Initiatives and Events
Current Achieving the Dream Initiatives:
First Year Experience Learning Communities:
Linked and integrated courses designed to provide new students with a positive successful entry into college. In addition to offering a unique and collaborative curriculum, the First Year Experience learning communities offer new students additional academic support assisting students in getting their developmental and foundational coursework completed at the outset of their college experience and on the road to successfully achieving their academic goals.
Developmental Math Yearlong Cohort:
A year long Math 084/Math 085/Math 098 developmental mathematics cohort which will follow the same instructor offering students a consistent supportive classroom environment throughout their year of developmental algebra study fostering retention and persistence through the developmental algebra sequence to college coursework.
Early Warning System:
Students who are indentified early in the quarter as being at risk for not completing their academic coursework are referred to academic assistance and/or counseling services with the purpose of identifying and offering support services to facilitate students finishing their quarter successfully.
Faculty/Staff Collaborative Inquiry into Student Learning and Success:
Based on the CLIPs –Communities of Learning and Practice model, groups of faculty and/or staff propose and tackle questions regarding teaching, learning and facilitating student success. These projects will culminate in the presentation of findings and recommendations for action by the college.
Advising Outreach:
Advisors contact all new students mid-quarter to welcome them to the college and give them the opportunity to ask questions, directing them to appropriate resources which may include advising or counseling appointments.
Supplemental Instruction:
- Intermediate Algebra Support Course – This online and in class hybrid elective course provides students a review of their prerequisite mathematics concepts, Intermediate Algebra instruction and additional academic support during their concurrent intermediate algebra study.
- Supplemental Learning – High need courses targeted with supplemental instruction will have trained peer facilitators supporting student learning by attending all class meetings, holding supplemental learning sessions and communicating regularly with the course faculty.
Learning Support Network Website:
Achieving the Dream is currently developing a website that provides and organizes academic resources including online tutoring.
Achieving the Dream Events:
Summer 2008:
August 4 – 6: Dale Tillery Summer Institute for Community College Leadership UC Berkeley, CA- What’s Wrong and What’s Right about Our Transition to College Programs
Fall 2008 – Spring 2009:
Fall Quarter begins: Launch of Fall Achieving the Dream initiatives
October 28–29: Achieving the Dream Coaches visit. Meeting of the Core and Data teams and our Achieving the Dream coaches Wednesday October 29 2–4 PM.
November 14, 2008 Learning Community Gathering and Workshop: In partnership with Seattle Central Community College’s wider learning community leadership, Achieving the Dream will host a faculty gathering to solicit interest in and create collaborative faculty teams to participate in our ongoing Achieving the Dream learning community initiatives.
Achieving the Dream Strategic Institute 2009: Achieving the Dream Strategy Institute will be held during the week of February 16 – 20, 2009, in San Francisco, CA.
March 17 – 18: Achieving the Dream coaches visit. Core and Data team meeting Tuesday, March 17 2009 2 – 4 P.M.
May 5 – 6: Achieving the Dream coaches visit. Core and Data team meeting Tuesday, May 5 2009 from 2 – 4 P.M.