Agenda for Professional Development Day

Friday, October 21, 2022

All-Campus Breakfast

Time: 8:30-9 a.m.
Format: In person, Building 8, Mount Townsend
Target audience: Faculty and staff

*Morning Welcome: The Importance of Personal and Professional Development

Theme: Taking care of ourselves, so we can take care of each other, so that we can do our best work to take care of the college.
Time: 9-10 a.m.
Format: In person, Building 8, Mount Townsend
Target audience: Faculty and staff

*Morning Breakout Sessions

Time: 10:30-11:45 a.m.
Format: In person and Zoom
Target audience: Faculty and staff
Description and Learning Outcomes: see individual Morning Breakout sessions

Lunch

Time: 11:45 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
Location: Building 8, Mount Townsend will be set up for campus to each lunch together in community.
Description: Either bring your lunch or get food from a food truck located on the west side of Building 8.

*Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Time: 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Format: In person and Zoom
Target audience: Faculty and staff
Description and Learning Outcomes: see individual Afternoon Breakout sessions

*Faculty Advising Workshops

Time: 2:30-3:15 p.m.
Location: In person and Zoom
Target audience: Faculty
Description and Learning Outcomes: see individual Faculty Advising workshops

Afternoon Social- Connecting with Colleagues

Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Location: Building 8, Room Mt. Townsend
Target audience: Staff and Faculty
Description: An opportunity to share what you have learned today with your colleagues over coffee, tea and cookies.

* Part-Time faculty may request a stipend for all events/ activities with an asterisk. Please complete the Adjunct Faculty Stipend Request form to request a stipend(s).

2021 Schedule

Agenda for Professional Development Day

Friday, October 15, 2021

Listening and Engagement Session with Equity First Strategic Planning Team

Time: 9:00am-10:30am
Format: Zoom Meeting
Target audience: Faculty and staff

Morning Breakout Sessions

Time: 11:00am-12:15pm
Format: Zoom Meeting
Target audience: Faculty and staff
Description and Learning Outcomes: see individual breakout sessions

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Time: 1:15pm-2:30pm
Format: Zoom Meeting
Target audience: Faculty and staff
Description and Learning Outcomes: see individual breakout sessions

2020 Schedule

Friday October 23rd, 2020

Accreditation Report and Campus Wide Celebration

Time: 9:00am-10:00am
Format: Zoom Meeting
Target audience: Faculty and staff

Morning Breakout Sessions

Time: 10:30am-11:45am
Format: Zoom Meeting
Target audience: Faculty and staff
Description and Learning Outcomes: see individual breakout sessions

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Time: 12:45pm-2:00pm
Format: Zoom Meeting
Target audience: Faculty and staff
Description and Learning Outcomes: see individual breakout sessions

Why are our equity gaps persisting and how do we use Guided Pathways to address these gaps?

Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Format: Zoom Meeting
Target audience: Faculty and staff
Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the why in our equity gaps
• As an institution, learn to systematically listen and respond to our students
• Identify the quantitative and qualitative data we need in order to understand our students experiences
• Identify opportunities to participate and engage with Guided Pathways

2019 Schedule

Friday October 18th, 2019

All Campus Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 9 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9 a.m. – 9:10 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8

Keynote Speaker- Matt Remle

Decolonizing Education: Roles, Responsibilities and Reclaiming

“Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back to the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading makes sense.” Vine Deloria Jr

Since time immemorial, Native peoples throughout the Makoche Waste (North America) had their own unique and specific ways in which to educate future generations in the ways of their Tribe. By following specific roles and responsibilities, and understanding that each individual carried unique responsibilities, the entire community was involved in the educating of youth. The primary goal of this education was to help one in understanding their interconnectedness and relatedness to all creation. This traditional practice was disrupted, and nearly eradicated, with the introduction of the Indian Boarding Schools. Today, Native peoples seek to reclaim traditional languages, ways of learning and returning to fulfillment of roles and responsibilities.

9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8

Concurrent Workshop Sessions #1

Workshops will be posted by the second week of fall quarter.
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.
Schedule

Lunch

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8

Concurrent Workshop Sessions #2*

Workshops will be posted by the second week of fall quarter.
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Schedule

*Division/Department activities may follow directly after PDD sessions

Optional Social Events – Your family is welcome to attend

Karaoke Jam (Faculty, staff and family welcome)*

*If you would like to bring a favorite sweet treat to share, please do!
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Bldg 7

3 on 3 Basketball Fundraising Tournament (CANCELED)

All proceeds will be for Highline Special Olympic
More Information
4 p.m. – 11 p.m. (or, sooner)
Gym

Keynote Speaker: Matt Remle

Video

Matt Remle (Lakota) lives in Duwamish Territory – Seattle, WA with his family. He is the editor and writer for Last Real Indians and works for the Office Of Native Education for the Marysville School District.

Matt is the author of Seattle’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day resolution, Seattle’s resolution calling on Congress to engage in reconciliation with Tribes over the Boarding School Era policies, Seattle’s resolution to oppose the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and Seattle’s ordinance to divest from Wells Fargo. He’s currently serving on the City of Seattle’s stakeholders committee to establish a public bank and serves on Seattle’s Green New Deal Steering Committee.

He is the co-founder of the group Mazaska Talks which focuses on global divestment from banks and corporations that negatively impact social welfare and the environment.

In 2014, Remle was awarded Seattle’s Individual Human Rights Leader award. In 2017, he was awarded the National Indian Education Association’s Educator of the Year, The Billy Frank Jr. Natural Resource Protection Award and was named one of Seattle’s Most Influential People.

Photo credit Matika Wilbur

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2018 Schedule

Friday, October 19, 2018

All Campus Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 9 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8

Opening Remarks and Short Keynote by Luis Ortega

9 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8

All-campus workshop with Luis Ortega

9:40 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8

Concurrent Workshop Sessions #1

Workshops will be posted by the second week of fall quarter.
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Bldgs TBD

Lunch

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8

Concurrent Workshop Sessions #2*

Workshops will be posted by the second week of fall quarter.
1:40 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Bldgs TBD

*Division/Department activities may follow directly after PDD sessions

Workshop with Luis Ortega

Title:

Our Space: The Power of Stories to Build Intentional Communities

Description:

Join Luis Ortega, founder and director of Storytellers for Change, as he delivers an engaging and empowering presentation and workshop about the power of stories to bring people together, promote empathy, and build more inclusive and equitable communities. Through a combination of experiential learning activities and short stories, Luis invites audiences to reflect on three narratives that shape the culture of institutions and communities as well as our sense of identity. These are the Stories of Self, Us, and Now. By reflecting on these narratives, we realize the stories we choose to share, individually and as a society, have the power to both close or widen empathy gaps, to promote understanding or indifference. This is why a central theme of this presentation and workshop will be the crucial need to create and sustain intentional spaces of belonging and connection–where storytelling and story-listening become acts of hope, courage, and justice.

Biography:

Luis Ortega is a TEDx Speaker, storyteller, social impact consultant, artist, social entrepreneur, and the founder and director of Storytellers for Change.

Over the last thirteen years, Luis has worked with organizations, school districts, foundations, and universities to help them apply storytelling as a strategic approach to build more inclusive and equitable programs and systems. Some of his work has included developing youth leadership programs for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center, establishing the Leadership Without Borders Center at the University of Washington, and designing storytelling trainings for ArtPlace America, the School-Based Health Alliance, and Arcora Foundation.

Luis is also the producer of the mini-documentaries series First Gen Students: Change Starts With Your Story. His work has been featured in HBO’s “Where Do You Exist?” as well as the No Blueprint and Beyond the Surface podcasts. Luis also currently serves in the Advisory Board of SOAR and as the Leadership Development Advisor for SAYA, an environmental consulting group in Mexico City.

All of his work is driven by a passion to promote social justice through storytelling.

Learn more about Luis Ortega’s work with the podcast mini-series, “Where Do You Exist?” and “First Gen Grads” mini documentary series.

Keynote Speaker

Date: Friday, October 20, 2017

Featured Guest: Lee Mun Wah

Video: Lee Mun Wah – Welcome Highline video

Title: “The World is All Around Us- Creating a Culturally-Responsive and Sustainable College Community”

So often, staff and administrators want to have a ‘culturally responsive’ school community, but are stuck in trying to answer some very familiar questions, “Have we created a school atmosphere where every student and staff member is seen and valued? Are we doing all we can to recruit and retain culturally-diverse students and staff? What if I am part of the problem?”

These and many other questions will be answered in this dynamic interactive session about what it will take to create a truly multicultural school community. Through personal stories, diversity exercises, role-play, and other experiential modalities, we will explore both the ways we have become mired as well as what is still needed to truly make use of the cultural richness inherent in the gifts and contributions of our students, staff, administrators, and faculty. We will openly discuss what makes it safe and unsafe for our diverse staff and students to truly be ‘themselves’ and what they leave at the door each and every day and why.

It’s time we move beyond the simplicity of thinking that diversity awareness can only be expressed through our foods, costumes and dances, to understanding that it is our spiritual, emotional and traditional differences that are the untold and uncharted territory begging to be honored, valued and integrated into our classrooms, schools and workplaces. We need to develop a relationship with each other by taking the time to hear each other’s journey and learning about the myriad of perspectives that we each bring to the table–perspectives that are not only precious, but essential, if we each are to truly feel ‘seen and valued’.

Participants will learn to:

• Create a community that retains and recruits diverse students and staff that feel validated, supported and embraced for their uniqueness.
• Align racial differences through understanding how they can affect relationships, communication and behaviors.
• Listen and respond to personal experiences from a cultural perspective.
• Develop ways to respond compassionately and openly about diversity issues.
• Practice working with conflict and hurt when diversity issues are involved.
• Create a sense of community through dialogue and stories.

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