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Basic Skills: status, accomplishments, next steps

This presentation discusses the importance of addressing basic skills education in California Community Colleges, reflecting on past accomplishments and outlining next steps. Key challenges, barriers, and potential solutions are highlighted, emphasizing the need for integrated approaches across student services and instruction. Resources like data-informed practices and successful program pilots are showcased, providing insight into effective strategies for increasing student success. The call to action emphasizes collaboration, strategic funding, and continuous improvement in basic skills education.

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Basic Skills: status, accomplishments, next steps

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  1. Basic Skills:status, accomplishments, next steps Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. Academic Affairs, CCCCO illowsky@cccco.edu November 1, 2012

  2. Thought for the day! "Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." --Abigail Adams, 1780 (Evelyn Metz’ signature, MSJC)

  3. Challenge • 5 minutes (timed) • If you have seen this before, just observe (ACTIVITY REMOVED FOR PUBLIC POSTING!)

  4. Observations • 100% Success? • Beginning chaos? • Silos work? • Creativity? • Leaders?

  5. Lessons Learned • Challenges • Barriers • Motivation • Solutions

  6. Back to our students…. • Challenges • Barriers • Motivation • Solutions

  7. Fabulous… • http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1474 Dr. Tina Seelig

  8. Barbara’s thoughts and observations • Poppy Copy -> 4 strands emphasized it takes a village • BSI -> brought students with basic skills needs to the forefront & into the public -> encouraged cooperation & creativity between student services & instruction

  9. More thinking… • BSI -> brought use of data to forefront -> inspired innovation -> more time thinking about student success -> pilots, pilots, pilots -> educated “us” about needs & value of CTE -> educated “us” about non-credit basic skills

  10. What works? • Integrated counseling • Integrated basic skills with CTE • Integrated tutoring NO MORE SILOS!!

  11. How do we decide? • Use data • Increase successful practices • Increase successful programs • Scale up successful practices & programs • Adapt from other colleges • Slow down pilot use … for now

  12. Opportunities for improvement • Instruction & Student Services still compete for funding • Too many pilots without making decisions • Put the $$ into programs that work • Clean up CB21 coding

  13. A few more opportunities … • Tendency to stop successful practices when the $$ gets tight • Tendency to stop professional development when the $$ gets tight

  14. … the big one! Students don’t do optional! Kay McClenney It is OUR responsibility to require ….

  15. Accomplishments

  16. Current work • October 10th – CCCs turned in 2011-12 Basic Skills reporting forms • e-resource – under development – will include compilation of successful practices and programs • 3csn.org : current BSI professional development grant

  17. Upcoming hot topics • MOOC: Massive Open Online Course • BSI Funding: RFA to be released on November 15th • Dual Enrollment: upcoming • Revolving doors: administrators

  18. CCCCO – basic skills site http://extranet.cccco.edu/Divisions/AcademicAffairs/BasicSkillsEnglishasaSecondLanguage.aspx OR: http://www.cccco.edu/ Systems Operations  Divisions  Academic Affairs  Basic Skills & English as a Second Language

  19. Questions? Thank you!

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