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Basic Skills Efforts and Trends

This article discusses various local efforts and positive trends in basic skills education, including academic content experts, integrated learning communities, peer counseling, supplemental support, and more. It also highlights the current concerning trends and the need for clear voice and support at both statewide and local levels. Relevant research reports and resources are provided.

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Basic Skills Efforts and Trends

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  1. Basic Skills Efforts and Trends Dianna Chiabotti, Napa Valley College Lynn Wright, 3CSN

  2. Local Efforts & Positive Trends • Academic Content Experts Model • Integrated Learning Communities • Basic skills math – Peer counseling • ESL Mentors – Counselors as supplemental support • LEAP (Learning English for Academic Purposes • Tailoring Supplementals for math • Video bank for students to watch • Having Master Educators • Certified for a specific number of years • Focus is on how you work with students

  3. Local Efforts & Positive Trends • Writing Across the Curriculum with IA help • Campus workshops on basic skills • Purchase books for students in prealgebra • To get the book the students must go to tutoring • Applied Academics courses - linked with automotive course • Butte College – CAS • Counselors assigned to every basic skills math class • Intervention discussion • Using computer lab for computer aided instruction

  4. Local Efforts & Positive Trends • Summer bridge • Tutors in classroom • Developmental English, Reading, Math • Campus-wide basic skills conferences • Information competency learning community • Community of practice (3CSN) • Early Alert program for math • Inform students about resources

  5. Current Concerning Trends • Decreasing funding • Decreasing course sections • Eliminating basic skills classes • Not scheduling course sequences • Not considering sequences when making cuts • Pushed to do StatPath and not the series of math • Not meeting STEM studnets needs • Increasing course CAPS

  6. Current Concerning Trends • Doing more with less • Attempting to continue promising practices/innovations with less or no money • Elimination of BSI coordinators • General tutoring paid for with BSI dollars

  7. Current Research & Reports

  8. Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California Community Colleges • http://www.edsource.org/iss_research_communitycollege.html • Something’s Got to Give • www.edsource.org • The Developmental Education Initiative: State Policy Framework & Strategy • www.jff.org • Accelerating the Academic Achievement of Students Referred to Developmental Education • www.ccrc.org • Practices that Promote Equity in Basic Skills in California Community Colleges • www.asccc.org

  9. What needs to be done….. Statewide? Locally?

  10. Need a clear voice • Send Basic Skills faculty to ASCCC leadership conference • Need a timeline with the story of Basic Skills efforts from the beginning • Need a “tree” of what’s happening • Need college administration to understand and support teams for basic skills efforts • Need to be creative! • How can we get more faculty to trainings • Can we share time (eg. You cover my class while I go, and I cover your class while you go.) • Rally faculty that support basic skills efforts and build momentum to get others involved • Visit www.ccc.bsi.org to get information • Visit www.3csn.org to get information

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