Transcript Basic Skills Advisory Committee

Basic Skills Advisory Committee
- What's Happening at the State
Level?
Presenters:
Candace Lynch-Thompson, NOCCCD School
of Continuing Education
Linda Retterath, Mission College
John Stanskas, San Bernardino Valley College
BSI Phase I
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2006 CCCCO initiates BSI as part of the
strategic planning process.
Goal
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improving student success
Focus =
students with lowest
completion/success
February 2007: Literature review completed
A.K.A. “The Poppy Copy,” and Basic
Skills as a Foundation for Student
Success at Community Colleges
BSI Phase II
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Sept. 2007: $33.1 million approved by
legislature to be divided among districts in
support of BSI
Sept. 2007: $1.6 M for annual professional
development
May 2008: Regional training piloted at
Bakersfield College
December 2009: Completion of Basic Skills
Handbook
BSI Phase III
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CCCCO Introduced assessment of Action
Plans
Revisited long-term goals
Focused on specific effective practices:
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Tutoring
First Year Experience
Learning Communities
Summer Bridge
Supplemental Instruction
Early Alert
Completion Dovetails
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3CSN (California Community Colleges Success Network) has
developed Completion focus through
Communities of Practice
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Student Success, as defined by Student
Success Task Force, highlights completion
SSTF Recommendations Focus
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3.4: Community colleges will require students to begin addressing basic
skills needs in their first year and will provide resources and options for
them to attain the competencies needed to succeed in college-level
work as part of their education plan.
5.1: Community colleges will support the development of alternatives to
traditional basic skills curriculum and incentivize colleges to take to
scale successful model programs for delivering basic skills instruction.
5.2: The state should develop a comprehensive strategy for addressing
basic skills education in California that results in a system that provides
all adults with the access to basic skills courses in mathematics and
English. In addition, the state should develop a comparable strategy for
addressing the needs of adults for course in English as a second
language (ESL).
8.3: Encourage innovation and flexibility in the delivery of basic skills
instruction.
What is your college doing to address these?
Defining Student Success - SSTF
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Percentage of community college students
completing their educational goals
Percentage of community college students
earning a certificate or degree, transferring,
or achieving transfer-readiness
Number of students transferring to a fouryear institution
Number of degrees and certificates earned
BSI Next Phase –BSAC Summit
Guiding Principles & Values:
 Focus on students
 Integrated experience for students
 Reality check: what is sustainable, feasible,
scalable, effective, etc.)
 Institutional flexibility
 Actionable across all strands/themes
BSI Next Phase
Issues, Challenges, Limitations:
 Need for institutional leadership to move BSI
forward
 Heightened expectation about completion
 How to effect change in a system so large
 How to foster the needed systemic/cultural
change
BSI Professional Development Grant
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The RFA for the Student Success for Basic
Skills Students Professional Development
Grant will be released before December 31,
2012.
The awardees of this grant will be the “grant
holder” for the next phase of BSI.
Resource Document: Poppy Copy 2
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Current project of the Basic Skills Advisory
Committee
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Attempt to capture what has been
accomplished with BSI
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Casting a vision for the next phase
New Cohort Tracking Tool
http://datamart.cccco.edu/Outcomes/BasicSkills
_Cohort_Tracker.aspx
Three Overarching Objectives:
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Bringing programs to scale
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Improving student engagement
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Persistence and completion
WHAT ARE YOU DOING LOCALLY?