[GuidedPathways] Instructional Deans and Department Chairs Take Note!

[Jennifer Whetham]

System Level Community of Practice (CoP)
for

Instructional Deans & Department Chairs

It’s NOT TOO LATE to Join Us for the 2nd Convening!

March 22, 2019 from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM
South Seattle College

Register Now<http://bit.ly/2TRDVEI>

Cost: $25

Calling Instructional Deans and Faculty Department Chairs . . .


·       Do you have a wisdom circle of people you trust among your peer group to turn to for problem solving and idea generating?

·       Are you interested in building a community of SBCTC Instructional Deans and Chairs who focus on support and continuous improvement for your role at your college?

·       Could you benefit from sharing ideas and seeking effective solutions to systemic problems of practice?
If these questions, and the potential they imply, excite you . . . Join your colleagues from around the system for inquiry into all of the above!
Link to Register and Pay
http://bit.ly/2TRDVEI



Cost

$25 (plus a small fee from EventBrite)

Hosting CoP Member
Thanks to Jill McDonough, Interim Associate Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic Programs
CoP Agenda

Pre-Arrival Homework
Purpose: We will collectively create a wisdom artifact for CoP members: “What I Wish I Knew Before I Started the Job.” Individual Task: Consider a significant lesson you learned the hard way in your role as a dean or department chair. Briefly write it out in a way you could read to others or allow others to read it and bring a copy to the CoP meeting.

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Double-confidentiality & norm setting
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM: “What’s Working” Leisure Greets
Purpose: This protocol will provide you with an opportunity to get to know other CoP participants, engage in meaningful dialogue, and get good ideas you can “steal.” Task: Share one thing you are doing in your role that is working well as you listen to the good work of others.
10:30 AM- 11:30 AM: “What I Wish I Knew Before I Started the Job”
During this session, we’ll share our homework and stories with each other in small groups (task), then collect them in a wisdom artifact to share our individual and collective knowledge (purpose).
11:30 AM to 2:00 PM: "Strengths Mapping"
Salad, sandwich, veggies, and water are provided as you engage in this activity. At the fall meeting, we learned there was a great deal of expertise in our CoP and participants wanted to “map” it so we know who to call in a crisis (purpose)! During this session, we’ll start to generate an inventory of our collective expertise (K-12, placement, faculty learning communities, etc.) (task).
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM: "Scenarios & Panel Discussion"
At the fall meeting, participants requested that we read and discuss scenarios (task) . . . and then hear from a panel of experienced deans/department chairs how they would handle the situation to learn from their hard-won experience (task).
3:00 PM to 3:30 PM: "Formative Assessment"
What’s Working? What’s Not Working? What Would You Like to Do at Our Next Meeting?
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[Title: SBCTC logo - Description: Compass]Jennifer Whetham (pronouns: she/her/hers)
Assessment, Teaching, and Learning
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
jwhetham at sbctc.edu<mailto:jwhetham at sbctc.edu> • o: 360-704-4354 • c: 206-310-1291
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“I’m not interested in the exceptions, only the patterns. As a culture, we (the U.S.) focus too much on exceptions, often fooling ourselves into believing that because there are exceptions, the rule no longer exists or that it’s easily broken by anyone with enough willpower or hutzpah.”

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