LINKS

You may click on the date/location listed below to register right away:

(These are all Fridays, 9am-4pm)

April 9, 2010@Mt. San Antonio College; go tohttp://calendar.3csn.org/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=25

April 16, 2010@Merced College; go tohttp://calendar.3csn.org/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=26

April 30, 2010@Berkeley City College; go tohttp://calendar.3csn.org/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=28

May 7, 2010@Santa Ana College; go tohttp://calendar.3csn.org/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=27

The CCC BSI Professional Learning Network, 3CSN—funded by the CCCCO ESL/Basic Skills Professional Development Grant—is pleased to announce the first in a series of events focused on student completion.  These day-long events will be hosted by colleges in four new network regions. During the practicum, we will: 1. Analyze the problems students face in completing their goal(s), and 2. Develop a framework to investigate ways to build links for student success on the classroom and campus level.

In subsequent sessions and with technical assistance coordinated by our regional network coordinators, we will assist local campuses as they explore interventions that can be used in classroom and student services areas. Part of this “Learning In Networks for Knowledge Sharing” or LINKS will involve partnering closely with our many sister networks, including the Faculty Inquiry Network, RP Group/BRIC Project, Hewlett Leaders, Career Ladders Project, California Leadership Alliance for Student Success, Reading Apprenticeship, Digital Bridge Academy, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and many others.  We will also be collaborating through LINKS with the upcoming BSI Leadership Institute and Advanced Leadership Institute, UC Berkeley’s Tillery Institute, and the annual Strengthening Student Success Conference. Additional research and evaluation support for LINKS will be provided by UCLA’s Department of Education.

We invite you to attend the kick-off session at the campus located closest to you; registration is free, but space is limited, so you will want to act quickly.

The attached flyer contains all the essential information, including a link to the online registration site for all of the dates/locations; we hope you forward the flyer to interested faculty, administrators, staff, and students.

Thank you in advance for your interest in these BSI 3C Student Success Network events.  See you this Spring!

Sincerely,

Lynn M. Wright, Project Director
2010 CCC BSI Professional Development Grant
lmwright@pasadena.edu

Deborah L. Harrington, Project Administrator
2010 CCC BSI PD Grant
dharrington@email.laccd.edu

Monday, 3/1 1:30 on

The De Anza College Offices of Instruction, Diversity and Staff Development are proud to

invite you to participate in our fifth annual conference dedicated to student success

What’s love Got to do with it?

Cultivating Learning Environments Conducive to Success for All Students

Please accept our invitation to participate in 2 days of workshops and plenary sessions committed to asking and addressing QUESTIONS about how we can help our students build the skills necessary for their success.   THIS IS A FREE CONFERENCE!

* 2010 Save The Dates:     Thursday, April 15 from 1:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Friday, April 16 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

We love what we do!  We are constantly growing and learning in our intention to meet the needs of our students and in our capacity to help them reach for their dreams.  It is this deep commitment to our students and to our campus community that facilitates an atmosphere of successful learning.

This conference is designed to capture the energy and commitment embodied within this spirit of love.

Each day of the conference will feature a keynote speaker, two sessions of 90 minute long workshops, and an adapted World Café based collaborative “harvesting” at the end of each day in order to capture new ideas, applications, and strategies for student success.  Food will be provided.

This conference will be QUESTION based (not answer based!) and will focus on the following themes…

* What is the place of love in an academic setting?  How can we foster communities of support and learning among our students, ourselves, and the world at large?

* Who are we?  How can we become more aware of how our students perceive us and what can we do to help them understand who we really are?  Who are our students?  How can we develop a deeper understanding of their diverse identities and learning needs?

* Why is it important that staff, faculty and administrators work together as a community?  How can we improve our collective ability to help students learn how to navigate the expectations and requirements of a college?

* How can we capture our students’ hearts, heads and hands?  How can we make learning fun?  Will building student-centered content and/or pedagogy encourage student engagement and move them to action?

This conference is based on interaction and dialogue (or conversation).   Each 90 minute workshop will be facilitated by a workshop presenter and a trained conference facilitator and will be organized according to the following format:

All conference participants will be encouraged to sign up for follow up workshops held during the end of spring quarter 2010.  These discussions will offer us the opportunity to reflect upon and evaluate our applications.

Please direct all informational inquiries to:

Salamander Breiter/Conference Coordinator – breitersal@fhda.edu or 408-864-5561

February 19, 2010

Chabot’s Faculty Inquiry Groups investigating best practices in enhancing the learning of our basic skills students will be presenting their findings in the following areas:

9:00-11:45

- Using a Common Rubric to Facilitate Cross-Disciplinary Discussions of Critical Thinking

- Reading Apprenticeship  (Advanced registration requested, available on Chabot’s CTL website)

- Involving our Adjunct Faculty in the SLOAC: Getting the Best Participation from your Largest Asset

1:00-3:45

- Teaching Physical Science Study Skills

- Are your students learning about Global and Cultural Involvement in your course? How can you incorporate this into any type of course?

- Design and Assessment of a Peer-tutoring Program for Basic Skills Development

- Improving Writing Through the Use of Personal Narratives in ESL

More information and descriptions of the workshops are available online at:  www.chabotcollege.edu/learningconnection/ctl

Jennifer Lange

CTL Coordinator

Biology Faculty

Friday, February 26, 2010

Berkeley City College

http://www.berkeleycitycollege.edu

2050 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

(510) 981-2800

Click here for the PDF flyer

Description

Share and learn ways to unpack specific assignments to achieve maximum student success immediately.

Free Registration (survey link)

Location: room 451

Agenda

8:30-9:00              Continental breakfast

9:00-10:15            Overview

10-15-10:30         Break

10:30-1:00            Activities

Tom DeWitt, Professor, English

Katie Townsend-Merino, Professor, Psychology

Cleavon Smith, Basic Skills Initiative Coordinator

Anniqua Rana, Bay Area Network Coordinator

Parking permit: contact   clsmith@peralta.edu

rana@smccd.edu

http://baln.edulounge.net/

The CATESOL 2010 conference committee invites you to the 41st annual State Conference in Santa Clara April 22-25.

Sessions on the Basic Skills Initiative and much more…

Understanding the Basic Skills Initiative: Grant $ and Your Community College
Kathleen Flynn, Ph.D., Glendale Community College
When the Chancellor’s Office established the Basic Skills Initiative, most California community colleges requested funding. The BSI funded projects required for curriculum development, Student Learning Outcomes, and accreditation projects. BSI funds are still available, but in more restricted ways. This PCI will explain the BSI and the “Poppy Copy” report, and discuss BSI projects (one-time and on-going). The presenter will explain why one application was funded while another was not and offer advice based on experience. Handouts will be provided.
Levels / Interest Groups: CC, C/U

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Community College Level Rap
Barbara Luther & Bette Brickman, Community College Level Coordinators
The Basic Skills Initiative: How is your institution implementing the Basic Skills Initiative? What have been (will be) the challenges you and your department face? Please join us for a discussion of these issues.

Saturday, 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm

Contextualizing ESL and English across Disciplines

If you teach, or plan to teach, a learning community, attend this workshop and leave with an integrated syllabus, sample assignments, and assessment tools.

Access this site for more information

TO PREPARE

• Complete the Survey

• Read Contextualized Teaching & Learning: A Faculty Primer

http://www.cccbsi.org/Websites/basicskills/Images/CTL.pdf

• Bring a soft copy of your syllabus and one assignment
• Bring your text books

Agenda

8:30-9:00             Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:30             Overview

9:30-10:45          Creating and integrating

10:45-11:00        Next steps

11:00-11:30        Collaborations (For faculty teaching learning communities-open to all)