LINKS 2018 continued on Saturday, April 21st. The day began with a warm welcome and debrief by Deborah Harrington and Rose Asera (Leading from the Middle/RP Group). Melissa Bader and Misty Burruel (LFM) then presented Leading from the Middle: Assessing Conditions for Change – Individual Impact. Using an iceberg as a metaphor, practitioners assessed their […]
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LINKS 2018 “The Fierce Urgency of Now: Preparing for Change” – Day 1
On Friday, April 20th, participants from across the state convened for LINKS 2018: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Preparing for Change at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ventura. Deborah Harrington, 3CSN Executive Director and Dean of Student Success at the Los Angeles Community College District, set the tone with a powerful welcome message. 3CSN Coordinators Erik Armstrong and Kyle […]

LINKS 10 Helps Take The Lead!
LINKS 10, Taking the Lead: Building Sustainable Professional Learning at Citrus College on Friday, October 17th brought professional learning leaders together to consider the principles and practices that drive powerful professional learning initiatives. Prompted by a collection of interesting images, participants discussed elements of powerful learning and then discussed the principles suggested by their own […]

Strengthening Student Success Conference 2013 – 3CSN
Pictures from the Conference Some of the presentations given by 3CSN

New 3CSN CTE Community of Practice unveiled at CCCAOE Presentation
The presentation, given by 3CSN Executive Director, Deborah Harrington and 3CSN Central Valley Regional Coordinator, Erik Armstrong, began with an overview on 3CSN’s mission to provide professional learning and the use of learning networks to assist community college professionals in transforming their environments and identities to increase and enhance student success. This was followed with […]

Student Success Lives Here Spotlight: Los Medanos College
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A linguist and a librarian go up the mountain and meet a bunch of honey badgers. They come back down as new-age dragon slayers determined to change peoples’ lives through a non-movement movement. What do you mean, you don’t get it? We are talking about BSILI, of course. […]

3CSN has a Big Presence @ the Strengthening Student Success Conference
This year’s Strengthening Student Success Conference (SSSC) in Costa Mesa was a great indicator of how broad and deep the network has grown since it’s inception four years ago. Close to 20 presentations were given by 3CSN, BSILI, FTLA Alumnae during the Conference. Topics covered 3CSN’s established Communities of Practice (CoP), the California Acceleration Project […]

BSILI 2012 – 17 Colleges and 44 Connected Faculty, Administration and Staff
t all began on a Sunday afternoon, with over 40 faculty, administrators and staff converging on the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center for a taste of 3CSN’s best − BSILI 2012 – Leadership for Curricular and Institutional Transformation. For some, it was straight out of the car and into the Iris Lodge where they were […]

Math Pathways: Designing for Success featuring Julie Phelps
The second Math Pathways symposium, held at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, welcomed Julie Phelps, of Valencia Community College in Florida to a day of math curricular and institutional redesign from local colleges like Pierce, Pasadena City College, College of the Canyons. Over one hundred people signed up for the sold out event to both […]

LINKS V Los Angeles: Transformational Toolbox
Panelists Myron H. Dembo is Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. He is a fellow in the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Dembo specializes in the areas of learning and motivation with a focus on teaching students […]