In this interactive session, you'll walk through simple, immediately-applicable AI tools that can slash your workload significantly—from automating email responses and generating meeting summaries to creating lesson plans and grading rubrics in minutes instead of hours. Jason Carter.

This presentation explores the Let Them theory and how it can be applied in the classroom to support both student responsibility and teacher well-being. By allowing students to experience the natural consequences of their choices, instructors can shift ownership of learning back to students while reducing micromanagement. Betsy Long

Emerging pedagogues and classroom practices are available to faculty to ensure students learn in ways that also cultivate students’ resilience, healing, and empowerment. Join us for this session to learn more about today’s unique learners across different generations and how you can carry them as far as they can go in today’s changed world. Sarah Parlier, Andrea Craven

Upon completion of this session, attendees will identify actionable strategies to support student's autonomy, effective classroom communication, and enhance evidence‑based critical thinking in college classrooms. Lorrie Coltraine, Deniz Tuck.

Upon completion of this session, attendees will identify practical applications for improving their classroom time management skills and discover how to critique their classroom policies for potential areas of poor communication. Deana St. Peter, Jessica Brown.

New CTE faculty coming straight from industry bring great real-world experience to the classroom, but teaching at a community college requires nuances to how skills are presented and transferred to learners. This session explored effective teaching strategies that convert industry experience into real-world learning opportunities as well as ways to build community in the classroom. Myles Regier.

This professional development session is designed to strengthen collaboration between high school and college faculty by focusing on effective communication, relationship-building, and alignment in support of College & Career Promise (CCP) student success. Good Practice Principles: Respect Educators Knowledge, Bridge Boundaries. Tammie Aldana.

Are you feeling drained, overwhelmed, or disengaged at work? You're not alone. Burnout is a pervasive issue with a significant negative impact on individual well-being and the overall work environment. This workshop is designed for faculty and staff at all levels who want to understand, prevent, and overcome burnout. In this interactive session, we'll delve into what burnout is, what its root causes are, and how burnout differs from everyday stress. You'll learn practical techniques you can immediately implement to prevent burnout from taking hold and learn how to cultivate a resilient mindset. Ann Everett, Tracy Moss.

Master the art of tuning into what people really need within minutes of meeting them. This interactive session teaches you how to decode verbal and non-verbal cues, identify the gap between what someone says they want and what they actually need, and pivot conversations accordingly. Whether you're in a consultation, mentoring session, or impromptu hallway chat, you'll learn techniques to quickly build rapport, ask the right questions, and create meaningful dialogue that addresses real challenges—not just surface requests. Shantell Strickland-Davis.

Through targeted assignment redesign questions and other curated resources, you'll identify actionable guidelines, real-world examples, and additional strategies to effectively integrate AI without constant monitoring. Lisa Blue.

This interactive session introduces faculty to high-impact, research-based instructional strategies that boost student engagement and deepen learning—regardless of discipline or delivery mode. Participants will explore practical ways to incorporate active learning, simplify formative assessment, and structure lessons for clarity and cognitive engagement. Walk away with easy-to-implement tools that elevate instruction without adding to your workload.

This session will offer humorous perspectives and strategies for improving our digital presence and virtual immediacy. It offers strategies for how to connect meaningfully with students through computer-mediated communication, helping them develop professional communication skills in the process. Claudia Gresham, Elizabeth Braun, Natasha Harris.

Dr. Jason Moldoff, the 2024 Durham Tech winner, shares examples of how he creates a stimulating first five minutes of class to increase student engagement. Christopher Wayne Hardin, the 2024 Johnston Community College winner, provides insights on building trust, open communication, and humility in his teaching practice.

Drawing on research and practice, including some of his own work, Dr. Nachman will enable attendees to glean actionable recommendations on how they can create better classroom experiences for both their autistic learners and all students. Throughout, attendees will engage in reflections and discussions about the ways they envision making positive changes to their courses with autistic students in mind.

Cathleen DiDonato, the 2024 Wake Tech winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award, shares how to increase student engagement in your classroom to promote student success.

Discover how simple actions like personalized emails, thoughtful grading comments, regular announcements and other tools can make a world of difference in how your students perceive you. Learn practical strategies to show your students that you’re not just a name on a screen, but a real person who cares about their success. By the end of this session, you'll have the tools to create a more engaging, supportive, and responsive learning environment.

Congratulations on securing a teaching position! Transitioning from a practitioner to a successful instructor involves embracing new responsibilities and refining your skills. This session will offer practical steps to help you thrive in your new role, such as ways to use your experience to your benefit, develop your teaching philosophy, networking, and building those teaching and classroom management skills. This session is geared for instructors in their first three to five years of teaching.

In this session, we will explore practical strategies to support students with limited technology skills. Topics covered include a range of approaches to create a learning environment with inclusion, from simplifying digital tools to providing step-by-step guidance and resources. Participants will leave equipped with actionable techniques to bridge the tech divide, ensuring all students have the opportunity to succeed in a digitally-driven educational landscape.

Drawing from the Adult Learner Guidebook Second Edition by the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at NC State University, this session highlights common characteristics and challenges faced by adult learners in the North Carolina Community College System.

Drawing from the Adult Learner Guidebook Second Edition by the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at NC State University, this session highlights common characteristics and challenges faced by adult learners in the North Carolina Community College System.

Drawing from the Adult Learner Guidebook Second Edition by the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at NC State University, this session highlights common characteristics and challenges faced by adult learners in the North Carolina Community College System.

Drawing from the Adult Learner Guidebook Second Edition by the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at NC State University, this session highlights common characteristics and challenges faced by adult learners in the North Carolina Community College System.

Facilitated by Dr. Trent Mohrbutter, this workshop helps CTE faculty develop a positive and supportive educational environment that boosts student engagement, increases retention, improves success, and fosters a sense of community and belonging. During this workshop you'll have access to techniques like reading strategies, developing critical thinking, encouraging collaboration and communication that you can immediately use in your classroom to make your teaching more effective and increase student success.

Dr. Kelley Evans interactive presentation explored the unique challenges faced by first-generation college students and the transformative power of a growth mindset. Participants learned practical strategies for fostering a growth mindset in their students, creating a supportive learning environment, and providing the necessary resources to help first-generation students succeed.

Universal Design for Learning is a set of guidelines that help instructors develop courses to include all learners, ensuring no one is left behind. UDL empowers both instructors and students to achieve more than they thought possible. Come to this interactive session on UDL to learn simple but impactful ways to make learning accessible to all students regardless of background and experiences.

Who is Gen Z? What defines them? What can we do to effectively reach, teach, and communicate with these students online? Join us as we take a look at the student population that represents the majority of curriculum FTE for some community colleges. We will review relevant data, discuss Gen Z realities, and explore

Mindfulness and contemplative pedagogy can assist an individual in raising their own self-awareness, and this holistic method can help curb the stressors that an individual may face in an overstimulated society. The session mapped respective theoretical foundations, potential activities for both students and faculty members, and provide a brainstorm session for faculty to develop their own mindfulness and contemplative pedagogical practices.

Led by Susan Adams from Achieving the Dream this PM session was designed to empower participants with practical skills for integrating active learning techniques into their teaching, adaptable to various classroom modalities, including seated, hybrid, online, hy-flex, and flipped formats.

Led by Susan Adams from Achieving the Dream this AM session was designed to empower participants with practical skills for integrating active learning techniques into their teaching, adaptable to various classroom modalities, including seated, hybrid, online, hy-flex, and flipped formats.

Our professional and personal lives can make us vulnerable to stress. In this session Dr. Kara Finch provided self-care strategies and shared how to effectively deal with upset individuals.

Facilitated by a panel of presenters this session unpacks the evolution of AI in the classroom, setting expectations for students and identified support for instructional practices.

This session unpacked the definition of deficit thinking, identified alternative strategies to change the students' outcomes, and illuminated communication's role in dismantling deficit thinking to asset-based pedagogical thinking.

In this 4-part series the Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice has been designed to provide an opportunity for faculty and staff to come together to discuss current trends in artificial intelligence and how this emerging technology impacts their roles at the college as well as student learning. This is the first session of the series.

Join presenter Meret Burke, English instructor from Wilkes Community College in her presentation on discussion boards and creating meaningful group work.

Join Tim Scapin Instructional Designer & Media Specialist from Haywood Community College in his presentation on AI, content creation, detection tools and teaching strategies.

Facilitated by a faculty member and student this session explores course design with emphasis on group work and active learning principles.

This workshop explored best practices in crafting and implementing engaging discussions, as well as how to lead and moderate controversial and hot discussion topics through a belonging-minded and trauma-informed lens.

Led by Amanda Zekanis from Johnston Community College this presentation provided resources for faculty professional development and some of the classroom activities that can be implemented to engage students. The presentation also included data on the relationship between faculty professional development, student retention and success.

Multiple things can be true: we live in a hyper-polarized society; students may bring bias and baggage and are not afraid to share them. This session was devoted to teaching students the value of empathy.

Join presenter Meret Burke, English instructor from Wilkes Community College in her presentation on discussion boards and creating meaningful group work.

Dr. Sonny Kelly from Fayetteville Tech delivered a 4-part series on relevant and poignant practices for enhancing teacher and student performance and interaction in face-to-face, online, and hybrid classrooms. This is the third session of the series.

This presentation presented key steps for and effective start for a semester. The presentation also focused on improving student learning outcomes and alignment with the core initiatives of the college's strategic plan.