to discuss and collaborate on best teaching practices. What holds the CoP
together is the passion, commitment, and the collective experience of its members. We welcome
all members of the ELAC community to join our CoP. Because we have a holistic approach to
education, we value the voices and input of all campus constituents and friends.
4pm-5pm on October 21
The purpose of our CoP is: The intention of our CoP is:
• to develop the members’ capabilities. • to develop a campus-wide plan to
• to exchange knowledge. create a community of support.
• to build expertise. • to identify professional development needs.
• to offer suggestions for workshops.
• to develop a lab of innovative and student-
centered strategies to ensure student success.
For more information about the Community of Practice, contact Nora Zepeda: zepedans@elac.edu
Happy Chats
Grab your favorite late afternoon beverage and join us for an informal chat on teaching, learning,
best practices, and tech tools.
4pm-5pm on September 16 and November 18
Workshop Schedule at a Glance
September
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 2 3
6 Labor Day 7 8 9 10 Data: Making
the Case for
Equity in STEM
13 14 15 Applying Growth 16 17 The Learning Pit
Mindset and
Community
Cultural Wealth
20 21 22 23 24 Culture Matters
27 28 29 30
October
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 Take the Next
Step with OER
4 5 6 7 Strategies Toward 8
an Anti-Racist
Classroom
11 12 13 14 15 Identities in STEM
18 19 20 Creating Engaging 21 22
and Interactive
Course Materials
25 26 27 28 29
November
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 2 Reflect, Respond, 3 4 5
and Resolve
8 9 10 11 Veteran’s Day 12
15 16 17 18 19 Leveraging
Students’ Capital
in STEM
22 23 24 25 Thanksgiving 26
29 30
Happy Chats CoP Meeting
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Workshops
September
Date & Time Title & Description Presenters
Friday, Data: Making the Case for Equity in STEM Raymond
September 10 Not all students experience our STEM classes in the same way. In this Oropeza
workshop, participants will engage in discussions on the importance of
10:30-12 Lilit Haroyan
equity issues in STEM, equity gaps in success and retention in STEM fields,
and resources for accessing equity data. Participants also will explore
teaching and learning strategies to improve equity in student outcomes. Steve
Reynolds
Wednesday, Applying Growth Mindset and Community Cultural Mandy
September 15 Wealth: Models to Increase Student Equity Kronbeck
Participants will explore the equity gaps that exist at our college and learn
10:30-12 Arpi
how asset-minded practices can help close those equity gaps. The two
theoretical models, Community Cultural Wealth and Growth Mindset, will be Festekjian
considered to examine how they can be applied to our teaching and services
to foster student success. Participants will discuss effective ways to adopt an
appreciative lens when working and creating classroom or office environments
that support students as individuals with cultural capital and growth potential.
Friday, The Learning Pit: Fostering Independent Learning through Elena Tinker
September 17 Facilitation, Cognitive Strategies, and Wise Feedback Diaz
Teachers light the way and welcome students into their disciplines, but they
10:00-11:30
cannot and should not be the sole source of illumination in the classroom.
This workshop will explore how to foster independent learners through
normalizing struggle and offering goal-oriented feedback. Participants will
examine how these approaches of supporting students through cognitive
as well as facilitation strategies can be applied to their own practice.
Friday, Culture Matters: How to Support Culturally Responsive Teaching Rokeya
September 24 This workshop will examine how to foster culturally sensitive teaching and Rahman
to understand students through the lens of the cultural contexts that they
11-12:30
bring into the classroom. Since culturally responsive teaching practices
strengthen student-teacher relationships and bridge the cultural and
equity gaps, it is imperative to cultivate this practice into our curriculum
and instruction. Therefore, this workshop will create space to analyze
and reflect on our own teaching methods and identify several effective
strategies to create and support culturally sensitive teaching pedagogy.
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To R.S.V.P or for more information, please visit
https://bit.ly/Teaching-Learning-Series
October
Date & Time Title & Description Presenters
Friday, Take the Next Step with OER Mandy
October 1 This workshop is for those who are ready to take the next step forward in Concoff
Kronbeck
utilizing OER in a course. Participants will learn about the 5 R Permissions of
10:30-12
OER (Retain, Revise, Reuse, Remix, and Redistribute) and Creative Commons
licensing rules. Participants also will have the opportunity to either search Krishana
for OER materials or begin adopting OER in a course. Those who wish to Hodgson-
DeSilva
start adopting materials should have a Canvas development shell to
work with and an OER that they would like to use for the first time.
Nick
Barkawitz
Thursday, Strategies Toward an Anti-Racist Classroom Lorena
October 7 There is a continued need to create space for faculty to discuss, reflect, and Madrigal
create informed and intentional change that will challenge the racism that
10-11:30 Mandy
exists within education. To that end, participants will be introduced to anti-
racist principles and teaching practices as presented in Ibram X Kendi’s Kronbeck
How to be an Antiracist, Bettina Love’s We Want to Do More Than Survive, and
Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize Raeanna
the Creative Classroom. In a collaborative and supportive space, participants Gleason
will be encouraged to reimagine their role within the classroom as well as
the assignments and methods of assessment they incorporate into their
coursework so that they may begin to create their own anti-racist classroom.
Friday, Identities in STEM: Overcoming Stereotype Threat Arpi
October 15 and Cultivating Possible Selves Festekjian
This workshop will address the importance of STEM identity in success for
10:30-12 Emily
traditionally marginalized student populations. Depictions of scientists
in the media and the STEM classroom, messages conveying race- or Haddad
gender-based limitations, and past experiences with stereotypes can
limit STEM identity formation in students from underrepresented minority
backgrounds. Tenuous STEM identity can heighten feelings of stereotype
threat and lead to deleterious effects on student success in the STEM
classroom. Yet practices such as incorporating “scientist spotlights” into
curricula have proven to increase students’ success in STEM courses and
their likelihood of entering STEM career fields. This workshop will cover
classroom strategies to encourage and cultivate students’ perception
of their possible selves as scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.
Wednesday, Creating Engaging and Interactive Course Materials Diler Yuksel
October 20 In the past year, we have all experienced how important it is to create appealing
course materials to motivate students and keep them engaged. Whether you are
12-1:30
teaching online, hybrid, or face-to-face, your course materials should be highly
responsive to stimulate involvement. This workshop will help participants create
interactive presentations, motivating and engaging videos, and fun content to
connect with students on the device that they never put down, their phones.
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Workshops
November
Date & Time Title & Description Presenters
Tuesday, Reflect, Respond, and Resolve: Finding Common Felipe
November 2 Ground on Race, Religion and Politics Agredano
This workshop will examine how to build trust and connection when
12:15-1:30
discussing high- stakes topics such as politics, race, and religion.
Participants will explore how to build broad coalitions among diverse
individuals and find common ground within any discipline, field, or
community to lead to positive, mutually beneficial outcomes.
Friday, Leveraging Students’ Capital to Maximize their Persistence and Success in STEM Nohelia
November 19 This workshop will explore two asset-minded theoretical frameworks that Canales
STEM professionals can use to see dramatic gains in student persistence
10:30-12 Raymond
and success in STEM. Using Dr. Tara Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth
model, this workshop will take an appreciative lens and focus on the Oropeza
extensive strengths - or capital - that students possess and bring into their
STEM journey. In addition, Dr. Carol Dweck’s Growth Mindset theory will be
discussed as a way to reframe STEM professionals’ communication and
feedback. Recognizing students’ capital and STEM professionals having a
growth mindset about students’ abilities can unlock students’ potential,
especially among students of color who are traditionally marginalized in STEM
fields. The workshop will include meaningful interactions and pedagogical
activities that are culturally affirming for traditionally marginalized student
populations, with the goal of increasing their retention and success in STEM.
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To R.S.V.P or for more information, please visit
https://bit.ly/Teaching-Learning-Series
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Meet the Speakers
Felipe Agredano
Felipe Agredano holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Chicana/o Studies from
UC Berkeley and a M.A. in Theological Studies from Harvard University. Felipe provides professional
consulting to a diverse number of corporate and nonprofit boards, private, public, and government
organizations where he has facilitated discussions on high conflict and resolution topics like race,
politics, and religion. Felipe has over 20 years of experience in working with fast paced, high-
stakes environments from executive level negotiations to broad coalitions in diverse sectors of
education, government, business, corporations, and faith communities.
Nick Barkawitz
As a product of multiple area community colleges and universities, Nick is continually grateful and
excited to have an opportunity to teach at an institution like ELAC. Nick’s main interest is integrating
elements of the current media landscape into the composition classroom to meet students while
simultaneously imparting and supporting interdisciplinary academic skills. From OER to teaching
via social media platforms, Nick works with the emerging technologies that are quickly changing
our already dynamic learning environment.
Nohelia Canales
Nohelia Canales is an educator-scientist and social justice leader who teaches full-time in ELAC’S
Life Sciences Department. She strives to decolonize science education and create transformative,
affirming learning spaces for students where they recognize their inherent brilliance and capacity
for success in science. She is an NIH/NIGMS MARC Program scholar, earning her B.S. in Biology &
Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University and her M.S. in Tumor Biology at Mayo Clinic Graduate
School. As a biomedical research scientist, Nohelia has studied and presented research in
endocrine physiology & hypertension, the role of cell adhesion molecules, cancer immunology, and
the role of transcription factor NF-B in cancer. Nohelia has received various awards/recognition
including AACR’s Scholar in Cancer Research Award, NIH/NIGMS MARC Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, MS.
Foundation’s Woman of the Year, and selection as one of the Top 21 Young Feminists for the 21st
Century in MS. Magazine’s 25th Anniversary issue.
Arpi Festekjian
Arpi Festekjian has been a professor of Psychology since 2010 and a Guided Pathways Facilitator
since 2018. As a first-generation college student with a bi-cultural identity, she sees herself in the
students she serves and is committed to their success- both in the classroom and through the
college-wide redesign of Guided Pathways. Arpi strongly believes that a transformational change
in the way we teach and deliver services to students is central to closing equity gaps. Her interests
include Growth Mindset, Community Cultural Wealth, collegiality, and data-informed decision-
making.
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Raeanna Gleason
Raeanna Gleason is a professor of English, the Director of the Delloro Transfer Program in Social
Justice, and an Equity Lead. Her experience as both a community college graduate and former
community organizer informs her deep investment in advocating for social justice, community
empowerment, and equitable educational access now as a professor. Raeanna has participated
in the Community of Practice Summer T &L Series, served as a Student Success Advocate, and
presented a wide range of workshops for ELAC’s campus community.
Emily Haddad
Emily Haddad is an assistant professor in the Anthropology, Geography, and Geology Department,
teaching Geology and Earth Science. She earned a B.A. in government from Harvard University
and Ph.D. in organic geochemistry and paleoecology from the University of California, Riverside,
where she studied mass extinction and ancient environments. Emily decided she was going to
be a paleontologist when she was 5 years old but was dissuaded from pursuing a STEM degree
as an undergrad, until encouraging professors and family prompted her to return to her original
passion. She is now an advocate for breaking stereotypes in STEM and creating more inclusive
STEM classrooms at ELAC.
Lilit Haroyan
Lilit Haroyan teaches Physics and Astronomy at ELAC. She earned her M.S degree in Physics at
Yerevan State University, Armenia, and further continued her research in Max Planck Institute for
Radioastronomy, Germany, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy. Her postgraduate
studies in Astroparticle Physics with specific focus on nuclear interactions have been published
and presented internationally. Lilit heartily accepts the motto, “I cannot teach anybody anything,
I can only make them think” (Socrates), and she strives to see it acted upon more rapidly and
systematically.
Krishana Hodgson-DeSilva
Krishana Hodgson-DeSilva is from London, England where she earned bachelor’s in English
Literature from Roehampton University of Surrey. She earned her master’s from Cal State LA. Since
2014, Krishana has been teaching at East Los Angeles College in the English Department. Krishana
focuses on creating an engaging and interactive learning environment by emphasizing student-
to-student based learning, “learn by practice,” and technological tools to address different types
of student learning styles. Krishana also uses a variety of multi-media to connect with her students
and to humanize her classes.
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Meet the Speakers
Mandy Kronbeck
Mandy Kronbeck has been teaching English at ELAC since 2010 and is currently co-chair of ELAC’s
OER Taskforce. She believes in helping students in any way she can, including through promoting
Growth Mindset, equity through anti-racist practices, ZTC (Zero Textbook Cost), and OER (Open
Educational Resources). Mandy’s other interests and endeavors on campus include online
teaching, global awareness, the International Students program, and Safe Zone (creating safe
spaces for LGBTQ+ and Undocumented students).
Lorena Madrigal
Lorena Madrigal has been teaching English at ELAC since 2016, including for the Latina Completion
and Transfer Academy that aims to address equity issues experienced by our Latina students.
Having grown up taking various community and academic classes at ELAC, she understands the
experience that many of our first-generation, immigrant, and English-learning students face and
uses this understanding to inform her teaching.
Raymond Oropeza
Raymond Oropeza teaches Anatomy and Physiology at ELAC. He earned his B.S. in Biology and
his M.S. in Biology at Cal Poly Pomona, where he studied membrane transport proteins using
electrophysiological techniques. He is passionate about STEM teaching and learning techniques
and student-centered learning. Outside the classroom, he works with the Professional Development
Committee to advance professional development opportunities. Raymond also is a doctoral
student in Educational Leadership at Cal State Fullerton.
Rokeya Rahman
Rokeya Rahman is an associate professor in the department of Child, Family, and Education
Studies at ELAC. She has worked closely with children and families for more than fifteen years
as a pre-school teacher, site program supervisor, site director, and instructional coach. Besides
teaching classes, she presents parenting trainings and workshops throughout California for large
and small groups of teachers, students, and conference attendees. Rokeya also is a frequent
facilitator for the ELAC campus community with such workshops as “Creating Classroom
Community,” “Student-Centered Classroom: How to Implement the Student’s Perspective,” and “Six
Success Factors”. Additionally, Rokeya offers soft-skills training, child development workshops, and
parenting classes for ELAC students and for the local community. Rokeya earned her A.A. from LA
City College, her B.A. and M.S.S. from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh as well as a master’s from Cal
State Northridge.
8Steve Reynolds
Steve Reynolds is Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences and oversees Math and Sciences Departments.
He joined the Husky family in 2019, three months before the pandemic hit. He has a passion for
student success and comes to us with 24 years of community college teaching experience with
students from diverse backgrounds.
Elena Tinker Diaz
Elena Tinker Diaz is an associate professor of English. With over fifteen years teaching experience,
Elena uses her time as a language arts teacher at both the middle school and high school levels
as well as her work developing ELAC’s English Supplemental Instruction program to inform her
understanding of how to promote student-to-student interaction and independent learning
while also fostering meaningful connections with course content. Since 2019, Elena has worked
with ELAC’s Professional Development Department to organize and facilitate the Teaching and
Learning Workshop series and the Summer Academy.
Diler Yuksel
Diler Yuksel implements needs analysis to create learner-centered face-to-face, blended, and
distance learning content using tools such as Canvas, Flipgrid, Kahoot, Canvas Studio, Microsoft
Office, Camtasia, Articulate Storyline, and Adobe Captivate. Additionally, she designs courses using
micro and macro learning materials to meet established objectives, to connect with her learners,
to foster a growth mindset, and to innovate. Diler also has expert knowledge and certification in
learning theory and uses these extensively while developing engaging content and materials.
9Office of Professional Development Open to all faculty & staff
The Office of Professional Development is To sign up for an appointment, please go to:
committed to providing faculty, staff and https://elacpd.appointlet.com
administrators opportunities for improvement
that enhance and support student learning We are offering trouble-shooting
and student success, as well as encourage assistance on the following topics:
innovation and professional growth. • Zoom • SIS Portal
• Basic Canvas • FLEX Q&A
• Office 365 • Vision Resource Center
For more information:
http://bit.ly/ElacProDev
Title V - Gateway to Success
Grant Objectives:
• Improve academic practices and retention.
• Develop new capacities for groups
of faculty and students.
• Develop curriculum to train faculty that
introduces best practices and teaching
strategies, and improves rates of completion.
• Train faculty coaches and peer-to-peer
counselors in coaching methods that will
cultivate a “student” identity among poorly-
prepared, high-need, first-generation students.
ELAC encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. For more
information on workshops and for disability accommodation requests, please contact the Office
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