1. Integrating student success initiatives
Los Angeles Valley College
March 4, 2016
Integrating student success initiatives

2. welcome
Deborah and Tino welcome to Valley

3. Goals for the Day
Understand where and how the current initiatives targeting student success are operating
Find applicable ways to integrate current efforts of the Equity, SSSP, and Basic Skills Initiative programs
Identify scalable activities/practices that are integrated and reflect student/campus’s’ needs
Guided Reflection: “How do you as campus create goals that are integrated with the initiatives on campus?”
Deborah

4. 3CSN-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.
Deborah

5. Theory of Change If we provide training on
networking and we use action
research methodologies, community
college professionals will transform
their environments and identities to
create communities of practice that
will produce powerful learning and
working across campuses. This will
lead to greater student success.
Deborah

6. Building Networks that Work
Identifying a Shared Problem
Creating a Shared Vision of the Possible for Addressing It
Building a Sustained Community of Practitioners Focusing on This Problem
Deborah
California Community Colleges’ Success Network

7. Ice Breaker
Introduce yourself to the person next to you and say why you are here today and what you hope to take away/learn
Jessica

8. Reading Together

9. Reading Together Read “Blind Man and the Elephant”
Read “Scaling Up Excellence” Principles
In what ways does the poem serve as a metaphor for what is occurring on your campus?
What connections do you see among the poem, the principles, and your campus?
Think/Pair Share: Arnita and Jessica

10. Reading Together Group A-Read excerpt from Scaling Up Excellence.
Group B-Read Senate Rostrum article written by James Todd.
Both Groups: Select one or two ‘golden lines’ that connect to key ideas that emerged from previous discussion.
Jessica and Arnita –explain what golden lines are.

11. Think/Pair Share
Find someone from the other group for a Think/Pair Share activity.
Share your ‘golden line’ and why you selected it.
What connections did you make to earlier discussion?
Arnita and Jessica

12. BREAK
Sit at different table- Arnita will tell them

13. Golden Circle
Think about a student success activity on your campus that you may want to scale up (or one you tried to scale up in the past)
Think about this morning’s readings and discussions
Watch Simon Sinek’s Video: The Golden Circle
Arnita or Scott

14. Golden Circle-Part I
Individually record your why on the backside of the Golden Circle handout.
*We will fill out the How and What after lunch.
Jessica

15. Who What Mapping at LAVC
Think Pair Share!
Using the Who / What Map answer the questions and share with your group
Create a poster w/your groups’ answers to the questions regarding Professional Learning
Gallery Walk
Jessica – they will need to leave the WHO WHAT Map on there table before they leave. It’s feedback for Llanet.

16. LUNCH

17. BSI Cohort Tracker Data SEP –LAVC Scorecard Data SSSP Targets
LAVC Students: What is LAVC targeting?
BSI Cohort Tracker Data SEP –LAVC Scorecard Data SSSP Targets
Jessica- Refer to handout – the what makes reference to the golden circle activity

18. Student Success Crosswalk
Consider the Crosswalk document and discuss in
your group the following questions:
What are some goals that are common to more than one plan?
What are some programs/initiatives that are serving the goals of more than one plan?
Jessica and Arnita

19. Integrated Planning & Implementation Worksheet & Poster
Jessica

20. Gallery Walk on Integrated Planning Poster

21. Golden Circle, Part II
With your table/team, revisit your why. Keeping in mind ideas and information from this morning’s readings and discussions on integrated planning, write down:
The How
(the processes or ways to build the what)
The What
(the initiative itself)
Jessica and Arnita

22. Wrapping up and Moving Forward
Llanet and evaluations