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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning I sent an "Update and Invitation" e-mail about the STEM Communities of Practice (CoPs) to the STEM listserv, which, thanks to the efforts of many, many people ... now boasts over 400 STEM
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At SBCTC, we believe in faculty leadership and facilitating collaboration across the 34 CTCs. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore,
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Composed of lead facilitators and faculty leads, these amazing science educators are currently designing and facilitating rich and provocative learning experiences for their colleagues over the summer and they will continue into the fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the aid of the lead facilitators, I'm actively pursuing outside funding sources to sustain and strengthen this professional development model past COVID 19. Our goal is to focus even more intensely
on leaning into the complex inquiry process of a pivotal question: what does it means for STEM educators, for STEM education writ large, to
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please forward the information on to your STEM educators who are looking for community, resources, opportunities for collaboration across the system, <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">and
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The STEM Communities of Practice (CoPs) are faculty-driven learning collectives designed to support STEM educators as they create significant and equitable learning environments
for students during COVID-19 that, in the spirit of the </span><a href="http://bit.ly/SBCTCVISION"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">SBCTC Vision</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">,
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700">Faculty Learn Best from Other Faculty</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000">: Composed of full-time and adjunct faculty across the major STEM disciplines,
each CoP meets regularly to explore challenges and share successes. These meetings are not trainings or webinars; rather, they are collaborative spaces where practitioners learn from and with each other. Conversations cover a range of topics, including designing
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:700">Many Hands Make Light Work</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000">: It doesn't make sense for every instructor to work alone in isolation as they rethink
what </span><a href="http://bit.ly/2SEtUen"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; text-decoration:underline">Asao B. Inoue</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000"> calls "assessment ecologies." It's
so much work ... and entirely overwhelming when you are trying to teach and assess while designing curriculum at the same time! In the STEM CoPs, faculty work together to build and share open instructional resources via Canvas that faculty across the 34 CTCs
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400; font-style:italic">“This was a lifesaver when we were suddenly forced online. Thank you! I think the reason I keep going is a chance to share ideas across the colleges. It's worth
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400; font-style:italic">“I do really enjoy the community aspect of this. I think it's important that we are able to check in with others generally, and other biology instructors specifically.
I think all of us work really hard to create a community of learning for our students, and it is equally important that we create a community of learning and sharing among faculty. It's great to exchange ideas and content, but also just to touch base with
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">To join one or more of the STEM communities of practice, please contact Lori Crist at
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The Biology CoP is a collective of full and part-time (adjunct) faculty across the many biology subdisciplines. Our CoP meets regularly to discuss topics that change organically
based on what members want to discuss and have included assessment, lab development, engagement, and more. These meetings are not trainings or webinars – they are collaborative spaces where we learn from each other. In addition to regular discussions, we are
working together to create tangible resources to share. We are using the “many hands make light work” model to build and share tools that we can all use to authentically serve the students at our institutions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">We approach each meeting with an intentional focus on our faculty-developed Biology CoP Vision:
<i>To provide a supportive space for biology faculty to collaborate and share resources, with the goal of creating flexible, low-tech, high-impact learning experiences that meet the diverse needs of the students we serve.</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Feel free to contact any member of the leadership team with questions or to learn more: Bobbi Johnson (bjohnson@wvc.edu) or any of the faculty leads: Bryce Battisti (bbattisti@batestech.edu);
Barcin Acar (Barcin.acar@lwtech.edu); Suzanne Schladror (suzanne.schlador@seattlecolleges.edu); Lisa Carlson (lisa.carlson@centralia.edu); Katrina Fuller (kfuller@lcc.ctc.edu). </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">To join our CoP (please do!), contact Lori Crist at SBCTC (</span><a href="mailto:lcrist@sbctc.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">lcrist@sbctc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The Chemistry Community of Practice (CoP) supports faculty with shared online resources and discussions focused on (but not limited to) teaching remotely. We encourage sharing of
resources and practices for teaching chemistry, whether face-to-face or online. Our Canvas shell is a growing repository for assignments, with lots of room to grow! </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">We meet every two weeks, generally on the first Monday of the month and third or fourth Thursday of the month. Past discussion topics have included: assessment, teaching with an
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">We welcome your topics and ideas! Feel free to contact any member of the leadership team with questions or to learn more: Jennie Mayer (jennie.mayer@bellevuecollege.edu); Kalyn
Owens (kalyn.owens@seattlecolleges.edu); Suki Smaglik (ssmaglik@yvcc.edu); Anthony Smith (anthony.smith@wwcc.edu); Lee West (lwest@pierce.ctc.edu). </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The Computer Science Community of Practice (CS CoP) welcomes faculty, full-time and adjunct, who teach transfer and/or professional-technical courses in programming, information
technology, and data analytics. We also welcome program staff who support students in technology programs. The CS CoP meets virtually every two weeks to foster community sharing and discussions, including closing equity gaps in remote/online instruction, while
also building and sharing a repository of CS teaching and learning resources and student support practices. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Feel free to contact any member of the leadership team with questions or to learn more: Ken Hang (khang@greenriver.edu); Sharon Huitsing (shuitsing@pierce.ctc.edu).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">To join our CoP (please do!), contact Lori Crist at SBCTC (</span><a href="mailto:lcrist@sbctc.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">lcrist@sbctc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Welcome to the Engineering Community of Practice! </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">We are a collective of faculty from community colleges and universities from across Washington State dedicated to creating course content with racial equity as its forefront. Check
out our </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/engineering-communityofpractic/home"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">website</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">!</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">If you are interested in participating or just finding out more reach out to one of the faculty leads: Pat Burnett (pburnett@whatcom.edu); Albert Engel (albert.engel@seattlecolleges.edu);
Mohan Raj (</span><a href="mailto:mraj@cascadia.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">mraj@cascadia.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">To join, contact Lori Crist at SBCTC (</span><a href="mailto:lcrist@sbctc.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">lcrist@sbctc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The geoscience Community of Practice (CoP) was created so faculty could support one another in the sudden transition to online and in shifting curriculum towards racial equity by
creating community and sharing resources, techniques, and perspectives. The geosciences CoP is a wide array of geoscience domains including: Astronomy, Environmental Science, Geology, and Oceanography. We meet once a month as individual disciplines to investigate
subject-specific topics such as teaching labs and addressing field skills in an online environment. We also meet once a month as a larger geoscience community to talk about more general issues of assessment, racial equity and online instruction. In addition,
we have a rich and growing resource of activities and conversations on our Canvas site. This combination affords both expertise of individual domains and from a larger geoscience community perspective. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Interested to learn more? Contact: Kaatje Kraft (kkraft@whatcom.edu), Eric Baer (ebaer@highline.edu) or Anthony Smith (anthony.smith@wwcc.edu) for more details.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">To join our community, contact Lori Crist at SBCTC (lcrist@sbctc.edu)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Check out our
</span><a href="https://bit.ly/2UXsbTR"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">website</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">, which houses
information about coming virtual meetings for Washington CTC Math faculty, documents from previous meetings, and other resource documents. We also encourage you to join the
</span><a href="https://bit.ly/2UYlGQX"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">Math CTC listserv</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">,
which allows math faculty across the state to easily connect directly with each other and share ideas and issues. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Interested and want to learn more? Contact Laura Schueller with questions, concerns, or suggestions via e-mail at
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">This Community of Practice was created so Physics faculty could support one another in the sudden transition to online and in shifting curriculum towards racial equity by creating
community and sharing resources, techniques, and perspectives. We meet every other week on Tuesday mornings and talk about preset items and things that are on people’s minds at the moment. In addition, we have a rich and growing resource of curriculum and
conversations on our Canvas site. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Interested in learning more? Contact Kristine Washburn (kwashburn@everettcc.edu) Stephanie Bartlett, Shoreline (sbartlett@shoreline.edu), Mohan Raj (mraj@cascadia.edu), Anthony
White, Walla Walla (</span><a href="mailto:Anthony.Smith@wwcc.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">Anthony.Smith@wwcc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-weight:400">To join our community, contact Lori Crist at SBCTC (lcrist@sbctc.edu)</span></p>
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