Spring 2026
Winter Workshop 2026
📆Thursday, January 15, 2026
⏰8:30 - 3:00
📍Knight 4090 and Zoom
🌟Worth 12 CTE Knights Points
Feeling overwhelmed by the process of making your course fully Title II/ADA/WCAG 2.1
AA compliant? I hear you! This is a large project for pretty much everyone in higher
education. Thankfully, we have quite a few people at CCRI who are prepared to help
you remediate your content so we can meet the April 24, 2026 deadline together.
Join us at Winter Workshop on January 15, 2026 on the Knight Campus or Zoom to learn more about Title II/ADA requirements, work on your content, and get live,
one-on-one support as needed! This event will feature significant blocks of time for
you to do the work of ensuring your content is accessible according to the WCAG 2.1
AA guidelines. Please plan to bring what you need to focus and do the work for your
courses. This includes, but is not limited to:
- A fully charged laptop
- Headphones
- Comfy clothes
- Your favorite mug and/or water bottle
- Notepads and pen
- Course notes and resources.
Beverages, snacks, and lunch will be provided for in-person participants. At the event you’ll earn
12 CTE Knights points and be supported as you make meaningful progress toward 100%
compliance.
Prizes will be awarded to individuals and departments for work done at Winter Workshop! Get
your colleagues together to win one of the department prizes!
Registration closes on Wednesday, December 31, 2025.
Register for Winter Workshop
Writers' Retreat 2026
📆Wednesday, January 7, 2026 and Thursday, January 8, 2026
⏰9:00 - 3:00
📍Knight Campus Library
🌟Worth 12 CTE Knights Points
Are you working on a book manuscript, journal article, creative writing project, grant
application, teaching and learning conference paper, or other writing project? Are
you working on developing a syllabus for a new course or updating one for an existing
course? Are you preparing your portfolio for Promotion and Tenure and need to write
a narrative about your time at CCRI? Would you like to set aside two days dedicated
to starting, improving, or even finishing this project?
The Tutoring and Writing Centers and The Center for Teaching Excellence are sponsoring
a Faculty and Staff Writers’ Retreat. The retreat is open to any faculty or staff
member working on a writing project.
The retreat will provide a structured opportunity for you to further your writing
project. You will participate in small group planning and goal setting sessions, have
ample time and inspirational space for independent work, and have access to a variety
of consultants. Altogether, participants will spend up to 12 hours on their writing
projects. Throughout the retreat, staff will be available to provide consultation
and targeted assistance.
Please register by Friday, January 3rd
Register here
Faculty Fellow events on SoTL
Karen Kortz, CTE's Faculty Fellow on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) will be offering workshops and
a Faculty Learning Community for the last semester.
Workshops:
Introduction to SoTL?
📆Monday, 2/2/26
⏰2:30-3:00
or
📆Tuesday, 2/3/26
⏰9:15-9:45
📍Zoom
🌟Worth 2 CTE Knights Points
This short 30-minute workshop will introduce the concepts of the Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning (SoTL). It is designed for faculty who want to learn the basics and those
who are deciding if they want to engage in SoTL further.
SoTL Workshop
📆Friday, 2/27/26
⏰9:30-11:30
📍Zoom
🌟Worth 6 CTE Knights Points
This 2-hour workshop will describe the concepts of the Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning (SoTL) and give faculty time to discuss their own ideas for projects. It
is designed for faculty who want to learn strategies and gain advice to engage in
SoTL further.
Register for Workshops Here
SoTL Support Group FLC
📆⏰Wednesdays, 2:30-4:00
or
📆⏰Thursday, 12:30-2:00
📍Zoom
🌟Worth 15 CTE Knights Points
Do you have an ongoing SoTL project or plans to start one? Join this group to have
the support of peers and be held accountable for continuing your work. Over five meetings
we will set goals and deadlines, share ideas, and support each other in our SoTL projects.
You will leave with a SoTL project or progress report to present at the CTE Spring
Symposium and elsewhere and a network of peers at CCRI who are interested in SoTL.
Register for FLC Here
Don't forget, you can fill out an Implementation Plan if you want to use anything you learn from any professional development in your classes
for 4 CTE Knights points.
You have until Spring Symposium in May to earn 35 points for a Green Level Certificate
or 70 points for a Gold Level Certificate!
Disaggregated Data Requests
In February 2022, I (Rachel) was able to see my course data for General Psychology
(a course I have taught many times here at CCRI) disaggregated by race and ethnicity.
The results were surprising and difficult for me to face. Despite that, I’m very glad that I did it, and I’m looking forward to trying some
new strategies in my courses to try to close the equity gaps I found.
If you’d like to check out your own course data, request a meeting to get started.
This is a confidential process and is for your professional development only. Results
are not shared with chairs, deans, or the VPAA.
Request a Meeting
The Center for Teaching Excellence is a collaborative, faculty-led community that
supports continuous development and champions high-impact, equitable teaching and
learning practices for our diverse student body.
We Listen and Learn
We Respond and Lead
We Recognize and Reward
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