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David Betancourt, DMA is the chair of the Board for the California Community College Council on Staff Development and travels internationally as a creative and dynamic educational consultant to promote pedagogical excellence within multiple teaching and learning environments. His core mission is to engage, equip, and connect educators to create and integrate transformative learning experiences using evidence-based practices. Betancourt continues a parallel career as a conductor and music educator. He was recognized as Outstanding Faculty in 2015 and Most Outstanding Faculty in 2016.
He holds a DMA in music education from the University of Southern California, an MM in instrumental conducting from Northern Arizona University, and a BM in music education and performance from Berklee College of Music.
Last Updated: 02-28-2022

- How Can I Apply a Resilient Mindset to My Teaching Practice?
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- For faculty experiencing burnout from tough pandemic teaching conditions, this 20-Minute Mentor shows you how one educator embraced resiliency to create a positive outlook in a difficult time.
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- What Did We Learn from Pandemic Teaching and What Are We Keeping as We Move On?
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- While hard to realize, the pandemic was a time of instructional learning and growth. This 20-Minute Mentor guides faculty in choosing the best improvements to keep as you move on to classroom teaching.
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- How Can I Teach with Confidence in the Hyflex Classroom?
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- For faculty who must teach hyflex sessions, this 20-Minute Mentor delivers specific and creative engagement tactics to enhance engagement in each setting to bring the entire class together in achieving academic success.
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- What Are the Benefits—and Challenges—of Hyflex Instruction?
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- For faculty who feel overwhelmed with hyflex instruction, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how the benefits of hyflex teaching outweigh the challenges for both teachers and students alike while delivering time saving successful strategies to employ.
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- What Are Best Practices for Hyflex Course Design and Delivery?
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- For faculty not understanding or being overwhelmed with hyflex instruction, this 20-Minute Mentor provides clarity on steps to take in both planning and instructing a hyflex course as well as successful tips for engaging students in hyflex learning.
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- How Can I Create an Engaging, Student-Focused Syllabus?
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- For faculty whose syllabi are often unread by students, leading to confusion and even misinformation later in the course, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how to make a visually appealing syllabus that quickly communicates crucial course details to students in an engaging way.
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- Design and Teach an Equitable and Inclusive Course
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- This Magna Online Seminar provides a five-point framework to establish inclusive teaching practices and expand faculty’s inclusivity mindset.
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- How Can I Use Everyday Interactions to Instill a Growth Mindset in Students?
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- This 20-Minute Mentor delivers practical advice from an experienced educator who has learned to change her communication with students in order to build small moments of opportunity for shifting from a fixed to a growth mindset.
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- What Are Best Practices for Online Pedagogy?
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- For faculty who are looking to improve or are just not conversant with online teaching, this 20-Minute Mentor establishes the overall goal of virtual instruction while providing clear, practical, and proven online learning best practices.
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- What’s Different About Teaching Online, and How Do I Change So My Students Succeed?
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- This 20-Minute Mentor provides a clear distinction between online learning and face to face learning differentiating best practices and course design for more effective instruction.
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- Understanding Racial Justice Through Food Studies
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- This Magna Online Seminar explores the relationship between race and food in order to teach key leadership skills for racial justice in institutions of higher education. Examine how food systems create racialized problems for minority communities along the lines of food insecurity, health, and identity.
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- Using Authentic Assessment to Assess Student Learning
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- This Magna Online Seminar will help you develop authentic assignments and assessment mechanisms to help encourage a holistic understanding of student learning.
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- How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?
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- For faculty who want to improve student feedback while not adding to their grading workload, this 20-Minute Mentor provides expert guidance to creating better opportunities for your students while being more efficient with your grading.
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- Implementing Mindful Online Teaching Using Zoom
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- For faculty teaching online, especially remote content delivery and synchronous classes, this Magna Online Seminar demonstrates intentional and mindful teaching you can implement to create an engaging experience for students and a greater sense of community in the class.
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- How Can I Build an Antiracist Syllabus?
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- For educators who are looking for ways to close the gaps between privileged and minoritized students, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to improve the success of minoritized students through implementing an antiracist syllabus.
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- Using Interleaving in Course Design to Improve Retention
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- For faculty whose students are not retaining course concepts for the duration of the semester, this Magna Online Seminar explains interleaving content during instruction and studying to improve student success through increased content retention.
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- Creating a Sense of Belonging for BIPoC in a College Course
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- For faculty who want to create an equitable and inclusive teaching environment for all students, this Magna Online Seminar instills two psychosocial interventions to counteract systemic disadvantage and provide a more equitable opportunity for the academic success of BIPoC students.
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- Engaging and Interacting with Students in Online Courses
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- For faculty teaching online looking to improve student engagement, this Magna Online Seminar details four proven strategies to improve student engagement with the course content, the teacher, and other students.
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- Increasing Inclusion and Interaction: Disabilities in the College Classroom
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- For faculty who must accommodate the needs of students with disabilities, the Magna Online Seminar introduces small pedagogical changes that will improve the experience for all learners.
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- Using Student Feedback to Immediately Improve Teaching
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- For teaching faculty who are looking for continuous improvement in their instruction, this Magna Online Seminar demonstrates how real-time evaluations and teaching improvement benefit both current students and the instructor.
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- Using Humor and Levity to Enhance the Online Learning Environment
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- For faculty teaching online having trouble engaging students and missing the interaction of face-to-face teaching, this Magna Online Seminar shows you how humor can make your teaching and learning more engaging and enjoyable.
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- How Can I Redesign a Classroom Assignment for Online Teaching?
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- This 20-Minute Mentor focuses on the instructional considerations necessary for supporting student learning online and the numerous factors for achieving online student success.
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- How Can I Ensure Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom?
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- For faculty looking to ensure academic integrity in their online courses, this 20-Minute Mentor offers practical solutions to implement in their course and assessment design.
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- Bringing Diversity and Inclusion into Your Quantitative Course
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- This Magna Online Seminar assists faculty in better understanding the variety of ways that topics related to diversity and inclusion can be brought into their existing quantitative courses while providing several practical ways to do this through their syllabus, curricula, and more.
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