Teaching, Learning, and Community

The mission of the Teaching, Learning, and Community Initiative is to promote excellence in teaching and learning across the entire college community of students, staff, faculty, and administration in an ongoing climate of growth and improvement.

TLC Professional Development Activities

 

2024 - 2025 On-Campus Activities & Professional Development: (currently in development, watch here for updates)
(watch for Outlook/email event invitations, and sign up ahead of event in the Vision Resource Center (VRC) for flex credit)

• Applications for 2024-2025 TTKLs and POPs are open!
• August 16, 2024 - Combined Faculty and Classified Retreat @ Indigney Reserve
• August 20, 2024 - New Employee Welcome (9:00am-2:00pm)
• August 21, 2024 - ISW (1pm-5pm) & Part-Time Inservice (5pm-8:30pm) (includes dinner @ 5pm for all)
• August 22, 2024 - All Campus In-Service, Division and Senate meetings
• August 23, 2024: Professional Development Day (8:30am-2:00pm); New Student Welcome Faculty Meet & Greet (2:00-3:00pm)
• Online Instruction - ongoing workshops and training with Ashli Bumgardner
• October 23 - Human Library Event (11am-2pm)
• January 8, 2025 - Part-Time Inservice (5pm-8:30pm) (includes dinner @ 5pm)
• January 9, 2025 - All Campus In-Service, Division and Senate meetings
• January 10, 2025 - Professional Development Day
• Teaching & Learning Summit - mid-Spring semester

Annual Conferences for Professional Development

These are some of the conferences our faculty and classified professionals have chosen to attend in past years, but your options are definitely not limited to these. We encourage you to work directly with your division manager for conferences directly related to your programs or discipline, but you are also welcome to indicate interest in attending a conference supported by TLC through the Student Success Proposal Form (pdf) to Mike Igoe at igoem@yosemite.edu).

• Chancellor's Office Pathways to Equity Conference  
• CCC LGBTQ+ Summit 
• NCORE ( National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education )
• Teaching Professor Annual Conference 
• EAB Connected Annual Conference (Starfish/Student Success) (link is to all EAB events page)

TLC Back Story

The idea for a Teaching Learning and Community Initiative was born at the Faculty Retreat at Baker Station in August 2017 with a clap of lightning and a boom of thunder (literally). The project is an outgrowth of the Academic Wellness Educators (AWE) legacy, which was a long-standing Columbia College group and vehicle to suggest and implement change that was ready to sunset. However, the energy for collaboration and improving student success was alive and well, and professional development was identified as a missing ingredient for achieving the College’s mission and vision. The TLC work began with a great kick-off event at the start of the Fall 2017 semester where an energized group of students, staff, faculty, and administrators generated ideas for the upcoming year. Since its inception, TLC has maintained a minimal, functional structure that allows the initiative to be responsive and flexible, and has become the hub of collective professional development activities at Columbia College. 

TLC Report 2023-2024

TLC Report 2022-2023 (in yccd sharepoint, log in required)

TLC Report Spring 2019- Spring 2020 (in yccd sharepoint, log in required)

TLC Report 2017-2018