LET Minutes
Wed., Sept. 14, 2005
West Campus, 6-202
Present: Linda Anthon, Nick Bekas, Kira Bishop, Philip Bishop, Melody BoeringerHartnup, Mike Bosley, Jenny Britton, Helen Clarke, Judi Delisle, Aida Diaz, Suzette
Dohany, Kurt Ewen, Emily Hooker, Celine Kavalec-Miller, Maryke Lee, Patrick Nellis,
Mary Pepe, Melissa Pedone, Julie Phelps, Ann Puyana, Cheryl Robinson, Allison, Sloan,
Roberta Vandermast
Regrets: Louise Pitts, David Rogers, Sharon Wyly
Agreements
The following items were agreed upon at the conclusion of the meeting.
 The first THINK workshops will NOT take place on Oct. 4 and 6. The Workshop
Planning/Assessment Curriculum work group and Gathering Evidence work group
will create the calendar of events as they plan activities.
 There will be two sets of THINK workshops. The primary goal of the Assessment
Series is to develop a team of evaluators trained to score student work using the
holistic scoring rubric. (This series should be completed by the end of spring 2006.)
The primary goal of the Gathering Evidence Series is to engage faculty in generating
student work which may be used as evidence of Valencia’s Think competency. (This
series should be completed by the end of fall 2005).
 We recognized that a significant LET goal is to grow into the ability to assess more
diverse student artifacts with our assessment processes. However, we will continue to
move forward with the holistic training for more traditional “written word” artifacts
until we are more experienced with the process.
Team MBTI
The team discussed the strengths and weaknesses of our MBTI group profile
(ENFP). Natural strengths of our team include: brainstorming, considering diverse
opinions, questioning assumptions, open to new ideas, good energy, vision, and a sense
of humor. Natural weaknesses of our team include: talking things to death, ignoring
major facts, changing our minds too often, loosing track of what was decided, and
ineffective lines of communication.
The following resolutions were generated to help us work effectively as an ENFP group.
 Work deliberately to be inclusive. An example of this would be to vote on decisions
at the next meeting to allow introverts more time to process and provide input (unless
an external deadline makes this impossible).
 Practice engaged listening.
 Communicate more effectively outside of the group.
 Track decisions and accomplishments and report them regularly to the LET.
 Consciously consult and attend to input from our 3 sensing members.
Principles, Goals, and Priorities
LET goals and principles were discussed briefly and will need to be revisited on a
regular basis to guide our work. We will go over the goals in more detail in our next
meeting. A minor revision was made to our principles and procedures for productive
work sessions.
Calendar
We agreed to invite Kaye Walter to our next LET meeting. The calendar of
meetings was reviewed. We agreed that Oct. 4 and 6 had too many possible conflicts with
faculty schedules and will postpone those workshops to later dates to be determined by
work teams. Assessment consultant Chuck Walker will be speaking with LET members
on Nov. 3,10am-12pm, East Campus, room TBA. Contact Celine Kavalec-Miller with
questions about his visit.
Work Groups
LET members signed up to work on the following work groups. If you have not
yet joined a work group, please let Melissa or Emily know which group you would like to
join.
LET Publication Group: Melody Boeringer-Hartnup, Allison Sloan, Roberta Vandermast
Clearing House Group: Judi Delisle, Ann Puyana, Roberta Vandermast
Workshop Planning/Assessment Curriculum Group: Linda Anthon, Nick Bekas, Kira
Bishop, Mike Bosley, Jenny Britton, Celine Kavalec-Miller, Pat Nellis, Julie Phelps
Gathering Evidence Group: Linda Anthon, Maryke Lee, Melissa Pedone, Julie Phelps
Writing Contest Group: Nick Bekas, Jenny Britton
Marketing Group: Mike Bosley, Mary Pepe
Planning Team for Year of Communicate: Melody Boeringer-Hartnup, Helen Clarke,
Aida Diaz, Suzette Dohany, Kurt Ewen, Pat Nellis
LET Year of THINK Materials
Notepads with mini versions of the THINK rubric will be created to use as favors
for faculty and staff who attend LET workshops. The THINK rulers have a web link for
students to access to self-assess their critical thinking skills. Students who take the selfassessment can print a personalized response if they desire or to turn into a teacher as an
assignment. We should encourage our students to take the self-assessment to generate a
baseline for students’ perceptions of their critical thinking skills.
Learning Day
The John Tagg session at Learning Day is full. Pat Nellis will try to get the
session moved to a larger room to accommodate more participants. Suzette, Kira, Philip,
and Linda will promote future LET events in their Learning Day session. Work teams
should provide them with as much information as possible prior to Learning Day.
Next LET Meeting*
Wed., Oct. 12, 2005
2:30pm-4:30pm
West Campus, 6-202
*Work teams should create their own meeting schedule.