OCLN Regional Meeting – Acceleration

OCLN’s February meeting will focus on Acceleration.

We will be joined by Katie Hern and Myra Snell.

Lunch included

Please register to be included in the lunch count and to receive a parking permit.

 Agenda

9:30   Welcome & opening remarks

9:45   Framework for Acceleration

• Clarifying the completion problem
• Principles for solving the problem
• Current status of the movement

10:15  Help for seeing the completion problem and solution locally: a new Basic Skills Tracking (BST) tool

• Demonstration
• Practice
• Next steps for using the BST tool

11:15  Panel of colleges engaging in acceleration share:

• Their models of acceleration and how exit points are reduced;
• Results and discoveries to date, especially concerning the number of accelerated students completing transfer-level gatekeeper courses;
• Changes to classroom practice

12:30  Lunch

1:00    Breakout groups to focus separately on Math and English acceleration

1:45    Invitation to join our Community of Practice for Acceleration (CoPA):  Criteria & application

2:00    Adjourn (Katie and Myra are available for Q&A about the CoPA)