Registration is now open. Join us this Reading Week to rest, reflect, and recharge. Humber’s Innovative Learning teams bring four (4) days of interactive sessions to support teaching and learning through an ever-broadening accessibility lens.

Visit the ED-Venture Week Page on our Innovative Learning website to learn more and to register.

View attached PDF poster for the schedule-at-a-glance.

Check out these topics:

Day 1 - Tuesday, March 1 

• Blackboard Ultra: Learning the Ins and Outs of Groups and Group Assignments 
• Blackboard Learn Basic Ultra—delivered by Blackboard 
• Back to Basics: Avoiding Burnout and Conducting a Mid-Semester Review of Course Goals  
• Creating And Sharing Inclusive and Accessible Videos  
• Introducing Research and SoTL: Opportunities for Humber Faculty

Day 2 - Wednesday, March 2 

• Blackboard Ultra: Mastering Test Settings 
• Q&A with Experts: Blackboard Learn Ultra—delivered by Blackboard  
• Best Practices for Online Teaching: Moving Forward   
• Using Panopto's In-video Quizzes and Discussions Threads to Support the Learning Experience 

Day 3 - Thursday, March 3 

• Blackboard Ultra: 7 Tips to Make Using Gradebook a Breeze 
• Blackboard Collaborate Basics —delivered by Blackboard 
• Micro-credentials that Mean Something  
• How to Create a Video Assignment Using Panopto in Blackboard Ultra  

Day 4 - Friday, March 4 

• Moving Your Live Class Video Sessions from Blackboard Collaborate to Microsoft Teams   
• Strategies to Facilitate Group Work and Collaboration in the In-person Classroom   

We are excited to share details of the 2021-2022 Support Staff Professional Development (SSPD) week that focuses on Support Staff’s professional development and other engaging activities. This year will mark our 32nd year celebrating a Support Staff development event. 

This year, all sessions will be delivered online over the course of five days from Monday, February 28 to Friday, March 4.

Our Support Staff are vitally important in helping us deliver on our programs and services to students and employees. This year’s Professional Development Event is themed to focus on taking care of our Support Staff while they take care of us and therefore will emphasize topics such as work-life balance and well-being, resilience, personal growth, and resolving conflict.  We have arranged nine speakers that will deliver on these topics.  

Registration for the sessions is open to all support staff employees (full-time, part-time, casual, temporary) to participate in. 

Please visit the Support Staff Professional Development Event website to view and register for the sessions.   

Questions? Please email us at oe@humber.ca.

Hello Humber Lakeshore team! Looking for a reason to get moving? Well, we have a challenge for you.

The Office of the Principal and Humber Lakeshore Athletics are absolutely thrilled to be nearing the official launch of the inaugural Stepping into Spring challenge! With the warmer weather around the corner, we are using this challenge to encourage our community to take regular activity breaks for fitness and wellness – and a little healthy competition always helps J

Join us in the Stepping into Spring 14-day Reading Week Challenge. Using the Pacer app to track progress, #TeamBlue and #TeamGold will go head to head in a race to see who can log the most steps.

The challenge will run from Monday, February 28 to Monday, March 14 and there will be a number of opportunities to win prizes along the way. Look out for draws for items such as Beats By Dre Headphones, Amazon Echo Spot, FitBits and more. 

Please follow these three easy steps to get started and join the challenge:

Step 1: Download the Pacer app to your mobile device via this link www.mypacer.com/organizations/ys94429/invite

Step 2: Join the Humber organization by entering the code YS94429. You will be immediately prompted to join either #TeamBlue or #TeamGold once you have joined the app and are within our private virtual event space. Join the team colour of your choice.

(Note: If you see your team change before the challenge starts, know we are just keeping the teams fair and evenly numbered)

Step 3: Access, prepare for and enjoy our challenge!

View the instructions to join or download the attached PDF.

Any questions can be directed to Nathania Bron at nathania.bron@humber.ca or Sara Jouppi at sara.jouppi@humber.ca.

We can’t wait to officially be Stepping into Spring with all of you soon. Please follow the official challenge hashtags at #SteppingIntoSpringChallenge #HumberSteps.

June MacDonald-Jenkins
Sr. Dean (FSCS) & Principal (Lakeshore Campus)

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion (Centre) is pleased to invite you to its Equity and Inclusion Dialogue series for the 2021-2022 academic year. Online registration is now open for this event. View the event flyer. Limited seating available.

View the full listing of the Centre’s 2021-2022 Equity & Inclusion Dialogue series

Addressing Anti-Black Racism in the Post-Secondary Environment: Moving from Theory to Practice

Speaker bio: Gary Pieters, MEd - Ontario Human Rights Commissioner

Gary Pieters currently serves as an Ontario Human Rights Commissioner on 2 of the 3 pillars of Ontario's Human Rights System. He is also a Board Member of the Human Rights Legal Support Centre (HRLSC).

Gary Pieters is an educator, who began his entry into the teaching profession as a public school teacher in Southern California. He returned to Canada in 1999, and has served in various roles as a teacher, a vice-principal, and a principal in the publicly funded education system in Ontario.

He also serves as a member of the Ontario Ministry of Education - Minister's Advisory Council on Special Education (MACSE). He has recently served on the Ontario College of Teachers’ transitional roster, supporting Discipline/Fitness to Practice from March 2021-January 2022.

Gary is also an immediate past president of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations. His extensive knowledge base and experience are leveraged through community building, youth engagement, diversity, and social inclusion.