December 2023 Report 

December 2023 Report 

During fall 2023, The Teaching Center: 

Scheduled, promoted, moderated, and updated The Teaching Center’s data tracking of attendance for 83 professional development sessions. 

This includes scheduling, promoting, and moderating the Access Center’s seminar offerings throughout the fall semester. 

The Teaching Center promoted additional free professional development opportunities from groups outside of NSCC, including TBR, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Achieving the Dream, The Assessment Institute, and more.  

Hosted the TBR HIPS Regional Drive-In for Middle Tennessee on October 24. 

• 50 attendees from across Middle Tennessee Community Colleges and TCATS attended. 
• 19 attendees were from Nashville State Community College. 

Helped NSCC employees complete 1,024.58 hours of professional learning through The Teaching Center, which includes:  

• 685.42 hours – Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices professional learning.  

• 644.78 hours of professional learning emphasizing Learning.  

• 482.53 hours of professional learning emphasizing Equity Driven.  

• 446.35 hours of professional learning emphasizing Accountability.  

• 319.05 hours of professional learning emphasizing Data-Informed.  

• 751.92 hours of professional learning emphasizing Student-Centered. 

Offered 2 professional learning communities (PLCs). 

One PLC was focused on Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, and the second was focused on Sorry, No English by Craig Storti. 

Clarified the definitions, presenter expectations, and audience expectations for different professional learning session types.  

Created the professional development library that is easily searchable within our website.  

Created and distributed a weekly newsletter promoting professional learning to all faculty and to chairs of Administrative Assembly and Staff Assembly to share with their constituencies.  

Collaborated with IR to create a forever link to the NSCC TILT Survey.  

With the forever link, the NSCC TILT Survey is now available for 5-week term classes, 7-week term classes, and summer term.  

The forever link also allows for course developers to include the NSCC TILT Survey link within their master shells.  

Focused on engaging faculty in presenting professional learning through The Teaching Center. 

• In fall 2023, 24 faculty led professional learning through The Teaching Center. 

• During New Year, New Horizons: Empowering Educators in January 2024, 31 faculty are scheduled to present professional learning.  

Ongoing work: 

• The Teaching Center is facilitating an ACUE Effective Teaching Practices cohort with 24 faculty.  

• The Teaching Center proposed options for continuing NSCC’s collaboration with ACUE in 2024-2025 through the ACUE Effective Online Teaching Practices cohort or the “Fostering a Culture of Belonging” micro-credential cohorts.  

• Applications for faculty fellows for 2024-2026 were sent to all full-time faculty in October. Fellows have encouraged faculty to apply during monthly school and campus meetings. The application deadline is January 29, 2024. 

• New Year, New Horizons: Empowering Educators professional learning conference will be held January 5 – 11, 2024.  

• The conference schedule was emailed to all faculty on December 4. 

• A description of the conference and link to the schedule were included in The Voice for November and will be included in the December issue.  

• The Teaching Center’s website has pages created for the schedule, conference description, and daily schedules (F, M, T, W, and R).  

• Each session is clearly identified by session type with link to the definition of the session type, audience expectations, and community guidelines.  

• The Teaching Center is planning multiple PLCs for faculty this spring, including a PLC focused on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and a PLC focused on Liz Wiseman’s book, Impact Players: How to take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact. The Teaching Center fellows will be engaging in a PLC focused on Adam Grant’s Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things.  

• The Teaching Center has led NSCC employees in 7,316.18 hours of professional development since August 2019, including 3,958.31 hours focused on Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices (CRTP.)