UPCOMING WEBINAR

From Selection to Scale:

Building Sustainable Assessment Systems in Washington Community Colleges

January 27 @ 11:00 AM Pacific

Join your Pacific Northwest peers.

Washington community colleges are navigating a critical shift in how assessment is supported, scaled, and sustained across their institutions. In this live webinar, three Washington state community colleges will share their real-world experiences implementing an enterprise assessment system—from early selection and IT partnership to faculty adoption and long-term strategy.

This three-part conversation will explore:

How institutions approached acquiring and implementing an enterprise system that IT can support institution-wide
Lessons learned while building, piloting, and earning stakeholder buy-in across departments
Assessment strategies for full faculty rollout, continuous improvement, and what’s next

This session will also mark the kickoff of a new Washington State Assessment Community, designed to connect community colleges, share best practices, and support ongoing collaboration around meaningful assessment.

Meet the presenters...

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Coco Carlson Courtney (Coco) Carlson is Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Walla Walla Community College. Before coming to WWCC, she spent several years working in education in the U.S. and internationally as a teacher and professor of environmental studies, literature, and culture. With a background in instructional design, experiential education, and academic administration, she focuses on faculty development and building practical, sustainable systems that help new ideas in teaching and learning take root.

David Owens (they/them) has been passionate about assessment since working as a part-time instructor in the Humanities because of its ability to create real improvement in student learning as a result of evidence-based changes to instructional design and methodology. Prior to coming to Shoreline, David was an instructional designer in the Center for Transformative Teaching at Everett Community College, where they maneuvered their way onto the Assessment Committee and designed their new institutional outcomes reporting portal. David was also involved with outcomes assessment at Walla Walla Community College as chair of their Outcomes Review Committee, faculty liaison for the Assessment and Curriculum Committees, and department head of Humanities.

Justin Kornheisl is an experienced LMS Administrator at Olympic College with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. He is skilled in customer service, technical support, editing, system administration, and management and has a strong information technology background. Justin earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused in New Media & Design from Purchase College, SUNY.