3CSN Leadership Institute: Transforming Basic Skills Education College by College

California Community Colleges’ Success Network

The Basic Skills Initiative Leadership Institute (BSILI)

• Week-long leadership retreat • Strengthen leadership capacities among

community college professionals• Facilitate networking and learning for

institutional transformation.

Agenda• Locating our shared purpose• Understanding the relationship between

networks and leadership development• Growing leaders on the mountain (BSILI)• Seeing what colleges have done • Making it real• Questions and Answers

THINK• What would it look like if your

campus’ student success efforts were exemplary?

• What kind of professional learning and classroom learning would you expect to see?

• What piece of these efforts is closest to your heart?

California Community Colleges’ Success Network

Share• Share some highlights of your vision with a

partner.

• What are you really working towards? Why?

Mission Develop leaders in California community

colleges who have the capacity to facilitate networks of faculty, staff, and students for curricular and institutional redesigns in support of increased student access, success, equity, and completion.

Theory of Change--How• If we provide training on networking and

use action research methodologies, teachers will transform their environments and identity to create communities of practice that will lead to powerful classrooms and working across campuses. This in turn will produce greater student success.

California Community Colleges’ Success Network

The 3CSN Way

• It starts with Leadership

• It builds with Communities of Practice

• It grows through Ongoing, Recursive Practices

California Community Colleges’ Success Network

Collaborate and Cultivate Professional Learning Habits of Mind

• A leader is anyone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes.

• Professional Development isn’t about growing ourselves, it’s about growing each other.

BSILI Curriculum Points

Developed Leadership of 202 participants from 64 Colleges

Focused on student achievement

Institutional and

Curricular

Interaction with

Students

Professional

Development

3CSN/RA

Better trained faculty

Student Success

An Improved Campus Culture

Assessment

Number of students exposed to RACurrent and Projected

• Fall 2012 – 300 students

• Spring 2013 – 500 students

• Fall 2013 – more than 1500 students (estimated) Fall

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Number of Students with RA training

Number of StudentsExponential (Number of Students)Linear (Number of Students)

“…now that I have actually seen these strategies, I have actually made connections and I have seen other students doing the same, I actually understand what reading is.

I just feel it is really important, and I want to take this to everyone else so they can also take advantage of this skill we all have.” Jorge Tafolla – RA Student, 2013

Habits of Mind at Los Medanos College

Appreciative Inquiry Model

A Non-Movement Movement• Classified Leadership

Institute, June 2013 and June 2014

• Student Success Symposium, Yuba College 2013

• Opening Day at Los Medanos College and City College of San Francisco 2013

• Facilitated Habits of Mind Workshops, 2013-14

• Foothill College, Classified Flex Day 2014

The Non-Movement Moves

What does it look like on your campus?

• What is your student success initiative?

• If you are from California, how can you get involved in BSILI 2014?

• If you are not from California, how can you use these principles and practices to make your student success vision a reality?