Professional Development

Training and coursework pursued outside the classroom, listed most recent first. Items that have a page of their own on this site (the lab manual renewal, the ZTC initiative, Project S:AIL, the Humanizing Online STEM Academy, and CERT) are linked from here.

Accessibility and digital learning

OER Basics and Accessibility Basics — ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative, two self-paced courses, selected for a stipend and enrolled in September 2026. OER Basics covers reading Creative Commons licenses, searching and reviewing OER repositories, and remixing existing resources into a new one with a license that fits its sources. Accessibility Basics covers building and checking accessible content in Canvas, Word, Google Docs, and LibreTexts: descriptive links, alternative text, heading and table structure, alternative formats for video and audio, and what checkers such as WAVE can and cannot catch. Both completed, with digital badges: OER Basics 2026-09-27, Accessibility Basics 2026-09-28.

Accessible Documents: Word, PowerPoint, & Acrobat — WebAIM (Utah State University), via the CCC Tech Center's Canvas Catalog. Independent-study course applying WCAG 2 principles to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Acrobat workflows: alternative text, heading structure, reading order, contrast, and PDF tagging. Completed 2026-07-23; Certificate of Completion earned.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day Workshop — California Community Colleges Accessibility Center, May 2026. A day on moving from compliance to usable design: UDL at scale, course-level accessibility statements, and the AIM Hub for accessible instructional materials.

Teaching Online Certification (TOC) — VCCCD district Instructional Technology & Design, a five-week course beginning September 18, 2023. The district's required certification for teaching distance education. Certified October 2023, valid through October 2028 under the AFT contract's five-year cycle.

E-De Title 5 Training for Distance Education — Cypress College, 2020. Distance education practice with an accessibility focus.

Remote Instruction Certification Workshop — Santa Ana College, 2020. Remote teaching and Canvas-based course accessibility.

Equity and inclusive pedagogy

Project S:AIL in STEM — Adjunct/Early Career to Tenure Program — Ventura College, five Friday sessions from November 1 to December 6, 2024, completed under a stipend agreement. Equity-informed pedagogy, servingness, and tenure preparation in an HSI STEM context. → see the Project S:AIL page

Humanizing Online STEM Academy — Cohort 10, 12 Feb – 24 Mar 2024. Six-week course on building an inclusive, anti-racist online STEM learning environment, funded by the California Education Learning Lab and run through Foothill–De Anza CCD. → see the Humanizing Online STEM Academy page

Infusing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Curriculum Seminar — North Orange County Community College District, 2023. Analyzing educational barriers and implementing strategies to close opportunity gaps for underrepresented groups.

Curriculum and course design

CHEM V101 Lab Manual Renewal — Ventura College, 2025–present. Began on my own in Summer 2025 as a redesign of the CHEM V101 (formerly V20L) lab manual for readability, structure, and accessibility, and continued as a department project. → see the CHEM V101 Lab Manual Renewal Project page

AI Community of Practice #1 — Getting Started With AI in Teaching — Ventura College, Spring 2026. Selected by application and completed under a stipend agreement. What I built in it, and what I concluded, is on the Tools I Tried page.

ZTC Initiative: Course Conversion — Ventura College, 2024–2025. Completed the Spring 2025 ZEN conversion of CHEM V101 (lecture and lab) on Pathway One (original content), with textbook adoption extending to CHEM V120B. The conversion ran as a structured project inside the college's ZTC Enrollment Project course: two check-ins during the term (March 20 and April 28, 2025), a final deliverable on May 7, and the stipend sign-off on May 13. I learned more about copyright, licensing, and the accessibility of digital learning content. → see the ZTC Initiative page

Research conduct

Human Research Protection Foundational Training — U.S. HHS Office for Human Research Protections, five lessons, completed September 19, 2026.

FERPA 101: Colleges and Universities — U.S. Department of Education, completed September 19, 2026.

Protecting Human Research Participants (PHRP) — completed July 9, 2026, certificate #3012132. Human-subjects research training covering informed consent, risk and benefit assessment, privacy and confidentiality, and the review process, taken while preparing an application to an external IRB for the Math Readiness work.

Safety, compliance, and emergency response

District compliance training — Ventura College, 2024, February 2026, and October 2026. Sexual Harassment and Workplace Safety (SB 1343 / AB 2683, Title IX roles, mandated reporter, workplace violence prevention); AB 2821: Ensuring Access – Legal Responsibilities for Serving Disabled Students in California Community Colleges, Identifying and Mitigating Ableism, and Universal Design – Fixtures and Practices; Cybersecurity and Data Protection; Clery Act Overview.

CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) Training — Ventura County Fire Department with FEMA, Mar–Apr 2024. Six Friday afternoon sessions, 18 hours of scheduled class time covering earthquake preparedness, disaster fire suppression, disaster medical operations, basic search and rescue, and team organization, and concluding with a simulation drill at the Oxnard College Fire Academy. → see the CERT page

Bloodborne Pathogens, Hazardous Communications, and Chemical Hygiene Training — Cypress College, 2016. Certification in hazardous materials management and safety protocol.