OneCCRI / Professional Development Day 2024

Professional Development Day - Inclusive Excellence in Action: Learning as a Community

Friday, April 12th, 2024

8am - 4pm

CCRI's Professional Development Day (PDD) will take place on Friday, April 12th with a full day of in person activities at the Warwick Campus. This year’s theme is Inclusive Excellence in Action: Learning as a Community and features a wide range of professional development workshops and community engagement activities for CCRI faculty and staff. Join your colleagues to learn from subject matter experts, enjoy community building activities, and see excellent performances from Rhode Island Black Storytellers and Bollywood Dance Fusion & Fitness.

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Agenda

• 8am - 8:30am: Continental Breakfast + Sign-In
• 8:30am - 9am: Welcoming
• 9am - 10am: Keynote Speaker
• 10am - 10:10 am: Transition
• 10:10am - 11:10am: Training Session 1
• 11:10am - 11:20am: Transition
• 11:20am - 12:20pm: Training Session 2
• 12:30pm - 1:30pm: Lunch
• 1:30pm - 2:20pm: Community Engagement Activities [Guided Meditation/Yoga, Campus Walking Tour, CCRI Scavenger Hunt]
• 2:20pm - 2:30pm: Transition
• 2:30pm- 3:30pm: Rhode Island Black Storytellers + Bollywood Fusion Fitness Celebration

Workshop Options:

• Session 1: Establishing and Advancing Inclusive Leadership

  
  
  • Description:
    Dive deeply into authentic inclusive leadership leveraging power dynamics, diverse identities and working styles, and transparent servant leadership. We will share strategies, goals, challenges and resources.
  • Presented by: Claudia Traub, Education Manager at Dorcas International 

 

• Session 2: Title IX, Nondiscrimination, Reporting, Consent, and Intervention
  
  • Description:
    Kara will teach attendees about their rights and obligations and students' rights and obligations under Title IX & CCRI's Nondiscrimination Policy. She will talk about consent and intervention practices and methods.
  • Presented by: Kara DiPaola, Assistant Director, Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity  

 

• Session 3: In, Out, and In-Between: LGBTQ+ Exposure and Disclosure in Context
  
  • Description:
    This session spotlights the continual nature of the coming out experience among members of the LGBTQ+ community. Based on interviews with nearly 70 LGBTQ+ folks across the United States, this data speaks to the cues and shortcuts folks use to determine safe spaces, safe people, and appropriate mechanisms for disclosure (or ways to avoid exposure) as they encounter new people and contexts.
  • Presented by: Maureen Outlaw, Associate Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Providence College

 

• Session 4: DSS Awareness, Resources & Best Practices
  
  • Description:
    This workshop will provide valuable information regarding confidentiality around disability status. Also, best practices for balancing confidentiality/legal responsibilities and fostering inclusivity for students with disabilities.
  • Presented by: Allison Hitte Robinson, Director Accessibility, Inclusion & Disability Services & Stevenson Wachira, Assistant Professor

 

• Session 5: The Importance of Mental Wellness
  
  • Description:
    This presentation focuses on recognizing signs of major mental illnesses, stigma and suicide as well as coping skills for those living with the illness and their loved ones.
  • Presented by: Penny Ferrara, Manager, School and Public Programs for NAMI Rhode Island

 

• Session 6: Learning Commons: Resources to Support Our Students
  
  • Description:
    This session will inform faculty and staff about all the services offered within the Learning Commons, the new umbrella organization for Guided Pathways, the Library, the Tutoring Center, and the Writing Center. The focus of the session will be on how faculty can use our services to improve success rates for students
  • Presented by: Beth Anish (Dean Learning Commons & Classroom Technology), Katie Holcomb Paal(Associate Professor), and Marcia Sylva (Campus Coordinator Tutoring Center)

 

• Session 7: Campus Safety, Personal Responsibility and Situational Awareness Training
  • Description:

    The CCRI Police Department Chief will conduct a presentation discussing Active Threat and Emergency Preparedness.  The first section will cover the current College emergency preparedness plans; CCRI police capabilities and responsibilities during emergencies, particularly active threat situations; specifics of the College warning systems used during emergencies; expectations of outside agency first responders; and lessons learned from recent incidents of active violence and our own annual exercises.  The second section will cover personal and collective actions and responsibilities during an active threat situation, specifically during an evacuation, shelter-in-place or lock down scenario; along with the concept of Run Hide Fight.  Ample time for discussion and questions will be allocated.

  • Presented by: Joseph Hopkins, Director of Public Safety & Chief of Police

 

• Session 8: Faculty Skills Development and Promotion & Tenure
  • Description:
  • Join the Academic Deans to learn about the CCRI faculty Promotion and Tenure process and requirements. Make a plan for your own professional development as you work towards these important career milestones.
  • Presented by: William Stargard, Barbara Nauman and Suzanne Carr Academic Deans of CCRI