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Spring 2008 Seminars
Please join us for Spring professional development events. The VCCS CTE is hosting 3 stimulating and interesting professional development events:
 A seminar on rescuing reading at the Community College, featuring Dr. Tom Long, Professor of English and Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professor at Thomas Nelson Community College and Ms. Linda Simmons, Professor of History and Project Director of the Reading Across the Curriculum Project;
 the Chancellor’s Colloquy on great teachers with Chancellor DuBois based on his expertise and research on teaching in the community college; and,
 our first self-development seminar on communication success with international trainer and consultant, Trish Rubin, President of edVentures Group. As you know, the VCCS has added personal self-development and renewal to our professional development goals and we are honored to have Trish Rubin, author Communication in a New York minute leading off our self-development and renewal programs. Descriptions of two of our programs are described below.
We look forward to faculty joining us for one or all of these seminars. Tom Long is looking forward to telling you everything he has learned from his work and research on reading. Chancellor DuBois always looks forward to dialoguing with faculty about his greatest passion—teaching. Trish Rubin radiates with warmth and enthusiasm as she exemplifies relational communications. Seminar and Presenter Descriptions are Below.
Rescuing Reading: Making Connections for Reading
across the Curriculum at the Community College
Dr. Thomas Lawrence Long, Presenter
Professor of English, Thomas Nelson Community College
and
Ms. Linda Simmons,
Associate Professor of History &Project Director, Reading Across the Curriculum
Friday, February 15, 2008
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Center for Innovative Technology, Briefing Room
2214 Rock Hill Road
Herndon, VA 20170
Seminar Overview
Reading is at risk, according to two reports by the National Endowment for the Arts (Reading at Risk [2004], To Read or Not to Read [2007. Data suggests that both the amount of reading and the proficiency of reading in America have declined in the past twenty years. This workshop will discuss national data on the state of reading, will examine one initiative that was designed to intervene--a two-year VCCS Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professorship called Rescuing Reading-- and will give workshop participants an opportunity to adapt existing or create new interventions designed to strengthen their colleges’ commitment to reading as a component of general education. Rescuing Reading demonstrated measurable improvements that other colleges may wish to replicate.
About the Presenter
Dr. Thomas Lawrence Long is professor of English at Thomas Nelson Community College (Hampton) and has been an adjunct at Old Dominion University and the College of William and Mary. As a VCCS Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professor he conducted a two-year project called Rescuing Reading: A Community College Response to the National Endowment for the Arts Report, Reading at Risk. Dr. Long is the author of AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic (State University of New York Press) and is editor-in-chief of Harrington Gay Men’s Literary Quarterly. He “blogs” at http://thelongview.tv.
For more information on the Rescuing Reading project visit http://www.tncc.edu/rescuingreading.
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Linda Simmons will conclude this seminar with a grant preparation session as described below:
Risky Reading
Want your students to read more? Not sure what to do? Join a 30 minute discussion and identify one strategy to try, then spend a few minutes drafting a proposal for a grant that will allow you to try the strategy. Proposals may fit into the Initiative’s existing topics, such as “What to do during the First Class meeting,” or maybe on topics beyond those the Initiative currently supports.
The Reading Across the Initiative will fund up to 5 proposals.
Facilitator: Linda Simmons
This seminar is collaboratively sponsored by the VCCS Regional Center for Teaching Excellence
and The Reading Across the Curriculum Initiative
"Chancellor's Colloquy on Great Teachers"
Dr. Glenn DuBois, Chancellor, VCCS, Presenter
Friday, February 29, 2008
1:00pm-3:00pm
Center for Innovative Technology
2214 Rock Hill Road
Herndon, VA 20170
Colloquy Overview
In this colloquy, VCCS Chancellor, Dr. Glenn DuBois will share his thinking on great teachers and their characteristics. He will discuss some of history’s greatest teachers as well as teachers in our everyday lives and the important traits they possess. He will highlight his own work and research on the subject as well as that of others. Dr. Dubois’s research has revealed some interesting hidden characteristics associated with master teachers and he delineates these qualities that lead to effective and great teachers which had not been previously reported prior to his research.
To summarize this session, Chancellor DuBois writes: "Great teachers liberate students and make them succeed. Great teachers in the community college classroom through their talents and charisma, motivate their students’ intellectual growth, evoke their students’ emotions, and improve their students’ self-esteem. Great teachers encourage students to find meaning in their lives, a sense of purpose and vision. The great teacher possesses a unique form of altruism, an unselfish commitment to the welfare of the student, approaching the Greek "agape"–unselfish love and concern for others. Teaching is an ongoing passion.
After the Chancellor’s opening remarks, he invites you to join him in open dialogue on the subject and the VCCS professional development and research initiatives needed to enhance your greatness. We look forward to your joining us for this important session.
About Chancellor DuBois
Chancellor Glenn DuBois is the Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Community College System and Secretary to the State Board for Community Colleges. Dr. DuBois was appointed Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System in July 2001.
A renowned expert on the dynamics of community college teaching, Dr. DuBois helped launch and speed the system’s progress toward the Dateline 2009 goals and has spearheaded the development of new transfer agreements with four-year institutions.
Dr. DuBois came to Virginia’s community colleges with a broad background in higher education and an outstanding record of leadership and academic performance. He served as the Commissioner and CEO of the New Hampshire Community Technical College System from 1998 to 2001, managing educational and workforce development initiatives for a statewide system on seven campuses. He also was the director of community colleges for the State of New York, which has one of the nation’s largest networks of community colleges. In addition, Dr. DuBois chaired the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges from August 2000 to July 2001.
Dr. DuBois received his doctorate of higher education administration, research, and policy from the University of Massachusetts.
Relational Communications
Strengthen your Personal and Professional Communication Success
Face to Face Skills for the TECH- NARCIST Workplace
Trish Rubin, President, EdVentures Group, Presenter“
Friday, April 4, 2008
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Center for Innovative Technology
2214 Rock Hill Road
Herndon, VA 20170
Seminar Overview:
Strengthen your Communication Success in your workplace and personal life… And do it in a New York MINUTE!
Every hour we spend looking at screens impacts our face to face time with co-workers, clients, friends and family. Today we stay in touch at arm’s length! As we fall more in love with technology we become isolated. As good as technology gets, it works against our basic human wiring---we are programmed to connect face to face. Learn to balance your online self with your real time communication self.
How we connect to each other has important significance to our success on the job and in our personal life. Using the tools of relational communication and social intelligence can broaden your ability to develop a connected, more successful presence with others. It can lead to your skill as an influencer in the lives of those you touch…for a minute, an hour, a semester…and beyond.
Discover a tool box of communication strategies under the model of Trish Rubin’s New York MINUTE. This nationally known educator and current owner of an international business development and coaching company is on a mission—to bring the power of our human presence back to our real time relational world. An interactive engaging session!
 Learn to connect to your relational social brain through emotional intelligence
 Practice relational communications tools that will raise your confidence as a communicator
 Improve your ability to meet and influence people face to face
 Build your network of colleagues who can “brand” your workplace as personable, efficient and connected
 Experience communication skills that bridge the generation gap.
About Trish Rubin
Trish Rubin is a business development consultant, speaker and writer. With more than twenty-five years experience as a communications professional and trainer, she works across the USA and internationally, partnering with Business, Education and Not-for-Profit organizations.
Her work takes her to boardrooms, to business venues, conferences, classrooms and to communities worldwide. Her mission is to promote active and continuous learning "Edventures" in organizations through Relational Communication Skill Training.
Ms. Rubin taught in grades K through collegiate level during her educational career. As a school administrator and manager, she served as district supervisor, assistant principal, curriculum director, mentor, literacy coach, and as an interim assistant superintendent.
In her role as a national educational consultant, she worked in thirty-eight states; first, as a consultant to the United States Department of Education, and later as a trainer for many public and private school districts. Currently, she is the national education consultant for USA Today Education in the field of Writing. Most recently, her books, The New York MINUTE for Business are published by Morgan James Press. A Japanese translation is due 2008.
Ms. Rubin's work in professional and organizational development focuses on implementing processes across cultures that create continuous learning. Through Relational Communications training, she facilitates and coaches multinational businesses, corporations, medical professionals and school districts that target communication performance of staff. Her work is based on a model of sustained personal and professional development which results in improved learning.
She is a literacy specialist and curriculum developer and constructs organizational assessments that inform and measure. She partners with technology specialists to interface current technology with best practice in organizations. Her Project Partners are specialists who provide training in the areas of an organization's learning.
Ms. Rubin is the President of the EdVentures Group, a New York based consulting group and the author of The New York MINUTE series of business communication books. Her keynote speeches span business and educational concerns. As a one-to-one coach, she sets the stage for support of organizational initiatives. She has presented at national and state conferences and represents international Coaching and Performance organizations. In the EdVentures Group Education Division, she works across the country, to establish communities of learning in states where performance is measured by state standards. Her work goes beyond learning for the sake of testing. Her belief is in genuine, continuous learning of the entire organization.
Ms. Rubin holds degrees in English Education, Reading and Supervision. She has a Masters degree in Government Administration from the Fels School of the University of Pennsylvania and coursework in progress toward a PhD. Her various articles appear in trade and "ezine" publications nation wide. She is a member of the National Speakers Association, Rotary International, Business and Professional Women INTL, as well as other prominent organizations.
Copyright 2005 Edventures Group. All rights reserved.
Registration and Contact Information:
To register or for more information, contact: Rosalyn M. King, Chair, CTE at roking@nvcc.edu or at 703-450-2629.
You can also visit our website at: www.nvcc.edu/loudoun/cte
Or
Contact your campus representative:
James Baer and Mary Hanrahan (NVCC-AL); Gerald Boyd , Trudy Gillevet, and Nan Peck (NVCC-AN); Chris Blake and Satarupa Das (NVCC-LO); Laura Bhadra and Pat Lazzarino (NVCC-MA); Patricia Ottavio (NVCC-MEC); Barbara Gershman and Barbara Marotta(NVCC-WO); Joan Trabandt (ELI); Randy Beckham and Terry Rooker (GCC-Fredericksburg & Locust Grove); Nicole Martin and Curtis Morgan (LFCC).
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