Basic Skills Advisory Committee - What's Happening at the State Level?

1. 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

2. BSI Phase I 2006 CCCCO initiates BSI as part of the strategic planning process. Goal = 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

3. BSI Phase II 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

4. BSI Phase III • CCCCO Introduced assessment of Action Plans • Revisited long-term goals • Focused on specific effective practices: • Tutoring • First Year Experience • Learning Communities • Summer Bridge • Supplemental Instruction • Early Alert

5. Completion Dovetails 3CSN (California Community Colleges Success Network) has developed Completion focus through Communities of Practice Student Success, as defined by Student Success Task Force, highlights completion

6. SSTF Recommendations Focus 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?

7. Defining Student Success - SSTF 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 four-year institution Number of degrees and certificates earned

8. 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

9. 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

10. BSI Professional Development Grant 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.

11. Resource Document: Poppy Copy 2 Current project of the Basic Skills Advisory Committee Attempt to capture what has been accomplished with BSI Casting a vision for the next phase

12. New Cohort Tracking Tool http://datamart.cccco.edu/Outcomes/BasicSkills_Cohort_Tracker.aspx

13. Three Overarching Objectives: Bringing programs to scale Improving student engagement Persistence and completion WHAT ARE YOU DOING LOCALLY?