What's Possible with DSPS 101
Welcome Back Week: What's Possible?
Disabled Student Programs & Services (DSPS) is a wealth of people and resources that support students. What is DSPS? Who do they serve and how do they serve? What is the role of faculty/staff in this process? How can you help connect students to utilize their services?
Best suited for all new and recent employees/faculty and anyone who needs a refresher on how DSPS serves students.
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Organization: Disabled Students Programs And Services. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Zoom Meeting Link (if applicable): https://glendale-edu.zoom.us/j/85942591168. Categories: FLEX, CPGU. Internal Presenter(s) [including yourself, if applicable]: Rita Zobayan, Diana Carrillo, and Tracey Ziegler. Which campus is your event taking place? Verdugo.
Monday, August 25, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Administration Building 217, Zoom.
Invitation to Team Internships
Welcome Back Week,
In this one-hour informational workshop, participants will learn about GCC's Team Internship Program (INT 51) and be invited to join our Community of Practice in the Fall semester. Mini-interactions will introduce participants to Human-centered Design Thinking as a framework for solving real-world problems and invite brainstorming and networking opportunities to help build capacity to continue to grow this innovative program. Success stories will be shared to highlight how this program helps our students engage in career exploration as they develop professional skills and build their resume.
Organization: Title V. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Zoom Meeting Link (if applicable): https://glendale-edu.zoom.us/j/88232514741. Categories: FLEX. Internal Presenter(s) [including yourself, if applicable]: Rachel Ridgway & Cynthia Vazquez. Which campus is your event taking place? Verdugo.
Monday, August 25, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Administration Building 217.
What Do I Do and When?
Welcome Back Week: What's Possible?
In the classroom, there are situations with students that leave us wondering, "What do I do?" This scenario-based session will grapple with questions, such as:
How do I approach a student about the support of being registered with Disabled Students Programs & Services (DSPS)?
, What do I do if a student tells me they have a disability?
, What happens if a student keeps interrupting me/walking around the room?
, How do I give meaningful classroom instructions?
, When is the situation not a DSPS issue?
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Audience: Classroom Faculty,
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Organization: Disabled Students Programs And Services. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Categories: FLEX. Internal Presenter(s) [including yourself, if applicable]: Rita Zobayan, Dr. Maryam Hassani Golyak, and Danielle Kennelly Hussain. Which campus is your event taking place? Verdugo.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Administration Building 217.
Incorporating Bite-Sized Research Components for Student Success and Engagement
Flex Week Fall 2025, Wednesday, August 26 at 10am- 11am in LB 313
Incorporating Bite-Sized Research Components for Student Success and Engagement
In this hands-on workshop, you will apply some best practices to building student engagement and to maximizing student success through incorporating research components into your class or assignment.
Learn how to adapt and contextualize (a) research exercise(s) to learning outcomes
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Identify and incorporate relevant databases/resources to create a more impactful experience for your students .
Organization: Professional Development. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Categories: FLEX. Which campus is your event taking place? Verdugo.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Library Building 313*.
Perusall 1.3 - Digital Reading Tool
GCC now has an institutional license to use Perusall 1.3! This means that your students and staff can collaboratively annotate readings, images, videos, websites, and more for free! In this workshop, we will explore the latest update (Perusall 1.3) including how to activate it in your Canvas course shell, how to import content, how to set-up assignments in the newest interface, and considerations for building assignments.
All levels of user are welcome from first-time users to super-users. Bring your own Canvas course shells as time will be reserved for setting-up your own Perusall assignments as well as answering questions and troubleshooting. .
Organization: Professional Development. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Zoom Meeting Link (if applicable): edu.zoom.us/j/87033115565?pwd=MjOHHzcjuO8Ovr6kz31PzQQStBDwaX.1. Categories: FLEX, GLOW UP.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom.
Boost Student Skills with Niche Academy
Join your GCC Librarian Aisha as we introduce Niche Academy—your new secret weapon for creating engaging, high-quality tutorials. Learn how to use Niche Academy's ready-to-use tutorials that are not only fun but also incredibly easy to share! Learn how you can embed Niche Academy directly into your Canvas courses or simply share a link with your students. Say goodbye to the hassle of creating content from scratch and hello to more time for what you do best—teaching!
Organization: Professional Development. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Zoom Meeting Link (if applicable): https://glendale-edu.zoom.us/j/83213636271?pwd=NyB8K1IbuukQOEMDtLqUDWogPEiAHZ.1. Categories: FLEX, GLOW UP.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
ChatGPT Ate My Homework: Using AI Ethically
AI isn’t going away—so let’s learn how to use it without losing our minds (or our students’ originality). We consider ethical and effective ways to use AI tools for brainstorming, drafting, and critique. Keep creativity human, assignments meaningful, and plagiarism off the menu.
Organization: Professional Development. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Zoom Meeting Link (if applicable): https://glendale-edu.zoom.us/j/81738032903. Categories: FLEX. Internal Presenter(s) [including yourself, if applicable]: Shant Shahoian, Sangita Dube.
Thursday, August 28, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM.
Zoom.
Universal Design for Learning 101
Welcome Back Week: What's Possible?
What is UDL and how can you implement it? Learn more about how UDL benefits everyone, not just students with disabilities, and how you can make simple, effective changes to make your class more accessible.
Audience: Teaching Faculty.
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Organization: Disabled Students Programs And Services. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Zoom Meeting Link (if applicable): https://glendale-edu.zoom.us/j/81746155941. Categories: FLEX. Internal Presenter(s) [including yourself, if applicable]: Rita Zobayan, Janelle Qamaruzzaman, and Rogelio Ramirez. Which campus is your event taking place? Verdugo.
Thursday, August 28, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Administration Building 217, Zoom.
Invitation to Team Internships
Welcome Back Week,
In this one-hour informational workshop, participants will learn about GCC's Team Internship Program (INT 51) and be invited to join our Community of Practice in the Fall semester. Mini-interactions will introduce participants to Human-centered Design Thinking as a framework for solving real-world problems and invite brainstorming and networking opportunities to help build capacity to continue to grow this innovative program. Success stories will be shared to highlight how this program helps our students engage in career exploration as they develop professional skills and build their resume.
Organization: Title V. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Zoom Meeting Link (if applicable): https://glendale-edu.zoom.us/j/88232514741. Categories: FLEX. Internal Presenter(s) [including yourself, if applicable]: Rachel Ridgway & Cynthia Vazquez. Which campus is your event taking place? Verdugo.
Thursday, August 28, 2025, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM.
Administration Building 217.
Teaching Exchange: A new way to do flex
Welcome Back Week: Teaching Exchange!
Draft of the description: This year, you have the opportunity to participate in a teaching exchange program. In the exchange, you'll be paired with other faculty and going through a progression of exchanges including finding new practices to try out, and visits or exchanges with each others' teaching situation (online or in person!). This information session will help you understand the program and if it is a fit for you! The second half will be an orientation if you decide to commit to the program. This form has all of the information you need to sign up and find out about what the program entails. In the program, you can earn up to 18 hours of flex in a semester!
Organization: Faculty Development. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Zoom Meeting Link (if applicable): https://glendale-edu.zoom.us/meetings/88348949947/invitations?signature=6J2CNOnSvkoFeqKHvU7iZxEME2D8AuEDwlFHLW_TeeY. Categories: FLEX.
Friday, August 29, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM.
Zoom.
Behind the Canvas Curtain
Welcome Back Week: What's possible with Canvas?
Ever wondered what fellow instructors are doing inside their Canvas course shells? Do you think it would be useful to peek inside a colleague’s Canvas course design to see what is working, and solutions have been developed? In this session, “Behind the Canvas Curtain,” Wendy Fonarow will share her Canvas portal to offer a behind-the-scenes tour of her dashboard and a course shell, sharing the techniques she is current using to making her courses compelling to students and instructor alike.
If you want to learn how to customize your class “card” on your Canvas dashboard or see how icons and visual themes can be used to help organize a class, come to this remote live session. The goal: to inspire at least one practical idea by exposing how one of your colleagues brings her online courses to life.
Organization: Professional Development. Primary Professional Development Focus Area: Engaging Students. Zoom Meeting Link (if applicable): https://glendale-edu.zoom.us/j/83869910446. Categories: FLEX, GLOW UP.
Friday, August 29, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Zoom.