Professional Development

STATE CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 

3CSN Links V Regional Workshop: A Time to Reframe our Practice and Student Learning

Date: March 16, 2012

Time: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Location: Universal City

3CSN continues its popular Learning in Networks for Knowledge Sharing (LINKS) series with a focus on strategies for building and sustaining student completion initiatives using hands-on tools from our Transformational Toolbox.

College teams are encouraged to attend and should include faculty, counselors, department chairs, program coordinators, BSI coordinators, deans, and professional development leaders.

Click here to register.

California Acceleration Project Community of Practice

Teams of 2-4 faculty per college/district are invited to join this extended professional development program in accelerated curricula and pedagogy. The Community of Practice involves three in-person workshops (June 29-July 1 in Los Angeles, Sept. 14-15 in the Bay Area, Feb. 1-2 in San Diego), plus ongoing coaching from Chabot College English Instructor Katie Hern and Los Medanos College Math Instructor Myra Snell. It is intended for faculty who will be teaching new accelerated English and pre-Statistics courses in the coming year. To be eligible, colleges must commit to offering at least two sections of these courses in 2012-13.

Applications for 2012-13 program are due March 30, 2012.

3CSN Basic Skills Coordinator Workshop
Thursday evening, hosted by 3CSN Network Coordinator, Lisa Brewster, will be an opportunity to share your most successful BSI-funded program and learn from others about programs they have implemented. Friday’s session, facilitated by Basic Skills Grant Monitor Mark Wade Lieu (CCCCO), Researcher Robert Pacheco (MiraCosta College and RP Group), and former 3CSN Project Director Lynn Wright (Pasadena City College), focuses on outcomes, goals, and data:

• Getting a handle on what makes a measurable outcome of student success
• Refining the outcome measures of your action plans
• Getting the data you need, including an overview of the newly released Basic Skills Cohort Tool
• Working with data and responding to what data might be telling us 
  

We encourage colleges to send a team of two people to the event closest to your college. We strongly recommend that a faculty leader from your BSI or Student Success committee (or equivalent), as well as a dean or institutional researcher attend. Lodging, workshop materials, and meals Thursday evening and Friday will be provided by 3CSN.

Location: 2155 E Convention Center Way, Ontario, CA

Days/Times: Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 6:00 PM - Friday, March 30, 2012 at 4:00 PM (PT)

2012 RP Conference: Expanding the Research and Planning Toolkit

The RP Conference, a two-day event, creates a space for professionals to share tools and strategies, discuss critical and current local and statewide issues, and reflect on how to make evidence-based decisions that support student success and institutional effectiveness.

Dates: Thurs-Friday, April 5-6, 2012

Location: Kellogg West Conference Center in Pomona, CA

2012 Student Success Conference: Embracing and Leading Change

The Strengthening Student Success conference provides a unique opportunity for a wide cross-section of California community college professionals—including faculty, deans, program directors, student services staff, professional development and SLO leadership, researchers, and planners—to engage each other about strategies for building institutional effectiveness and student learning.

Dates: October 3-4 (with Optional Workshops October 5)

Location: Hilton, Costa Mesa

ARCHIVED WEBINARS

The Academic Senate has archived three webinars on select topics in basic skills held in spring 2011. Janet Fulks and Marcy Alancraig lead the webinars which are free and last approximately two hours. Each webinar is archived for viewing and sharing on the Basic Skills: Insights, Information and  Innovation website at http://www.cccbsi.org/.  Below are the original dates, times and topics (chapter references are to the Basic Skills Handbook created by the Senate). 

• March 24, Thursday, 9:30am, Chapter 5: Effective Practices Common to All Disciplines:  Common Building Materials
• April 7, Thursday, 11:00am, Chapter 12: Tracking Student Progress through Basic Skills: A Discipline Framework
•  April 28, Thursday, 11:00am, Chapter 15: Course Assessment Basics: Evaluating Your Construction

SPEAKER RESOURCES FOR FUTURE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Statewide Academic Senate Online Resource List

To allow colleges to create their own cost effective workshops and tailor them to their individual needs, the Academic Senate has compiled a list of successful presenters from previous BSI Workshops who are knowledgeable, organized, dependable, and engaging and who can present on programs or practices that have demonstrated efficacy, portability, and sustainability. 

The List includes presentations on practices and programs in the following areas: Effective Classroom Practices; First Year Experience and Bridge Programs; Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction Programs; Learning Communities; CTE and Contextualized Learning; Linking Student and Learning Support and Instruction; and Assessment.