Dr. Julianna Asperin Barnes, Chancellor of the South Orange County Community College District, discusses leadership to support the student success & equity work.
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Diego Navarro, Professor Emeritus at Cabrillo College and Founder of the Academy for College Excellence, discusses how to inspire and improve outcomes for disproportionately impacted students.
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AccessDr. Cynthia Mosqueda, Faculty Coordinator at El Camino College, discusses how to implement a highly successful comprehensive First Year Experience (FYE) program.
AccessLearn practical and actionable strategies to implement the Guided Pathways framework with equity impact. Includes a campus case study by Guided Pathways Faculty Coordinator extraordinaire, Margaret Prothero.
AccessKathy Booth, Project Director for Educational Data & Policy at WestEd, discusses how data can inform action to improve adult learner outcomes.
AccessThe 5E Learning Cycle: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate
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The disconnect between policy, research, and practice is extraordinarily real for college practitioners. This brief piece unpacks unproductive practices detrimental to the student success & equity work.
AccessAddressing false narratives about developmental education reform and the SAT/ACT standardized tests.
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Dr. Dayamudra Dennehy, ESL Faculty & Distance Education Coordinator at City College of San Francisco, discusses how kindness translates into equitable teaching practices.
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Dr. Michel Estefan, Assistant Teaching Professor, Sociology Department at the University of California, San Diego, discusses practical equitable pedagogy practices to improve student success.
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Dr. Jesse Stommel, Faculty, Writing Program, University of Denver, and co-founder Hybrid Pedagogy & Digital Pedagogy Lab, discusses his book, Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop.
AccessHow antiquated grading practices hurt students and what to do about it.
Dr. Christine Harrington, Faculty, Community College Leadership Doctoral Program, Morgan State University, discusses how to create culturally affirming and meaningful assignments.
AccessLearn why the shift from external to internal attributions is key to effective equity work.
Dr. Liz Norell, Associate Director of Instructional Support in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi, discusses how to support neurodivergent college students.
AccessDr. Malkiel Choseed, Professor of English; Dr. Matt DelConte, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences; and Michael O'Conner, Dean of Business, Arts, and Sciences at Onondaga Community College, discuss successful developmental ed reform in English.
AccessLisa Ratchford co-leads the Diablo Valley College faculty onboarding and professional development program known as Nexus. She discusses how to support faculty to ensure student success and equity are centered.
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