Professional Development

• Creative Writing Pedagogy Track, MFA
  Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), Tacoma, WA, August 2017
  Description: Certificate program in pedagogy included the following: 
  
  • Incorporating Critical Writing into a Creative Writing Workshop by Suzanne Berne
  • Grading Creative Work by Sherry Simpson
  • Hold That Thought: Four Steps to Teaching Revision in Workshop by Kevin Clark
  • Group Texting While Walking on Stairs (Experiential Teaching in Creative Writing) by Barrie Jean Borich.
• Pikes Peak Community College, Professional Development, 2020-2021
  
  • Remote Instruction and Course Design
  • Accessibility: Universal Design for Learners (UDL)
  • Accessibility: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Media 
  • inclusifiED - Creating Inclusive and Welcoming Classroom Environments by Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy
• Pikes Peak Community College, Professional Development, 2019-2020
  
  • Advising Training Course
  • Bandwidth Recovery by Dr. Cia Verschelden
  • The Neuroscience of Learning by Angela Zanardelli Sickler 
  • Open Education Resources (OER) overview
  • Open Education Resources (OER) for Composition 
  • Curriculum Mapping SLOs, Competencies, and Outcomes 
• Pikes Peak Community College, Professional Development, 2018-2019
  
  • High Impact Practices (HIPS)
  • New Campus Technologies and Technology in the Classroom 
  • Cultural Excellence in Instructional Design (CEID) 
  • Diversity through Student Collaborative Projects
  • Cultural Excellence/Intersectionality 
• Pikes Peak Community College, Professional Development, 2016-2017
  
  • Interactive Learning
  • Collaborative Learning Techniques
  • Faculty Advising Toolbox 
  • Role Models and Kindred Spirits
  • D2L Progress Tools and D2L Course Materials 
  • eLearning Boot Camp Training
  • FERPA, recertified annually
  • Title IX, recertified annually

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Presentations and Invited Lectures

• Workshop, “Character Bacchanalia” and “Moonstruck and Minor Characters.” Northern Colorado Writers Conference, Fort Collins, CO, April 2021.
• Workshop, “Adjunct Instructors: Build Your Own Professional Development Journey” and “Writing While the World is Burning.” PPCC Professional Development Week, Colorado Springs, CO, January 2021.
• Workshop, “The 5 W’s of ePortfolios.” PPCC Professional Development Week, Colorado Springs, CO, January 2020.
• Workshop, “Moonstruck and Minor Characters” and “From the Battlefield to the Ballroom: Multiple-Character Scenes.” Colorado Gold Conference, Denver, CO, September 2019.
• Workshop, “Moonstruck and Minor Characters” and “From the Battlefield to the Ballroom: Multiple-Character Scenes.” Pikes Peak Writers Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, May 2019.
• Workshop, "Order from Chaos: Plotting for Nonfiction Writers" Pikes Peak Writers, Colorado Springs, CO, February 2019.
• Keynote Address, “No Such Thing as an Easy Button.” American Association of University Women, Old Colorado City, CO, October 2018.