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The CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning

The California State University Institute for Teaching and Learning
Teacher-Scholar Summer Institute 2001
June 24-27, 2001
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Performing Arts Center

All workshops, meals, and events are on the Cal Poly campus (most at the Performing Arts Center, or PAC, on Grand Avenue)

Internet access: Computers and ports will be available Monday-Wednesday in the PAC lobby.

Getting there: From the Monterey Street inns, walk (~3/4 mile), carpool (parking structure in front of the PAC), or take the TSSI bus.

Shuttle Bus: Please see the enclosed TSSI Shuttle Bus schedule. No shuttle bus on Sunday. Please form carpools as needed.

If you need assistance, call Joe Grimes at 805-550-6025.

Reminder: Name badge required for entry to all conference meals

Sunday, June 24

4:00-6:00 pm Registration. Vista Grande (across the street from the Performing Arts Center on Grand Avenue at Cal Poly)
No fee to park on campus on Sunday. No shuttle bus service.

6:00-6:30 pm Welcome reception. Vista Grande

6:30-7:30 pm Dinner. Vista Grande (name badge required)

7:30-9:00 pm Welcome to TSSI. Carol Holder, ITL Director. Vista Grande

"Beware of Labels-They May Be on the Wrong Suit: Encouraging Skepticism in Our Classrooms." Paul Zingg, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Monday, June 25 (morning)

All day Registration and Information. Performing Arts Center main lobby

If you are driving, purchase daily parking pass at the kiosk or at the vending machine in the PAC parking structure. ($1.75/day)

Sign up sheets for Monday and Tuesday optional campus tours.

9:00 am Workshops 1-4 begin.

• Workshop 1: Chemistry Lab (meet at PAC registration)
• Workshop 2: PAC Main Lobby
• Workshop 3: PAC Founders' Lounge (upstairs)
• Workshop 4: PAC Pavilion (downstairs)

~10:30 Refreshment break.

noon Lunch. PAC main lobby to pick up boxed lunches.

Monday, June 25 (afternoon)

1:00 Workshops 1-4 resume.

~2:30 Refreshment break.

4:00 Workshops adjourn for the day.

4:05-5:30 Arboretum tour. Meg Abel, Cal Poly student, will conduct the tour. Bus leaves from PAC at 4:05 pm and returns by 5:30.

6:00-6:30 Wine and cheese reception. PAC lobby

6:30-7:30 Dinner. PAC Pavilion (name badge required)

7:30-9:00 Announcements, Prizes, Introductions. Carol Holder, ITL Director Conversation with CSU Trustees

• Laurence K. Gould, Jr., Chair, Trustees of the CSU
• Harold Goldwhite, Faculty Trustee and Professor of Chemistry, CSU Los Angeles
• Bernard Goldstein, Faculty Trustee Emeritus and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Sonoma State University

Tuesday, June 26

7:00-8:00 am Bird watching. Bernard Goldstein, Biologist, VPAA Sonoma State, Faculty Trustee Emeritus, and member of the ITL Advisory Board, will lead a bird-watching expedition. Meeting place to be announced at Monday dinner.

7:30-8:30 am Canyon walk. V.L. Holland, Biology Department Chair, Cal Poly SLO, and Cal Poly students will conduct a walk in Poly Canyon. Meet (carpools recommended) at the corner of Truckee, Klamath, and Poly Canyon Road (on campus) at 7:30 am.

All Day TSSI Registration and Information. Performing Arts Center lobby. Sign up for afternoon Dairy Tour.

9:00 Workshops 1-4 resume

~10:30 Refreshment break.

noon Lunch. PAC lobby to pick up boxed lunches.

1:00 Workshops 1-4 resume.

~2:30 Refreshment break.

4:00 Workshops adjourn. Please complete both the Goals Statement and the Workshop Evaluation before leaving your workshop.

4:05-5:30 Dairy tour. Stan Henderson will conduct a dairy tour and visit to the Milking Parlor. Bus leaves from PAC at 4:05 and returns at 5:30.

6:00-6:30 Wine and cheese reception. PAC main lobby.

6:30-7:30 Dinner. PAC Pavilion (name badge required)

7:30-8:45 Special Program in the PAC Auditorium: A Night at the PAC

• William Terrence Spiller, Cal Poly Associate Professor of Music
• Martin Harms, Dean, Cal Poly College of Architecture and Environmental Design

Wednesday, June 27

All day Registration and Information. Performing Arts Center main lobby (on campus on Grand)

If you are driving, purchase daily parking pass at the kiosk or at the vending machine in the PAC parking structure. ($1.75/day)

9:00 am Workshops 5-8 begin.

• Workshop 5: PAC Founders' Lounge
• Workshop 6: PAC Gallery (top floor lobby)
• Workshop 7: PAC Main Lobby
• Workshop 8: PAC Pavilion

~10:30 Refreshment break.

noon Lunch. PAC main lobby to pick up boxed lunches.

1:00 Workshops 5-8 resume. Please complete both the Goals Statement and the Workshop Evaluation before leaving your workshop.

~2:30 Refreshment break.

4:00 Workshops adjourn.

Please complete both the Goals Statement and the Workshop Evaluation before leaving your workshop.

Also, please turn in the TSSI overall conference evaluation at the registration table in the lobby to help ITL plan future Teacher-Scholar Summer Institutes.

Thank you for taking some of your summer break to participate in this year's institute for CSU faculty. ITL will ask you, with a mailed survey in the fall, about your implementation of TSSI workshop ideas. Your response will help ITL determine the effectiveness of this program.

Have a safe journey home and a productive, interesting summer.