JCASP Vol 8 No 1 Released

#PUHSD student Brandon Moss breaks down the A-G requirements, the classes students need to complete with a C or better to qualify for California's public universities. From history to the arts, these courses build the writing, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills that students carry into college and beyond. The earlier families understand A-G, the better prepared students are to dream big and achieve big. 💡 🎓 Alfredo Andrade Dr. Shanna M. Egans Marguerite W. City of Perris

Cultural Humility Instrument for Educators--an ongoing, reflexive practice to honor every student's story. Here's a chance to participate in educational research. 282 responses collected and looking for 18 more from K-12 educators. Access the survey link below. 🎥 Intro Video: https://lnkd.in/gpAQQ76w 📝 Survey (under 10 minutes): https://lnkd.in/gKRcR-fP

🎓 That "second year slump" is more real than many realise and it deserves our attention. In this month's APRG blog, Research Fellow Lori Takis digs into the factors that drive anxiety in second-year students, and some suggestions. 🔍Read more below

Retention gaps don't close by accident. Students who completed a five-week academic support course persisted to the next term at meaningfully higher rates than their matched peers, even after controlling for prior GPA, financial aid status, and first-generation status. A finding worth citing in your next literature review. Worth bringing to your next program review. Anna Gavrilova, PhD & Jill D. Jenson at the University of Minnesota Duluth show what's possible when short-term, research-based support is done right. Read the full study in J-CASP Vol. 8 No. 1 👉 https://lnkd.in/gSARC35a Is your institution using short-term academic support courses? What's working? #StudentSuccess #StudentRetention #HigherEducation #DevelopmentalEducation #JCASP

Following Chrissie Draper's inspiring presentation at our project showcase event hosted at Birmingham City University on 29th April for our The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education funded collaborative enhancement project Flexible pathways and effective transitions in college-based HE, Chrissie has written a detailed blog in which she explains the thinking and design behind the creation of a scaffolded approach to academic writing which she has coined as the 'Super Seven'! https://lnkd.in/ej6gBPKM #collegebasedhighereducation #transitions #academicwriting

In his FIRING LINE column, Robert B. Roque Jr. tackles CHED’s proposed reduction of General Education units and the growing pushback from universities warning it could weaken the foundations of higher learning. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gCUeg2Dj PH Commission on Higher Education

The latest issue of Teaching in Higher Education is out! 📣 This amazing issue is the home for our paper with Peter J. Cobb on knowledge-rich learning experiences in undergraduate education. Universities are increasingly seen as institutions that prepare students for employment with attempts to foster students' 21st century skills and 'graduate outcomes'. In such contexts, how can we ensure students engage meaningfully with disciplinary knowledge? Our paper explores this question with Knorr Cetina's concept of epistemic cultures. What could be a more powerful way to build students' relationship with knowledge than asking them to be a part of scholarly knowledge production – epistemic cultures, that is? To see how this happens in practice, we must travel to an Armenian highland with a bunch of archaeology students... Read the whole story from the link below! https://lnkd.in/gBm7D-u8

Summer workshops at Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking July 12-17 “I’m leaving with clear, practicable strategies to use in my classroom. I especially loved the workshop’s emphasis on experiencing rather than interpreting.” Full list of workshops: -Writing and Thinking  - Writing to Learn  - Writing and Thinking for Middle School Teachers  - Teaching the Multimodal Essay  - Creative Nonfiction: Life Writing   - Practices and Pedagogies of Attention (NEW!)  - Beyond the Essay: Writing, Reflection, and Research in the Age of AI  - Writing to Learn in the STEM Disciplines  - Empowering Class Discussions: Writing, Speaking, Listening (NEW!) https://iwt.bard.edu/july/

Writing and Thinking for Middle School Teachers will be offered again this July with support from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program. In the words of one of last year’s participants: “This is one of the most influential PD workshops I’ve ever experienced.” July Weeklong Workshops - July 12-17 - Bard College, New York - iwt.bard.edu/july #TeachingWithPrimarySources #middleschoolteachers #summerpd

I am so excited for the Tennessee SCORE team to share the awesome results from a #randomizedcontroltrial on #instructionalcoherence in Knox County at the upcoming #SDPconvening. You can read more about the 1.3 months of learning gains for literacy unlocked by aligning #RTI resources to core curriculum in our recent report on this research at https://lnkd.in/evuQ6QDv