Moving Beyond "Studenting" Making Thinking Visible in Your Classroom
About This Series:
Online synchronous workshops for faculty to discuss engagement strategies, share best practices, and learn alongside your colleagues
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Each participant receives a free copy of Building Thinking Classrooms by Peter Liljedahl as our shared text
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Peer discussion and idea-sharing your experiences are part of the conversation using strategies outlined in the book
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Practical strategies ready to try in your teaching
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See the Full Book Building Thinking Classrooms in the GCC Library at this Library Permalink.
Organization: Faculty Development. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Categories: FLEX. Zoom Invite Link (if applicable): https://glendale-edu.zoom.us/j/86574624616.
Monday, May 18, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Zoom.
Team Internships: Final Presentations
We invite all faculty and staff to join us for our Team Internships Final Presentations, where student teams share their solutions to a real business challenge. Your constructive yet supportive feedback helps students strengthen their communication, problem-solving, and professional readiness as they act as consultants for local partners. This is a meaningful way to champion student growth, see the program in action, and contribute your expertise to an experience that blends classroom learning with real-world impact. After the presentations, you’ll also have the opportunity to network with students and learn more about what they gained from the program. More information about the program is available at www.glendale.edu/teaminternships.
Organization: Title V. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Categories: FLEX. Internal Presenter(s) [including yourself, if applicable]: students enrolled in the program. Which campus is your event taking place? Verdugo.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
Administration Building 217.
Design Research across Art and Science
Over the past decade, Aroussiak Gabrielian has developed a series of speculative design research projects operating at the intersection of art and science to interrogate the position of the human within an increasingly unstable planetary future. Working across landscape architecture, media arts, and experimental biodesign, her work stages intimate encounters between human bodies and landscape matter—soil, plants, water, atmosphere—through installations, living systems, and spatial prototypes. These projects unsettle extractive habits while cultivating new modes of attention, reciprocity, and care. Through installations, rituals, and experimental spatial practices, Gabrielian advances design as a form of research that not only shapes environments but also produces knowledge about the complex entanglements between human and more-than-human worlds. This lecture presents recent creative works, writings, and applied research, examining how speculative design and expanded media—when positioned between artistic…
Organization: Science Lecture Series. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Categories: PD Credit Pending Approval. Which campus is your event taking place? Verdugo. Please list External Presenter: Aroussiak Gabrielian, Ph.D.
Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Cimmarusti Science Center 177.