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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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Most Commented Podcast Episode
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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Key content has been organized to provide step-by-step guidance on how to implement culture change & continuous improvement to address student success & equity.
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Dr. Cynthia Mosqueda, Faculty Coordinator at El Camino College, discusses how to implement a highly successful comprehensive First Year Experience (FYE) program.
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Learn 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.
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Kathy Booth, Project Director for Educational Data & Policy at WestEd, discusses how data can inform action to improve adult learner outcomes.
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Blog Post with the Most Views
The 5E Learning Cycle: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate
Each of the 5E's describes a phase of learning. Instructors can apply their 5E lessons with an equity lens. Download a 5E instructional plan template.
Blog Post with the Most Comments
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.
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Addressing false narratives about developmental education reform and the SAT/ACT standardized tests.
Inquiry & Action Teams
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Inquiry & Action Teams
Margaret Prothero, English Faculty and Guided Pathways Coordinator at Santa Barbara City College, discusses how to support faculty and staff to collaborate to continually improve their craft with equity impact.
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Inquiry & Action Teams
Rebecca Kaminsky, English Faculty and Guided Pathways Coordinator at Irvine Valley College, discusses the implementation of twelve inquiry & action teams and their positive impact on college personnel and students.
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Inquiry & Action Teams
Dr. Lisa Brewster, Communication Faculty and Guided Pathways Coordinator at Miramar College, San Diego, discusses how inquiry & action teams helped to improve culture.
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viewed and commented resources of 2023-24
Accessibility
Dr. Denise Maduli-Williams, English & ELAC Faculty & Accessibility Mentor at San Diego Miramar College, discusses how to improve accessibility for students and the campus community.
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Logic Model Basics
Create clarity, coherence, and consensus with any initiative, project, program, grant, etc.
Equitable Teaching Practices
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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Transformational Change: Challenges & Opportunities
A practical Q&A format on why culture is difficult to change and what to do about it.
Equitable Pedagogy Framework
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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Institutionalization Myth vs Reality
Why institutionalization is elusive at too many campuses and what to do about it.
Undoing the Grade
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.
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The Ongoing Grading Crisis
How antiquated grading practices hurt students and what to do about it.
Culturally Affirming Assignments
Dr. Christine Harrington, Faculty, Community College Leadership Doctoral Program, Morgan State University, discusses how to create culturally affirming and meaningful assignments.
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Foundational Ingredient for Equity Work
Learn why the shift from external to internal attributions is key to effective equity work.
Neurodivergent Students
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.
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Successful Developmental Ed Reform
Dr. 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.
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Effective Faculty Onboarding & Professional Development
Lisa 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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