The California Department of Education (CDE) and the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO) have announced a new Community of Practice training on Integrated and Contextualized Workforce Skills in the ABE/ASE Classroom. Participant Commitment and Online Activities – mid-March through the end of April 2014 Participants must access pre-session assignments online and engage in other […]
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Changing Pathways: How Community Colleges are Rethinking College Readiness in Math
A must-read for community college professionals committed to student success and equity, this policy brief highlights the growing national movement to prioritize statistics and quantitative reasoning and rethink the traditional one-size-fits-all, algebra-based approach to math remediation. Burdman presents the rationale behind innovative new approaches, and she connects several efforts underway nationally, including 3CSN’s California Acceleration Project, […]
How to Flip without Flopping
Flipped classrooms require more creativity and energy from the teacher.[/quote] The Beginnings When you do a standard lecture in class, and then the students go home to do the problems, some of them are lost. They spend a whole lot of time being frustrated and, even worse, doing it wrong[/quote] Created by Knewton and […]
Introducing The Threshold Project at LINKS 8
3CSN’s major Communities of Practice (CoP)—the California Acceleration Project, Habits of Mind, and the Reading Apprenticeship Project—were developed based on the needs and concerns of California community college practitioners working in regional and leadership networks. Faculty, staff, and administrators from every California community college have engaged in our CoPs as they have worked to redesign […]
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. […]
College of the Canyons Hosts Last LINKS 6 Event
Due to the sellout LINKS event at Irvine Valley College, 3CSN decided to offer another LINKS event for the LA/OC colleges. Despite it being the Friday before Final Exams, a very receptive and engaging group of faculty came together at College of the Canyons to explore more about how to create a Powerful Classroom. Speed […]
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 4: Empowering Students with a Strong Start: Redesigning our Practices & Procedures
Join us in an exploration of student empowerment strategies that can be used to redesign college structures and processes as well as course syllabi. Participants will have an opportunity to apply what they learn and are encouraged to bring their own course syllabi and outlines for orientation and/or matriculation processes. Community college counselors, faculty, student […]
Effective Practices and Exemplary Programs
Supplemental Instruction Mt. San Jacinto College Program details Butte Community College, Program details Rio Hondo Community College, Program details I-Falcon- Habits of Mind Cerritos College Program details Crafton Hills Program details, Crafton Hills College Palomar College, Program details Learning Communities Skyline college FYE Program details Success Center Chaffey College Program details (doc 1 and doc […]
Learning in Networks for Knowledge Sharing (LINKS II)
This second in a series of Learning in Networks for Knowledge Sharing (LINKS) event will take a deeper look into student success in terms of completion, breaking completion down into more manageable chunks known as milestones and momentum points. LINKS 2 – San Diego LINKS 2 – Los Angeles LINKS 2 – Northern & Central […]
