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2. San Diego Miramar College • San Diego Miramar College, long known for its student centered campus climate and emphasis on quality teaching, learning, and service, offers a wide variety of transfer curriculum and vocational technical programs. Over the years, the college has continued to build and expand its state-of-the-art facilities to facilitate teaching and learning. The college’s outstanding faculty and caring staff are committed to helping students succeed in pursuing their educational goals. Home Institution Innovator Our Innovation Visit Us Contact

3. Our Innovators • Mark Manasse graduated with a BA in English from UC Berkeley and MA in TESOL from The Monterey Institute of International Studies.  He has taught ESL around the world including in The Czech Republic and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  Since settling in San Diego, he has taken on a faculty position in English at San Diego Miramar College where he also serves as the institution’s Basic Skills Coordinator.  He also leads extensive teacher training courses at The University of San Diego, San Diego State University, and at UC San Diego.  He is a San Diego Area Writing Project Fellow as well at the ACCE 2010 Education Person of the Year.  This past summer, he completed his first Ironman and lived to tell about it!  Mark is also the proud father of two pugs: Maggie and Morrie. Home Institution • Daphne Figueroa holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Point Loma Nazarene University, a M.S. in Physiology/Pharmacology from UC San Diego and a PhD in Education from San Diego State & Claremont Graduate Universities (joint program).  She has taught chemistry, math and education in the San Diego Community College District since 1986, becoming a full time faculty member at San Diego Miramar College in 1989.  She is currently the Acting Coordinator of the Personal Learning Assistance Center where she is responsible for supervising and training peer coaches for Math, English, and Child Development, and for supervising tutorial services for Basic Skills students.  Daphne is currently the Academic Senate President for San Diego Miramar College. She is married and has a 10-year old son and a 19-year old cat.  Daphne plays violin, roller skates, and bicycles for relaxation.  She also has a valid motorcycle license and watches road racing in her spare time. Innovator Our Innovation Visit Us Contact

4. Basic Skills Connections • San Diego Miramar College’s innovation is the purposefully planned collaboration and integration of multiple Basic Skills (BSI) Programs that together, have combined to improve basic skills student success, retention, and persistence. How have we done this? Our BSI Committee has dedicated itself to systematically coordinate multi-pronged interventions in counseling, math, English, and CTE to improve student outcomes from multiple angles: Instructional assistants working in a new basic-skills-focused English Lab, Supplemental instruction for basic skills math classes, Directed CTE workshops/tutoring, Targeted counseling in and out of BSI classes leading to more Ed Plans and student awareness of campus services, and Systemic changes to pre-college writing courses via increased instructor collaboration and utilization of portfolio assessment. Together, these interventions are creating more successful students, who are taking and passing more basic skills and transfer-level courses. Home Institution Innovator Our Innovation Visit Us Contact

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6. Contact Email: mmanasse@sdccd.edu Email: dfiguero@sdccd.edu Home Institution Innovator Our Innovation Visit Us Contact