Click here to view the embedded video.

“Papers” is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status.

There are approximately 2 million undocumented children who were born outside the U.S. and raised in this country. These are young people who were educated in American schools, hold American values, know only the U.S. as home and who, upon high school graduation, find the door to their future slammed shut.

65,000 undocumented students graduate every year from high school without “papers.”

It is against the law to work or drive. It is difficult, if not impossible in some states, to attend college. Currently, there is no path to citizenship for these young people.

Graham Street Productions produced this film in association with El Grupo Juvenil (the “Papers” Youth Crew). These youth producers were actively involved in all aspects of the production. They are working in collaboration with the youth who want to tell their stories as well as community organizations around the country who are working to change immigration policy on behalf of these young people.

Videos

June 1, 2010

Location:Cañada College
Building 3 Room 142

Time: 9am-4pm
Contact: Salumeh Eslamieh, eslamiehs@smccd.edu
or
Anniqua Rana, rana@smccd.edu

PLEASE BRING:

• a laptop
• a syllabus
• an assignment
• a rubric

AGENDA

9am-11am:
Introductions
Collaborative Teaching & Learning Assessment
Syllabus, Assignment, and Rubric Assessment
11am-12pm:
Working Lunch
12pm-4pm:
Collaboration on integrated curriculum for faculty
and staff
~Sponsored by the Bay Area Learning Network  the Center for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning & the Basic Skills Committee~

Fall 2010!

The Faculty Inquiry Network and Bay Area Learning Network will be co-hosting a one-day conference, “Intersecting Literacies” that will be of great interest to anyone who teaches writing or makes writing an important part of their students’ intellectual experience.  We would like to welcome not only Faculty, but Students as well! We will listen to student voice as well as have participating Students in the workshop itself.

Click here to view the embedded video.

ACES Committee Web page

Please complete the survey before the meeting.

Access this site to find out how to use Google Docs in the classroom.

Main Campus, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003, call: 831.479.6100
Scotts Valley Center, 104 Whispering Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066, call: 831.477.3550
Watsonville Center, 318 Union St., Watsonville, CA 95076, call: 831.477.5100

The State’s Basic Skills Initiative’s Learning in Networks for Knowledge Sharing (LINKS) and Berkeley City College welcomes you to a workshop presentation delivered by USC’s Center for Urban Education (CUE) on 19 March from 8:30am-1pm at Berkeley City College in Room 212.  (For more information about CUE please check out their site:  http://cue.usc.edu/equity_model/.)

Presenters from CUE will demonstrate how to use their Benchmarking Equity and Student Success Tool with cohort migration data available for all Peralta colleges at http://eperalta.org/wp/indev/program-review-equity-fact-books/.  Presenters will also discuss “The Typology of Institutional Equity Agents” and “Syllabus Review for Equity and Success”.

To register, please open the attached flyer and follow the link.  We look forward to seeing you on the 19th and working together to bridge the gap between the research which identifies systemic inequities in our institutions and the practice to eliminate those inequities.

Free Registration (survey link)

Location: room 212

Friday, March 19, 2010

Agenda

8:30-9:00            Continental breakfast

9:00-1:00 pm      Training

Cleavon Smith, Basic Skills Initiative Coordinator

clsmith@peralta.edu

Basic Skills Committee: http://wpmu.eberkeley.org/bsi/

Berkeley City College

http://www.berkeleycitycollege.edu

2050 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

Chabot College

Basic Skills Committee Website

Terminology

Practice

Sample Logic Model

Response to Survey

Introduction to Logic Models for the complete powerpoint access University of Wisconsin Extension

MORE RESOURCES

University of Wisconsin Extension

• Logic Model Table format – Word document (1 page, 15 KB)
• Logic Model Flowchart – Word document (1 page, 15 KB)
• Logic Model Flowchart -Excel format (1 sheet 18 KB)
• CSREES Logic Model Worksheet – Word document (1 sheet 32 KB)

Please complete the attached survey.

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

Please accept our invitation 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

WHEN:          Thursday, April 15 from 1:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and

Friday, April 16 from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. – 2010

*Partial participation is possible and can be identified on the online registration form.

WHERE:  De Anza College Conference Rooms A + B

CONFERENCE THEME:  What’s Love Got To Do With It?

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.

CONFERENCE DETAILS:  We will be asking questions and engaging in inquiry about them…

This conference is FREE!  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.  Attendees from De Anza will earn PGA credit (full timers) and stipends (part timers).

This conference will be QUESTION based (not answer based!).  Each 90 minute workshop will begin with the 15 minute presentation of a question and will then engage in a 30 to 40 minute dialog about the question.  The following questions will provide a foundation for the workshops:

* 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?

REGISTRATION:  Please register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6HVDKYW

Conference enrollment is limited.  Please register early to ensure your spot! Workshops during the conference will be first come, first served and will be limited to room capacity…  You will be encouraged to attend workshops in many disciplines and service areas in order to stretch your comfort zone.

Conference registration confirmation will include an invitation to read essays in preparation for the event!

Hosted by The De Anza College Offices of Instruction, Diversity and Staff Development

Please direct all informational inquiries to: Salamander Breiter  -  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