A Call For Proposals - 2012 ATL Conference

Mark your calendars!

Assessment, Teaching and Learning Conference

Vancouver, WA

May 2-4, 2012

What will you share with your colleagues?

·         Innovative assessment strategies?

·         Use of open education resources?

·         Multiple delivery methods using instructional technology?

·         Research related to assessment, teaching and learning?

·         Professional development, or how you share best practices with your colleagues?

·         Transitioning students from precollege, ABE, and ESL programs into college-level courses?

·         Modularization, contextualization, integration, inverted models…so much going on the classrooms…

More Information here

Register for the 2nd Annual STEM Summit

Registration is now open for the second annual STEM Summit (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math): Integrating STEM into Today’s Classroom to Develop Tomorrow’s Leaders on Thursday, February 9th, and Friday, February 10th, 2012.

About the STEM Summit: This free two-day Summit will introduce you to industry’s perspective on STEM, emerging technology trends and jobs that require STEM graduates and  K-20 best practices in education focusing on innovative teaching and learning in STEM.  As attendees, you will be examining curriculum for incorporation of best practices in STEM teaching and learning.

This free event includes lunch and snacks, materials, and fun giveaways.

• Your educational colleagues will be sharing their strategies for incorporating STEM in the classroom
• Industry professionals from aerospace and advanced manufacturing, education, energy, and information and computing technology will highlight emerging technology and workforce trends.

For more info go to

http://www.coeforict.org/2011/11/2616/

Quality Matters Workshop

upcoming Quality Matters training.

When: Friday November 11 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Where: Pierce College Fort Steilacoom | Rainier Bldg 261

Who: Open to all interested full and part-time instructors from WA Community & Technical Colleges

Register Online & More Info: http://tinyurl.com/QMPierce

Hurry – Space is limited!

devEd Workshop Invitation

We’re hoping to have faculty, staff and administrators from community and technical colleges all around Washington to join us for a developmental education workshop—see initial details below:

Olympic College is interested in bringing Diego Navarro of the Academy for College Excellence at Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA to our campus for a two-day experiential workshop in January, 2012.  Mr. Navarro has visited Washington at least twice before:  November, 2010 at the Pre-College Conference in Bellevue, WA and again in February, 2011 at Bates Technical College for a Friday morning workshop experience.  We would like to open his presentation to faculty, staff, and administrators from other colleges.   We are considering either a full day on a Friday with a half day Saturday (or the other way around), in late January. 

Please reply directly to Mary Garguile, or Mary Ann Kelso,  to let them know of your interest.

Technology for Educators: Tools for Teachers

What:  Online Webinar; Technology for Educators: Tools for Teachers

When: Thursday, October 26^th, One PM Pacific

For Whom: Anyone is welcome

Part of a weekly series of presentations and live office hours offered by the Washington State eLearning Community, the presenter of this workshop, Sue Frantz of Highline Community College will provide participants with a handout covering approximately 50 primarily web-based tools useful to educators divided into 16 categories. Attendees will choose which tools they would like to see demonstrated. A few of the tools we may discuss are YouCanBook.Me (web scheduler), Dropbox (file management), JoinMe (share your desktop), and Socrative (turn any web-enabled device, including smartphones, into classroom clickers).  .

Please consider attending this session, regardless of whether you are a veteran online instructor, are just getting started, or are merely curious.

Log into the live Blackboard Collaborate Session on Thursday, using this link:

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.76B48BDDE3B7C6157740812A81FD70

This session will be recorded. The recording link is:

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/recording/playback/link/table/meeting?suid=M.1286F0C21FA258F7D83EE80B8FA025&sid=2008170

You will find links from previous sessions, a schedule of future sessions and more info at http://elearninginwa.blogspot.com

Please send questions and comments to elearn.wa@gmail.com

PCAEYC conference

Save The Date
Pre-Conference Institute prior to PCAEYC 2012 Conference: As A Teacher Grows
From Administrator to Innovator:
Transforming your program to support reflective teaching
A unique professional development offering guided by Margie Carter & Deb Curtis, authors, of The Visionary Director, with special guest speakers:
Christina Aubel, Puget Sound ESD, WA & Michael Koetje, Pierce College , WA
Peter Blair, Merage JCC Orange County, CA
Sarah Felstiner, Hilltop Children’s Center, WA
Kristie Norwood, Chicago Commons Child Development, IL

Wednesday, Feb 29, 3:00pm through Friday, March 2, 4:00pm

Seattle Airport Marriott 3201 South 176th, Seattle, WA, 98188 USA

From Administrator to Innovator will explore how leaders of early childhood programs can transform their organizations to be learning communities for children, families and teachers.

At this pre-conference institute you will:

• Be guided by Margie, Deb, and their Harvest Resources Associates to rethink your core values, organizational culture and professional development systems.
• Work in facilitated learning groups designed to demonstrate learning communities with the elements of a culture of inquiry and dialogue that generate reflective teaching and can be used in your center or ECE community.
• Hear stories from program leaders who transformed their centers to create intellectual vitality, collaborative relationships, and exemplary programs for children.
• Be offered optional study tour to Hilltop Children’s Center on Saturday to see reflective teaching in action (children will be present) and hear their journey to create collaborative engagement with families.

For Pre-Conference Institute Register at www.pcaeyc.org; $300 by Jan 15; $350 after that; limit 100 people; includes two lunches, one dinner; special hotel group rate $135/night.
Optional Saturday study tour to Hilltop Children’s Center, Seattle; limit 30 people;
Register at www.hilltopcc.com; $120 includes lunch; additional cost if transportation needed.

Pre-Conference Institute sponsored by PCAEYC Pierce County Association for the Education of Young Children Washington State

Help us celebrate ECEAP

Help us celebrate ECEAP’s 25th anniversary!

Help us celebrate 25 years of growing our future with the state Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP)! Join DEL and several special guest speakers for a reception.

When: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6

Where: State Capitol Building, Columbia Room

Children welcome!

Thank you to our sponsors: Washington Association of Head Start and ECEAP, Thrive by Five Washington, Lakeshore Learning Materials, Kaplan and Occasions.