Fall Events🍁🍃
Year of Learning (with IEHROD)
For the 2026–27 academic year, CCRI invites faculty and staff to participate in the Year of Learning: a college-wide professional development experience designed to help us explore how
our Guiding Principles shape the way we lead, collaborate, innovate, and support student
success.
Student success isn't owned by one department, one initiative, or one person. It is
built through the everyday actions, decisions, and relationships of every employee
across the college. Throughout the year, we'll learn from one another, gain new perspectives
from higher education leaders, and discover practical ways to bring our Guiding Principles
to life in our daily work.
Learn more and find registration links
Maps Are For Everyone
Bring the power and possibilities of digital mapping to your classes. Learn how to
make maps with free, user-friendly, and powerful online software and data (ArcGIS
Online). Join Emily Burns and Renee Whitford, who will also introduce you to StoryMaps,
online presentations that allow you to combine searchable maps with text, photos,
video, and more. Find out how to design individual or collaborative mapping projects
for yourself and your students. You can make maps within one discipline or across
many; you can enhance students’ geographical literacy in any class by adding maps.
Come with ideas and we will help you map them.
Space is limited to 12 participants! Register now!
📆Monday, October 19
⏰3:00-4:15
📍Knight Campus, Room 2036
🌟Worth 4 CTE Knights Points
Register Here
Virtual Book Club: Opposite of Cheating by Gallant and Rettinger
📆 Thursdays, 10/15-11/12
⏰ 4– 5:30 PM
📍 Zoom
🌟 5 CTE Knights Points per session
Join us for an easy-going book club on The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI. Over five meetings, we will read and discuss this "positive and practical" book that
(provocatively) recognizes cheating as "normal and natural student behavior" and helps
educators reframe academic integrity as a pathway to intentional and authentic learning.
Register Here
Tenure and Promotion Writers Retreat
📆 Friday, October 30
⏰ 12 – 3 PM
📍 Knight Campus
Are you working on a tenure and/or promotion portfolio this semester? This retreat
will support you in structuring your evidence folders and writing your narratives.
A joint offering from CTE and the Tutoring & Writing Centers.
Register Here
A new year of points collection has begun!
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 each year 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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