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What We Did on Our Summer
Vacation
Leadership for Curricular and
Institutional Transformation
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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?