September 2024 Report
During September 2024, The Teaching Center:
Scheduled, promoted, moderated, and updated The Teaching Center’s data tracking of attendance for 14 professional development sessions.
This includes promoting sessions from TBR HIPs Ambassadors. 21 PD sessions were promoted during September.
The Teaching Center helped NSCC employees complete 873.58 hours of professional learning through The Teaching Center during the 2024-2025 academic year, which includes:
- 393.48 hours – Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices professional learning.
- 786.48 hours of professional learning emphasizing Learning.
- 611.98 hours of professional learning emphasizing Equity Driven.
- 701.08 hours of professional learning emphasizing Accountability.
- 627.48 hours of professional learning emphasizing Data-Informed.
- 802.58 hours of professional learning emphasizing Student-Centered.
Moderated 2 professional learning communities (PLCs) for fall 2024.
The Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg ended in September. 23 employees engaged in this PLC.
The second PLC is focused on The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace by Gary Chapman and Paul White and is using data from Nashville State’s College Engagement Survey from fall 2023 and spring 2024 to inform the learning process.
The Teaching Center fellows updated The Teaching Center’s website with professional learning opportunities and resources.
The Teaching Center fellows updated The Teaching Center’s Professional Development Library with recordings of professional learning sessions.
The Teaching Center served as cohort advisor for NSCC’s first ACUE Effective Online Teaching Practices (EOTP) cohort. The cohort is completing the first module this week, and 5 cohort members have earned the ACUE EOTP Course Badge for Creating a Productive Online Learning Environment.
The Teaching Center fellows began planning for Spring into Success Professional Learning Conference, which will be held January 13 – 16, 2024. The call for session proposals for this conference will be sent in October to the college community.
The Teaching Center has led NSCC employees in 9,469.04 hours of professional development since August 2019, including 5,163.04 hours focused on Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices (CRTP.)