I’m pleased to welcome you to The TALE Blog – The Teaching-and-Learning Exchange Blog @ Kern CCD, where I’m hoping that our faculty and staff will share their tips on the future of teaching and learning. I want to thank Bob Simpkins, the Academic Senate president of Porterville College, for partnering with me in creating this forum.
– Sonya Christian, Kern CCD Chancellor
About the TALE Blog
The Teaching-and-Learning Exchange (TALE) Blog provides a virtual space for faculty, instructional support staff, former faculty, and others within the Kern Community College District to contribute original blog posts that describe their insights and ideas rooted in their experiences in the classroom or working with our students, their implications for ensuring that learning occurs with intentional outcomes, and their relationship to faculty engagement and innovation, and student success.
The purpose of the blog is the facilitate communication across the district to achieve a greater sense of unity, learn from and about each other, and support each other in our work toward our mission of achieving student success with equity through this collective effort and repository of experiences.
Under the framework of Guided Pathways, Pillar 4 is to ‘ensure learning is happening with intentional outcomes’. This blog will provide a way to support reflecting upon this concept that is available to everyone in the Kern Community College District and is not restricted by the limitations of time and place. Regardless of your schedule, the blog will be here as a repository of your collective experiences and reflections. And the more stories you share, the more effective it will be!
About the Logo
The TALE Blog logo features a silhouette of the Kern Community College District service area in cross-section, as viewed from the south looking north. On the left side is the San Joaquin Valley, and then the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the Owens Valley, and the Inyo range. One goal of The TALE Blog is to help draw together this vast area through exchanges and explorations of our mutual experiential landscape. The logo was designed by blog co-creator Robert Simpkins.
Recent Posts
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Culturally Responsive Teaching, Innovation, and Public Humanities
Photos from the Digital Delano Project By Oliver A. Rosales When I was first hired at the Bakersfield College Delano Campus in 2012, I had never actually spent much time in Delano. As an alumni of Garces High School (Class of ‘98, Go Rams!), I recall visiting Delano as the local high school was on … Continue reading Culturally Responsive Teaching, Innovation, and Public Humanities
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Opening Doors with Open Educational Resources
By Clara Hodges Zimmerman In April 2021, I responded to a call from a colleague at Berkeley City College for collaborators on a project funded by ASCCC Open Educational Resource Initiative (OERI) to write a textbook-style advanced-level OER for students who were learners of English. It was a year into the pandemic and I was … Continue reading Opening Doors with Open Educational Resources
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Building Community 15 Minutes at a Time
By Leslie Pelon I will never forget the first day of my British Literature class during my final undergraduate semester. I was excited to have made it onto the roster from the waitlist the week before, since it was a popular course taught by the most beloved English Professor on campus. I knew the class … Continue reading Building Community 15 Minutes at a Time
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