Thank you written in wooden scrabble tiles on a deck.

Thanks for attending Fall Faculty Focus 2025! We hope that you found some enjoyment in the day and that you had a chance to interact with colleagues and presenters. We hope that you are taking something useful away to continue to reflect upon, explore, play with, try out, or discover. Please see the resources below, including links to slides and presentations and a feedback survey.

To a wonderful new academic year!

Presentation resources and slides

Keynote Speaker Slides

We are so excited to welcome Lisa Bullard, who is an English faculty member here at Clark! Lisa Bullard has taught in higher ed for over a decade at colleges and universities in Montana, New York, and Washington. She's been at Clark, teaching in the English Department, since January 2021. She has also been tutoring students during that time, from Tibetan refugees in India, to the football team at Montana State University, to Veteran's at our Veteran Center of Excellence at Clark. Lisa values education as a site of empowerment and change-making and has won awards for her teaching and presented both locally and nationally on teaching and assessment interventions to that end. Lisa also writes and has both academic and personal writing published in a variety of places, including The Meridian Review, English Journal, and Manifest Station.

Bullard Keynote CCL and Community.pptx

CCL Exercise Zine.docx

Faculty questions from FFF.docx

EDM: Equitable Decision Making in Learning Spaces

Due to unforeseen circumstances, tomorrow’s scheduled Power, Privilege and Inequity training planned with Fall Faculty Focus will be shifted instead to Equitable Decision Making in Learning Spaces. We look forward to bringing our previously scheduled speaker to the college at a future date.

Slides provided by ODEI, please email odei@clark.edu.

Information Literacy across Disciplines, Careers, and Life

Join Clark Librarians Laura Nagel and Katy Anastasi as they explore the following questions:

What is information literacy? (Is it different from critical thinking?)
How does it already show up in your classes and discipline? (We’re confident it does!)
How can we partner to equip students to ethically obtain, evaluate, use, and create information in their careers and everyday lives?

Information Literacy across Disciplines, Careers, and Life (1).pptx

7 Steps to Infuse Trauma-Informed Pedagogy into Your Classroom

Join Molly Lampros, Communication Studies Professor, in this workshop on practical and useful teaching strategies to infuse trauma-informed teaching in our daily teaching practices. With an increasing number of students facing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), the role that COVID-19 played in their development, and the rise in pressure to perform, it is more important than ever for educators to recognize the impact of trauma on learning, behavior, and development. A trauma-informed approach not only supports student well-being, but also improves academic engagement, reduces behavioral disruptions, and helps build a positive school climate. This interactive workshop and presentation will introduce or reacquaint faculty and staff to the principles and practices of trauma-informed teaching. It will also bridge the gap between student engagement and practical application of course concepts through community building, civic engagement, and career development skills. Trauma-informed teaching is not about having all the answers; it’s about recognizing the role of trauma and shifting our perspective to support healing and learning by being open and flexible in our teaching. By making simple, mindful changes in our approach, we can make a lasting difference in the lives of our students—and in our own professional fulfillment.

Artificial Intelligence 2.0: Policies and Assignments

Join Don Ludwig, Nicole Mottier, and Toby Peterson as they present a Canvas shell that will be open to any Clark faculty regarding Generative AI. The shell’s point will be to support faculty at developing their own policies, practices, and assignments (for their own individual courses or at a department-wide level) regarding Generative AI, whether or not they use it in their pedagogy and learning spaces. Throughout the session, we will discuss the following:

How we as a faculty help our students understand the contexts in both their education and their workplace in which it is appropriate and not appropriate to use AI.
How we as a faculty can use our course materials to help students hone their skills in using AI so that they can navigate AI in their education and their workplace.

In the first part of the session (app. 30 mins), we will walk through the Canvas shell’s five modules. In the second part of the session (app. 30 mins), we will open up for a conversation about the following:

What can we do more, different, and better to improve the five modules so that they will be as user-friendly and useful to Clark faculty as possible.
Everyone’s expertise, ideas, and suggestions from their own experiences with AI in their pedagogy and learning spaces.

Transgender Community Support 101

Join Bellamy Holt in this crash course in how to politely ask for pronouns, how to apologize after misgendering someone, and how to address accommodations needed by trans and gender diverse individuals. Transgender, Nonbinary, and gender non-conforming individuals are facing an unprecedented level of visibility and conflict within political and social spheres. This training is intended to help folks know the best practices for interacting with these individuals, and how to support their community in this contentious time. Whether you are in the healthcare, business, or public services fields, there are benefits to knowing how to talk to patients and clients who identify with these groups. In this training, you will learn how to ask for pronouns, what the correct terms are to use in the medical field for trans folks, and how to accommodate their unique needs as a supervisor or a vendor.

Trans Courtesy Training.pptx

Etiquette to a T.docx

Career Connected Learning 101

Join Stephanie Leeper, the Career-Connected Liaison, for an exploration of Career Connected Learning and what that can look like in your curriculum. The objective of this workshop is to equip Clark faculty with the tools and strategies to incorporate career-connected learning (CCL) and career connections into their courses, fostering a bridge between classroom learning and career readiness for students.

CCL101_FFF.pptx

Building Career-Connected Learning Experiences

Join Trisha Haakonstad, from Career Services, in an interactive session to assist faculty with understanding career resources, ideas and examples to support career-connected learning in their curriculum. Career Services is here to support students, faculty, staff, and community in enhancing career-connected learning. During this interactive session, learn about resources, tools, and activities to assist with developing career-connected learning assignments and experiences. Examples include how to access and navigate career exploration resources, topics for assignments to compliment your course, and example activities created in Canvas. Let’s get together, learn and co-create practical career-connected learning experiences!

Building Career Connected Learning Experiences - Update (1).pptx

Zines!

Join Reference Librarian Madeline Robert and Stephanie Leeper in Zines! A session dedicated to exploring how this DIY art form can be used as a tool for Career Connected Learning, encourage engagement with community, and create unique learning experiences. In this session, you will learn how zines can be used as a learning tool in the classroom, a way to engage with community, and a tool for career-connected learning.

Zine_CCL FFF.pptx

ZineHandoutDigital.docx

Fueling Experiential Learning: Funding Opportunities through Clark College Foundation’s Grant Program

Join Clark’s Foundation members Melissa O’Dea, Shirley Schwartz, and Chanell Gore as they talk about the Student Success Fund and Innovation Fund. Have an idea for an experiential, community-engaged, or career-connected project but unsure how to fund it? This interactive workshop will introduce Clark College Foundation’s Student Success and Innovation Funds—internal grant opportunities that support equity-centered, real-world learning experiences. Learn how to align your project with fund priorities, explore examples of successful proposals, and workshop your own ideas in a collaborative setting. Walk away with practical tools and sound understanding of how to turn your vision into a funded initiative.

[Final] CCF Fall Faculty Focus Handout 9.16.25.pdf

Fall Faculty Focus Workshop Plan.docx

Career Readiness is Not One Size Fits All: Embedding Equity in Career Readiness Education

Join Niira Krupnick, from Career Services, in a reflection of how do our definitions of “career ready” reflect dominant cultural norms, and who gets left out when we treat those definitions as universal? This interactive workshop invites faculty and staff to reflect on how traditional ideas of professionalism, communication, and workplace readiness are often rooted in white, middle-class, able-bodied, and neurotypical standards. Together, we will examine how these expectations show up in classrooms, advising, and programming, and explore ways to reframe them so all students feel supported in their career journeys.

Participants will:

Reflect on how dominant norms shape career readiness expectations.
Identify ways career-focused teaching and support practices may unintentionally signal that only certain identities or experiences are “career ready.”
Explore strategies to make career education more inclusive and culturally responsive.
Identify small shifts in language, assignments, and advising that build student confidence and agency.

Topics will include:

Rethinking rubrics and readiness frameworks to better reflect diverse strengths.
Supporting multilingual and neurodiverse students with scaffolding and flexibility.
Using inclusive language in resumes, interviews, and career-related assignments.
Approaching student stories with care, consent, and a focus on agency.

Join us for a collaborative session focused on equity, identity, and belonging. Career education can open doors by honoring the full diversity of student experiences.

ActualCareerReadinessEquityWorkshop_UPDATED.pptx

CareerAuditandMTSSHandouts.docx

Innovating and Motivating the Next Generation of Problem Solvers

Join professor Cornelius Brown in exploring how Design Thinking can be used to inspire students to think boldly about their futures and career pathways. Based on Innovation in Action: A Workbook for Bold Business Minds, this interactive session equips educators with tools to foster creativity, empathy, and problem-solving. Participants will engage in hands-on activities that model how to help students define goals, develop solutions, and build confidence in their ideas. Co-led by experienced educators, this workshop will demonstrate how to motivate the next generation of innovators through meaningful, future-focused learning experiences that connect classroom content to real-world challenges.

Innovating and Motivating the Next Generation of Problem Solvers (1).pptx

Thoughts for us?

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Fall Faculty Focus 2025 Feedback Survey

Thank you!

Lisa Bullard

Andra Spencer

Alyssa Montminy

Dr. Terry Brown

President Edwards

Stephanie Leeper

Rhianna Johnson

Andrew Shaman

Clark’s amazing Facilities team!

Clark’s amazing Media team!

Clark’s amazing Event Services team!

Bleu Door Bakery

Lisa Hasart

Meghan Moss

Brooke Iggulden

Laura Nagel

Katy Anastasi

Molly Lampros

Nicole Mottier

Don Ludwig

Toby Peterson

Bellamy Holt

Trisha Haakonstad

Madeline Robert

Melissa O'Dea (Clark College Foundation)

Shirley Schwartz (Clark College Foundation)

Chanell Gore (Clark College Foundation)

Niira Krupnick

Cornelius Brown

Sandra Bush

Tre Sandlin

Mary Chavez

Julie Austad