{"id":2053,"date":"2025-07-13T20:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:06:32","slug":"afa-coffee-chats-spring-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/afa-coffee-chats-spring-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"AFA Coffee Chats Spring 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to the AFA relaxing caf\u00e9 of team-building, ACC adjuncts! The AFA is eager to kick off our spring 2025 AFA Coffee Chat series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each Coffee Chat you attend earns you <strong><em>one hour of professional development credit<\/em><\/strong>\u2014think of it as an added sprinkle of cinnamon on your morning brew. These sessions are hands-on, so bring your current teaching materials to mix flavors, share skills, and brew new ideas together with your colleagues.&nbsp;<strong>We also invite our full-time professor colleagues to join in the brewing process.<\/strong>&nbsp;Let\u2019s come together and stir up some ideas and enrich our instructional materials.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2025\/07\/AFA-Coffee-Chats-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2025\/07\/AFA-Coffee-Chats-4.png 500w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2025\/07\/AFA-Coffee-Chats-4-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2025\/07\/AFA-Coffee-Chats-4-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2025\/07\/AFA-Coffee-Chats-4-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AFA President &#8220;LMC&#8221; Lisa Marie Coppoletta hosted <strong>AFA Spring 2025 Coffee Chat#1: Brewing Up Accessibility Training for Instructor Handouts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our first delicious blend of chatting it up on Zoom will take place on J<strong>anuary 29, 2025, from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM,<\/strong>&nbsp;where we\u2019ll stir up discussions on the essential brew of accessibility training and how to prepare effective instructional aids, much like the perfect handout. Accessibility is a fundamental aspect of inclusivity that allows all students to engage fully in our classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Our skilled baristas from the Office of Distance &amp; Alternative Education will serve up a twenty- to thirty-minute demonstration, followed by an hour of practical brewing time. Don\u2019t hesitate to have a handout on hand, as you&#8217;ll have the chance to receive specialized advice from our instructional designers or a fellow colleague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the AFA relaxing caf\u00e9 of team-building, ACC adjuncts! The AFA is eager to kick off our spring 2025 AFA Coffee Chat series.\u00a0 Each Coffee Chat you attend earns you one hour of professional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/afa-coffee-chats-spring-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4306,"featured_media":2086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/afa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}