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All Staff Day Schedule

Spring 2026 All Staff Breakout Sessions

Each presentation is offered twice

Session 1: 10:30 – 11:15
Session 2: 11:30 – 12:15

Digital Accessibility in Practice: How Community Colleges Can be ADA Compliant (C-35)

This session equips faculty and staff with practical tools and techniques to create accessible, inclusive web and instructional content. It clarifies what the April 26 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) enforcement changes mean for California Community Colleges and explains new institutional expectations for demonstrating compliance.

Presenters: Phil Hamer, Weston Guerra, Fred Patrick

Using Rubrics to Inform Pedagogy: From Compliance to Collaborative Creativity (C-33)

This session explores how to turn rubric results into meaningful insights that can strengthen your pedagogy. Through guided conversations with colleagues, you’ll walk away with practical and tangible recommendations you can apply right away.

Presenters: Megan Selby, Craig Bach, Erik Arevalo

AI Data Safety and Practical Usage (C-40 – The Forum)

This session explores how Hancock College staff can use AI responsibly, covering data classification, current and future policies, approved tools like Microsoft Copilot, and practical demos that highlight what AI does well (and poorly) in real-world academic and administrative tasks.

Presenters: Chris McMains, Gage Pollard

Hancock Brand Update (Boyd Hall)

What’s changing, why it matters, and how to use it.

Presenters: Lauren Milbourne, Robert Nourse

Building Courses with Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) (C-36)

Are you curious about bringing your course costs down to zero? Do you want to explore Open Educational Resources (OER) and are not sure where to begin? Join this session to learn about finding and using OERs and what the college is doing to support ZTC efforts on campus.

Presenters: Susie Kopecky and Liz West, with Ana Gomez de Torres, Claudia Diaz, Erin Krier, Luke Blacquire, and Diane Auten

Integrating DEIA in Curriculum, Teaching Practices, and Employee Evaluation (C-31)

An open discussion on Title 5 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mandates and how the college can integrate and implement these principles and practices in curriculum development, teaching, evaluation, and college culture.

Presenters: Alberto Restrepo, Larry Manalo, Janeal Blue