2020 Faculty Development Webinar Series
Sponsored by Cyanna Education Services

A Harder Look at Soft Skills
How Can Teachers Close the People and Communication Skills Gap in Students
Discover the importance of these two vital soft skills and how teachers can help close this soft skills gap and promote the growth of good people and better communication skills inside and outside the classroom.
Don't Quit, Have Grit
How to Develop Grit, Perseverance, and Resilience
Learn how to evaluate different strategies to implement to promote "grit" and analyze how "imposter syndrome" can affect student retention from orientation to graduation.
Isolation is Not an Option
Collaborate to Elevate Your Students and School
Discover how teams can collaborate to elevate the entire school, and learn more about proven strategies to improve team effectiveness to drive student, faculty, and staff success.
Organizing Your Teaching Tool Belt
Strategies to Easily Plan, Engage, and Assess your Students
During this webinar, participants will explore approaches in keeping essential teaching strategies organized and in reach, and will discover strategies in the planning, implementing, and reflecting stages to organize your best tool belt fit for the classroom.
Beyond Knowledge: Investigating Qualities Students Prefer in Faculty
In this session, participants will have an opportunity to discover the top qualities students prefer in their teachers. This session will also provide an opportunity for participants to reflect on various methods to bring those characteristics and traits into the classroom.
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Support the Vision to Avoid the Division: Building Teamwork Among All Faculty and Staff
In this session, participants will have the opportunity to discover methods to build strong teams where every single staff and faculty member shares the same goals and works collectively to integrate the admissions, academic, and career services departments to better serve the students.
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The Many Hats of an Educator: Caring Beyond the Curriculum to Promote Student Success
In this session, participants will discover those "unseen roles" a faculty member may have in a student's life inside and outside of the classroom, and which ultimately may prove to be crucial in helping students to be successful.
2018 ACCSC/Cyanna
Faculty Development Webinar Series
Using Communication and Experiences to Meet Objectives in the Classroom
Part 1: Understanding How to Work with A Diverse Group of Learners in the Classroom
During this webinar, participants will learn about the fundamental and foundational elements that are key to developing a comprehensive communication strategy in the classroom, and how to ensure that as an educator, you are understood by a variety of learners.
Webinar Topics:
- ACCSC's 50th Anniversary
- Regulatory Affairs
- Update on the Accrediting Commission's Strategic Plan
- Increased Member Services and Support
- 2017 Professional Development Conference
Webinar Recording
ACCSC Webinar Series: Using Learning Styles to Meet Objectives in the Classroom
A four-part webinar series presented by Cyanna

Using Learning Styles to Meet Objectives in the Classroom is presented in an asynchronous fashion via four one-hour webinar sessions. This webinar series covers a diverse array of topics from basic theories to writing performance objectives, mapping learning activities, and assessments. Institutions are encouraged to maintain a copy of an instructor sign-in sheet for all faculty members who engage in any, or all of, the four modules and save a copy of the certificate from each module in each instructor's file.
Module I: Basic Learning Theories
During this webinar, participants will have an opportunity to learn about the principles of Behaviorism, Constructivism, as well as the Social Learning Theory. This webinar will focus on the background of these theories and discuss how faculty can effectively utilize them in the classroom. Participants will also be provided with examples of how to successfully implement these principles, as well as the steps to help create a more engaging educational experience.
Module Two:Writing Relevant Performance Objectives
This webinar focuses on how to properly write performance objectives as well as to how to address cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning styles when developing performance objectives. During the webinar, participants are provided with examples as the presenters break the process down into steps to help faculty to develop sound expectations for course and learners.
Module Three:Creating your Course: Mapping Activities to Objectives
This webinar provides participants with an opportunity to discuss how to plan, identify, and map activities to align with established performance objectives in order to ensure complete objective coverage through learning activities. This webinar will also help faculty to develop or revise a road map for course development, and to help create an objective-driven course, while diversifying activities in order to maintain a high-level of student engagement.
Module Four:All About Assessments
Building on the previous webinars, the final session will focus on building on the success of established or revised performance objectives and activities, and developing appropriate assessments that effectively evaluate objectives. Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to determine and develop engaging assessments that go beyond basic simple answer and multiple choice styles. Participants will learn how to begin to adapt some assessments to increase the engagement and performance of their learners while ensuring that objectives are being appropriately covered.
ACCSC Webinar
Be Realistic, Be Ready:
Success Strategies for Schools in the ACCSC-Accreditation Process
Learn about the most common findings of non-compliance during the accreditation process, as well as the strategies developed by high performing institutions to demonstrate compliance when responding to an on-site evaluation report.
ACCSC Webinar:
Focusing on Successful Student Achievement
Topics
Blueprint for Success Webinar: Preparing for the On-Site Evaluation
- A live recording* of the March 3, 2016 Webinar is available here.
- The slides from the webinar presentation are available here.
- The Blueprint Series Publication is available here.
Topics include:
- Identifying On-Site Evaluation Team Members
- What to Expect During the Onsite Evaluation
- Key Compliance Areas
*The Q and A session of the webinar is audio only (the video is not included in the recording).
Best Practices Webinar: Independent Third-Party Verification
- A live recording of the 90-minute August 5, 2015 webinar is available here.
- The slides from the webinar presentation are available here.
Topics Include:
- Trends in Student Achievement Compliance Findings
- The Independent Third Party Verification Process
- Independent Verification Results: A First Look at the Data
- Best Practices / Lessons Learned
Preparing a Comprehensive Degree Application
February 9, 2015
During this webinar, ACCSC Commissioner Dr. Julie Basler discussed helpful tips and strategies for schools who are considering submitting a degree application or are in the process of preparing a degree application submission for Commission consideration.
Please click here for the presentation slides.
Preparing a Comprehensive Response for Commission Consideration
October 8, 2013
- Click here to view the Slides from the webinar.
- Click here to access the Blueprint for Success Brochure: Preparing a Comprehensive Response for Commission Consideration
Webinar Topics include:
- An Accreditor's Perspective;
- Keys to a Successful Response;
- Effective Response Models;
- Answering How and Why Questions;
- Documentation Strategies; and
- Case Studies: An Overview of Best Practices in Preparing a Response.
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