The Taste of Redding is held at the Redding Sculpture Park at City Hall! Join over 1,500 attendees and experience local food, wines, and craft beers. There is live music on three stages with a great line-up of bands. This event continues to sell out each year so get your tickets early!
Proceeds from the event go to The Rotary Club of Redding West, a non-profit entity, in the Redding community. The Rotary Club of Redding supports local high schools and students, community events, and local improvement projects; for example, the TR Woods Park Project and the waterfall at the end of Cypress Avenue.
When I was a child, I wielded a crayon like a conductor leading a symphony. I colored and doodled and scribbled with confidence, using every color I could to make my rainbows a palace for those little leprechauns.
At 6 years old, one of my dad’s dear friends said, “Taylor, when you grow up, you might just be an artist.”
Kids really say the darnedest things, don’t they? Without any hesitation, at 6 years old, I could tell you exactly what I wanted to be (or what I thought I already was…). I didn’t worry about my future, didn’t dwell on paychecks or whether or not I would be “good enough.” I trusted in my abilities and there was no ceiling capping my career possibilities.
Do you remember what you wanted to be when you were in kindergarten? Do you still want to be that? Or maybe a dream that you’ve tucked in the back of your mind and have yet to give voice to it…
Because if your dreams have changed, I want to know what made you reconsider. Did you lose heart? Did you trade dreams for practicality?
Even though I really don’t care much about being a walrus trainer anymore, I do want to be a writer. So that’s what I’m pursuing.
In my college classes, we were constantly reminded about the ever shifting world of journalism. “With everything moving online, is journalism heading south?” In my opinion, no, but for some, they go on preaching cautionary remarks about diving into the field.
Since I was a little girl, God placed a love of storytelling on my heart. Sit down at a coffee shop with me and I would be honored to listen to your passions, ideas and struggles. Ask me questions and I’ll walk down that road with you and talk politics, faith and social injustice until the cows come home.
Whether or not the world of journalism changes, the importance of telling our stories and encouraging one another in our life journeys will always be valuable. People can tell me as much as they want that writing isn’t lucrative, that my aspiration to be a novelist isn’t likely to come true, but I won’t budge.
I hold firm to my faith that my Lord shaped my heart this way for a reason. As long as He keeps such Joy in my heart for storytelling, I’m going to keep on doing it. The ways of the world might wipe away some people’s dreams, but not mine.
Using proprietary algorithms developed specifically for higher education and based on what instructors previously taught, TAMS finds the instructor who best matches each course, what they prefer to teach and their available effort using your school’s workload methodology and program affiliation.
Collecting teaching preferences from your faculty in TAMS is a simple process. TAMS integrates into your technology systems, allowing instructors to quickly and easily login using your university password. and choose the courses they would like to teach. TAMS collects the teaching preferences of your instructors, making future assignments faster and easier.
TAMS provides administrators an accurate, real-time account of overall faculty and instructor effort and individual section assignments. All teaching-related effort automatically updates as an instructor’s assignments are completed. Tracking other types of instructor workload commitments, such as research or academic leadership roles that may be unrelated to coursework, is also part of TAMS’ functionality.
TAMS provides structured, clear milestones and accountability for your school’s assignments process. You’ll have the ability to delegate specific parts of the process to different team members, based on your organizational structure, by assigning specific roles to users based on their responsibility and required actions. For example, your business office can input the overall teaching effort required for instructors in an academic period, then the academic programs office works on the course schedule after the business office inputs the data. You have the power to manage your workflow in the way that best supports your unique process.
Rarely do approved assignments remain static. Faculty often have revisions to externally funded effort, committee appointments and personal circumstances that cause their completed assignments to fluctuate. Once assignments are complete, TAMS tracks any changes and reports them in a helpful, filterable report, thus avoiding over-assignment, leaving course sections uncovered or through simple manual errors.