Keynote: A Culture of Excellence | Building Success from Within

Neha Rajebhosale - Practice Director with The Ritz Carlton Leadership Center

"One cannot extend legendary service without having robust systems and processes in place."

As an award-winning employment brand, The Ritz-Carlton shares best practices on how to activate and sustain a culture where valued and empowered employees own the customer experience. Our trusted processes take the guesswork out of selection, onboarding, upskilling and retention of talent.

Room T140 / T112 (Overflow Room)
PD 2285
9:00 A.M.-11:50 A.M.
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Developing your Humanized Syllabus

Audrey Antee

Description This workshop requires participants to have completed PD 6736 Humanizing the Syllabus and to have a draft of a syllabus which they have attempted to humanize. Developing the Humanized Syllabus will provide an opportunity for participants to examine the language in their syllabus and in their peers’ syllabi to determine what additional revisions need to be made to convey care and inclusivity in the syllabus. For successful completion of this workshop, a revised, humanized syllabus will be required.

ATC, Room T210
10:00 A.M.-11:50 A.M.
PD 1703
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Really Simple Syllabus

Brandi Bleak and Jody Taylor

In this workshop, participants will learn about the benefits of transitioning to the new syllabus platform, navigate the instructor dashboard to effectively edit their own syllabi, access syllabi from Canvas and how to easily submit once complete. We'll also review how content will copy content into future terms, review student engagement, and provide support resources. The first hour will be dedicated to training, followed by a second hour of lab time where faculty can edit their syllabi, with assistance available if needed.

ATC, Room T203
10:00 A.M.-10:50 A.M.
PD 2180
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Talking Tech: Using ChatGPT Voice to Transform Your Classroom

Scott Cason

This session introduces educators to ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice feature and explores strategies for classroom integration. Participants will familiarize themselves with the voice tool and learn practical methods for using it to enhance student engagement, interactive learning, and real-time feedback.

ATC, Room T241
11:00 A.M.-11:50 A.M.
PD 2289
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EI and our culture of Elevating the FSCJ Experience

Steve Beard

This training focuses on enhancing employee engagement and fostering a positive work environment at FSCJ. Participants will learn strategies to improve their daily interactions and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement. This training emphasizes the importance of small, incremental changes that collectively make a significant impact on the overall experience at FSCJ.

ATC, Room T111
1:00 P.M.-1:50 P.M.
PD 2223
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Keynote: Courses and Programs, Improving Access and Supporting the Flexible Learning Needs of Students

Brian Beatty - Professor of Instructional Design and Technology at San Francisco State University

HyFlex learning, in use since 2006 in a relatively small number of institutions, experienced rapid adoption during the 2019-2022 pandemic to meet the immediate local and global need for flexible multimodal education. In the rush, many institutions implemented the HyFlex approach, often without fully understanding best practices or preparing their faculty. Post-pandemic, many institutions and educators are continuing to use HyFlex to accommodate both in-person and remote students and considering long-term strategic value and implications. This session clarifies HyFlex origins, definitions, basic design principles, and student engagement outcomes. We’ll discuss course and curriculum considerations for deciding whether or not HyFlex is a good course design choice. Lastly, we’ll review a sample course design used for HyFlex teaching, discussing ways to address multi-modal assessment challenges and student engagement, especially in online modes.

Room T140
PD 2288
1:00 P.M.-1:50 P.M.
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FSCJ New Health Benefits Q&A

Darci Lanaghan

Recently, Human Resources facilitated open enrollment, assisting employees in selecting health benefits through the newly adopted State Group Insurance Program.

We invite you to join our upcoming Health Benefits Q&A session, where the benefits department will address your questions about the new plan. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about the health, dental, and vision plans, as well as the next steps.

ATC, Room T112
1:00 P.M.-1:50 P.M.
PD 2283
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Great Colleges to Work for Survey Results

Martina Perry

This session will provide a deep dive into the results from FSCJ's most recent Great Colleges to Work For survey. The Great Colleges to Work For® program is designed to recognize colleges that have been successful in creating great workplaces and to further research and understanding of the factors, dynamics and influences that have the most impact on organizational culture at higher education institutions.

ATC, Room 201A
1:00 P.M.-1:50 P.M.
PD 2287
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Apples with Ayshea

Ayshea Golden - FSCJ

Apples with Ayshea 2025 – Back for a second bite! In this year’s 45-minute workshop, we’ll take another juicy dive into MS Windows and Office 365, exploring the freshest updates and time-saving shortcuts. With new data tricks and insider techniques, this session will be a bushel of tips to help you work smarter, not harder. Join us to pick up these ripe new skills and make your tech tools as crisp as can be!

ATC, Room T210
2:00 P.M.-2:50 P.M.
PD 2055
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Back to Our Roots: Learning Through Play

Caroline Sampson

Young children learn by playing. Is it possible that older people can, too? This session will highlight active learning strategies that can be used even in high-level classes, including gamification, small group activities and competitions, puzzles, and others. Participants will complete several cooperative learning activities that can be modified to any content.

ATC, Room T241
2:00 P.M.-2:50 P.M.
PD 2196
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EI and our culture of Elevating the FSCJ Experience

Steve Beard

This training focuses on enhancing employee engagement and fostering a positive work environment at FSCJ. Participants will learn strategies to improve their daily interactions and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement. This training emphasizes the importance of small, incremental changes that collectively make a significant impact on the overall experience at FSCJ.

ATC, Room T111
2:00 P.M.-2:50 P.M.
PD 2223
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FSCJ New Health Benefits Q&A

Darci Lanaghan

Recently, Human Resources facilitated open enrollment, assisting employees in selecting health benefits through the newly adopted State Group Insurance Program.

We invite you to join our upcoming Health Benefits Q&A session, where the benefits department will address your questions about the new plan. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about the health, dental, and vision plans, as well as the next steps.

ATC, Room T112
2:00 P.M.-2:50 P.M.
PD 2283
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Making Science Discussions Worthwhile in the Classroom

Alexandra Stancil

This presentation offers an alternative to the usual Discussion Board found in Canvas. Here the students are asked to read real research articles, make connections, and share their thoughts through round table discussions before posting online in Canvas. The idea being to not only inform students of relative topics in the science field, but create information literate students. Students become equipped with how research is conducted, significance through collaborative discussion, engagement in the topics, connection to the lecture content and the community, as well as navigating all that the library has to offer in assisting their college careers.

ATC, Room T201A
2:00 P.M.-2:50 P.M.
PD 2191
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Really Simple Syllabus

Brandi Bleak and Jody Taylor

In this workshop, participants will learn about the benefits of transitioning to the new syllabus platform, navigate the instructor dashboard to effectively edit their own syllabi, access syllabi from Canvas and how to easily submit once complete. We'll also review how content will copy content into future terms, review student engagement, and provide support resources. The first hour will be dedicated to training, followed by a second hour of lab time where faculty can edit their syllabi, with assistance available if needed.

ATC, Room T203
2:00 P.M.-2:50 P.M.
PD 2180
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What's New in Canvas?

Thomas Lewis

Canvas is always changing, so it might be more useful to ask: what isn’t new in Canvas!? This workshop will provide a high-level overview of projected changes to Canvas over the next six months. Additionally, we will cover a few ways that you can be an active voice in the development of new features by using the Canvas Community.

ATC, Room T205
2:00 P.M.-2:50 P.M.
PD 1570
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