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, […]
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Just Released: RP Group Evaluation of 16 CAP Colleges
April 28, 2014, Sacramento CA — The Research and Planning Group released its evaluation of accelerated English and math pathways of 16 colleges today, finding “large and robust” increases in student completion of college-level requirements in English and math, with gains across all student demographic and socioeconomic groups and placement levels. The 16 colleges included […]
Applications for Cultivating a Growth Mindset are Available Now
We are excited to announce a new professional learning opportunity for community college faculty focused on Cultivating a Growth Mindset. This initial professional learning series will take place during Fall 2014 and is open to Southern California Community Colleges only (Training in Fall 2015 will be held in Northern California and will be reserved for Northern […]
Strengthening Student Success Conference 2013 – 3CSN
Pictures from the Conference [su_slider source=”media: 15543,15542,15541,15540,15539,15538,15532,15533,15534,15535,15536″] Some of the presentations given by 3CSN [su_accordion] [su_spoiler title=”Growth Mindset: A Growing Solution for Fixing Education?” style=”fancy” icon=”arrow-circle-1″ open=”yes”]This session explores how incorporating growth mindset strategies directly into developmental skills courses improves learning strategies and helps students respond to educational challenges. With growth mindset, students believe that […]
Changing Pathways: How Community Colleges are Rethinking College Readiness in Math
[su_quote cite=”Pamela Burdman” url=”http://www.learningworksca.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/LWBrief_ChangingEquations_WEB.pdf”]Together, the high proportion of community college students requiring math remediation, and the relatively low proportion who succeed in required remedial sequences, make placement in developmental math one of the single greatest barriers to college completion.[/su_quote] A must-read for community college professionals committed to student success and equity, this policy brief highlights […]
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. […]
San Diego Area Writing Project
Writing for College & Career Readiness Fostering Partnerships Among High School, College and University Instructors (9-16) Sponsored by California Community College Success Network in collaboration with San Diego Area Writing Project • UC San Diego FACILITATED BY SDAWP TEACHER CONSULTANTS: Holly Bauer, Jan Jarrell, Mark Manasse, Nadia Mandilawi, Divona Roy, and Monique Lamphiere-Tamayoshi Addressing […]
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 […]
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 […]
