Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence

Anderson Conference 2025

Climate-Justice-Across-the-Curriculum. Climate Justice Across the Curriculum: Resources and Funding for YOUR Classes
Discover how to bring climate justice into any discipline using PCC resources, professional development, and SPARC support. Learn practical strategies to adapt existing course content, access project funding, and connect students with real-world environmental and social equity issues. Posted January 31, 2025
Food Pantry Beyond the Food Pantry: A Holistic Approach to Supporting Students
PCC’s Basic Needs program supports student success by addressing food insecurity, housing, healthcare, transportation, and childcare. Utilizing a peer-to-peer, mutual aid model with Basic Needs Hubs and Peer Resource Navigators, the initiative reduces stigma and simplifies resource access. Faculty play a key role through warm handoffs, syllabus integration, and active support. Posted January 31, 2025
ADA Aligning with Accessibility Requirements: Updates to the ADA
Learn how PCC’s Accessible Technology Policy and WCAG standards apply to digital course materials. Discover the distinction between proactive accessibility and individual accommodations, key design practices for document and multimedia structure, and available campus tools—including Grackle, Panorama, and specialist support—to build equitable learning experiences. Posted January 31, 2025
Building-Team-in-the-Classroom Beyond Breaking the Ice: Building a Team in the Classroom
In this presentation, Sarah Wheat shares how team building—rooted in performance psychology—fosters belonging, communication, and student success throughout the term. She outlines adaptable activities for in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous classes, emphasizing how effective facilitation and intentional debriefing transform interactive exercises into meaningful learning opportunities that strengthen classroom community. Posted January 31, 2025
Using-Short-Videos-Reels-and-More. You’re invited! Helping Students Feel Like They Belong: Using Short Videos, Reels and More to Increase Accessibility
Discover how short preview videos, reels, and transparent course materials reduce student anxiety and eliminate learning barriers. Featuring real-world examples from biology, field-based lab sciences, and environmental studies, this Anderson Conference session showcases practical ways instructors and students can collaborate to create more welcoming, accessible, and inclusive academic environments. Posted January 31, 2025
Navigating-Difficult-Conversations. Navigating Difficult Conversations
Co-hosted by CTLE and Student Support, this session explores proactive classroom management strategies to navigate difficult discussions. Learn to set clear group norms, apply effective de-escalation techniques, and identify key moments to submit CARE reports or connect students with PCC support systems to foster an inclusive, respectful learning environment. Posted January 31, 2025
Student-Success. Understanding and Using student accommodation notices
Faculty play a key role in supporting equitable access by implementing student accommodation notices. Accommodations remove learning barriers without altering course expectations or creating unfair advantages. By using inclusive communication, accessible course design, and proactive teaching practices, instructors foster an environment where students feel supported and fully able to participate in their learning. Posted January 31, 2025
Lynda-Coates Discovering the Communication Style of First-Generation Students
Lynda Coates explores how oral and print communication styles shape student experiences, particularly for first-generation and nontraditional learners. While colleges heavily favor linear, print-oriented expectations, one style is not superior. Instructors can foster equity by incorporating storytelling, hands-on practice, multi-format materials, clear instructions, and relation-building strategies into their courses. Posted January 31, 2025
Nick Hengen-Fox How Shared Governance Helps Us Serve Students
Learn how shared governance empowers PCC faculty and staff to directly influence institutional decisions and improve student success through representative decision-making councils. Posted January 31, 2025
Presenter Ira McKinzie The Student Success and the Social Model of Disability in Higher Education
This post explores how applying the social model of disability in higher education removes learning barriers and supports disabled student success. Posted January 31, 2025
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