Are We Riding the Wave of the Future?
2/22/2012
There are a lot of different ways that technology can influence classrooms, faculty, students, and campuses. In a Fast Company article last week, Michale Karnjanaprakorn presented a useful breakdown of the five buckets of technology innovation in edu...
This can save you money.
2/15/2012
Today’s post is our fourth installment of “SCALERS: Round 2.” Originally created by Paul Bloom at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship,
the SCALERS model identifies seven organizational...
Links we like!
2/3/2012
A new study from CCCSE makes the case for mandatory requirements. Inside Higher Ed has the details: “Community colleges have a growing arsenal of tools that research shows will help students earn credentials—like academic goal-setting, student succe...
From the Shadow of the Everlasting Cascades
2/1/2012
It's time for another ATD/DEI State Policy Team meeting. ATD and DEI state policy teams have come to Seattle, WA, for two days of working, learning, and recommitting. Even the introductions were impressive as state team leads described their most sig...
Sir Linksalot
1/27/2012
Have you heard of flipped classrooms? Last week on CNN’s Schools of Thought blog, high school Principal Greg Green explained how his entire school has implemented the flipped class structure:
Teachers record their lectures using screen-capture softw...
SuccessNC
1/26/2012
Last week, the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) was featured in the Atlantic Cities series “The Next Metro Economy.” Bruce Katz of Brookings Institution and Judith Rodin, of the Rockefeller Foundation, lifted up ten innovative efforts ...
Many Happy Returns
1/20/2012
Today’s blog birthday post is brought to you by the letter S. We look back at Accelerating Achievement posts on two of our favorite topics: scaling and state policy.
In Scaling Up, we’ve been harvesting the latest thinking on scaling from the socia...
Birthday Wish: Equal Opportunity
1/19/2012
Today, Accelerating Achievement turns one. This week, we’re looking back at some of the year’s highlights and thinking about where the next year will take us.
There’s a lot going on in the DEI network of colleges, states, and partners. All year, we...
Every birthday girl needs a network
1/18/2012
We’re paging through our first year of Accelerating Achievement posts, pulling out some reader favorites and seeing what’s new. Today, we return to two posts from colleagues not directly associated with DEI, but from institutions that are committed t...
Happy Birthday, Accelerating Achievement!
1/17/2012
This week, Accelerating Achievement turns one. According to What to Expect the First Year, we should have nail-trimming, sleep schedules, and solid foods all figured out. In addition to those milestones, we’ve had more than 100 posts ranging from exp...
Lucky Links
1/13/2012
It may be Friday the 13th, but here's your links equivalent of a rabbit's foot:
Webinar fun! Boosting College Completion for a New Economy, an initiative of the Education Commission of the States, is hosting a webinar next week, looking at state leg...
Happy New Links!
1/10/2012
The latest issue of Data Notes, Achieving the Dream’s bimonthly data newsletter, identifies early predictors of student success: “The findings indicate that, in general, students who complete 20 or more credits during the first academic year have be...
Guest Post: Modeling Accountability
1/4/2012
When you’re expanding a new initiative, it can be difficult to build new responsibilities into the already complicated and busy lives of faculty. Below, Lisa Dresdner, director of the Center for Teaching & Learning at Norwalk Community College, share...
Mark Your Calendars!
12/29/2011
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is hosting another free webinar with updates on their developmental math work, Statway and Quantway. The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern. Here’s a ...
Guest Post: Understanding and Reconciling the Opposing Forces that Shape Developmental Programming
12/20/2011
Much developmental education research today focuses on which cog needs the most grease; in other words, how do we fix a system that everyone seems to agree is broken? In a developmental education working paper published by the Community College Resea...
Guest Post: Allied Forces
12/14/2011
Today’s post is our third installment of “SCALERS: Round 2.” Originally created by Paul Bloom at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, the SCALERS model identifies seven organizational c...
Guest Post: We're Getting the Band Back Together!
12/9/2011
The Developmental Education Initiative is all about sharing good ideas and successful practices so that more states, colleges, and students can take advantage of what’s working. There are many ways to do this across a campus, a system, or the entire ...
Guest Post: The Benefit Bank Helps Community College Students Claim Work Supports
12/8/2011
We’ve looked before at different ways to help students build a safety net that enables them to meet school obligations as well as personal, family, and work obligations, including financial counseling and financial literacy instruction. Today’s post ...
Guest Post: Coordinating State Policy for Completion
12/6/2011
Today’s post comes from Michael Collins, associate vice president of postsecondary state policy at Jobs for the Future. JFF leads DEI’s state policy initiative by supporting policy teams in CT, FL, NC, OH, TX, and VA, who are implementing the three-...
Fa-La-La-Links!
12/1/2011
It’s December 1 (not sure how that happened) and there are already radio stations playing holiday music 24-hours a day. Here’s a few interesting pieces to help you forget that year-end is right around the corner and that you’ve already heard “Jingle ...
Gobble Gobble
11/23/2011
This Thanksgiving, we're thankful for evidence-based practices:
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Enjoy the holiday!...
Linkums!
11/18/2011
On Monday, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching published an update on their Pathways work. There are 1,200 students enrolled in 60 sections of Statway™ across the country, and Quantway goes live in classroom beginning in January. ...
Guest Post: Getting the Message Right
11/16/2011
It’s time for the second installment of “SCALERS: Round 2.” Originally created by Paul Bloom at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, the SCALERS model identifies seven organizational capa...
A Little of This; A Little of That
11/10/2011
The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Higher Education (ISKME) is offering scholarships for their 2011 Big Ideas Fest. The conference is scheduled for December 4-7 in Half Moon Bay, California. The website describes the event as “a u...
Guest Post: Making Space for Good Decisions
11/28/2011
Rob Johnstone made a presentation at the July ATD/DEI State Policy meeting in Florida; we thought Rob’s work with the RP Group, and specifically a project called BRIC (Bridging Research, Information & Culture), would be of interest to the Acceleratin...