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• 1995: 100 pages (Apple) was designed, a handbook was also created to fully
support institute participants. Beginning in 2002,
• 1998: 180 pages (Apple & Krumsieg) Approximately 70 members of the Academy of Process
Educators collaborated to elevate the content available
• 2000: 260 pages (Apple & Krumsieg) in the institute handbooks to the level of scholarship, and
published modules 2 or 4 pages in length and collected
Offering Specialized Content: Other Institutes in annual editions of the Faculty Guidebook (Beyerlein,
Holmes, & Apple, 2007). The Faculty Guidebook thus
The 4-part separation of the Teaching Institute shows the represents a minimum of 16 years of Process Education
ease with which the array of content offered in the Teaching scholarship and professional development experience and
Institute can be parsed out to support more specialized is now a resource used to continually upgrade institute and
interests. The most popular content from the Teaching workshop handbooks.
Institute tended to be that which related to designing
process curricula. Just as many educators were motivated A Formal Program Design
to devise learning activities to support classroom use of
PC:SOLVE (see the Activity Books section), so too were In 2008, after the completion of the 4th (and current)
participants in Process Education workshops and institutes edition of the Faculty Guidebook, Pacific Crest held an
often motivated to create process-oriented curricula. Instructional Design Institute under the leadership of Steve
To support these educators, Pacific Crest held its first Beyerlein, Carol Holmes, and Dan Apple. During this
Curriculum Design Institute in 1995 (Dan Apple, personal institute, nearly 40 members of the Academy of Process
recollection). Educators participated and collaborated in designing the
Pacific Crest Faculty Development Program. The newly
The first Advanced Teaching Institute was held in 1996 published modules, Methodology for Program Design
with the goal of expanding the community of research- (Davis, 2007) and Profile of a Quality Faculty Member
based practitioners and their expertise. Four years later, (Collins & Apple, 2007) were critical tools used during
the number of professional development institutes offered this process, especially when it came to determining and
by Pacific Crest virtually exploded (see Figure 1). The defining the key performance areas that the Professional
Teaching institute handbook was divided into additional Development Program would support. The final areas
stand-alone handbooks to support requested professional selected are shown in Figure 2. Since its completion,
development institutes, each with their own specific the Faculty Development Program Design document has
content and activities. Institutes created in this way been available on the Pacific Crest web site: http://www.
include the Program Assessment Institute, the Facilitator’s pcrest.com/program/prog_design.pdf (Pacific Crest, 2008a).
Institute, and the Interactive Learning Systems Institute. Figure 3 shows an excerpt from the program design
Between 2000 and 2014, 18 new institutes were created, document which shows how different institutes map to the
as shown in Figure 1. performance areas.

From Handbooks to the Faculty Guidebook Once the program itself was designed, the group was
divided into ten teams, each responsible for using the
As with the notes for the Teaching Institute (Apple, Methodology for Course Design (Davis, 2007) to redesign
1991), each time a professional development institute

Figure 1 Timeline of the Pacific Crest Professional Development Program (dark lines represent a division of content
and creation of a new institute from that content)

Teaching Curriculum
Institute Design
Institute
Program
Advanced Design
Teaching Institute
Institute
Course
Interactive Design
Learning Institute
Systems
Institute Faculty Mentoring Activity
Development Institute Design
Program Institute
Assessment Institute

Institute Student Assessment Research Chairperson’s Strategic Online Problem Online
Success Institute on the Institute Planning Teaching Solving Teaching
Facilitator’s Institute Institute Institute Institute Learning
Institute Performance Scholarship Administrator’s to Learn
Measures of Teaching Institute Institute
Institute and Learning

Institute

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