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Employee Education

Welcome to the Employee Education page! In the following sections, you will find links to a variety of resources that supports staff and faculty in the pursuit of professional development. Explore below to find the right resource for you. Should you be interested in a specific topic but don't see any offering, please reach out to us. Centerstaff@bartonccc.edu. 

Have you created an online courses recently? Maybe you completed OER Certification? The processes for creating/certifying such a course offers endless opportunities for professional development. Please take a few minutes to submit the Professional Development Reporting Form. You can lump multiple courses into one submission or submit individually.

The Center for Learning Excellence wants to hear from you! CLICK HERE, answer six questions, and help us provide the service and resources you need. The survey takes approximately four minutes to complete. Thank you!

August
August

Fall 2026 College Updates - Recording
Artificial Intelligence and Accessibility - Recording
Working Under Pressure: Keeping Your Cool When the Pressure is High - Recording
Have you met... Student Support Services - Recording
Turnitin Clarity Training - Recording
Meeting Makeover - Recording
Navigating Conflict and Difficult Conversations - Recording
Making Course Assessment Work for You - Recording
All-Faculty Meeting - Recording
Academic Coaching - Recording
Francis Financial Services - Recording
Aflac Supplemental Insurance - Recording
Advanced Therapy - Recording

 

NISOD is FREE!  All you have to do is signup/login using your Barton Email. After that, you can register for 100+ Live and On-Demand Sessions. You can create an account at learn.nisod.org here. If you have already created an account, login here.

Guardrails, Not Gotcha's: Policy and Practice for AI on Campus FREE - Monday, August 17
Campus AI use is growing fast while oversight and safeguards struggle to keep pace. This webinar provides a clear ethics update on bias, opacity, hallucinations, detector limits, privacy, and uneven access, and then offers practical "stoplight" policy suggestions for informed decision-making. Green covers low-risk, well-documented uses that align with mission and law. Yellow allows conditional uses with human oversight, transparency, and due process. Red prohibits high-risk practices that undermine privacy, fairness, legal duties, or due process. Participants will practice classifying real campus scenarios, apply a one-page privacy and transparency checklist, and leave with a stoplight scaffold and a simple plan to pilot changes in a course, unit, or workflow. The goal is to move from tool hype to rules that protect people and support real learning.

Two Minute Takeaways
AI Prompts for Creating Accessible Veteran's Content
Five Accessibility AI Prompts for Financial Aid
Five AI Prompts for TRIO Teams to Create Accessible Content
Five AI Prompts for Accessible Advising
Dual Enrollment Learners: Setting Expectations from Day One

Neurodiversity in Multigenerational Workplaces FREE - On Demand
Quiet Leadership FREE - On Demand
Projects Under Pressure FREE - On Demand
Trauma-Informed FREE - On Demand
Communicating Across Generations FREE - On Demand
 

Looking for something specific or need us to pull a past recording? You can always reach out to myself, or a member of The Center with questions. Our contact info can be found here. We would be happy to help you.

September
September

Staying Well in Turbulent Times: Practical Self-Care FREE - Tuesday, September 1
This interactive virtual session focuses on practical, realistic ways professionals can care for themselves while navigating turbulent times. Participants will practice simple techniques for calming the nervous system, managing moments of heightened stress, creating boundaries around work and news, and recognizing when they are carrying more than they realize. The session will also examine small daily practices related to movement, rest, breathing, connection, and intentional breaks that can help protect overall well-being.

Lean into the Literature: Leverage the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to Chart Your Own Course of Development FREE - Thursday, September 3
This insightful session will empower you to comb pedagogical databases for your own enlightenment. We'll preview the core educational databases, and cover streamlining searches for the most relevant content. During our dive into the extant research we will notice a paucity of content from the community college sphere. This is where you come in! Your classroom experiences would be a valuable addition to the scholarly discourse on teaching and learning. I'll help you envision how you can achieve authorship with academic journals that invite and curate community college manuscript submissions.

Pause, Reset, Restore: A Guided Wellness Session for Challenging Times FREE - Friday, September 11
The facilitator will also introduce quick “reset” practices that can be used in an office, between meetings, before a difficult conversation, or at the end of a demanding day. Participants will leave with a collection of simple wellness practices and an understanding of which techniques work best for them. 

The I’m First! Guide 18.0: A More Powerful, All-in-Once College Resource FREE - Tuesday, September 22
Join us for a webinar to look inside the newly expanded I’m First! Guide to College, the trusted college resource for first-generation, low-income students. With over 50 new pages, this year’s workbook represents a major evolution of the guide. Explore new content for younger students focused on the impact and value of college; updated application tips, financial aid tools, and FAFSA guidance; timely, practical advice on using AI responsibly in admissions; and much more! 

Must Register by September 23 for this October Event! 
Conference on AI and Higher Education $ - October 28, 29, 30
Through evidence-informed dialogue and cross-functional collaboration, the conference explores strategies for responsible AI adoption, institutional governance, and effective implementation across higher education.

Must Register by October 2 for this December Event!
AI in Education Conference $ - December 1, 2
Explore timely topics including ethical and inclusive AI practices, innovative approaches to AI in faculty development, AI-powered tools that enhance student engagement, and the most impactful emerging technologies shaping higher education. Learn from leading experts, explore practical, classroom-ready strategies, and exchange ideas with colleagues from across higher education—all without travel. Walk away with actionable insights, meaningful connections, and tools you can apply immediately to elevate your teaching and learning.

Utilizing High Impact Practices to Embed Civic Engagement into the Curriculum FREE - Thursday, September 24
In this panel discussion, leaders from ALL IN and Northeast Mississippi Community College will share high-impact practices, concrete examples, and ready-to-use resources for sustaining year-round civic engagement — not just around elections. Participants will leave with strategies for supporting students' civic identities, creating value-exploration opportunities, and activating meaningful engagement moments across the academic calendar.

AI Without the Hype: Practical Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Make Everyday Life Easier FREE - Tuesday, September 29
Get a better understanding of AI, see practical applications, and leave this session with confidence to use AI more effectively. By the end of this session, participants will be able to: Explain what AI is—and what it isn't, identify at least five everyday uses for AI, write prompts that produce better results, recognize when AI should—and should not—be trusted, leave with tools they can begin using immediately.

October
October

Must Register by October 2 for this December Event!
AI in Education Conference $ - December 1, 2
Explore timely topics including ethical and inclusive AI practices, innovative approaches to AI in faculty development, AI-powered tools that enhance student engagement, and the most impactful emerging technologies shaping higher education. Learn from leading experts, explore practical, classroom-ready strategies, and exchange ideas with colleagues from across higher education—all without travel. Walk away with actionable insights, meaningful connections, and tools you can apply immediately to elevate your teaching and learning.

Rapport 101: The Secret Ingredient of Great Teaching FREE - Thursday, October 8
How can you increase student engagement?  How can you get your students learning on a deeper level and making more connections?  How can you increase your own teaching satisfaction and self-efficacy? Do you spend class time building rapport with your students? In this webinar, participants will understand how the above questions are all connected in the research behind the evidence-based practice of rapport building. What does rapport building have to do with all these questions?  Participants will learn and practice how to incorporate effective rapport-building strategies into their own classrooms.

Tools for the Transition: Five Tools for Assessment & Academic Integrity FREE - Monday, October 19
Building on last year’s Tools for the Transition session, this webinar moves from course setup to assessment strategy. As instructors settle into their courses, questions about engagement, meaningful evaluation, and academic integrity surface.This session introduces five assessment tools across major instructional categories: audience response systems, survey platforms, plagiarism detection, lockdown browsers, and internal LMS resources. Rather than focusing solely on features, participants will evaluate these tools through an instructional systems lens to determine appropriate fit and use. The session compares free and licensed versions, explores institutional licensing realities, and considers implementation constraints. The webinar concludes with a practical advocacy framework instructors can use to structure technology requests for executive leadership.

Cougar TALEs - Past Sessions
Cougar TALEs - Past Sessions

Fall 2026
Fall 2026 College Updates - Recording
Artificial Intelligence and Accessibility - Recording
Working Under Pressure: Keeping Your Cool When the Pressure is High - Recording
Have you met... Student Support Services - Recording
Turnitin Clarity Training - Recording
Meeting Makeover - Recording
Navigating Conflict and Difficult Conversations - Recording
Making Course Assessment Work for You - Recording
All-Faculty Meeting - Recording
Academic Coaching - Recording
Francis Financial Services - Recording
Aflac Supplemental Insurance - Recording
Advanced Therapy - Recording

Fall 2025
College Updates
All-Faculty Meeting
Serving the High School Student - Karly Little, Director of Early College Opportunities
Navigating Academic Integrity | Handout - Dr. Stephanie Joiner, Dean of Academics, Nolan Esfeld, Director of Student Academic Development, Lee Miller, Director of Innovation and Compliance
Course Assessment Open Lab - Kurt Konda, Instructor, OAC and Outcomes Assessment Committee Member
Canvas+Lab - Curt Rose, Educational Technologist and Megan Scheiffelbein, Director of Learning Design
Institutional Advancement - Lindsey Bogner,  Executive Director of Institutional Advancement
Emotional Intelligence | Handout - Dr. Rachel Dolecheck, Assistant Professor of Business Communications at FHSU
Francis Financial Services - Leslie Klug, Financial Advisor
Essential Skills - Dr. Kathy Kottas, Dean of Workforce Training and Community Education and guests
Have you met… - Advisement, Testing Services, Veteran Services, Career Services

Fall 2024
Recording - Handout 1 - Handout 2 | Artificial Intelligence - Integrity Council Sub-Team
Recording | Let's Talk YuJu - Diana Hernandez, YuJu Representative
Recording | College Updates
Recording - Handout | Generations in the Workplace - Dr. Rachel Dolecheck, DBA
Recording - Handout | TALEs from the Data Side: How to Make Course Assessment Data Work for You - Kurt Konda
Recording | OER Sharing a New Perspective - Lee Miller
Recording | All Faculty Meeting
Recording | H5P Smart Import
Recording | Have you met...  Linn Hogg - VIA & RSVP Director, Ray Kruse – Project Director of EOC, Melissa Feist – Coordinator of Adult Education

January 2024
Student Authenticity: Best Practices– Claudia Mather and Curtis Rose
Essential Skills: The Why, What and Where – Janet Balk, Deanna Heier, Nolan Esfeld

August 2023
Long Live CATS | Handout – Kurt Konda
Managing Stress and Burnout | Handout – Dr. Rose Helens-Hart
First Impressions Matter | Handout – Dr. Stacey Smith
College Updates
Balancing Work and Life – Lindsey Bogner, Elaine Simmons
Artificial Intelligence – Academic Integrity Council
Francis Financial Services – Leslie Francis Klug, John Francis
All Faculty Meeting
Have you met... – Terri Mebane, Erika Jenkins-Moss, Janet Balk, Abby Kujath, Megan Chambers, Kurt Teal

January 2023
What even IS a Foundation and what can you do with it? – Lindsey Bogner
Cyber Hygiene – Jose Palacios
Practical Strategies for Course Building – Blair Stamper
Visit the Library – Darren Ivey
Power BI and Data – Jose Palacios
Concourse with Lab | Power Point | PP as PDF – Brian Howe and Ange Davied
Have you met…
          Baudilio Hernandez - Hispanic Engagement & Recruitment Office Director
          Rita Thurber - Student Support Services Project Director
          Jacquelyn Maser - Counselor
          Nolan Esfeld - Director of Student Academic Development
          Patrick Busch - CKUB Project Director
          Eric Smith - CKUB Academic Coordinator
          Kelsey Hall - BCUB Project Director
         Rebecca Kratzer - BCUB Academic Coordinator

August 2022
College Updates
All Faculty Meeting (Entire Group)
Student Success Alliance - Stephanie Joiner and the Student Success Alliance
So You're Coming to the Curriculum Committee...– Brian Howe
Meet the Coaches – Trevor Rolfs and Staff
Workplace Collaboration and Relationships

August 2021
Essential Skills with Deanna Heier, Lindsay Holmes, Stephanie Joiner -  Recording
Conducting and Documenting Course Assessment with Kurt Konda Recording
Brandin’ with Brandon with Brandon Steinert - Recording
Cougar Recruiting 101 with Maggie Harris - Recording
Course Binder Project with Jo Harrington - Recording
Canvas Tutorial-Course Outcomes with Jo Harrington - Recording
Academic Integrity Panel with Janet Balk, Karly Little, Kathy Boeger, Deanna Heier Recording

2020
Write so Students Understand You with Karly Little - Recording | Presentation
Get (the right) Stuff Done! with Brandon Steinert - Recording
Self-Awareness and Empathy on Campus with Christian Dashiell | Recording
Communication is Key with Dani Kultgen - Recording
Open Pedagogy with Lee Miller - Recording
Leading Barton through a Crisis with Claudia Mather - Recording
The Golden Rule - Recording
Team Building through Communication with Claudia Mather - Recording
Psychological First Aid: Recovering From Crisis with Jakki Maser - Recording | Handout | Handout
Course Level Assessment with Kurt Konda - Recording | Handout
OER: Low Cost or No Cost with Lee Miller - Recording | Handout | Handout | Handout | Handout
Academic Integrity with Stephanie Joiner - Recording | Handout | Handout
Reflective Leadership with Claudia Mather - Recording | Handout
Concourse with Ange Davied - Recording
LICC Submission Process with Brian Howe - Recording

Archives
Archives
Mandatory Training
Mandatory Training

At the College’s discretion, mandatory training may be required for its new and existing employees (including student employees) as a condition of their employment. The training may focus on employee or institutional-related issues which may include, but shall not be limited to, Blood borne Pathogens, Substance Abuse and the Drug Free Workplace, Cyber Security, Advisement and Title IX. Participation is required for all mandatory employee training, at the recommendation of their supervisor(s) or the College and is to be completed within a specified amount of time depending on hire date and position. The College will provide employees with work release time, allowing them to participate in the mandatory training during their normal work schedule.

The scheduled time frame for each mandatory course to take place can be viewed here. Additional information on each of the mandatory training courses is provided below.

  • Americans with Disabilities Act for Higher Education will help managers identify the situations where the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act and other legislation that affects employers' responsibilities in these areas, come into play so they can respond appropriately to specific requests.
  • Bloodborne Pathogens training provides basic awareness level training for the Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. This standard requires employers to train employees who are a reasonable risk of exposure to blood and other infectious material. The Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control Plan has been provided. It is recommended that students with occupational exposure follow the guidelines for Evaluation and Follow-up. 
  • Cyber Security Awareness in the Workplace takes you on a tour of the threat landscape and shows you the most common ways bad guys try to trick you. Three real-world scenarios show you strategies and techniques hackers use to take control of your computer system. You’ll learn about the seven areas of an email that can contain red flags that alert you to a possible attack. The Danger Zone exercise will let you apply what you’ve learned by helping a typical computer user steer clear of six real-world social engineering attacks.
  • Active Shooter training and the support of multiple departments, we have many people involved in keeping this campus safe and secure; however, a truly safe campus can only be achieved with the cooperation of all students, faculty, staff and visitors.
  • Alcohol and Drug Awareness provides employees and supervisors with an understanding of the benefits of a substance-free work environment, to help them understand the impact substances have in the workplace and recognize signs of employee substance abuse.
  • Title IX encompasses many forms of sex-based discrimination in which no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
  • Sexual Harassment and Discrimination will provide an overview of the types of behaviors that can give rise to harassment claims, including those based on sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age and disability. It will also discuss the benefits of and strategies for promoting a respectful work environment that is free of all forms of harassment, intimidation and discrimination.

 

Forms

Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure Incident Determination
Consent for Blood Testing and Release of Medical Records
Declination of Blood Testing
Exposure Incident Report
Healthcare Professional's Written Opinion for Post-Exposure Evaluation & Follow-up
Hepatitis B Vaccine Declination Form
Hepatitis B Vaccination Record
Instructions for the Evaluating Physician Phlebotomy student drawing blood from a practice volunteer