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Courtney Plotts, PhD, is a dynamic keynote speaker, author, and professor. Plotts is the national chair of the Council For At Risk Student Education and Professional Standards, the country's only organization that provides standards for working with marginalized and nontraditional students in kindergarten through college. Her role as national chair includes training, consulting, and research. Her subject matter expertise has been used in a variety of books, most recently Small Teaching Online by Flower Darby with James M. Lang (2019). Plotts was recognized in 2017 by the California State Legislature for a bold commitment to change in education.
Plotts holds a PhD and MA in psychology from Northcentral University and MA in education (curriculum and instruction) from the University of Phoenix.

Last Updated: 06-08-2020

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  • The Role of Higher Education in Times of Crisis: Healing Strategies for Educators
    • The Role of Higher Education in Times of Crisis: Healing Strategies for Educators

    • The Role of Higher Education in Times of Crisis: Healing Strategies for Educators

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    • Colleges and universities have a long-standing role in advancing civil discourse. How can we lead our communities in a meaningful and healing way when we are geographically displaced and relying on remote, online communication? For academic leaders and faculty who are challenged with effective communication during a time of social unrest, this free Magna Online Seminar provides direction for leaders to provide healing, helping, education, and engagement.
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  • The Role of Educational Developers in Teaching and Learning Excellence
    • The Role of Educational Developers in Teaching and Learning Excellence

    • The Role of Educational Developers in Teaching and Learning Excellence

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • For educational developers who help faculty in any aspect of course preparation, delivery, or professional development, this Magna Online Seminar links this professional role to student achievement and success. You will take away a solid understanding of how educational development is vital in teaching and learning excellence and how it’s a discipline of supporting high quality student learning experiences.
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  • Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content
    • Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content

    • Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • Have you integrated inclusive pedagogies into your teaching and wonder what’s next? Are you ready to be more intentional about making your assignments and course content more equity-minded? This Magna Online Seminar will identify evidence-based approaches to add equity-minded content and improve the success of minoritized students in your disciplinary and institutional context.
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  • An Online Educator’s Guide to Using Zoom Features to Enhance Student Interactivity
  • Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success
    • Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success

    • Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • Through the use of open pedagogy and open syllabi, instructors can empower students to play a larger role in the development and curation of learning materials for their classes. In this Magna Online Seminar, we will introduce the concepts of open pedagogy and open syllabi and discuss practical ways they have been successfully used in classroom settings with both commercial and open educational resource (OER) materials.
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  • Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments
    • Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments

    • Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • The best courses start with the end in mind. What will students learn or be able to do by the end of this class? This Magna Online Seminar helps you organize your workflow and equips you with the tools to line up your course learning elements with your student learning outcomes.
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  • Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using Emotion Science
    • Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using Emotion Science

    • Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using Emotion Science

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • Emotions are strongly linked to how we pay attention, focus, engage, remember, and learn. This online seminar will present practical strategies for putting the power of emotions to work in online classes to help capture and hold students’ attention, better engage students in their learning, and ultimately help them persist and succeed.
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  • Leading Change and Effective Communication: Quick Response to the Threat of Coronavirus to Support a Campus Community
  • Advanced Leadership Philosophies: Comparing Servant and Toxic Leadership
    • Advanced Leadership Philosophies: Comparing Servant and Toxic Leadership

    • Advanced Leadership Philosophies: Comparing Servant and Toxic Leadership

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • This Magna Online Seminar helps individuals understand more about the positive and negative sides of leadership by comparing and contrasting two types of leadership: servant leadership and toxic leadership. By knowing how to identify both servant leadership and toxic leadership actions, behaviors, and concepts, participants will be able to advance their understanding of leadership and their own leadership practice.
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  • Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings
    • Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings

    • Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • Have you ever had difficulty getting students to complete required readings?  Is it a challenge to get them to think more critically about the content? This Magna Online Seminar will introduce four methods for increasing your students’ engagement with course readings.  Each method will be explored in detail, and all materials will be supplied for you to use these activities with your own classes.
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  • Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times
    • Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times

    • Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times

    • Price range: $39.00 through $299.00
    • This online seminar is designed for educators who are interested in learning about how they can teach their students despite the presence of trauma. Participants will acquire strategies they can use to help students continue their learning in the middle of this pandemic.
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  • Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments
    • Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments

    • Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • A tenured Universal Design for Learning (UDL) expert will discuss assessment alternatives based on UDL framework that are acceptable even in cases where instructors do not believe they have flexibility to change assessments.
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  • How Can Social Learning be Used as a Reflective Practice in Faculty Development?
    • How Can Social Learning be Used as a Reflective Practice in Faculty Development?

    • How Can Social Learning be Used as a Reflective Practice in Faculty Development?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • Engaged and motivated faculty directly impact student success. This is why effective faculty development is essential! This program details a unique perspective on how to design and deliver programming for faculty success using social learning theory, where faculty are able to interact and learn directly from their peers.
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  • What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received?
    • What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received?

    • What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • In this program, Ann Taylor, PhD, assistant dean for distance learning and director of the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute at Penn State University, shares her personal Top 10 pieces of advice that she's received while working in higher-education leadership for the past two decades, illustrating each with a story of its influence.
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  • How Can Universities Increase Employee Engagement in an Era of Increased Workforce Competition?
  • How Can Higher Education Leadership Strengthen Campus-wide Collaboration?
    • How Can Higher Education Leadership Strengthen Campus-wide Collaboration?

    • How Can Higher Education Leadership Strengthen Campus-wide Collaboration?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • This 20-Minute Mentor provides direction to use the five Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Coordination, Cooperation, and Compliance, to lead your institution toward enhancing campus-wide buy-in and improving collaborations with all stakeholders.
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  • How Should We Measure Teaching Effectiveness?
    • How Should We Measure Teaching Effectiveness?

    • How Should We Measure Teaching Effectiveness?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are the most common tools for measuring instructor effectiveness. However, there is a large and growing literature documenting some of the major problems with SETs. These findings have motivated a national conversation about measurement of instructor effectiveness and the meaningfulness of statistical data collected from student evaluations.
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  • How Can Pure Heart Leadership Build Authenticity and Create Engaged and Empowered Teams?
    • How Can Pure Heart Leadership Build Authenticity and Create Engaged and Empowered Teams?

    • How Can Pure Heart Leadership Build Authenticity and Create Engaged and Empowered Teams?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • Pure Heart Leadership is a leadership approach, blending the psychology theories of Car Rogers, Albert Bandura, and Abraham Maslow, that encourages an authentic leadership while recognizing the individuality and strengths of leaders. This 20-Minute Mentor provides you with everything you need to know about this unique approach to leadership, led by the expert who developed this method.
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  • How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?
    • How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?

    • How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • In this 20-Minute Mentor, you will learn how to develop your own personal users' guide, which is an explanation of how to successfully work with you. This guide allows you to create a direct method for effective communication and the ability to share key information about what helps you to be an effective professional.
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  • How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?
    • How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?

    • How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?

    • Price range: $39.00 through $499.00
    • What does equity look like in the online classroom? This session will explore what it means to teach equitably and identifies five equitable practices that you can incorporate into your online courses.
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  • Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions
    • Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions

    • Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • Examine common question-writing pitfalls and learn item analysis, so you can examine the performance of your questions and determine how to refine them for next time.
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  • Flex Learning: Helping Students Choose Their Path to Success
    • Flex Learning: Helping Students Choose Their Path to Success

    • Flex Learning: Helping Students Choose Their Path to Success

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • Flex learning is the next evolution of blended learning. It enables students to learn in the way that works best for them. This seminar will show you how the flex model allows instructors to imaginatively redesign almost any course to better meet the needs of students and guide them toward greater academic success.
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  • How to Effectively Lead Change in Higher Education
    • How to Effectively Lead Change in Higher Education

    • How to Effectively Lead Change in Higher Education

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • If you want to make things happen on your campus and help others embrace the changes, you just need to know the steps to take that help ensure success. This seminar breaks change down into a process and then gives you a road map to follow.
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  • Assessment Strategies for Flipped Learning Experiences
    • Assessment Strategies for Flipped Learning Experiences

    • Assessment Strategies for Flipped Learning Experiences

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • Educators who want to ensure that their students are engaging fully with the course material need specialized assessment tools to evaluate their progress and make changes efficiently. This seminar aims to show educators in flipped learning classrooms the assessment options available and how to use them for the best results.
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