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What We Did on Our Summer

Vacation

Leadership for Curricular and

Institutional Transformation

California Community Colleges Success Network

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3CSNs Theory of Change

If we provide training on networking and

use action research methodologies,

teachers will transform their environmentsand identity to create communities of

practice that will lead to powerful

classrooms and working across

campuses. This in turn will produce

greater student success.

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Learning Networks

California Community Colleges Success Network

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Mission

Develop leaders in California community

colleges who have the capacity to facilitate

networks of faculty, staff, and students forcurricular and institutional redesigns in

support of increased student access,

success, equity, and completion.

California Community Colleges Success Network

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Values and Shared Assumptions

Everybody (students, faculty, staff) has the right toongoing, sustained, and rigorous learning experiencesto further their personal, educational, and professionalgrowth.

Learning is a network forming process: connectionsand relationships are crucial to the learning process.

Deep learning and leadership are facilitated bymaintaining: An appreciative inquirymindset, i.e., curiosity about whats

possible A growth mindset, i.e., a belief that change is possible.

California Community Colleges Success Network

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Learning Outcomes

Develop and implement initiatives that address the persistence,acceleration, and completion of underprepared andunderrepresented students.

Engage their campus in focused and sustained communities ofpractice to support these initiatives.

Recognize and address gaps, needs, opportunities, and strengthsrelated to teaching and learning in a range of educational settings.

Design, implement, and evaluate effective learning environments fordiverse groups based on relevant research.

Be effective leaders in a wide variety of situations related to theimprovement of student outcomes.

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The 3CSN Way

It starts with Leadership

It builds with Communities of Practice

It grows through Ongoing, RecursivePractices

California Community Colleges Success Network

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3CSNs three-step approach for

professional learning

A leadership retreat where participants

Learn the tools they need to carry out a

community of practice

Create a one year action plan

Create an evaluation plan

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3CSNs three-step approach for

professional learning

Formation of the community of practice

itself, where participants

Conduct inquiry Share ideas

Pilot change

Document and evaluate

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3CSNs three-step approach for

professional learning

Sustain ongoing recursive practice, where

participants

Create a cycle of inquiry and change Become trainers for the next generation

Institutionalize the work

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The Powerful Classroom

California Community Colleges Success Network

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Spring Meeting

Save the dates: March 14-15, 2012

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BSILI CoPs

Acceleration Habits of Mind

RA

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Planning

Plan a regional event (face to face or

virtual or both) that will take place between

now and June. Make sure that you include in you plan

how this event will contribute on the

campus level and on the larger level of the

CoP.

Create a poster representing your plan.

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Carousel of Fun

Top left quadrant is for clarifying questions

Top right is for probing questions

Bottom left is for recommendations Bottom right is for resources that will be

useful

The circle in the center is for applause

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Debrief

What are some of your take-aways from

your planning today?

What are your next steps going forward?

Do you have suggestions/ideas for 2013BSILI?