Fall 2022 Programs & Events

This synchronous Zoom writing group will boost your scholarly productivity. We use friendly behavioral triggers such as pre-commitment, accountability, and collegial social pressure to facilitate your progress in anything that counts towards productivity in research, scholarship, or creative work.

Contact Amy Dao or Erica Morales for more information and to join.

This October - February FLC is for faculty who want to revitalize a research program or consider how to do research with limited resources.

Please email Rick Willson (URP) or Lisa Kessler (CAFE) for more info.

What we do in the classroom really does matter for how much our students learn, how well they learn it, and how much fun we all have in the process. This series presents timely, practical, research-based strategies that are quickly and easily adoptable. Examples from different disciplines will be used.

Register for one or attend all!

• Thursday Sept. 8, 12:00-1:15pm: Retrieval, interleaved practice, and predictions
• Thursday Sept. 22, 12:00-1:5pm: Gather & use mid-semester student feedback
• CANCELED.  Digital resources will be provided to registrants.  Tuesday Oct. 25, 12:00-1:15pm: Exam wrappers & revision memos
• Tuesday Nov. 15, 12:00-1:15pm: Connections, practice, and explanations
• Thursday Dec. 1, 12:00-1:15pm: Summing up and preparing for finals

Register for "Small Strategies, Important Gains"

Accessibility of course materials and Universal Design for Learning are essential for providing an equitable and inclusive learning environment for all CPP students. Join CAFE and our Accessibility Champions to learn more about accessibility and quality assurance.

Accessibility sessions will discuss best practices and resources for creating accessible course materials. Quality assurance sessions will explore programs and strategies to promote high-quality course design, including: Universal Design for Learning (UDL), active learning, and Quality Matters (QM).

Please register for each session individually.

• Nov 16, 12:00pm - 1:00pm: Accessibility Workshop with Jason Zhang (CCHM)
• Nov 17, 12:00pm - 1:00pm: Accessibility Workshop with Brian Ramirez (CENG)
• Dec 1, 12:00pm - 1:00pm: Quality Assurance Workshop with Brian Ramirez (CENG)
• Dec 2, 1:00pm - 2:00pm: Quality Assurance Workshop with Jodye Selco (CSCI)
• Dec 7, 12:00pm - 1:00pm: Quality Assurance Workshop with Jason Zhang (CCHM)

The goal of CAFE Winter Institute 2023 is to invite faculty to consider together what it means and how to offer a course that goes beyond using generally effective strategies to being anti-racist.

CAFE previously offered Summer Institute 2022 "Doing the Work”: Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning. Whether you participated in the Summer Institute or not, you will gain valuable knowledge from the Winter Institute, as we hope to build on our past sessions as well as introduce new topics.

Faculty of any discipline are welcomed and encouraged to participate. We have capacity for a maximum of 30 faculty participants.

Register for "Doing the Work” 2.0

Cal Poly Pomona's contract with Blackboard ends June 2023. After that time, no one will be able to get data from Blackboard. Faculty will need to "harvest" any materials and information you want to have access to. Neither CAFE nor IT&IP will be able to provide individual support (i.e. we can't do it for you). More information can be found on the Transitioning from Blackboard page.

In this workshop recording CAFE team members demonstrate how to download student work, and other materials, from Blackboard to your hard drive. They also demonstrate uploading materials from your hard drive to OneDrive, CPP's cloud storage solution.

View the Workshop Recording

• National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity: Many webinars and online resources to support scholarship & career development. Especially see Every Summer (or Semester) Needs a Plan and How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities. Here’s how to access your membership.
• Teaching for Student Success podcast: Excellent research-based episodes with outstanding educators - hosted by a CSU faculty member.
• Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning, 2nd Ed.: Meaningfully updated with new material.
• Inclusive Teaching for Everyone workshop by Jose Bowen, plus the Wall of COOL faculty speakers (log in with your CPP credentials).

All students should have the joy of learning, the freedom to grow, and the benefits of education! Accessibility of course materials and Universal Design for Learning helps make that vision a reality. In this self-paced, self-enrollable, certificate course get background and practical strategies, and also develop empathy for the needs of all students.

Self-Enroll in Fundamentals of Accessibility

If you're new to Canvas or you want a refresher on basics, the self-enroll Intro to Teaching with Canvas Course will allow you to walk through basic steps for using Canvas to offer a good experience for your students (and therefore an easier experience for you). Go to the course to self-enroll with your Cal Poly Pomona Bronco credentials.

Self-Enroll in Intro to Teaching with Canvas