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Lash Center for Teaching & Learning
LashCTL@BristolCC.edu
777 Elsbree Street
Fall River, MA 02720
 

UPCOMING EVENTS

COURSE SEARCH

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Discovery Day – The Art of Impact

November 5, 2025
In-Person, Fall River Campus

Inquire with Danielle.Licitra@BristolCC.edu, Academic Innovation and Professional Development.

Call for Programs/Workshops

Tentative – August through October 2025. Announcement will be made in early September. 

Discovery Day Schedule (Tentative)

Previous years:
PROGRAM AGENDA 2024
PROGRAM AGENDA 2023
PROGRAM AGENDA 2022

If you have any questions about which sessions to attend or where to meet, please reach out to your department lead.

Tentative Schedule

8:30 a.m. – Breakfast
9 a.m. – Welcome
 
Participants will choose two workshops to attend. Workshop details are forthcoming.
10 a.m. – Workshop 1
11 a.m. – Workshop 2 
 
12:15 p.m. – Lunch
 
1:20 p.m. to 4 p.m. – departments will gather to work on: 
Goals and continuous improvement initiatives – a wide range of work facilitated by a department lead. Details are forthcoming and dependent on department lead.

4:10 p.m. – Closing

Purpose:

Discovery Day is an opportunity to partner & collaborate with colleagues to create, engage, and support processes that allow you to pursue exciting and effective practices and pedagogy. The day provides workshops to support work in building thriving communities for deep learning and student success.

What Will I Gain from Participating?

When reviewing the Fall 2023 evaluations:

  • 98% indicated that they were engaged.
  • 91% believed the content was relevant to their work.
  • 93% felt the information obtained was useful.
  • 91% indicated that they left accomplishing something important.
  • 95% indicated they plan to apply what they had learned.

Discovery Day assists in building a Culture of Curiosity and Inquiry through continuous improvement processes. A culture of evidence occurs when information is regularly collected for making decisions, including the commitment of resources. It requires all members of an educational community and centers around curiosity and inquiry. Continuous improvement initiatives are the most valid way of demonstrating the effectiveness of services, programs, and facilities.

It is evident that many at Bristol are already practicing aspects of continuous improvement in some capacity. This is an opportunity to highlight some of the work you have been doing in terms of developing and measuring student learning outcomes, building curricular maps/rubrics, and creating innovative spaces for learning and competency attainment. Gathering data to build narratives that inform our work is important in building contemporary and inclusive practices. This occurs both within the curriculum and in co-curricular experiences.

Learning Outcomes: 

As a result of attending (2) two workshops:

  • Participants will be able to list (3) three assessment concepts (SLOs, Assessment Steps, Assessment tools, Rubric design) related to their work.
  • Participants will be able to apply (1) one concept towards a current or future assessment initiative (SLOs, curriculum mapping, rubric design, alignment, identify areas of assessment).
  • Participants will be able to develop one (1) actionable step within their area that contributes to building a Culture of Evidence.