2023 SoCal WCA Online Tutor Conference Schedule
| Time | Webinar Presentations (Main Conference) | Zoom Room #1 Workshops & roundtables | Zoom Room #2 Workshops & roundtables | Zoom Room#3 Workshops & roundtables | Zoom Room#4 Workshops & roundtables |
| 10:00-10:10 | Opening Remarks: President Kim Arbolante | ||||
| 10:10-11:00 | “Supporting Students through the Writing Center’s Physical Space” (Cal Lutheran, 50-minute group presentation) | “Mentoring Students through Uncertainty in the Writing Space” (MiraCosta College, 50-minute group presentation) | “Almost Normal: Creative Resilience and Accessibility through Online Tutoring” (Antelope Valley College, 50-minute group presentation) | “Expanding Writing Center Inclusivity: A Qualitative Study Assessing the Needs of Neurodivergent Students” (Pitzer College, 50-minute group presentation) | “Boosting Writing Adviser’s Mental Health” (Occidental College, 50-minute group presentation) Sustained |
| 11:00-11:05 | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK |
| 11:05-11:55 | “From Disequilibrium to a ‘New Normal’: More Effective Writing Centers after the Pandemic” (Bakersfield College, 50-minute roundtable discussion) | “Strategies to Review Papers with Controversial Topics” (Concordia University Irvine, 50-minute roundtable discussion) | “Assessing the Writing Center’s Role in Disruptions to ‘Traditional’ Learning Environments” (UC Irvine, 50-minute roundtable discussion) | “The Gendered Writing Experience” (Occidental College, 50-minute roundtable discussion) | “Sustained Resilience” (Point Loma Nazarene University, 50-minute group presentation) |
| 11:55-12:00 | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK |
| 12:00- 12:50 | “Hosting a Conversation on Fostering Resilience Through Incorporating Critical Race Theory in Tutoring Practices” (Occidental College, 50-minute group presentation) | “Antiracism in the Writing Center: Embracing Racial Diversity and Enacting Change” (El Camino College, 10-12 minute individual presentation) “To Foster Resilience, WHY and HOW tutors should help student-writer tutees construct a ‘self-transcendent purpose’ for learning and writing (Oxnard College, 10-12 minute individual presentation) “The Incorporation of Expressive and Poetry Writing in Our Writing Centers” (El Camino College, 10-12 minute individual presentation) | “Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education in the Writing Center” (Soka University, 50-minute group presentation) | “The Writing Center as a Site of Community and Collaboration: Physical Space as a Medium of Resilience” (CSU San Bernardino, 50-minute group presentation) | “Supporting Resilient Writers Through Mindful Crafting in the Writing Center” (Mira Costa College, 50-min workshop) |
| 12:50-1:20 | LUNCH BREAK webinar remains open but inactive | LUNCH BREAK no open Zoom | LUNCH BREAK no open Zoom | ||
| 1:20- 2:10 | ”Creative Approaches for Persevering Through “New-Tutor Anxiety”” (Oxnard College, 50-minute group presentation) | “Impetus of transformational linguistic Justice. (Soka University of America, 50-min workshop) | “Managing Noise and Distractions in the Writing Center” (50-min workshop) | ||
| 2:10- 2:20 | Closing Remarks: Vice President Debbie Goss |