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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We know this is a very busy time for all of you, and we want to support you! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few time-sensitive pieces of information:</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Discipline-Specific Communities of Practice (CoPs) for STEM faculty</b></span></li><ul style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", "Avenir Next Condensed", sans-serif">
<li><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are currently forming discipline-specific communities of practice (CoPs). No one should have to reinvent the wheel: we can invent new solutions for these extraordinary times; we can
take solace in community; we can learn from and with each other.</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>STEM Faculty</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Sign up by filling out this '</span><a href="https://bit.ly/2JqAe5a" title="https://bit.ly/2JqAe5a" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
want to be in a CoP</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">!" survey.</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif"><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Online Chemistry Faculty Meeting TODAY at 11AM</b></span></li><ul style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", "Avenir Next Condensed", sans-serif;">
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chemistry faculty are meeting online today, Thursday April 2, at 11AM. This is their first meeting. We'll meet in
</span><a href="https://zoom.us/j/3948042446" title="https://zoom.us/j/3948042446"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jen Whetham's Zoom Room</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you who can't join us, this session will be recorded and posted to the Student Success Center
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19 Resources for Remote Teaching</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> page.</span></li><li>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Chemistry Faculty</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Add your name to the</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif;"><a href="https://bit.ly/33Te9p8" title="https://bit.ly/33Te9p8"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
list of chemistry faculty</span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>STEM "Lifeboat" Strategy Session TODAY at 1pm</b></span></li><ul style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", "Avenir Next Condensed", sans-serif">
<li><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Join us with the fabulous and wise Katrina Fuller, faculty from Lower Columbia, who will show us her Microbiology course online. This will show participants specific ideas and strategies
to get the first two weeks up and running, as well as how Katrina has designed her course, and finally, how she facilitates labs in her online course.</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">We'll meet in</span><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="https://zoom.us/j/3948042446" title="https://zoom.us/j/3948042446" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jen
Whetham's Zoom Room</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> at 1pm.</span><br>
</li><li><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Microbiology Faculty</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Add your name to the list of</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://bit.ly/39iSfwU" title="https://bit.ly/39iSfwU" style="margin: 0px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">microbiology
faculty</span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif"><br>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Franklin Gothic Medium, Avenir Next Condensed Medium, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Questions? Comments? Concerns? Please let me know at jwhetham@sbctc.edu</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Franklin Gothic Medium, Avenir Next Condensed Medium, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I appreciate all of you so much. We will get through this together!</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Franklin Gothic Medium, Avenir Next Condensed Medium, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PS-- Here are the Recordings and Resources from the
</span><a href="https://bit.ly/3dyEWeR" title="https://bit.ly/3dyEWeR"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Lifeboat" Strategy Sessions</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></font></div>
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