FIRST TEN THINGS for a BSI Coordinator: a checklist
Basic Skills Coordinators will work on this document to decide what will help a basic skills coordinator focus during the first semester.
NOTES from discussion
•    Basic Skills Thing: Vision of getting an outside view of what has been tried
•    Being able to know what you don’t know…
•    Transition of leadership and network Basic Skills Coordinator job responsibilities Coaching for BSI Coordinators

Here is a list for Basic Skills Coordinators

i.    Charge and purpose of the Basic Skills Committee (Roles, responsibilities, key stakeholders and membership)
ii.    What programs/efforts are being supported through the basic skills committee
iii.    Read the BSI Coordinator Handbook
iv.    Know which reports are due and when and where
v.    DATA: Which and Where (processes related to basic skills and individual to guide)
vi.    Key documents
1.    BSI Self study
2.    Action Plan/Expenditure plan
3.    Expenditure reports
4.    Poppy Copy
5.    History of Basic Skills at your college and in general (Person and document)
6.    BSI web resources
vii.    Know how to update website
viii.    Job Description (develop or find)
ix.    Attend Key conference and workshops: Academic Senate coordinated, Leadership and Strengthening Student Success Conferences
x.    Connect with the regional network

How do colleges in a region create a space and time to collaborate and share information?

1. Constantly updated database regarding basic skills programs in the state to look at

2. Contact information

3. Define effective collaboration

4. Having a resource to guide in connecting with faculty and other colleagues

5. Regional focus thinking about student populations not being within the region

6. Creating a system for adjunct faculty to understand processes on different campuses

7. Directory of Basic Skills Resources/faculty on different campuses

8. Cultural shift to learn from adjunct faculty

9. Basic Skills Thing: Vision of getting an outside view of what has been tried

10. Being able to know what you don’t know…

11. Sharing what works and what doesn’t

12. NEEDS page : RSS Feed 1. On-line acknowledgement (if no acknowledgement, person who sent in the request might follow through) 2. Current 3. Check it out once a week. (reminder)

If too many responses, the inquirer sends follow-up

13. Transition of leadership and network

14. Basic Skills Coordinator job responsibilities

15. Coaching on BSI Coordinators

a. FIRST TEN THINGS for a BSI Coordinator: a checklist

i. Charge and purpose of the Basic Skills Committee (Roles, responsibilities, key stakeholders and membership)

ii. What programs/efforts are being supported through the basic skills committee

iii. Read the BSI Coordinator Handbook

iv. Know which reports are due and when and where

v. DATA: Which and Where (processes related to basic skills and individual to guide)

vi. Key documents

1. BSI Self study

2. Action Plan/Expenditure plan

3. Expenditure reports

4. Poppy Copy

5. History of Basic Skills at your college and in general (Person and document)

6. BSI web resources

vii. Know how to update website

viii. Job Description (develop or find)

ix. Attend Key conference and workshops: Academic Senate coordinated, Leadership and Strengthening Student Success Conferences

x. Connect with the regional network

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Read more about the Sacramento Central Valley Network Inaugural Regional Meeting

Agenda for the SCVN Inaugural Regional Meeting

List of List of Participants

Regional Meeting Outcomes and Evaluation Form

A Compiled List of “What You Would Like to See in the Network”  was partly generated when the SCVN Coordinator made a first site visit to the pilot colleges.  Then the SCVN Regional Meeting participants added additional ideas to this list.

1. The Institution as Learner: Making Progress
Date: Tuesday June 16, 2009
Time: 7:00-9:00 pm
Location: Room 28, Burk Hall
San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132

Presentor: Julie Phelps, Project Director of Achieving the Dream and Professor of Mathematics at Valencia Community College

In this session, the presenter will share the perspectives of Valencia Community College’s Achieving the Dream Leadership Team, a Faculty/Student Affairs/Academic Affairs partnership, about the institution’s key strategies for developing focus, engagement, commitment, meaningful data, and systemic improvement. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their own institutional challenges and solutions.

AND

2. Administrative Commitment to the Basic Skills Initiative
Thursday, June 18
Time: 7:00-9:00 pm
Location: Room 28, Burk Hall

Inherent to the Basic Skills Initiative is an Institutional commitment to equity for all students. How can California Community College administrators lead the effort to support students with basic skills needs by allocating funding and providing instructional and student services? Join the discussion with leaders in these efforts – Rita M. Cepeda, President San Diego Mesa College, Bernadine Chuck Fong, President Emerita, Foothill College, and Martha J. Kanter (dependent on schedule).

CONTACTS:
Deborah Harrington, BSI Project Director, DHarrington@email.laccd.edu
Lisa Brewster, San Diego Network Coordinator, lbrewste@sdccd.edu
Nancy Cook , Sacramento/Central Valley Network Coordinator, ncook@sierracollege.edu
Daryl Kinney, Los Angeles Network Coordinator, kinneyd@lacitycollege.edu
Anniqua Rana, Bay Area Network Coordinator, rana@smccd.edu