FIN goes to Achieving the Dream!

February 25, 2010

The Faculty Inquiry Network was well represented at the recent Achieving The Dream Conference held  February 2nd through the 4th in Charlotte, North Carolina. Tom deWit, Katie Hern, and Sean McFarland presented at 4 breakout sessions:

  • Engaging Faculty and Staff in Student‐Centered Inquiry about Teaching,
  • Learning and Student Success, Accelerating Students’ Progress to College‐Level English and Math,
  • Listening to the Room: The Promise of Integrating Student Voices into Basic Skills Initiatives,
  • Equity as the Practice of Love and Liberation.

deWit and Hern also served as panel members in two Strategy Institute’s Focus Area Networking Sessions: Developmental English and Success Initiatives for Men of Color.

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FIN Co-Directors hold all the secrets to successful Inquiry in the Red Suitcase.

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Below are documents passed out in Charlotte, North Carolina:

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Engaging Faculty and Staff in Student‐Centered Inquiry about Teaching,Learning and Student Success:

Inquiry Process Graphic

FIN’S Guide to Faculty Inquiry


FIN’s Fall 2009 Newsletter

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Accelerating Students’ Progress to College‐Level English and Math:


Accelerating Student’s Progress Through College-Level English and Math PDF

Chabot College’s acceleration data



Paulo Freire excerpt from Ways of Reading: an Anthology for Writers

Stat Path Handout from Los Medanos College

Link to LMC Puente Math’s StatPath Video

Instructor Myra Snell’s Observations about this Video

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Listening to the Room: The Promise of Integrating Student Voices into Basic Skills Initiatives:

Summaries of all 778 Films Movies


Link to “Listening to the Room”

Student Voices Across California Brochure

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Equity as the Practice of Love and Liberation:


Equity as the Practice of Love and Liberation PDF



Umoja’s Live Learning Handout


The Umoja Community’s Brochure

Link to the Umoja Community’s Website

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Contextualized Learning and the Community College: A One Day Conference

March 2, 2010

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Intersecting Literacies: A Working Conference

February 25, 2010

Please see the attached PDF for an exciting opportunity in April. Faculty Inquiry Network and San Diego Mesa College are co-hosting a one-day conference, “Intersecting Literacies” that will be of great interest to anyone who teaches writing or makes writing an important part of their students’ intellectual experience. The event will be held on the Mesa campus. More details to follow.

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A Workshop on Faculty Inquiry

February 24, 2010

Presentation by Katie Hern for a regional SCVN  workshop at Consumnes River College, accompanied by the LPC Team. Go inquiry!

Visit here for more information.

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FIN Hero’s Journey by LPC

February 24, 2010

A clever piece by FIN’s LPC team for a BSI workshop at Consumnes River College, accompanied by their coach, Katie Hern.

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FIN Future News

January 15, 2010

At FIN’s Fall 2009 Inquiry Meet-Ups, FIN teams participated in a playful thought experiment. After almost a year of collecting and analyzing different kinds of data, they were asked to imagine the future — what kinds of changes would they like to see come out of their Inquiry? The changes might be practical and immediate, or more fanciful and ambitious in scope. The point was to take the insights they’d gained and start turning them into action that would benefit students. Then, they went into the TV studio and created “news reports from the future,” reporting on these changes as if they had already happened.

Berkeley


Los Medanos: Umoja Math


East LA


Los Medanos: Umoja


Mt. San Antonio


Santa Ana


San Diego Mesa


Cerritos


Glendale


Los Medanos: Math


Las Positas


Props to our creative FIN teams and those behind the scenes. FANTASTIC and ENJOY.

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Alameda Inquiry Update (2) with the music

January 12, 2010

This is an updated video.

It was edited for minor content change.

And add the music.

 

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Just a Little Experiment

January 11, 2010

This is an updated video.

It was edited for minor content change.

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Alameda Inquiry Update (2)

January 5, 2010

There are updated video’s.

They were edited for minor content change.

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Lin’s Short Film (2)

January 5, 2010

There are updated video’s.

They were edited for minor content change.

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