Conference Schedule

The dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism are attacking our communities, but they are not attacking what community colleges do best - a strength that we must leverage now, more than ever - our localness. Responding to exposed inequities in educational and other systems will require community colleges to intensify efforts aimed at building equitable and inclusive communities. New forms of collaboration with employers, transfer institutions, and other community organizations will be necessary to help students and communities recover and thrive post-COVID. Participants will learn about new data analytics that colleges can use to understand local and regional supply/demand gaps, disaggregated by student populations, and then hear how one college has worked over multiple years to increase social and economic mobility and community recovery and vitality. Participants will gain new insights for how they and their colleges can assess needs and opportunities to mount similar efforts in their communities.

Now more than ever, rural colleges must prepare students for careers that pay family sustaining wages in today’s digital economy. Join this spotlight to hear from leaders at two rural Achieving the Dream colleges share how their institutions’ innovative programs and community partnerships are improving students’ pathways to sustainable local careers. Patrick Henry Community College in southern Virginia has become the state’s hub in preparing students to contribute to “The Internet of Things.” Similarly, Motlow State Community College in Middle Tennessee has become a leader in virtual reality. Participants will also learn about the work seven new, rural Achieving the Dream Network colleges are embarking upon to “Build Resiliency in Rural Communities for the Future of Work” through supporting economic mobility in the digital economy for their students and the vitality of their communities.

Sponsored by Starfish by Hobsons.

Chair Yoga - Grab your chair, get up and stretch! This session will include gentle breathing and stretching exercises to combat the effects of sitting. No yoga mats, sweat, floor work, or change of clothes needed.
 

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In the 30 minutes innovative collaborative sessions, our sponsor companies and ATD College Network Members will co-present best practices and case studies on how they have successfully worked together to improve student success.

In the 30 minutes innovative collaborative sessions, our sponsor companies and ATD College Network Members will co-present best practices and case studies on how they have successfully worked together to improve student success.

Like all institutions across the country, North Carolina’s community colleges have faced unprecedented challenges since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted higher education in March of this year. But these institutions have risen to the occasion to ensure student success and create learning environments that promote equity among students.

Susan Barbitta, executive director of NC Student Success Center, will lead a panel discussion focused on how the Center is supporting the urgent need to scale quality online instruction and strategies for achieving success for all students through faculty development in evidence-based teaching practices. The panel will include perspectives of college leaders and faculty sharing their experience implementing the faculty development programs. During the conversation, the panelists will also share early-stage faculty impact data.

Learning Objectives/Session Outcomes:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Develop a plan for supporting student success through a focus on faculty.
• Have a model for engaging a Success Center to support faculty development initiatives.

Today’s students will be graduating into a world that is ever more interconnected. One in ten Americans is foreign born, and local communities—urban, suburban, and rural—are growing more diverse. To take advantage of global market opportunities, companies want employees with the knowledge and skills to work across cultures. Therefore, faculty teaching in career and technical education (CTE) pathways must prepare their students to compete, connect, and cooperate on an international scale. In this session, Davidson Community College will share their efforts to internationalize programs and provide opportunities for all students to gain employability skills needed for success in a global economy. We will also share a new project to create professional development materials for CTE faculty to assist in the internationalization of their courses. Some initial tools from the project, available for free, will examined.

DREAM Labs are designed to offer practical tips and strategies for implementing different aspects of student success redesign. Attendees will learn and engage with new tools that they can immediately apply to their own work.

An investment in building culturally responsive teaching environments requires structural changes to the curriculum. This workshop will introduce NYU Steinhardt’s Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecard as a tool for faculty to take a deep look into the content of the curriculum to critically analyze whose knowledge the texts' privilege, and how different groups are being represented. The scorecard looks at a few dimensions of the curriculum including 1) Representation, 2) Social Justice and 3) Instructor’s Materials. Attendees will leave with an action plan that will include short and long-term changes that they can make to their curriculum that will validate their student’s cultural funds of knowledge and activate their culturally-bound prior knowledge.

Supporting students holistically is not by happenstance. Rather, deep supports to students is championed by the institution to the extent that student support practices are institutionalized and reflected in job descriptions and guiding principles that shape expectations around student support. In this lab, we will explore two such documents that help to frame a culture grounded in student success as well as emphasizing that sentiment within the Success Coach job role.

Innovative community partnerships can nurture learning and completion of all students and cultivate future citizens who build thriving and equitable communities. David Treuer, Pushcart Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author, will reflect on Imagining and Making Native Futures, followed by two community college leaders who will highlight how their colleges are leveraging their role as anchors in the community to build pathways to bright futures for their students. The session will end with a facilitated discussion between the speakers.

Sponsored by Ocelot Bot.

It’s time for the Best Virtual Game Show Ever! In this interactive game show experience your host Rob Ferre, GSP (Game Show Person) will have you engage in two games that will bring your game show dreams to life. You battle as we play "Name that TV Theme Song" from a variety of decades. Next we will play the Quiz Show where you will team up with other participants to test your knowledge of dreamy songs, movies, and more! Get ready to have fun, get out of your seats for an interactive experience you won't forget!

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The work described in this session was inspired, in part, by our campus-wide Equity Imperative, under which NECC is striving to close achievement gaps, dismantle barriers to success, and understand the systems, structures, and processes that disadvantage our students from minority and traditionally-underserved populations.  As will be described, we are using data on student outcomes to highlight where gaps exist and then providing that data along with professional development to faculty and staff to help them identify practices and strategies for minimizing and closing those gaps.  

3:00 to 3:20 pm
Welcome and Remarks from ATD Leadership

3:20 to 3:30
Break

3:30 to 4:00 pm
Team Time: Aligning Student Success Initiatives and discuss Student Success Inventory results including initiatives underway at your college. 

4:05 to 4:50 pm
Team Time: Reflecting on DREAM Experience with a focus on plenary sessions: "Leveraging Our Localness" and "Economic Mobility in the Age of Smart Machines"

4:50 to 5:00 pm
Closing Remarks and Next Steps

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Rural Colleges Cohort: Aligning Your Student Success Initiatives

3:00 pm – 3:20 pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks from ATD Leadership

3:20 pm – 4:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions

• 2020 Cohort: Gearing up to Create Your Action Plan
• TCAT: State Convening: Enrollment & Retention Goals
• Rural Colleges Cohort: Aligning Student Success Initiatives and Communications

4:05 pm – 4:50 pm
Concurrent Sessions

• 2020 Cohort: Team Time: Getting Your Team Organized to Create Your Action Plan
• TCAT: State Convening: Peer-to-Peer College Meetings
• Rural Colleges Cohort: Review of Grant Deliverables: Evaluation & Reporting·

4:50 pm – 5:00 pm
Closing Remarks and Next Steps

Do you want to strengthen learning, teaching and student success on your campus? ATD is ready to help. Building on new research demonstrating the power of high impact professional development, ATD has developed new tools and services that you can use to achieve your goals. This session highlights the new ATD publication, The Teaching and Learning Toolkit, a research-based guide to building a culture of teaching and learning excellence. Built on a proven framework for high impact professional learning, the Toolkit offers an abundance of campus case studies and hands-on tools for strengthening professional development on your campus. Addressing the challenge of the current moment, the Toolkit includes a special section on adapting to COVID and responding to growing interest in inclusive and culturally responsive pedagogies. Releasing the Toolkit in September 2020, ATD has launched new services, engaging and supporting college teams from across the country in a shared conversation about the strategies and structures needed for sustained improvement and transformational change.

Since we cannot change what we don’t effectively understand, transformative change at any institution requires a thorough understanding of the current “as is” state. Join us for a session to learn about the flexibility of process mapping and how it can be used with various data to highlight gaps in the student experience that could be contributing to loss points. Participants will have the opportunity to plan the scope of their own process map and to explore the data points that will illuminate their current state and have the most impact on their student success design.

In this session we plan to discuss how Coursedog’s Curriculum Success Platform helps Blue Ridge Community College (BRCC) achieve the following: 

1. Increase degree velocity by aligning and improving curricular processes. 
2. Gain cost efficiencies resulting from obtaining a curricular success platform (ROI) and working with one vendor.
3. Find a solution flexible enough to accommodate any existing business process and that can grow with campus over time. 

Coursedog enables our institutional partners, like BRCC, to make informed, strategic decisions around curriculum management, positively impacting student outcomes. 

Coordinated by Coursedog.

Across the country, mental health needs were already rising before the collective and personal trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic and the increasingly volatile racial division in America. Currently, colleges are seeing unprecedented needs as students deal with stay-at-home orders, caretaking, and loss. In this session, we will discuss strategies to provide mental health support, and ways to shift these services to a more holistic focus on mind and body, wellness, and prevention, in addition to counseling services. Two of our Network Colleges, Institute for American Indian Arts and Rowan College South Jersey- Cumberland, will share their current service models and some of the strategies they use to build support across the college and reach students.

In partnership with the Every Learner Everywhere network, ATD Leader Colleges have successfully integrated adaptive courseware into gateway courses to improve student outcomes. Faculty and administrators from these colleges will share their stories of using adaptive courseware to meet their students where they are and of collecting data on student perspectives and course outcomes for continuous improvement. Their experiences demonstrate the value of examining disaggregated student outcome data to understand the impact of changes in course design and implementation practices on different student groups. We will share impact data analyzed by Digital Promise, faculty insights, and student perspectives on the positive effects of implementing this active and adaptive approach to teaching and learning.

Colleges across the ATD network are moving the needle on student success through renewed attention to teaching and learning. This workshop will guide participants through ATD’s four cornerstones for building a culture of teaching and learning excellence. We will share ATD’s new Teaching & Learning Toolkit as a key resource, along with case studies from ATD colleges that exemplify these excellence cornerstones. Participants will learn about the importance of promising practices like open, digital, and culturally-responsive pedagogy; about the essential role of collaborative partnerships between faculty and Student Affairs professionals; and about the need to center high-impact professional learning programs to support educators as they work to foster student learning and success. This session is ideal for faculty, faculty developers, Department Chairs, Deans, and Academic Affairs leaders with responsibility for building institutional capacity in teaching and learning.