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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 [...]

March 5, 1:00-4:00 pm 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 [...]

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 to http://calendar.3csn.org/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=25 April 16 , 2010@Merced College; go to http://calendar.3csn.org/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=26 April 30 , 2010@Berkeley City College; go to http://calendar.3csn.org/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=28 May 7 , 2010@Santa Ana College; go to http://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 [...]

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 [...]

Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: Chabot College Faculty Forum

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)
- [...]

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: Teachers on Teaching

Teachers on Teaching:
Sustainable Practices in
Challenging Times
Mini-conference, February 26 -27, 2010
Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA

The Foundation Skills Teaching and Learning Community of Mendocino College is hosting this important event to bring secondary and postsecondary educators together to share ideas, build [...]

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: CB 21 Regional Meetings

CB 21 Regional Recoding Meetings
The deadline for the CB 21 recoding of our sequential basic skills classes is March 1, 2010. In an effort to help faculty and institutions meet this deadline we are providing a series of short sessions around the state called Pizza + CB21!**Registration is limited to 50 people [...]

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: CB 21 Regional Meetings

CB 21 Regional Recoding Meetings
The deadline for the CB 21 recoding of our sequential basic skills classes is March 1, 2010. In an effort to help faculty and institutions meet this deadline we are providing a series of short sessions around the state called Pizza + CB21!**Registration is limited to 50 people [...]

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: Scaffolding Assignments

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: CATESOL and BSI

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 [...]

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: Integrating Language Curriculum for the Workforce

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 [...]

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: Digital Storytelling

Bay Area Learning Network on Dipity.

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: Chabot College

Chabot College
Basic Skills Committee Website
Center for Teaching and Learning
Getting Connected

How can interventions for student support and success become sustainable and scalable?
What are ways to participate in the Bay Area Learning Network?
Post  your suggestions in the comments below.

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: Faculty Development Survey

The RP Group, as one of the sponsors of the Strengthening Student Success
conference, and the Student Success Regional Networks established by the BSI
professional development grant, are interested in initiatives currently
happening in some California Community Colleges that involve credit courses
for faculty seeking to deepen their knowledge of teaching and learning.
At the 2009 Strengthening Student Success Conference, [...]

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: Network Survey

You are being asked to complete this survey because your school is part of the California Community Colleges Basic Skills Initiative. The purpose of this survey is to better understand how this work is being implemented throughout the state.
The only cost associated with participating in this study is the expenditure of your time. We see no [...]

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: Faculty Experiential Learning Institute

Apply Now! Digital Bridge Academy’s Winter Faculty Experiential Learning Institute
Applications are now available for the Digital Bridge Academy (DBA) Winter Faculty Experiential Learning Institute (FELI), held January 11-17, 2010 at Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA.
The Faculty Experiential Learning Institute (FELI) is a condensed version of the two-week Foundation Course that begins the DBA semester. The [...]

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: Google docs and More

Using Technology to Enhance Learning in Your Classroom:
Google Docs and More
Salon D
Fall 2009 Regional Meeting Information Maintaining and Enhancing Student Success in Difficult Times: Sustainable, Low-Cost Classroom Practices
San Ramon Meeting Agenda
Get your students to engage and organize using technology like cell phones and flip cameras. In this workshop, you will collaborate with your colleagues [...]

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: ESL Network

Silicon Valley Foundation
Building Skills Partnership
Canada College
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
Community Learning Center
Creating Economic Opportunities for Women, Inc.
Grail Family Services
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Jefferson Adult Education
Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley
Learning and Loving Education Center
Multicultural Institute
Narika
North Peninsula Neighborhood Services
Nuestra Casa
Puente de la Costa Sur
San Mateo Adult School
Upwardly Global

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Anniqua Rana wrote a new blog post: Reading Apprenticeship

Attend a three-hour Reading Apprenticeship workshop at
Cañada College
November 12, 2009
9:00- 12:00 – Cynthia Hicks, English Instructor and Learning Connection Project Development Coordinator, Chabot College; Patricia Wu, Biological Sciences Instructor and Biotechnology Program Coordinator, Chabot College,
Building 3- Room 142
“Reading Apprenticeship Workshop: Think Aloud and Talking to the Text.” Make the invisible reading process visible [...]

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