Volume 2, Issue 2 | ELITE Digest | October 2022
Welcome to the latest edition of the ELITE Digest.
This month’s Digest features not only Multicultural Moments, Teaching Tip of the Month, @Work: Tip of the Month, and a MC Forward Podcast, but also highlights multiple professional development opportunities, including the second Inclusion by Design Summit offered by our partners in the Universal Design Center.
To help support you in your identification of your personal professional development needs, ELITE is thrilled to launch our Fall 2022 Professional Development Catalog. The Catalog offers faculty and staff an easy way to navigate the registration process for all ELITE sponsored events. The Catalog is dynamic and will be updated regularly to reflect the most-current professional development offering from ELITE.
October means changing leaves, cooler temperatures, and of course, Halloween! In the spirit of the season, we are thrilled to share MC treats with two lucky members of the MC community. To enter, all you have to do is:
- complete this month’s ELITE Interactive Game (see below); and
- send us a copyof your answers by 5 pm on Friday, October 7, 2022.
Winners will be selected at random and contacted via email. For an extra chance to win, “like” the September ELITE Digest post on the Montgomery Employees Facebook page by 5 pm on October 7, 2022.
Thank you for taking a moment to read this month’s Digest. The ELITE team looks forward to serving your professional development needs.
If you have any questions or feedback about our latest edition of the ELITE Digest, please let us know or contact us through the various ASK ELITE channels.
Inclusion by Design Summit
Helping Others Make Sense of Changes
As a new MC president begins his leadership journey and many other people are leaving and shifting, join your colleagues in a 45-minute webinar where you will hear other middle managers acknowledge varying degrees of uncertainty and discomfort brought on by systems changes and differences in leadership styles, intending to energize and elevate your role as unifiers at this important time.
Register
Cultivating Success and Impact
Build the ideal work environment to boost employee productivity with innovative insights, current industry examples, and engaging exercises. Participate in a redesigned course introducing you to management techniques to keep today’s employees engaged and feeling valued. Go from being a good manager to a great one!
Register
Intercultural Conflict
MC is a highly diverse college operating in one of the most multicultural communities in the nation. Our students, faculty, and staff have different backgrounds and experiences, making our college campuses dynamic. While diversity is beautiful, handling differences under varying circumstances can create frustration or conflict that is difficult to recognize and manage. This potential for conflict increases when we work closely with diverse groups of people, as research shows that 75% of highly diverse teams are dysfunctional due to a lack of clarity of goals and accountability.
Register
Tech-it-Out
Tech-It-Out will meet again on Friday, October 28, 2022, @ 2:00 pm. Come visit a speed session offering short, targeted professional development on a specific tech topic. Almost all of the problems we encounter at work and home involve another person: miscommunication or lack of communication. Learn how to have successful crucial conversations that meet the needs of both parties.
Learn more
Become an OER advocate
The concept of “open” in education means less barriers to information for the end user. There are many benefits to using Open Educational Resources (OER) in the classroom and beyond. Come to this workshop to discover how Montgomery College is paving a way for access and success in the open movement. Whether you are new to the concepts of OER or are an OER early adopter from way back, you will gain some new open knowledge values to apply to your work and explore opportunities for earning a microcredential.
- Friday, October 28th – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
- Wednesday, November 2nd – 3:00 – 4:00 pm
- Thursday, December 1st – 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Select a day and time that works and we will see you via Zoom: https://montgomerycollege.zoom.us/j/6668453317
Virtual Campus Information Sessions
In our continued effort to increase access and improve equity for all of our learner populations, the College now offers six additional online programs, approved by the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC). There is now a total of 20 fully online programs. The comprehensive list of fully online credentials can be found on the Distance Learning website.
Virtual Campus Lounge Hours for Employees
As the virtual campus continues to develop, Dr. Shinta Hernandez, Dean of the virtual campus, would like to invite you to her virtual campus lounge hours throughout the Fall 2022 semester. Feel free to “drop in” and ask questions, brainstorm ideas, or provide suggestions on anything related to the virtual campus.
National Coming Out Day
First observed in 1998, National Coming Out Day is October 11 each year in the United States. This Multicultural Moment will give background information on the observance, share testimonials of individuals from the LGBTQ + community, and present resources, including those at MC, to support individuals in coming out.
Learn More about Multicultural Moment.
Teaching and Learning Ideas for Indigeneous Peoples Day
Tip 1: Incorporate Indigenous Perspectives.
Including material and resources that represent indigenous voices is one way to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day, even beyond its observance on October 10. Below are a few resources to explore indigenous people’s artifacts, ideas, and research across disciplines.
Learn More about Teaching Tip of the Month.
Teaching Tips with Teams
What is Microsoft Teams? Microsoft Teams is an app that facilitates communication and collaboration in a virtual workspace. It is part of the Microsoft 365 suite of products and is included in the free Microsoft package available to all Montgomery College professors and students.
Learn More about Teaching Tips with Technology.
The Value of a Value
One of the strongest messages that senior leadership can communicate at a time of change is a statement of values. Values can add stability and opportunities for innovation at times of change. But for values to have value, they must be understood.
Learn More about @ Work Tip of the Month.
MC Forward
Dr. Michael Mills hosts a weekly podcast that focuses on Montgomery College individuals who are leading from where they are. Season 3 will begin on September 19, 2022.
Listen to Season 1 and Season 2 Podcasts.
HRSTM
The Inauguration of Dr. Jermaine F. Williams
Join the celebration on October 19, 2022, at 1:00 pm for the inauguration of Dr. Jermaine F. Williams, 11th president of Montgomery College, at The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland. RSVP by October 7.
The Office of Equity and Inclusion
The Journey Towards Becoming an Anti-Racist Institution
This is our required college-wide Antiracism training that will launch itself during the 2022-23 academic year. This training promotes social justice, radical inclusion, and racial equity within the College and the broader community and continues the Board focus on the journey to being an antiracist institution.
Register for The Journey Towards Becoming an Anti-Racist Institution workshops
