Contact Us:
Center for Innovation and Learning
cilgwc@cccd.edu
Dr. Erin Craig, CIL and Flex Day Coordinator
ecraig4@gwc.cccd.edu
Uyen Tran, Training and Development Specialist
utran@gwc.cccd.edu
September | October | November | December
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Trainers: John Wolfe and Oscar Aranda
Intended Audience: All GWC Employees
Location: RCJTC 142
This session introduces practical self-defense strategies for everyday situations. The first 30 minutes will cover key safety concepts, situational awareness, and foundational techniques through lecture and demonstration. The remainder of the session will involve hands-on practice of basic defensive moves and techniques.
Notes: This workshop is hands-on. Exercise attire is recommended but not required.
A Standard Assumption of Risk for Participation in Voluntary Activity form [PDF] required to participate in the training. Not paid for part-time faculty.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Presenter: Dr. Joan Moss
Intended Audience: All GWC Employees
Location: Zoom
Suicide is far too common. Know the warning signs and become more comfortable helping suicidal students, co-workers or loved ones. Become more aware of the college protocol for at-risk students.
Notes: Not paid for part-time faculty.
Friday, September 26, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Presenters: Dr. Erin Craig & Sacha Moore
Location: Zoom
Are you interested in creating a more humanized and inclusive classroom experience? Join this interactive training on Padlet, a powerful tool for building connection and belonging in your courses. In this session, you’ll learn how to use Padlet to design collaborative activities that invite all voices, create and sustain inclusive spaces, and promote student agency. Together, we’ll explore strategies to highlight collective knowledge, peer-to-peer dialogue, curating resources with student input, and amplifying perspectives. By the end, you’ll walk away with concrete ideas to make your teaching more engaging, student-centered, and humanizing—whether online, hybrid, or in person. Please join us!
Note: Paid for part-time faculty.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Presenter: Uyen Tran
Intended Audience: All GWC Employees
Location: LASS 207 – Computer Lab
For beginners or anyone needing a refresher. Get comfortable navigating Excel and using core features to make spreadsheets more useful and efficient. You'll learn how to enter, organize, and format data, apply basic formulas, and set up sheets for everyday use. You'll also get a short introduction to how AI tools can assist with using and understanding common Excel features, as well as explaining and breaking down formulas.
Notes: Paid for part-time faculty. Participants using Mac computers are asked to bring their own laptops.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Presenter: Dr. Joan Moss
Intended Audience: All GWC Employees
Location: Zoom
Suicide is far too common. Know the warning signs and become more comfortable helping suicidal students, co-workers or loved ones. Become more aware of the college protocol for at-risk students.
Notes: Not paid for part-time faculty.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Trainers: John Wolfe and Oscar Aranda
Intended Audience: All GWC Employees
Location: RCJTC 142
This session introduces practical self-defense strategies for everyday situations. The first 30 minutes will cover key safety concepts, situational awareness, and foundational techniques through lecture and demonstration. The remainder of the session will involve hands-on practice of basic defensive moves and techniques.
Notes: This workshop is hands-on. Exercise attire is recommended but not required.
A Standard Assumption of Risk for Participation in Voluntary Activity form [PDF] required to participate in the training. Not paid for part-time faculty.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Presenter: Uyen Tran
Intended Audience: All GWC Employees
Location: LASS 207 – Computer Lab
For users with basic Excel experience. Expand your skillset with formulas that make spreadsheets more dynamic and powerful. Learn to clean data with text functions, apply logical formulas, and use lookups. Explore how AI can support in writing more complex formulas and understanding function syntax.
Notes: Paid for part-time faculty. Participants using Mac computers are asked to bring their own laptops.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Presenters: C.J. Bishop and Amy Thach
Location: Zoom - https://cccd-edu.zoom.us/j/6173560904
No registration required, but encouraged – drop in at your convenience!
Your contributions to SLO data are critical in helping ORPIE positively impact the educational experience of our students at GWC. Join us and take advantage of this opportunity to simplify your SLO data entry process and make a meaningful impact! To support your efforts, we’re offering a hands-on workshop designed to help faculty enter SLO data into Nuventive with ease. If you have any questions about the workshop, feel free to reach out. We look forward to seeing you there!
Why Attend?
Friday, October 24, 2025
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Presenter: Hailey White
Location: Zoom
Podcasting, now more popular than ever, has become a powerful medium for entertainment. But its potential goes far beyond entertainment; it can also be used as an educational tool to meet students where they are and challenge them to engage with course material more deeply. Many students express their understanding more clearly through conversation than they do through writing, and podcasting allows them to do just that in a format that feels more natural, conversational, and relevant to their current interests. In this session, we’ll explore how assigning student-created podcasts can foster meaningful analysis, critical thinking, and creativity, all while meeting the same high standards we expect from traditional writing assignments. We’ll explore the value of open pedagogy and student-led projects, and listen to examples from past semesters that highlight not only the depth of insight that can be achieved through podcasting, but also the genuine excitement students feel when given the chance to create something meaningful. Join us as we reimagine student success through a fresh, creative, and student-centered approach!
Note: Paid for part-time faculty. This sessions is an expanded version of the breakout session at Fall 2025 Flex Day.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Presenters: Jeanette Adame & Jasper Chagolla
Location: MPR 100
Are you interested in supporting LGBTQ+ students and employees at GWC? Attend Safe Zone Level I! This session is designed for people who are seeking foundational knowledge of the LGBTQ+ community. This includes people who have never attended a Safe Zone training before, and for people who may have attended trainings in years previous but have not attended a training recently. The experiences of the LGBTQ+ people are rapidly changing and the methods to support these students and employees have evolved in recent years. Attendees will gain foundational knowledge of the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. You will also have the opportunity to engage with your colleagues to imagine the ways that you can participate in creating a safe environment for people of all gender and sexuality identities at GWC!
Note: Paid for part-time faculty.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Presenter: Dr. Joan Moss
Intended Audience: All GWC Employees
Location: Zoom
Suicide is far too common. Know the warning signs and become more comfortable helping suicidal students, co-workers or loved ones. Become more aware of the college protocol for at-risk students.
Notes: Not paid for part-time faculty.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Presenter: Uyen Tran
Intended Audience: All GWC Employees
Location: LASS 207 – Computer Lab
For intermediate/advanced users or anyone ready to level up. Master advanced lookup techniques with INDEX + MATCH, analyze data using PivotTables, and practice writing clear, purposeful AI prompts to create, troubleshoot, and understand complex formulas and workflows.
Notes: Paid for part-time faculty. Participants using Mac computers are asked to bring their own laptops.
Friday, December 5, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Presenters: C.J. Bishop and Amy Thach
Location: Zoom - https://cccd-edu.zoom.us/j/6173560904
No registration required, but encouraged – drop in at your convenience!
Your contributions to SLO data are critical in helping ORPIE positively impact the educational experience of our students at GWC. Join us and take advantage of this opportunity to simplify your SLO data entry process and make a meaningful impact! To support your efforts, we’re offering a hands-on workshop designed to help faculty enter SLO data into Nuventive with ease. If you have any questions about the workshop, feel free to reach out. We look forward to seeing you there!
Why Attend?
