The Academic Senate is proud to be partners in the Strengthening Student Success: Basic Skills and Beyond Conference which is tailored to those engaged in the quest for student success through the assessment of learning and collaborative inquiry. This conference will host presentations about teaching strategies, institutional efforts and assessment methods that have demonstrated success in increasing student learning. The focus is on strategies that move students through and beyond basic skills (or pre-collegiate level). Presentations will address teaching and assessment practices with evidence showing how they have improved teaching and learning in the following ten strands:
1. Mathematics
2. English
3. Reading
4. ESL
5. Student Services
6. Career Technical Education
7. SLO and Assessment
8. Cal-PASS
9. Successful Teaching Strategies and Learning Theory to Advance Basic Skills
10. Student Progression Beyond Basic Skills
THEMES of Strengthening Student Success: PROFESSIONAL LEARNING and DEVELOPMENT
EQUITY
STUDENT VOICES
Preliminary Schedule - Download a Schedule of Topics (Word) Tuesday, September 30
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Pre-conference Registration
Thursday, October 2
7:00 am – 6:00 pm: Registration
7:00 am – 8:30 am: Continental Breakfast
8:30 am – 9:45 am: Keynote Address: Hunter Boylan
10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Lunch & Award Ceremony*
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm: Concurrent Sessions
3:45 pm – 4:45 pm: Hot Topics, Reflection Sessions
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Reception
Friday, October 3
7:00 am – 8:30 am: Continental Breakfast
8:30 am – 9:45 am: Keynote Address: Richard Sterling
10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Vendor Demonstrations and Light Luncheon
*Hewlett Leaders in Student Success recognizes colleges with promising practices that prompt student learning in basic skills to stretch to success at the college level.
Pre-conference sessions will provide half day training on
Faculty Inquiry
Basic Skills
SLO Assessment for SLO coordinators
The conference is co-sponsored by Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) and the Research and Planning Group of California (RP Group), in collaboration with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, California Partnership for Achieving Student Success (Cal-PASS), William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Accreditation Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC). Topics are now available online!
