1. C OMBINING S UCCESSFUL S TRATEGIES TO C REATE A F ULLY - INTEGRATED L EARNING C OMMUNITY Dr. Nicholas Bekas Marilyn Curall Summer Trazzera Al Groccia

2. Y OUTUBE VIDEO Working as a team: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCNi2i46IQE &feature=related

3. H ISTORY AND B ACKGROUND What is the issue? 3 prep students struggle more than any other group. Past initiatives primarily focused on students with two or less mandates. Data 14% of 3 mandate students ever graduate, and it takes them on average 3 terms to finish their mandate and 9 terms to complete their degree.

4. DEVELOPMENT OF THE REACH P ROGRAM Concept of an interdisciplinary program Process for development Rough Draft of plan (Evergreen)

5. DEVELOPMENT OF THE REACH P ROGRAM Faculty Involvement and Training Getting the faculty together Getting to know each other Consultant and Evergreen Developmental Advising Monthly planning meeting

6. DEVELOPMENT OF THE REACH P ROGRAM Fall 2011: Dev. Math II and Dev. Reading Student Success and Developmental Writing Spring 2012: Intermediate Algebra and Intro to Humanities Freshman Comp I and Speech Summer 2012: College Algebra and Freshman Comp II

7. DEVELOPMENT OF THE REACH P ROGRAM Elements of REACH Integrated Lessons Co curricular Tuesdays developing the students as a whole Team building Fridays Capstone Project and Common Read Recruiting Students 3 Prep students Orientations Explaining a new opportunity to students

8. R ESULTS FROM FALL 2011 Fall to Spring Persistence 95% vs. 83% Success Math 60% vs. 54% Reading 90 % vs. 72% Writing 100% vs. 71% Student Success 88% vs. 68%

9. B REAK INTO GROUPS Student Administrator Faculty

10. D ISCUSS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR GROUP AS YOUR ROLE ( STUDENT, FACULTY, ADMINISTRATOR ): Benefits and Challenges of REACH

11. L ARGE G ROUP D ISCUSSION Report out BENEFITS Report out CHALLENGES

12. O UR BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES Benefits Faculty work together to create integrated assignments Students work together improving learning Create a “family” where everyone supports each other Challenges Registration, course design, logistics Financial issues Faculty loads

13. W HERE WE ARE NOW ? Interview Responses What we learned?

14. REACH S TUDENT V IDEOS Videos Video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eQa10ux0oY Video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RaTV3vdJ6c

15. C ONTACT I NFORMATION Dr. Nicholas Bekas (nbekas@valenciacollege.edu)nbekas@valenciacollege.edu DEI Website: http://valenciacollege.edu/dei/http://valenciacollege.edu/dei/