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Papers: The Movie “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 [...]

Follow-up to Integrating Language Curriculum for the Workforce January 2010 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 [...]

Coming to the Bay Area Network 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 [...]

Three years ago, the RP Group released Basic Skills as a Foundation for Success in the California Community Colleges , popularly known as the Poppy Copy. This report and its companion self-assessment guide were widely used by California community colleges to develop strategies for meeting the needs of basic skills students. Now, a newly updated version of [...]

Cabrillo College ACES Committee Web page Please complete the s urvey 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: [...]

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 [...]

Calling ALL Students, Staff, Faculty and Administrators… 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. [...]

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.

  9 months, 3 weeks ago · View

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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