To kick off the spring semester, nearly 40 CSU Monterey Bay and Ohlone College faculty members came together to explore discipline-specific literacies through an Introductory Reading Apprenticeship workshop at CSU Monterey Bay on January 17, 2017. These faculty members teach in diverse disciplines and learning contexts, including Cinematic Arts and Documentary Film Production, English, First […]
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SoCal BSI Coordinators Event at LA Harbor
Teams of educators working on Basic Skills, SSSP and Equity came together at the SoCal BSI Coordinator Event on May 1st at LA Harbor to discuss integrated planning and exciting new developments in placement reform. They learned not only about the new Basic Skills reporting requirements but also about the Common Assessment Initiative and emerging […]
BSI Coordinators In SoCal Escape to Rio Hondo for the Day
Despite the unusually, high temperatures that have been baking SoCal over the past week, over 50 SoCal BSI Coordinators gathered at Rio Hondo College to workshop with Barbara Illowsky regarding the new BSI Publication, BASIC SKILLS COMPLETION: The Key to Student Success in California Community Colleges – Effective Practices for Faculty, Staff and Administrators, […]
LINKS 8: What Do Students Need to Know? Creating Space for Courageous Conversations about Disciplinary Knowledge
3CSN’s major Communities of Practice (CoP)—the California Acceleration Project, Habits of Mind, and theReading 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 developmental sequences […]
New 3CSN CTE Community of Practice unveiled at CCCAOE Presentation
[su_quote cite=”3CSN” url=”http://3csn.org/about/theory-of-change/”]If we provide training on networking and we use action research methodologies, community college professionals will transform their environments and identities to create communities of practice that will produce powerful learning and working across campuses. This will lead to greater student success.[/su_quote] The presentation, given by 3CSN Executive Director, Deborah Harrington and 3CSN […]
How to Flip without Flopping
[su_quote cite=”Rob Dameron” url=”http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/turning-education-upside-down/”]Flipped classrooms require more creativity and energy from the teacher.[/su_quote] The Beginnings [su_youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H4RkudFzlc” width=”700″ height=”394″] [su_quote cite=”Karl Fisch” url=”http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/7996379/Daniel-Pinks-Think-Tank-Flip-thinking-the-new-buzz-word-sweeping-the-US.html”]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, […]
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 […]
