CRPP Symposium 2024 Presenters
Dr. Deborah Henry is Co-Chair of Coastline's Biological Sciences & Allied Health Department and Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. As a medical doctor in the neurosurgical field, she understands biases from both the scientific and clinical sides.
How Educators can use Scientific Study Design to Explain and Minimalize Bias in the Classroom
See how scientific studies are designed to minimalize bias and how this can be extrapolated into everyday teaching.
Kelly Ruppert is a full-time Geology faculty in the Physical Science Department at Coastline College. She serves as Department Chair and has taught countless workshops at other institutions on pedagogically sound practices as it relates to UDL and inclusion.
Technology in the Online Classroom: Focusing On Inclusion
Focusing on the challenges students have with technology in the online classroom and how to help specific populations of students.
Dr. Petry received her Master’s with a double major in Spanish and a Doctorate Degree in Russian Languages, Literature, and History with an emphasis on Cultural Studies, from Universities, Ca' Foscari in Venice, Italy. She specialized in teaching Italian as a second language for adults with the postgraduate program in Venice, at University Foscari Master ITALS. As an Adjunct Professor here at Coastline, Petry teaches Spanish in the ECHS Dual Enrollment program and is currently in her fifth year representing International Languages on Curriculum. She is a Polyglot, speaking 5 languages and holds the SPOT and ACUE certification for teaching online in Higher Ed with Excellence for past 20 years. She currently teaches at UCI Italian for Spanish Heritage speakers and at Mt. SAC Italian and Spanish. Her sixteen-year-old son speaks 4 languages and wants to learn more.
DEISAA+ Social Lens and Sustainability into World Language Courses
Simple strategies and assignments to adopt in online virtual asynchronous environment or in the live classroom.
Dr. Hoerer earned her PhD in Biological Sciences from Syracuse University, where she studied college science teaching, microbial ecology and ecosystem sustainability in Yellowstone National Park. She currently serves as fulltime faculty in the Biological Sciences and Allied Health Department at Coastline College and Lead PI for the S-STEM scholarship grant funded by NSF. She has worked to find practical solutions for making STEM more inclusive and accessible to students by attending AJEDI training through the Tiny Earth Project at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as part of the undergraduate research project in antibiotic discovery.
Recommendations for Incorporating DEISAA into STEM Courses
Simple strategies and assignments to adopt in your classroom and recommendations for incorporating undergraduate research into STEM priorities at Coastline College.
Oceana Callum joined Coastline College in 2017 as a full-time faculty member, where she became a tenured professor in 2021. Originally from Northern California, Professor Callum received her Bachelor's degree in English at U.C. Santa Barbara, a Master of Arts in English with a focus on American Literature at U.C. Order of Presenters Riverside, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with a focus on poetry at California State University, Long Beach. In 2019, she founded StoryLine, Coastline College's magazine featuring the art and writing of Coastline students, faculty, and staff, as well as other talented artists from the region, and she now serves as Faculty Advisor of the magazine.
How Live Online Classes Can Facilitate Equitable Teaching Practices
Using Zaretta Hammond's book Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2014) we will talk about how Live Online courses allow for implementation of several of her key ideas.
Dr. Matthew Quinlan joined Coastline College as a full-time Psychology instructor in Fall 2017. He earned a B.A. in Psychology from LMU and a PhD in Neuroscience from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. At Coastline, he is co-chair of the Psychology Department, was an active member of the DEISSA Committee, is part of the Student Equity and Achievement work group, and acts as facilitator of the Faculty Equity Course professional development program.
Utilizing a Liquid Syllabus for an Online Course
Learn how to take advantage of an online, mobile-friendly website to house a Course Syllabus in order to enhance accessibility, humanize the instructor, and foster a sense of belonging.