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California Acceleration Project
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Faculty across California Impressed by Accelerated English Students
Strong Performance by Students Placed 2-3 Levels Below College in Traditional Sequence By Homeira Foth, English Instructor, Chabot College In Fall 2012, City College of San Francisco English Instructor Caroline Minkowski taught an accelerated class for students placed three levels below college English. Instead of taking three full semesters of remedial courses, her students were [...]
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CSU Issues Statement on Intermediate Algebra Policy and Articulation
When community college faculty consider developing an accelerated math pathway, one of the first questions to arise is whether it would jeopardize articulation of their transfer-level math course. Pre-statistics courses and other redesigned pathways provide alternatives to the traditional algebra sequence, but under current policy, intermediate algebra is a required prerequisite for any transferable math/quantitative [...]
California Community Colleges Reading Apprenticeship
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2013-2014 Reading Apprenticeship Project Scholarship Application Released
2013-2014 Reading Apprenticeship Project Scholarship Application Released Our new First Year Seminar course, and the faculty professional learning that accompanies it, are based on Reading Apprenticeship principles. Our whole campus is engaging in metacognitive conversation! My VP of Instruction asked me to create a new basic reading course for our struggling students. I convinced her [...]
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Reading Apprenticeship in Math: Metacognition saves time
Carrie Starbird, Pasadena City College (Math) I was introduced to Reading Apprenticeship through LACCD’s Faculty Teaching and Learning Academy (FTLA) and 3CSN’s Basic Skills Initiative Leadership Institute (BSILI). I have come to believe in the power of RA, and have begun to spread the word to colleagues across campus that RA can be a way [...]
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