Professional Development

Calendar of Events

November 16

Children’s Mental Health +Parenting Summit (4 days)
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Parenting has never felt more complicated.
Join world-renowned experts in child psychology, parenting, neuroscience, and mental health for the 2026 Fall Parenting & Children’s Mental Health Summit.
Learn practical strategies for:

Childhood Anxiety
ADHD & Neurodiversity
Big Emotions & Challenging Behaviour
Resilience & Independence
Attachment & Connection
Screens & Online Safety
Raising Confident, Emotionally Healthy Kids

Featuring Dr. Daniel Amen, Dr. Gordon Neufeld, Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, Dr. William Stixrud, Dr. Michele Borba and many more.

2026 AB 1705 Learning Series Webinars and Virtual Event Series: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Practical Tools for All Disciplines
10-11 a.m.
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Registration is now open for the collaborative AB 1705 Learning Series Webinars and Virtual Event Series, presented by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (Chancellor’s Office).

This interactive, virtual workshop series is presented by community college English and math faculty sharing their experience in transforming their classroom through active learning strategies, growth mindset, culturally responsive pedagogy and developing and sustaining a faculty community of practice.

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Practical Tools for all Disciplines will introduce practical ways to design lessons grounded in culturally sustaining pedagogy that build on students’ lived experiences, invite meaningful discussion, and support rigorous learning in any content area. Participants will engage in hands-on activities adaptable for all disciplines, including math, science, technology, and humanities. We will explore how key instructional moves can increase student engagement, deepen understanding, and honor the diverse identities and perspectives students bring to the classroom. Participants will leave with ready-to-use tools, strategies, and ideas they can apply immediately in their own classrooms.

ADA Accommodations

The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, and events.

Powerful Words: Language to Build Children’s Self-Esteem
10-11 a.m.
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Social media can create unrealistic expectations that leave young people feeling discouraged, empty, and depressed -- and parents, caregivers, and educators need to know how to respond. Learn what to say to help young people feel positive about themselves, regardless of challenges they may face or how others may view them.

Finding, Evaluating, Adapting Open Educational Resources (OER) for Economics
11-12 p.m.
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Looking for high-quality, no-cost instructional materials to enhance your economics courses? OER provide opportunities to reduce textbook costs, improve student access, and customize learning materials to meet diverse instructional needs. This webinar is designed for both faculty new to OER and experienced users, offering an overview of economics-specific textbooks, supplemental resources, and platforms such as OpenStax, LibreTexts, and OER Commons, along with practical strategies for finding, evaluating, adopting, and adapting materials for microeconomics and macroeconomics courses. Participants will explore useful resources through guided demonstrations and leave with practical tools and strategies they can immediately apply to their teaching, followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion.

ASCCC/ Using Rubrics for High-Quality, Equitable Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Course Design: An Interactive Toolkit
2-3 p.m.
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Join East Los Angeles College’s OER Coordinators to learn about the rubrics they’ve developed, inspired by Peer Online Course Review and Universal Design for Learning, to support faculty in creating equitable, high-quality open educational resources and ZTC Canvas courses.

November 17

StudyMate Campus: Flashcards & Learning Games within your LMS
9-9:30 a.m.
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StudyMate makes it easy to create flashcards, self-assessments and learning games - all from within Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Schoology, and Moodle courses. This free, 30-minute webinar provides an overview of how to use the application to engage students with course content.

Rethinking Productivity in the Age of AI
Presented by Calm Health
10-11 a.m.
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Feeling the pressure to be productive in an AI era? True productivity isn’t just about doing more—it’s about sustainably achieving quality without burning out. In this workshop, we’ll explore the core well-being domains that fuel our daily motivation, learn a simple framework to interrupt maladaptive patterns, and leave equipped with an actionable strategy to support your mental well-being.

This session also serves as an exclusive sneak peek into our broader suite of Calm Health workshops. If you’re exploring ways to bring more balance, resilience, and mindful performance to your organization, you’ll get a firsthand look at the impactful programming we can bring directly to your team.

Caring for the Caregiver: Managing Stress and Preventing Burnout
10-11 a.m.
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Being a caregiver comes with unique responsibilities and feelings of anger, frustration, exhaustion, loneliness, and sadness are almost guaranteed. Learn how your attachment style as a caregiver influences the way you respond to others and why high-effort coping and overcompensation often lead to burnout. Gain practical tools to cope with stress, strategies to manage power struggles, set healthy boundaries, and respond to risky behavior with a licensed therapist.

Understanding Neuroplasticity & Brain Retraining
10-11 a.m.
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You understand your triggers. You recognize the patterns. You know when your nervous system is reacting.
So why does it still feel so hard to respond differently?
Sometimes, understanding why something happens isn't the same as knowing *how* to change it.
The good news? Your brain isn't fixed. Thanks to neuroplasticity, it can continue learning and adapting throughout your life.
But what does that actually mean for the patterns that keep you feeling stuck?

Character By Design? How Digital Media Design Influences Youth
1-2:30 p.m.
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Children and adolescents spend much of their time on digital platforms that are designed to maximize engagement, often in conflict with their health and developmental needs. How do platform design choices affect the way youth behave and develop, and how can digital media be designed for healthier outcomes?

Panelists will explore how design decisions that shape the digital social and gaming experiences of children and adolescents can influence their sense of agency, well-being, and moral development.

Rising Scholar Virtual Convening
1:30-2:30 p.m.
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Rising Scholars programs in California’s community colleges have the power to transform lives. This virtual regional will provide faculty with opportunities to connect with Rising Scholars practitioners. We will highlight promising practices and potential pitfalls. This webinar will lay the groundwork for upcoming hybrid Rising Scholars Regionals in the Spring 2027 term.

CalSTRS Presents: Retire Now or Later
3:45-5:15 p.m.
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Are you trying to decide when to retire? Understand your retirement options, access CalSTRS’ online resources and calculate your own retirement estimates with the guidance of a CalSTRS benefit specialist. Learn how to determine if you can retire now or later.
You’ll use myCalSTRS during this webinar, so be sure you’re registered and that your account information is up to date.

Open Educational Resources (OER) for History—New Resources and the State of the Discipline
4-5 p.m.
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As of Fall 2026, most new pathways funded with Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Degree Program dollars are required to be implemented and many colleges have added new resources to COOL4Ed as required by the ZTC legislation. Join us for an overview of newly available history OER, to share what OER you’re working on, and/or to discuss your unmet OER needs.

November 18

Understanding Depression
8-9 a.m.
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How is depression different from sadness? An accessible guide to understanding causation, symptoms, and treatment options for depressive disorders. Learn practical tips for managing symptoms and helping others in this one-hour seminar with a licensed therapist.

Coffee Chat: Fostering Enrollment Growth in Uncertain Times
10-11 a.m.
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In a shifting economy, learners want both stackable skills and long-term value. How do we stop working in silos and start leveraging each other's strengths to beat the enrollment dip?

The Latest in Higher Ed
Presented by the Chronicle of Higher Education
10-11 a.m.
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In our free Daily Briefing Live webinar series, Chronicle journalists Sarah Brown and Rick Seltzer unpack the most important developments affecting colleges and universities. They’ll answer your questions about the stories and trends shaping higher education.
On November 18, Sarah and Rick will talk to David P. Cleary, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander’s former chief of staff, about how the midterm election results are likely to play out in Washington.

Sparking Curiosity with Nutrition Open Educational Resources (OER)
10-11 a.m.
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What makes students want to open the textbook? A mystery worth solving. Join fellow nutrition faculty to explore how a surprising cellular puzzle can spark curiosity, draw students into OER, and turn reading into a search for evidence. Leave with an approach to try in your next OER chapter.

Changing Perspectives: Understanding Mental Health Stigma
10-11 a.m.
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Learn why stigma develops over time through culture, fear, and misunderstanding, and more importantly, how it can be unlearned. We’ll discuss how unconscious bias forms in the brain, the impact stigma has on people and communities, and simple, effective strategies to make a difference. This course is designed to be thoughtful, safe, and empowering. You don’t have to be perfect to join—just ready to learn and grow together.

Instructor Training for LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor: Revent Cheating During Online Exams
11-11:45 a.m.
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This comprehensive training webinar is intended for instructors who plan to use LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor with online exams in Blackboard, Brightspace, Canvas, Moodle, and Schoology.

LockDown Browser is a custom browser that prevents digital cheating during an online exam. Respondus Monitor is a companion product for LockDown Browser that deters cheating when students take online exams in non- proctored environments. Students use their own computers with a standard webcam to record assessment sessions.

Teaching in the Age of AI Series: What Outlasts The Tools
Presented by McGraw Hill
12-12:45
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AI is already in your classroom. The question is whether it's building skills or replacing them. Our “Ready for Tomorrow” three-part webinar series features leading voices at the forefront of AI in higher education as it pertains to learning science, curriculum design, and the industry as a whole. Each session will tackle a different piece of the same challenge many faculty are facing: how to harness AI in service of learning, not replace it.

Our presenters leading the conversation will share how they've redesigned their own courses with AI in mind, how they're shaping practice at their institutions, and preparing students for a workforce already transformed by these tools. 

AHC Faculty Learning Lab
4-5 p.m.
Location: F-243 (the conference room on the 2nd floor of the Fine Arts building)
In this month's lab session we will discuss ways in which we define, perceive, and create a rigorous learning environment given the uniqueness of the community college student population and our desire to maintain an encouraging classroom culture. We offer wholesome refreshments and lively conversations during our Faculty Learning Labs so we hope you will join us to support one another in our learning and teaching journeys! Attendees are encouraged to share their knowledge, tips, concerns, and struggles. All ideas are welcome!

November 19

Attachment at Work: Communication, Boundaries, Feedback, and Stress Responses in Professional Settings
8-9 a.m.
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Attachment patterns influence more than personal relationships—they shape workplace behavior as well. Explore how attachment styles affect teamwork, communication, collaboration, leadership, and how we handle feedback. Learn why some people shut down under pressure, why others seek reassurance, and how workplace expectations can activate attachment-related reactions. This course includes practical strategies for giving feedback, setting boundaries, and creating predictable, supportive work environments that help everyone function more securely. Part 3 in a 3-part series.

Participants will learn:

How attachment-related patterns show up in workplace communication, teamwork, feedback, and conflict.
Common anxious, avoidant, secure, and mixed attachment behaviors specific to workplace settings.
How unclear expectations, rapid change, or conflict can trigger attachment-based stress responses.
Tools for providing supportive feedback, maintaining healthy professional boundaries, and improving collaboration.
Strategies leaders and teams can use to build predictable, emotionally safe environments that support secure functioning.

Turning Human Moments into Workforce Intelligence
9-10 a.m.
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Organizations have more workforce data than ever — from performance and retention to AI adoption. But some questions remain difficult to answer: What are people actually contributing? What behaviors are shaping culture every day?

Every recognition moment captures a human observation about contribution, behavior, and impact. When analyzed at scale, those moments create a rich source of human-authored data that can reveal workforce insights traditional systems often miss.

Beyond the Dial Tone: Turning Business Calls into Actionable Intelligence
Presented by Zoom
10-11 a.m.
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A call may resolve a customer issue, surface a business need, or establish the next steps on a critical project. But the work doesn’t stop when the conversation ends. Someone still has to document what matters, track down missing context, share information, and make sure commitments don’t fall through the cracks. Across teams, those small tasks add up to lost time and fragmented execution.

In this webinar you'll see how AI-powered communications can help teams move from discussion to delivery. Through practical demonstrations, explore intelligent calling, personalized notes, automated summaries and action items, and AI assistance that helps surface relevant information and connect workflows. You’ll see how these capabilities can reduce manual follow-up, make important details easier to act on, and help teams carry conversations forward into meaningful work. Leave with practical examples to help identify where these approaches could make a difference in your own communications environment.

The AI-Resistant Pedagogy Studio: An Interactive Toolkit for Assessment Redesign
11-12 p.m.
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As generative AI transforms higher education, community and technical college faculty face a critical challenge: ensuring assessments measure authentic student learning without relying on unreliable, high-friction detection tools. This interactive, action-oriented webinar introduces the "AI-Resistant Pedagogy Studio," a practical framework designed to help faculty shift from reactive detection to proactive course design. Participants will explore how accessible course design (POUR/UDL) and AI-resistant pedagogy share a single, unified foundation: prioritizing human process over static product. Through real-world assignment rebuilds, attendees will discover how incorporating metacognition, local/personal context, and multi-modal expression eliminates accessibility barriers while safeguarding academic integrity across online, hybrid, and face-to-face environments. Faculty, instructional designers, and administrators will leave with a versatile toolkit, customizable redesign templates, and actionable strategies to help students develop irreplaceable critical thinking and workforce-ready skills.

Respondus 4 and the Test Bank Network: Quickly Create Online Exams
11-11:45 a.m.
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Respondus 4 is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be published directly to Blackboard, Brightspace, Canvas, Moodle, and other learning systems. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment, or moved from one LMS to another. Whether you are a veteran of online testing or relatively new to it, Respondus 4 will save you hours on each project.

The Respondus Test Bank Network enables instructors to create online tests – in just minutes – from official publisher test banks. The Respondus Test Bank Network is FREE to instructors who use Respondus 4 and adopt a participating textbook. It integrates seamlessly with Blackboard Learn, Brightspace (D2L), Canvas, Moodle, and other learning systems.

Hypothesis Advanced Features
11:30-12:30 p.m.
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The Hypothesis team will host a review of recently released Hypothesis features, including paced annotation, image annotation, instructor dashboards, autograding, and at-mentions. Ideally, attendees will already be familiar with using Hypothesis.

Climate Across the Curriculum: High Impact Climate Pedagogy Beyond STEM
Presented by CCC and Climate Futures
12-1 p.m.
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Addressing the ‘wicked problem’ of the climate crisis requires interdisciplinary skills and perspectives. How are faculty in a range of disciplines integrating issues related to climate and sustainability into their courses? What approaches have they invented? What kinds of pedagogy are proving most effective with students?

Featuring an interdisciplinary panel of faculty innovators, this webinar offers examples that broaden our image of climate teaching and insights that connect with your own educational practice.

Celebrating What We Know Part 3: No A.B.C! (Another Boring Course): Bringing History and Art History to Life Online
3-4 p.m.
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Online history and art history courses don't have to be a slideshow of dates and dead artists. This session shares practical, free resources and AI tools that turn asynchronous and Zoom courses into discovery-based experiences where students become an active participant in their learning experience. Come and see demonstrations of activities that invite students to look, question, and interpret rather than memorize. Participants will leave with a set of resources and activity models for online teaching.

Polio and Public Memory
Presented by the National Humanities Center
4-5:30 p.m.
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Polio has been around for hundreds of years as an endemic ailment, but by the middle of the twentieth century it was the most feared disease threatening children in the United States. Although widespread vaccination dramatically reduced its impact after 1955, the cultural history of polio—and the ways Americans remembered and later forgot the disease—offers important insights into public health, citizenship, and collective memory.

This webinar introduces educators to the cultural history of epidemic polio by examining the stories, assumptions, and public narratives that shaped Americans’ understanding of the disease. Participants will explore how literature, film, and other cultural texts—including works by James Baldwin and Mary Poppins—can help students investigate questions about disability, race, public health, and epidemic memory. Educators will gain strategies for connecting historical case studies to contemporary conversations about public health and civic responsibility.

How AI Has Changed College Admissions: What Students and Parents Need to Know
4-5 p.m.
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AI is now part of how students apply to college, and part of how colleges read those applications. In this webinar, Dr. Glen Water breaks down what colleges have actually changed in response to AI and how students at any stage of high school should be using it. He’ll share:

Whether using AI on your application can get you rejected, and what colleges have actually said about it
The risks of using AI on your applications, and how to use it to your advantage
Which schools added AI disclosure questions and supplemental prompts, and how to answer them
How to write an authentic essay that stands out against generic AI writing
Answers to your specific questions during a live Q&A

November 20

Mental Health First Aid Training
Presenter: Transitions Mental Health in partnership with AHC Opioid Prevention and Awareness Grant
Time: 8:30-5 p.m.
Location: AHC: G106 A and B
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a training movement that began in Australia and is now offered worldwide. Guests attending the training will benefit from practical presentations, conversations, and hands-on practice in discussing mental health. Recognizing signs of a mental health crisis can increase a person's chance of receiving safe initial support, preventing harm to self or others, and can help guide individuals in need to professional assistance. After MHFA training, participants leave feeling more confident in supporting others through difficult situations.

Lunch is provided.

Participants will leave the training with an increased comprehension of:

Mental Health Literacy
Reducing Stigma
Talking About Difficult Topics
How to Step in with an Effective Plan
Ways to Change Lives for the Better (both for yourself and others)

A certificate will be available after the completion of the training. This training will also count towards Professional Development hours. Seating is limited to 30 participants, and sign-ups will be first come, first served.

CCC/ LibreTexts Success Stories
9:30-10:30 a.m.
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Learn how one-time LibreTexts beginners use the LibreVerse to create, curate, and remix OER, as well as using ADAPT for their open homework and assessment needs.

Math and Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours
9:30-10:30 a.m.
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The OERI is pleased to offer a series of math OER office hours throughout the term. These office hours will serve as a question-and-answer session where attendees bring in their math OER needs, requests, and questions. Attendees can also use this space to receive guidance and ask questions pertaining to MyOpenMath.

2026 AB 1705 Learning Series Webinars and Virtual Events Series: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy—Practical Tools for All Disciplines
10-11 a.m.
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Registration is now open for the collaborative AB 1705 Learning Series Webinars and Virtual Event Series, presented by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (Chancellor’s Office).

Hot Off the Server: What’s New in LibreTexts and ADAPT
10:30-11:30 a.m.
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Building your openly-licensed textbook just got faster, and your discussions just got a whole lot richer! In this live showcase, you’ll see the brand-new Remixer v3 pull in an entire book in seconds and let you name chapters your way as well as the Glossary Manager, the License Restacker that untangles CC licenses for you, and an AI-powered Meta Editor that drafts summaries, tags, and alt text in one click. Then get a first look at ADAPT’s fresh new interface, assignment time limits, and a supercharged Discuss-It with “daisy-chain” discussions that allow for different due dates and grading criteria within a topic, file attachments, a post-first option, and timestamped replies that sync right to audio and video. Bring your questions, grab a seat, and walk away with tools you’ll want to use tomorrow. Save your spot today!

Making Your Own Custom Philosophy Textbook Using the Philosophy Open Educational Resources (OER) Repository in LibreTexts
12-1 p.m.
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For a sabbatical project this semester (Fall 2026), Professor Noah Levin is revising and entering all of the standalone chapters in eight OER textbooks into a single, organized database on LibreTexts to allow other faculty to easily find chapters and generate their own custom textbook with enough materials to cover most philosophy courses taught in the California Community College system. Come see the progress of this project and get a demonstration on how to use it to easily create your own textbook.

Spotlight on Open Educational Resources (OER) in Noncredit English as a Second Language (ESL): Sharing What Works!
2-3 p.m.
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Noncredit ESL classes are unique in that they require materials flexible enough to meet a wide range of needs, from vocational ESL and basic conversation to beginning materials designed for adult learners. In this interactive conversation, faculty will share how they use OER in their noncredit ESL classes, the challenges they face, and the resources they still need. We invite participants to share and connect.

Recorded Sessions

Navigating the Manosphere: Harmful Online Masculinity and Youth
Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of AI
Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
How to Respond in a Mental Health Emergency
AI Skills for Accessibility
ADA Title II: What CCC Leaders Need to Know
Silence to Support: Navigating Depression and Anxiety with Compassion
Designing Healthy Habits That Last
Well-Being: Youth Mental Health With the Washington Post
Emotional Intelligence and the Workplace
The Future of Workplace Mental Health: How Employers Can Tackle Lonliness and Burnout
Early Signs Matter: Strategies for Supporting Your Mental Health
The Human Component: Balancing Life
Culture Shaping
Turnitin's New Similarity Report and AI Detection

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