LACCD Student Success Initiative Steering Committee,
Achieving the Dream, & L.A. Mission College:
Summit #2: Welcoming Students to Your Campus: Innovative
Efforts in SSSP and Equity Initiatives
Los Angeles Mission College
November 20, 2015
9:00am-3:00pm
PRESENTATIONS: WLAC, LAMC, CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING &
LEARNING TRAINING
Welcome!
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.
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.
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
California Community Colleges’ Success Network
Ice Breaker Activity (handout)
Pair & Share!
•Meet someone new and share your
responses, including your goals for this
year
•Introduce your colleagues & share out
one “take away” you heard from the other
someone else
Goals for the Day
• Begin the dialogue on the creation of designated
student “Welcome Centers”
• Learn about the experiences of those campuses that are
creating new ways to welcome students via SSP efforts
• Use a student centered approach in developing an
integrated plan for welcoming students to your campus
Read Together Activity
“What students say they need to succeed:
Key themes from a study of student support”
RP Group (2013) from the Student Services
(Re)defined series:
http://rpgroup.org/sites/default/files/StudentPer
spectivesResearchBriefJan2013.pdf
6 Factors for Success:
1. Directed: Students have a goal and
know how to achieve it
2. Focused: Students stay on track—
keeping their eyes on the prize
3. Nurtured: Students feel somebody
wants and helps them to succeed
4. Engaged: Students actively
participate in class and
extracurricular activities
5. Connected: Students feel like they
are part of the college community
6. Valued: Students’ skills, talents,
abilities and experiences are
recognized; they have
opportunities to contribute on
campus and feel their contributions
are appreciated
5 Strategies for Campuses
1. Colleges need to foster students’
motivation.
2. Colleges must teach students how to
succeed in the postsecondary
environment.
3. Colleges need to structure support to
ensure all “six success factors” are
addressed.
4. Colleges need to provide comprehensive
support to historically underserved
students to prevent the equity gap from
growing.
5. Everyone has a role to play in supporting
student achievement, but faculty must
take the lead.
Think, Pair, Share
•Read: Read the article
•Pair: With one other person
•Share: Share your thoughts on the reading and
discuss the reading questions
a) Which strategy is most valuable to you as an
instructor, administrator, or staff member?
b) What activities does your campus already do to help
students with this strategy?
c) Which one of these strategies can you improve
(immediately) within your role on campus?
BREAK-10 min
Campus Presentations:
L.A. Mission College-Fall Kick Off
Diana Bonilla, Cindy Luis
Campus Presentation:
West L.A. College
Culturally Responsive
Teaching & Learning
Mary Hardy, Arnita Porter
Take a moment to get some
LUNCH!!
Synthesis ActivityPoster & Gallery Walk
• Student Welcome Center -Create a poster
with activities/resources that are aligned
with the strategy. Hang poster on wall (15
min)
• Gallery Walk- Walk around to see other
group’s poster and put a sticker near
activities that you like –you may add an
activity to the poster.
Campus Team TimeIntegrated Planning (handout)
• Using the information provided by the
presenters, handouts from the RP group,
and the poster activity
• Create a plan for a welcome center or
changes/additions they can implement on
campus
Example
Directed: Students have a goal and know how to
achieve it
SSSP: Student Ed-Plans
Equity: Increase the # of students receiving Ed Plans
Activity @ Welcome Center: Schedule counseling
appointments
Looking ahead
 Take-away(s) from the group
 Next Steps: How can we keep the dialogue
going?
 What are possible events/trainings and
professional learning events would you like to
see?
 March 18, 2016-Next AtD/SSI Summit on
Noncredit!
Wrap-up, Feedback, and Evaluations
•THANK YOU
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