The Mt. San Antonio College Podcast

Today we are talking about validation. Turns out feelings of validity can heavily influence how we do at the things we attempt like attending college. Therefore establishing a validating environment in the classroom can be life changing. Presenters Emily Verace and Richard Meyers facilitated a breakout session at Fall FLEX Day called Change Your Students' Lives in the First Two Weeks of Class base...

We are bringing you what you might have missed at Flex day starting with Dr. Frank Harris' stellar keynote presentation on Advancing Equity in A Climate of Resistance. And even if you attended, this is a great way to revisit the content after having some time to process the info packed Flex Day you just experienced. Dr. Harris is a professor of postsecondary education and Co-Director of the Commun...

Guest keynote Kevin Walsh amazingly breaks down situations we encounter in all parts of our lives on and off campus and offers techniques to grow our emotional intelligence and in turn foster a growth mindset overall. I think you'll really enjoy this special CPD Day episode to kick off Fall semester 2019. Run Time: 44 min, 16 sec To find the full transcript for this episode, click HERE

From all of as at The Magic Mountie Podcast, whether you have been in an episode or two of the podcast or if you have dedicatedly listened, we want to THANK YOU! We will be taking a short break, returning on August 27th with brand new episodes! Now is a great time to catch up on any that you may have missed! And in this episode we announce a few fresh faces and voices you'll see and hear joining t...

We're back with our final episode in our summer mini-series featuring favorite nature spots on campus. We'll go barefoot in the grass and join Yolanda Haro from POD under her favorite tree on campus. In this episode, Yolanda shares a childhood memory of spending time in nature with her grandfather--as well as how teaching mindfulness classes at Mt. SAC impacts her own mindfulness practice, tips fo...

We're back with another episode in our summer mini-series about favorite nature spots on campus. In this episode, we'll go birdwatching with Jared Burton from the Library and learn more about the flora and fauna at Mt. SAC. We'll also have a chance to think about how the natural environment on campus is meaningful for students, the importance of 'Vitamin N" in all of our lives and how we, as a cam...

Inspired by Lance Heard's previous episode How To Walk It Off With Nature: An Introduction To Forest Therapy, we decided to explore a few faculty member's favorite nature spots across campus. As well as how they make the time to connect with nature and it's impact on their work with students. In up-coming episodes we'll take a bird watching walk with Jared from the library, we'll sit under a favor...

Get a summer sneak peak into Mt. SAC's July celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and human's first steps on the moon! The on-campus planetarium hosted and professor Jim Uranga and his students reveal the 80% scale model replica of the lunar module. Enjoy! Run Time: 8 min, 28 sec To find the full transcript for this episode, click HERE

Thanks for joining us for another episode in our ongoing series: Students In Conversation. Students in Conversation offers the opportunity to hear directly from students about their lives, educational journeys, and what it's like to be a student here at Mt. SAC. During 2019's summer session, Sun Ezzell talked with a few students who were willing to share their experiences taking summer classes, at...

Retiring interim Vice President of Instruction Dr. Virginia Burley is a professor emeritus and retired Vice President of Instruction. She is also a lifelong learner who went back to school for her doctorate. She was called out of retirement this year to serve as interim Vice President of Instruction. Before she left, she sat down with Sun Ezzell to share her reflections on a life in education—as a...

We are proud to present a sneak peak into the DREAM Program's unique, heartwarming and supportive graduation of 2019, as our last episode for the season. We'll be taking just a small break so you can focus on your last days of the semester and catch up on episodes you may have missed. The DREAM Program provides support services to DREAMers (undocumented students) at Mt. SAC. Its purpose is to incr...

As the school year begins to wind down we created a unique and very special episode for you. Captured by Sun Ezzell we bring you Mt. SAC's Lavender Graduation. Lavender Graduation is a special annual graduation ceremony that is conducted on numerous campuses, in which it recognizes and honors the accomplishments of graduating/transferring LGBTQ+ students. In our case we also highlight the contribu...

Sun Ezzell, a member of the DEST team and a facilitator of the Inspired Teaching Day as well as the facilitator of the breakout session you are about to hear captured on Inspired Teaching Day takes us through a Question Formulation Technique. The Harvard Education publishing group says…. [The] Right Question Institute have developed [a technique] called the Question Formulation Technique (QFT). Th...

In this episode we have Part 2 of Jennifer Imazeki's keynote taken from Inspired Teaching Day which was hosted by the DEST TEAM. You'll hear more of the discussion they had around active learning and employing pedagogy techniques for a flipped classroom. Professor Imazeki is the director of the center for teaching and learning at San Diego State University, a Senate Distinguished Professor and Pro...

We have another mini-series for you taken from what we captured on Inspired Teaching Day. We heard from a wonderful keynote, Jennifer Imazeki who is the director of the center for teaching and learning at San Diego State University, a Senate Distinguished Professor and Professor of Economics with a passion for teaching and education at all levels. She is an advocate for active learning, especially...

This episode is our last segment of the One Book One Campus mini series. We eaves drop on the breakout session hosted by Dr. Seth Myers and Herschel Greenberg where they have an exploratory discussion around how to incorporate the program into your curriculum and how to broach the subject of depression with students. But first a quick mini interview with Dr. Seth Meyers. Run Time: 16 min. 21 sec....

This episode is part 2 of a mini series highlighting the One Book One campus program as well as the topic of depression, all captured from this year's Spring Flex Day 2019. We hear from our very own Dr. Seth Meyers, a licensed psychologist, who spoke at Spring Flex on the topic, offering us great overview as well as signs to look for and some points of action faculty can take when facing the issue...

Today's episode kicks off a 3 part series focusing on the topic of depression in tandem with our commencement of the One Book One Campus program. The book Hyperbole and A Half by Allie Brosh, is a first-person honest telling of what it feels like to have depression. In this series we'll be diving a little deeper with featured content captured from Spring Flex Day. Beginning with an excerpt from th...

This episode is another capture from Spring Flex Day taken from Equity Inclusion with Universal Design for Learning presented by Art History Professor Deana Hight. The very nature of universal design for learning or UDL is to develop pedagogy for creating equity and inclusion in the classroom environment that all students will benefit and become engaged in the learning process. Deana speaks of her...

In this episode focused around Student Success, we captured a presentation from Spring Flex Day lead by Patricia Maestro and George Bradshaw. They cover everything from the types of degrees awarded to why students are denied completion. Learn the intricacies of the process of awarding degrees, how a student might accomplish more than one award and how it relates to their financial aid, as well as...

Mt. SAC has made getting ahead even more accessible recently by opening it's door to the Mt. SAC Early College High School. Hear from the President himself, Bill Scroggins, about his goals and future plans for this endeavour. And learn more about what a first-hand experience is like, as Liesel interviews an ambitious student of the high school, Jaythan. To find the full transcript for this episode...

Join us in a discussion recorded LIVE on Spring Flex Day addressing how to best introduce Forest Therapy to students and faculty. Lead by Lance Heard, Professor of Administration of Justice, we learn how he discovered Forest Therapy within his own life, what a Forest Therapy session might be like, the health benefits and how to employ our very own Wildlife Sanctuary that is a part of the Mt. SAC c...

A panel discussion about topics full-time faculty need to know about Guided Pathways, Shared Governance, and Curriculum. Slides from this episode can be found with episode 37. To find the full transcript for this episode, click HERE Run Time: 19 min, 10 sec

How to prepare in advance for likely questions in your full-time faculty interview, including an approach to writing excellent icebreaker answers. Slides from this session can be found in the notes for episode 37. To find the full transcript for this episode, click HERE Run Time: 26 min, 57 sec

A continuation of our seminar about how to get a full time faculty job at a California Community College. This episode features Professor Julie Laverty and includes tips that made one attendee remark, "Mind blown." To find the full transcript for this episode, click HERE Run Time: 20min, 39sec