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Regional Centers for Teaching Excellence

What are the VCCS Regional Centers for Teaching Excellence about?
  • Regional colloquia for the VCCS faculty
  • Instructional leadership
  • Inquiry, the VCCS/VCCA journal focused on teaching and learning
  • Mentoring programs to enhance teacher effectiveness
  • Clearinghouses for articles, monographs and resources related to community college teaching and learning

Mission Statement

Purpose:

Regional Centers for Teaching Excellence provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the art and practice of teaching by focusing on four themes:

  • Learning
  • Teaching
  • Self-Development
  • Innovation

Principles:

Regional Centers for Teaching Excellence embrace the following principles:

  • Providing a forum for cross-institutional professional interaction
  • Modeling co-learner environments
  • Discovering the art of teaching as a developmental process
  • Cultivating a community of reflective practitioners
  • Building collective ethical wisdom
  • Advancing instructional methods through experimentation and innovation
  • Fostering cross-discipline collegiality and collaboration
  • Recognizing and celebrating diversity

The Five Regional Centers

Central Virginia Region
(BRCC, CVCC, DCC, DSLCC,PHCC, VWCC)
Dr. Juville Dario-Becker, Chair

Mid-Central Virginia Region
(JSRCC, JTCC, PVCC, RCC, SSVCC)
Ms. Ruth Greene, Chair

Northern Virginia Region
(GCC, LFCC, NVCC)
Dr. Rosalyn M. King, Chair

Southwest Virginia Region
(MECC, NRCC, SWVCC, VHCC, WCC)
Dr. Melba Bolling, Chair

                              

Tidewater Virginia Region
(ESCC, PDCCC, TCC, TNCC)
Mr. Rick Dollieslager, Chair

Centers Listing and Links

Central Virginia Region
(BRCC, CVCC, DCC, DSLCC,PHCC, VWCC)
Dr. Juville Dario-Becker, Chair

Mid-Central Virginia Region
(JSRCC, JTCC, PVCC, RCC, SSVCC)
Ms. Ruth Greene, Chair

Northern Virginia Region
(GCC, LFCC, NVCC)
Dr. Rosalyn M. King, Chair

Southwest Virginia Region
(MECC, NRCC, SWVCC, VHCC, WCC)
Dr. Melba Bolling, Chair

Tidewater Virginia Region
(ESCC, PDCCC, TCC, TNCC)
Mr. Rick Dollieslager, Chair


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