Professional Development

Welcome!

The Office of Professional Development designs and implements a vibrant and meaningful schedule of emergent and ongoing personal and professional development learning opportunities and resources to support faculty and classified professionals in building their skills, knowledge, capacity, and confidence to ensure transformative student-centered services and instruction.

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Our mission is to foster individual employee growth within a welcoming and inclusive environment that cultivates a culture of continuous learning and that encourages personalized insights into each person’s unique ability to support all students in their educational journey and to ensure a culture of community and innovation at De Anza College.

Our goals are to...

• Develop and facilitate responsive, meaningful, inclusive and supportive opportunities for professional growth and skills development for all De Anza educational partners. 

• Design and organize robust welcoming and onboarding to new De Anza employees, with ongoing support of opportunities to continue to build institutional literacy. 

• Model a De Anza culture of warmth and support through intentional design with an established focus on vibrant and visible support for faculty and classified professionals as they navigate the complexities and challenges of their work with students and in collaboration with each other.
• Create and foster robust collaborations within the De Anza campus community and build intersecting partnerships across intersecting domains. 

• Evaluate and revise professional development workflows and processes to ensure more welcoming and efficient processes with a focus on lowering boundaries and removing barriers to participation. 

We offer responsive and dynamic growth oppotunities including...

• New employee welcome and orientation
• P.L.A.N.T. First Year Cohort Workshop Series for new tenure-track faculty
• Mentoring for new tenure-track faculty
• Part-time faculty specific informational and training sessions
• First Year Experience for new classified professionals
• Classified Leadership Training
• A responsive and dynamic program of knowledge and skills building workshops for faculty and classified professionals
• Partners in Learning workshops, cohort workshop series, and yearly conference
• Foundational workshops focused on navigating De Anza institutional structures and workflows
• Communities of Practice
• Mental Health First Aid trainings
• Individualized direct support for faculty and classified professionals
• Professional conference and travel funds for faculty and classified professionals

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Conference Funding

Applications are reviewed every two weeks until the funding allocated for the quarter is depleted.

Plan Ahead!

Please submit your application 3-4 weeks before the activity you wish to attend, in order to allow enough time for the submission and review process. Applications must be approved by the committee prior to travel.

More Information

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Useful Documents

• Faculty Checklist for the Beginning of the Quarter
• Faculty Professional Development Leave (updated 2018)
• Faculty PAA/PGA Checklist (updated March 2019)
• Faculty Tenure Review – visit the Tenure Review website
• Shared Governance: Committee Member Checklist