We hope you are all making your return to the 2023-2024 academic year feeling refreshed and energized after a well-earned summer break. Our summer has been busy at the Learning and Teaching Commons with a full schedule of fifteen Evergreen Summer Institutes with a total attendance of over 230 faculty and staff – expect a full report on Summer Institute feedback in our October newsletter. We want to express our sincere gratitude to the institute conveners who put time, attention, and care into designing sessions to engage and inspire our Evergreen community. We’re already looking ahead to Summer Institutes 2024. Maybe you’re interested in helping to shape the program? If so, we have an opportunity for volunteers to join the Summer Institute Planning Group.
And there is a lot more to look forward to this year! We are happy to introduce two new members of the LTC team: Timothy Cordivae (he/him), Instructional Designer and Julie Russo (she/her), Faculty Scholar for this academic year. Check out their bios and information about their work below. They are looking forward to working with you to support great teaching and learning at Evergreen.
Speaking of great teaching, we hope you had a chance to check out the Faculty Notes exhibition in the library over the summer. We plan to exhibit faculty work submitted through Faculty Notes on a regular basis, and we want to encourage you to start thinking now about what you might want to share. You can read more here about Faculty Notes, the institutional repository of teaching materials, and Real Evergreen: An Educator’s Handbook. We look forward to your contributions throughout the year.
Finally, we’d love to see you at our Student Support Mixer following the Academic Retreat on the Olympia campus on September 14. We have invited staff from our community who support students beyond the classroom, and we hope you’ll meet someone new and learn more about how we all work together for our students’ success. And there will be gelato for all! The perfect start to a new academic year.
See you soon!
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Timothy Corvidae- Instructional Designer |
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Timothy Corvidae (he/him) joined the Washington Center staff in July as Evergreen’s first Instructional Designer. He brings a breadth of experience from grassroots and non-profit work combined with ten years of teaching at the University of Michigan and Northern Arizona University. He has designed courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including mini-courses in intercultural learning and advanced practice courses on group facilitation. He takes a collaborative and creative approach to designing innovative online learning experiences and is excited to translate Evergreen’s unique pedagogies into online learning that is enlivening for students and faculty alike. You can read Timothy’s full bio on the Commons website
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Julie Levin Russo- Faculty Scholar |
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Julie Levin Russo (she/her) joins the Learning and Teaching Commons team this fall as our Faculty Scholar for the 2023-24 academic year. Part of the Evergreen faculty since 2013, Julie teaches media arts and studies in both intensive and interdisciplinary contexts, with a commitment to connecting theory and practice. Her dedication to making transformative education equitable for Evergreen’s diverse student body is evident in the focus of her faculty scholar project: an investigation of traditions, protocols, and best practices that support inclusive seminars. You can read Julie’s detailed bio on the Commons website and learn more about her faculty scholar project below.
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Seminar at Evergreen
Seminar is a verb at Evergreen; as an action that we do together, rather than a thing, seminaring warrants clear guidelines and regular practice. There may be limited opportunities to observe expert seminar teachers, and even fewer opportunities to more broadly disseminate knowledge about seminar praxis. Many of our seminar models have a long tradition at the college, but the world and our student body is changing. As the Faculty Fellow, I will embark on an exploration and documentation of our faculty's rich and innovative seminar strategies alongside a dive into research and resources on equitable seminars. A primary goal is to foster collaborative, discussion-based learning experiences that are more transparent in their expectations and more inclusive of students with a range of participation styles, access needs, and minoritized identities. The outcome will be an Evergreen "Seminar Cookbook" featuring manifestos, practical guides, and portable materials on topics such as:
• seminar community learning agreements
• seminar preparation “ticket” assignments
• seminar learning outcomes and assessment
• defining modes of “participation”
• addressing conflict and disruptive behavior
• recognizing and responding to bias, harm, and oppressive behavior
• “recipes” for engaging seminar activities
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Ansley Clark - Writing Center Interim Director |
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Ansley is a writer and educator focused on liberatory writing pedagogies and linguistic justice, creative writing, and embodied antiracism practices. Before joining Evergreen's community, she was the Director of the Writing Center at South Puget Sound Community College. In addition to her writing center work, Ansley is a poet who teaches at Hugo House in Seattle and other community arts organizations. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
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Join us after the Academic Retreat for time to socialize and meet with Student Support Staff and Faculty!
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Call for Evergreen Summer Institute planning group |
The Learning and Teaching Commons is seeking 3-4 faculty who are interested in playing a role in planning and reviewing proposals for Evergreen Summer Institutes in the 2023-2024 academic year.
We have streamlined the meeting schedule and responsibilities for this group to allow for faculty to make a meaningful contribution to faculty development without over-extending time and resources.
Please review the Summer Institute Planning (SIP) Group Guide for details about the responsibilities and schedule. If you're interested in participating, we'd love to hear from you! Accepting volunteers through October 20.
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This year, we are adopting a new model for teaching support and enrichment sessions: LTC Salons. Salons, held Fridays 12:30-2:30pm, will be hosted by the Faculty Fellow as informal gatherings around a theme.
Each Salon topic will come with a digital resource packet – stop by any time during the event to pick up a hard copy and say hello. Stay for a while, if you like, to discuss the materials or bounce around your own issues and questions over tea and snacks. You’re welcome with whatever amount of time and engagement you have available that day.
Some Salons will repeat and others will be new each quarter, depending on interest, so if you miss one you hoped attend do let us know.
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Fridays 12:30-2:30pm
Week 2 - Supporting Neurodiverse Students
Week 3 - Facilitating Inclusive Seminars
Week 4 - Approaches to Week 5 Check-ins
Week 6 - Peer Feedback that Works
Week 7 - Building Community in Online Classes (with Timothy Corvidae)
Week 8 - Strategies for Narrative Evaluations
Week 9 - Library: Open Educational Resources (tentative)
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Did you miss an Evergreen Summer Institute you wanted to attend?
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Self-enroll in their canvas courses to engage with online materials from the institute!
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from Timothy Corvidae- Instructional Designer |
Hello! Finding myself here is a dream come true, and not only because of my love for brutalist architecture in green settings. Working here in this role allows me to bring together my passions for facilitation and learning experience design. I’m delighted to be invited to do this in such a collaborative environment. The staff and faculty I’ve met thus far have made me feel so welcome, and I love how ready everyone is to jump into nerding out about pedagogy two minutes after we meet.
My focus is on supporting the development of the PaCE curriculum, working with PaCE faculty as they develop new programs and refine and enhance existing offerings. I will also be developing resources and trainings to support all Evergreen faculty who teach online—which is most of us these days, at least through our use of canvas sites. I want to serve as a hub for emerging best practices in online education, bringing to Evergreen ideas from elsewhere and gathering and re-disseminating practices that are developed here.
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Teaching at Evergreen Canvas Site
I’ll be contributing a Teaching Tech Tip to each newsletter. For this month, I want to direct everyone to a perennial Evergreen resource that the LTC is expanding and re-organizing: the Teaching at Evergreen canvas site. I’ve been gleefully rummaging through canvas sites, wiki pages, newsletters and archives (Evergreen is so good at archiving itself!) of teaching resources, tumbling down rabbit holes and occasionally resurfacing to put some kind of order on it all. This will be an ongoing process, but come take a look at where it’s at right now. And if you have teaching tips, reflections, or resources you’re willing to share, send them my way. Many of the resources on the site are developed by Evergreen faculty, and we want this to be a place to learn from each other. Even if you don’t have something written up or recorded, reach out and we can talk about how to best present your ideas
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I am hoping to convene a Community of Practice that will meet this academic year to support each other’s efforts in developing our online instruction, while serving as a think tank exploring an Evergreen approach to online instructional design. I will also work one-on-one (or one-on-teaching team) with members of the group to do a design deep dive on something they teach or are developing. If you might be interested, let me know and I will invite you to the informational meeting.
If you have aspects of your online teaching that you might like support developing or talking through, or training materials you’d like to see developed, please reach out: timothy.corvidae@evergreen.edu
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There are many opportunities for faculty to share their achievements, and we want to encourage you to contribute to the wealth of knowledge in our Evergreen community. Explore the options below for highlighting your work.
Faculty Notes
The Learning and Teaching Commons celebrates notable faculty accomplishments through Faculty Notes. Each year we collect notable publications, presentations, appearances, recognitions, awards, exhibits, performances, research, or other accomplishments to celebrate the incredibly talented faculty at Evergreen. Submit a Faculty Note.
Library Institutional Repository
The Library is developing a new institutional repository to publicly share and promote scholarship produced at Evergreen. We are looking to expand on the faculty and staff scholarship available on the site, and are especially interested in sharing unique learning resources created by faculty. Please submit any publications, learning resources, or other materials that you would like to share and contact archives@evergreen.edu with any questions or feedback.
Real Evergreen: An Educator’s Handbook
Fall quarter is an open submission period for Real Evergreen: An Educator’s Handbook! All relevant submissions are welcome: Real Evergreen 2023 is an opportunity to continue the affirmative and constructive exploration begun in RE 21, of who Evergreen staff and faculty are and what we do to support learning at Evergreen. Essays on practices or practical philosophy regarding any aspect of Evergreen educations (these educations are varied and many) are particularly sought. How and why do you do what you do here? For details or to submit a contribution, contact Joli Sandoz.
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| Faculty Welcome and Training Day | September 21
With information sessions on topics including Title IX, Intranet, student employee supervision, and more. Followed by participation in Greener Welcome Fest
→ Email John Caraher with questions
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Learning at Evergreen Keynote | September 22 10am
Led by Therese Saliba and Savvina Chowdhury in Purce Hall, with individual faculty workshops for students from 1-2:30. Look for invitations and instructions on leading these workshops in an upcoming message from John Caraher.
→ Email John Caraher with questions
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Faculty Foundation Grants are back!
To apply will need to prepare a 2-3 page narrative proposal and budget (with some additional materials possibly required for Sponsored Research applications) and applications for both will be due by 5 PM Monday, October 16. Expect detailed application information soon.
→ Email John Caraher with questions
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• Annual Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning (CIEL) Conference | October 27-29
→ learn more
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•Accessing Higher Ground | November 6-10
Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference → learn more
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These individuals and offices are eager to support students. Keep this list handy when advising students or reach out to schedule a visit to your program or course.
• The Greener Hub connects students in touch with the people, offices, and services they need.
• Visit the Daniel J. Evans Library page to learn about student access to electronic and print materials.
• Refer students to the Writing Center and the Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning Center for tutoring support.
• TRiO provides wraparound services to first-generation, low income, and disabled students.
• Media Services offers equipment, instruction, and production services in audio, video, animation, film, and photography for students, faculty, and staff.
• The Title IX office is available to support us in our responsibilities as mandatory reporters. Review the Guide for Responsible Employees for more information.
• Connect your students with Advising and Career Services for support with academic planning and career exploration.
• Access Services for Students with Disabilities works with admitted Evergreen students to ensure equal access to academic programs and services.
• Submit your student concerns to the Campus Assessment, Response & Evaluation (CARE) Team. This cross-divisional team directs students towards supportive campus resources.
• The basic needs center provides resources for a variety of student needs.
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