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• California Acceleration Project

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  CAP Co-Founder Myra Snell Finalist for National Award

  Myra Snell, Co-Founder of the California Acceleration Project, is one of four finalists for the national “Faculty Innovation” award from the American Association of Community Colleges. The nomination recognizes Snell’s pioneering work in developing Path2Stats, an alternate math pathway for students who will take Statistics to fulfill their college math requirements (those not in math-intensive […]

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  Apply to the Community of Practice in Acceleration!

  An Extended Professional Development Program for Faculty Teaching in Accelerated English and Statistics Pathways. California community colleges are leading a national movement to replace long, remedial sequences in reading, writing, and mathematics with redesigned accelerated pathways. As illustrated the recent LearningWorks brief, “Toward a Vision of Accelerated Curriculum and Pedagogy: High-Challenge, High Support Classrooms for […]

• California Community Colleges Reading Apprenticeship

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  Equity and Excellence through Reading Apprenticeship

  The American Association of Colleges and Universities recently singled out Reading Apprenticeship at Pasadena City College as an example of “inclusive excellence.”  Why should you have to be economically privileged to experience a real First Year Experience and be properly introduced and invited to college?  At PCC we have demonstrated that all students–regardless of their […]

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  West Los Angeles College: We’ve Got RA!

  By Nancy Sander The West Los Angeles Reading Apprenticeship Faculty Inquiry Group started one and a half years ago.  The students can tell the RA story best. Siddiga Garushi is an ESL student from Sudan who began to use Reading Apprenticeship two levels below English 101. Her ESL course at that time was paired with […]