2012 Conference Program
7th Annual Partners in Learning Conference 2012
Please join us for student-facilitated Questionshops. Help cultivate deeper forms
of community among our students and colleagues at De Anza.
Friday, March 2, 2012
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Conference Rooms A & B
Presenters and attendees will receive PGA/PAA credit (FT) and stipends (PT)
Please Register by Friday, Feb. 24!
E-mail Mary Kay Englen at staffdevelopment@deanza.edu
Breakfast and lunch will be provided to those who pre-register.
About the Questionshops
Staff, faculty and administrators will have the opportunity to share ideas during highly interactive sessions focused on the power of community. In each session, “presenters” will pose a question in 15 minutes or less, and then trained student facilitators will engage participants in a discussion to more deeply explore the question.
All De Anza staff, faculty, and administrators were encouraged to submit workshop question proposals consistent with the conference theme.
Opening: 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
8:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast in Conference Rooms A and B
9:00 a.m. Welcome activity with Martin de Mucha Flores
Session 1: 9:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
The Not-So Model Minority: Enhancing Success for Underserved Asian American Pacific Islander Students
Question: Given the deeply pervasive stigma of the model minority myth, what can we do to INCLUSIVELY
serve the students in our community who don't fit this stereotype, but are inevitably
overlooked because of this label?
Presented by: Christine Chai, IMPACT AAPI Assistant program director, ESL and Asian American Studies
Location: ADMN-109
Building an Academic Comfort Zone
Question: What is a mentor’s role in building community? And how does it improve classroom
management and student success?
Presented by: LEAD Mentors
Location: ADMN-119
We’re All in this Together, Aren’t We?
Question: How can managers work collaboratively with staff and faculty to create and sustain
community?
Presented by: Anita Kandula, Dean, Biological, Health, Environmental Sciences & Workforce Education
Division; Gregory Anderson, Dean, Learning Resources
Location: California History Center
Creating Community Across the Curriculum: Supporting Students with Basic Skills Needs in Transfer Courses
Question: What do faculty outside of the traditional basic skills departments (math, reading,
writing and ESL) need to know and do to support and engage students with basic skills
needs?
Presented by: Diana Alves de Lima, Co-Director, Student Success Center; Amy Leonard, English;
Sarah Lisha, Reading; Jen Myhre, Sociology and FYE
Location: L-22
Does De Anza Need a Poor People’s Club?
Question: For every ten poor students who get into college, only one finishes. Because poverty
and unemployment are shameful, people do their best to “pass” as middle class and
when they can’t, rather than speak up, they slide out of sight. Would a students-only
club be best or could students, faculty, and staff all benefit from such a club?
Presented by: Lita Kurth, English
Location: L-25
Bringing the Social From Social Networks into the Classroom
Question: How do we bring the social from social networks into our classroom in meaningful
and sustainable ways to create a student driven engaging and empowering technology
enhanced learning community?
Presented by: Shagun Kaur, Speech Communication and Journalism
Location: Multicultural Center-14
Session 2: 11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Teaming Up for Student Success
Question: How can we approach students' educational needs in ways that are culturally relevant & responsive while incorporating best practices in a spirit of community and efficient interrelationship? A discussion and dialogue focusing on enhancing the interface between great ideas, talented educators, various teaching/learning resources on the De Anza campus and the challenging academic dilemmas we often face.
Presented by: David Coleman, Counselor and Co-Coordinator of Sankofa Scholars; Edmundo Norte, Dean, IIS; Julie Lewis, Faculty, Black Studies; Jessica Hamilton, ICS; Ulysses Pichon, Faculty Emeritus and Co-coordinator of Sankofa Scholars; William Madden, Academic Advisor and Co-coordinator of Sankofa Scholars
Location: Multicultural Center-14
What Does Community Sound Like?
Question: What positive actions can you take each day to acknowledge individual students, while
inspiring colleagues to follow your lead?
Presented by: Melissa Aguilar, Co-Director, Student Success Center; Ricardo Delgado, SSC Instructional
Support Technician, Alerie Flandez, Academic Advisor; Phong Lam, Academic Advisor
Location: L-22
Creating Community on Campus by Easing into Service Learning
Question: How do I get started with community and civic engagement in my classroom?
Presented by: Marc Coronado, LEAD Community Coordinator, English; Doli Bambhania, Mathematics
Location: ADMN-119
Would You Teach Differently if You Didn’t Have to Give Grades?
Question: Can the Student Learning Outcome (SLO) process, have the potential to capture more
learning-centered models of academic merit at the course, program and institutional
levels?
Presented by: Toño Ramirez, Philosophy
Location: ADMN-109
What Can We Do to Build Community for our Older Students?
Question: What are some concerns expressed by students who are older than 30? What can we do
to help them fully participate in the college?
Presented by: Nancy Olson, Anthropology; Alex Ceseski, student
Location: Don Bautista
Connecting Biology to Our Day-to-Day Lives and the Lives of Our Communities
Question: How can we improve our students’ success in science classes and help them discover
fundamental biological principles in the most basic of their day to day tasks and
in their lives at home in their communities?
Presented by: Judy Cuff-Alvarado, Biology
Location: California History Center
The Cultural Capital Crisis: Building Community While Responding to the Realities of Our Students’ Lives
Question: How does lack of social and cultural capital prevent some students from engaging
fully in an academic community? How do social structures impact the way our students
feel part of a classroom community? How does our social class, attitude and privilege
create a barrier to building strong communities in the classroom and beyond?
Presented by: Paula Silva, Puente Project Co-Coordinator; Jesus "Chuy" Quintero, FYE, English;
Alicia Cortez, Puente Project Co-Coordinator and Counselor
Location: L-25
Lunch: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch provided for pre-registered participants, presenters, and facilitators in Conference Rooms A and B and may be purchased in the cafeteria for those not pre-registered.
Session 3: 1:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Math Communities: From Struggles to Snuggles
Question: How do we encourage the building of faculty and student communities that improve
student experience in developmental math and statistics?
Presented by: Diane Mathios, Steve Wolfe and Doli Bambhania, Mathematics
Location: ADMN-119
Celebrating the Student and Cultivating Community
Question: How can we honor our students' own challenges and celebrate our students' accomplishments
to cultivate a sense of community?
Presented by: Husne Jahan, English
Location: Don Bautista
On Fostering a Sense of Community Among Faculty
Question: How could we build lasting community among faculty within departments and across
campus at De Anza?
Presented by: Jeff Schinske, Biology
Location: L-25
ESL Students as Leaders in Creating Community at De Anza
Question: How can we help ESL students take the lead in creating a genuine sense of the global
community at De Anza?
Presented by: Kanako Suda, Listening and Speaking Center Staff; Tuyen Huynh, Chris Zhang, and Yuki
Ohira, students
Location: L-22
Cultural Humility as a Pathway to Equity
Question: How can we support our students in moving beyond diversity awareness or a desire
to achieve cultural “competence” to a deeper sense of cultural humility and a commitment
to shared quality or equity in our community?
Presented by: Veronica Neal, Director of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Transformation
Location: ADMN-109
Power, Conflict, and Connection: Developing the Vision & Tools for Creating Compassionate, Healthy, Sustainable Communities
Question: How can we use the principles, assumptions, and behavioral tools of Nonviolent Communication,
together with a critical framework for understanding our roles and responsibilities
when we hold different positions of power, to develop a way of engaging conflict that
results in greater mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual connection?
Presented by: Edmundo Norte, Dean, Intercultural International Studies
Location: Multicultural Center-14
Embracing with Dignity People Who are Mentally Different
Question: What are some ways that we can be more welcoming and accepting of the wide variety
of mental ways of being among the faculty, staff and students who are members of our
community? How can we authentically engage with each other across mental differences
on our campus?
Presented by: Andrew Phelps, Mathematics; Cynthia Kaufman, Director Institute of Community and
Civic Engagement
Location: California History Center
Closing: 3:10 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Harvesting, Reflecting and Raffle!!
Planning Committee
Faculty
- Karen Chow chowkaren@fhda.edu
- Alicia Cortez cortezalicia@fhda.edu
- Cynthia Kaufman kaufmancynthia@fhda.edu
- Coleen Lee-Wheat leewheatcoleen@fhda.edu
- Jackie Reza rezajacquelyn@deanza.edu
- Donna Stasio stasiodonna@fhda.edu
Classified Staff
- Mary Kay Englen englenmarykay@fhda.ed
- Virginia Marquez marquezvirginia@fhda.edu
Administrator
- Gregory Anderson andersongregory@fhda.edu
Sponsors:
The Institute of Community & Civic Engagement, Classified & Academic Senates,
Office of Instruction, Staff & Organizational Development, Learning Resources Division
A sense of community … signifies the presence of an agenda of common caring and grace. This agenda of common caring embraces a love for soul, for standard, and for system. There is a caring for the individuals in the community, for those whose welfare is held in trust. There is a caring for a standard of excellence and integrity. And there is a caring for the policy and physical systems in which men and women relate in both work and play. Central to the essence of community is the other face of love, which is forgiveness.
E. Grady Bogue
The simple truth about community is that it gathers around such personal virtues shared and multiplied. That truth becomes more pointed when we turn it around: community cannot, and will not, gather around smallness of mind, tightness of heart, banality of spirit, frenzy masquerading as efficiency, myopic views of reality, faddish techno-babble, obsession with the bottom line, or the fear that is masked by arrogance in too many intellectuals' lives.
Parker J. Palmer