TCCTA Media Library
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Webinar with PowerNotes
Hosted by TCCTA
Posted April 13, 2022
PowerNotes is a cross-disciplinary digital reading & research platform that is built to help students enhance their online reading and academic writing efforts by saving and organizing the sources and information they collect; learn to avoid patchwork writing and inadvertent plagiarism; and assist in the transition from research to writing. By offering structure in the way that academic writers gather information, and with robust commenting and sharing features, it streamlines and makes visible the work and practices that students and researchers, whether novice or experienced, are already engaged in. And by unifying the steps of reading, gathering, saving, annotating, organizing, outlining, tracking, and citing research into a single, efficient workflow that feeds directly into the writing of the first draft, PowerNotes helps students develop processes for researching that is more purposeful and rhetorical, thereby easing the transition from reading for research to writing.
PowerNotes is offering a special introductory institutional price for TCCTA schools if licensed by September 15th, 2022, which provides a PowerNotes Premium account for all students, faculty, and staff at licensing institutions! If you are interested in learning more about PowerNotes and how to lock in the special pricing for your school, please reach out to Todd Rossell at todd@powernotes.com.
Special thanks to Todd Rossell and Jimmy Fleming, Directors of Business Development at PowerNotes.
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Explaining Community College Funding
Hosted by TCCTA
Posted December 1, 2021
TCCTA members have expressed great interest in the work of the Commission on Community College Funding, which is reviewing our current funding model in order to make recommendations to the Legislature for potential changes in the next legislative session.
We will be sharing video updates as the Commission does its work, outlining its composition and purpose, as well as an explanation of our current funding structure.
Watch the third video in this series, featuring a discussion with the director of external relations at the Texas Association of Community Colleges, Dustin Meador.
Special thanks to C. Jason Vidrine, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts Area of Study, Austin Community College, for recording and editing this video.
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Commission, TCCTA Objectives, and Member Involvement
Hosted by TCCTA
Posted November 10, 2021
TCCTA members have expressed great interest in the work of the Commission on Community College Funding, which is reviewing our current funding model in order to make recommendations to the Legislature for potential changes in the next legislative session.
We will be sharing video updates as the Commission does its work, outlining its composition and purpose, as well as an explanation of our current funding structure.
Watch the second video in this series, featuring a discussion with our lobbyist Beaman Floyd, and the director of external relations at the Texas Association of Community Colleges, Dustin Meador.
Special thanks to C. Jason Vidrine, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts Area of Study, Austin Community College, for recording and editing this video.
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TX Commission Background Information
Hosted by TCCTA
Posted November 3, 2021
TCCTA members have expressed great interest in the work of the Commission on Community College Funding, which is reviewing our current funding model in order to make recommendations to the Legislature for potential changes in the next legislative session.
We will be sharing video updates as the Commission does its work, outlining its composition and purpose, as well as an explanation of our current funding structure.
Watch the first video in this series, featuring a discussion with our lobbyist Beaman Floyd, and the director of external relations at the Texas Association of Community Colleges, Dustin Meador.
Special thanks to C. Jason Vidrine, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts Area of Study, Austin Community College, for recording and editing this video.
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Shared Governance and Best Practices
Hosted by TCCTA
Wednesday, August 6, 2021
We were excited to have Faculty Association/Senate leaders join TCCTA virtually on Friday, August 6, 2021, for an interactive panel discussion on Shared Governance and Best Practices to share best practices so we can learn from each other. Participants heard about a variety of strategies for leading faculty organizations with key faculty organization leaders from across Texas:
- Michael Downs, Tarrant County College
- Wade Hyde, Dallas College – El Centro
- Missi Patterson, Austin Community College
- Tod Bisch, Houston Community College
- Michael Berberich, Galveston College
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TCCTA Lobbyist discusses the 2021 Special Legislative Session
Hosted by TCCTA
Wednesday, July 13, 2021
The political landscape in Texas has shifted dramatically in recent months, with significant implications for community colleges. In this program, Beaman Floyd, TCCTA lobbyist, goes in-depth about current legislation, and how our colleges fared through the process. Important changes are being widely debated in the special session. We discussed the role TCCTA plays in those discussions, and the difference our members make in the outcome.
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Diversity in OERs
Hosted by TCCTA and OpenStax
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Colleges across the country are reaffirming their commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion, in light of numerous tragic events over the past year and a much larger history of marginalization and discrimination. Ensuring that learning experiences are positive and safe for students of every background are top priorities at many institutions. There have been a lot of conversations around what educators, administrators, and support staff can do to make learning more equitable for students. But what role do textbook publishers and content creators have to play in all of this? How can textbooks and other course materials support diversity and inclusion efforts?
OpenStax, Rice University’s educational technology initiative, has published over 40 free, openly licensed textbooks since 2012. Millions of students use OpenStax textbooks each year. Committed to transforming learning so that education works for every student, OpenStax is working to ensure it’s textbook content is representative of diverse peoples, cultures, and experiences. In this webinar, OpenStax’s Editorial Director Anthony Palmiotto will share what the organization has done in recent years to help make its books more diverse and inclusive. He will also provide an overview of a content revision project that is currently underway. He will be joined by Juan Madrid of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valle who will discuss a translation project that he is working on to support the students at his Hispanic serving institution.
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TSIA2 Update
Hosted by TCCTA and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Thursday, April 15, 2021
This session will provide the latest updates with regard to implementation of the Texas Success Initiative Assessment, version 2.0 (TSIA2). Time for Q&A will be provided. Ask your questions in advance here.
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No, You Don’t Need to Master Those Zoom “Break Rooms”: How to Stress Better in 2020
Hosted by TCCTA
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Dr. Amitai Abramovitch, Assistant Professor at Texas State University, found his students have greater challenges engaging both with each other and with course material. This webinar discussed creating conditions for students that encourage trust, engagement, and initiative and also considered the needs of faculty in this socially distanced environment to avoid burnout, exhaustion, and depression.
Amitai Abramovitch is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Neuropsychologist, and a research affiliate with the Dept. of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published over 45 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and currently serves on several journal editorial boards, as well as national and international scientific and grant committees. Dr. Abramovitch primarily teaches Abnormal Psychology for undergraduate and graduate-level students, mentors graduate students, and is the Director of the Neuropsychology and Psychopathology Lab at Texas State.
Resources mentioned in the webinar:
- Psychology of Pandemics Network
- UCLA study on undergraduate faculty (2010-11)
- TCCTA Master Teacher Meet Ups
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Racial Justice in the Classroom
Hosted by TCCTA Faculty Leaders Conference
Friday, November 9, 2020
Ricky Jones will highlight systemic injustice and the role faculty can play on their campuses.
Dr. Jones has emerged as a strong public scholar doing-especially innovative work on American race, politics, leadership, and male identity. He has served as a local, national, and international social and political analyst across various media including appearances on the BBC, Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti, Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, The Katie Couric Show, E! Entertainment, a variety of NPR and PBS programs, BET, and Al Jazeera in English.
Ricky L. Jones not only became the first member of his immediate family to graduate high school but by age 28 he also earned a Ph.D. Currently, he is Professor and Chair of the University of Louisville’s Department of Pan-African Studies. He was only the second African American to receive a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kentucky where he specialized in Political Philosophy and Comparative Politics. His books include two editions of Black Haze: Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities and What’s Wrong with Obamamania?: Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination. He is currently working on a new book titled, Colin, Confederates, and Con-Artists: Essays on Race, Sport, and America.
Responses to Declining Community College Enrollments in Texas
Hosted by CollegeApp and TCCTA
November 18, 2020
With enrollment numbers down across the state — even in a time when the economic need for our programs has never been greater — colleges are seeking innovative and cost effective ways to bolster enrollments and serve the needs of their communities. We talked with leaders at two Texas two-year schools to learn what they are doing about declining enrollment.
Resources mentioned in the webinar:
- Preliminary Fall 2020 Texas Higher Education Enrollments (Excel spreadsheet)
- CollegeApp: The Adult Prospect Pipeline
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How Community Colleges are Scaling Up their Certification Efforts
Hosted by JobReady and TCCTA
November 17, 2020
More than ever, there is talk about the growing need for community colleges to offer industry-recognized credentialing across their programs. TCCTA has recently partnered with JobReady, in an innovative venture to bring high-quality online training courses that prepare students for certifications and badging across a wide range of employment sectors. This session discusses the success North Central Texas has found as they expand opportunities for their students to acquire the credentials prospective employers are seeking.
Jessica Carlyle, Dean of Adult and Continuing Education at North Central Texas College
Bill Hughes, CEO & Founder; and Tim Moore, Business Development Partner, JobReady
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Managing Virtual Teams
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Hosted by The National Society of Leadership and Success
August 13, 2020
As work environments shift online, the strategies and tactics that we use to supervise our teams must shift as well. While concepts like communication, time management, building community, agility, and effective leadership remain at the core, the meaning of those concepts has evolved to account for the absence of physical office space. In this session, presenters from association and campus-based organizations shared concrete practices that they have employed with their own teams, including the impact that such approaches have on the overall connectedness, motivation, and well-being of their team members.
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Teaching Co-requisites Creatively
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This two-part webinar was made possible by a collaboration with the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Community College Teachers Association.
Part 1: Teaching Co-Requisites Creatively
July 13, 2020
In this webinar, hosts highlighted the challenges of teaching co-requisites, dug deeper into when and why issues arise, discussed creative approaches and tactics for addressing problems, and outlined steps for ensuring efficiency for instructors and in the classroom. Attendees walk away with ideas for increasing efficiency in the classroom.
Our hosts for this webinar included Shawnda Smith, assistant professor of mathematics at Texas Woman’s University; Paula Talley, manager of professional learning for higher education at Charles A. Dana Center; and Connie Richardson, manager of higher education course programs at the Charles A. Dana Center.
You can view both sessions by registering for free.
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Part 2: Answering Your Co-Requisite Questions
August 4, 2020
The second installment in the Teaching Co-Requisites with Creativity webinar series helps you determine how to navigate teaching co-requisite courses with tried and true methods — and the help of free, flexible open educational resources that can be modified to work for any classroom. If you’re wondering how you’ll approach co-requisite courses in the coming year, this webinar is for you!
Our hosts for this webinar included Paula Talley, manager of professional learning for higher education at Charles A. Dana Center; Connie Richardson, manager of higher education course programs at the Charles A. Dana Center; and Symphonie Swift, communications specialist at OpenStax, Rice University.
You can view both sessions by registering for free.
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Courageous Conversations: Justice in Community Colleges
Hosted by TCCTA
June 29, 2020
Essie Childers, Professor of Humanities at Blinn College, discussed racial justice in the classroom, what we can do better, and how to educate moving forward.
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Adjusting to Uncertainty: Plans for the Fall
Hosted by TCCTA
June 18, 2020
Dr. Kyle Scott, Vice Chancellor of Strategic Priorities at Lone Star College, shared the decision-making process for the fall, hybrid courses, and more.
Kyle Scott teaches American politics and constitutional law at the University of Houston and is on the Lone Star College Board of Trustees. In addition to his four books and dozens of academic articles, Dr. Scott provides commentary on current events for Liberty, Forbes, Reuters, Christian Science Monitor, Foxnews.com, Washington Times, and dozens of local outlets including the Orlando Sentinel, Charlotte Observer, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Baltimore Sun.
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Educate, Cultivate, Advocate
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Hosted by OpenStax and TCCTA
April 30, 2020
A webinar on student and instructor pain points in online learning during the coronavirus pandemic. In this webinar we looked closely at the struggles and experiences of students and instructors — like balancing care-taking and studies in day-to-day schedules, dealing with job disruption, internet access disparities, and more. Panelists shares the resources and practices they found helpful and discussed how open educational resources can help you customize your courses to fit the needs of your students.
Our experts included Richard Moore, Executive Director of TCCTA; Sophie Haci, Chair of the Economics Department at Houston Community College; Heather Medley, Instructional Designer at South Plains College; and Anthony Palmiotto, Editorial Director of OpenStax.
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Compassion Fatigue: Where are we now?
Hosted by TCCTA
April 29, 2020
This Compassion Fatigue session was so highly praised at the TCCTA 73rd Annual Convention and it is more applicable than ever.
Louella Tate, Dean of Student Affairs, Austin Community College– Round Rock, had an open and robust discussion with TCCTA’s Director of Programs, Carole Hawkins, on the impact of change, situation stressors, and work/life balance.
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Legislative Update with Beaman Floyd
Hosted by TCCTA
April 21, 2020
Beaman Floyd, TCCTA Lobbyist, and Richard Moore, TCCTA Executive Director, discussed what’s going on in the legislature in this current climate.