Innovations

October 26, 2022 Join us to discuss the impact of implementing a multiple-solution student engagement platform. Faculty from Phoenix College will review a multi-year study and share best practices for using interactive engagement, assessment, and media tools to connect with students. In this webinar you will: Discover the potential for education technology to positively transform the community college student learning experience; See a brief demonstration of the Nearpod platform used in the study; and Learn best practices for using interactive engagement, assessment, and media tools with...
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April 4, 2024 For most of the 20th century, course placement was designed to be a system to assess student needs and identify the appropriate interventions to support success. Yet research into student success showed that placement wasn't meeting those goals, particularly for students who enrolled in community colleges with the biggest hurdles to overcome. A holistic understanding of student potential – built on powerful research on the role of noncognitive skills such as sense of belonging, goal commitment, and growth mindset – can help colleges better understand student strengths and...
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October 1, 2020 Our knowledge of how students learn has grown significantly over the last few decades. In keeping with this trend, the quality and sheer amount of research on instructional strategies has also grown, and active learning has emerged as an instructional method that can improve learning outcomes for all students, including students from marginalized backgrounds and populations. In this webinar, participants will learn about active learning techniques that have been shown to improve student learning in the college classroom. They will also learn about the K. Patricia Cross Academy...
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The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) is developing a Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) Certification examination in collaboration with the National Board of Public Health Examiners. The DIS Certification Project, supported by cooperative agreement CK20-2003 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease, aims to standardize and validate knowledge, skills, and abilities of disease intervention professionals, increase quality and consistency of service delivery, support the recruitment and...
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The John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Awards Program provides a record of the names, titles, and colleges of the 2018 honorees as well as congratulatory messages from their colleagues. The 2018 award recipients were celebrated at the Innovations Conference held February 24-27, 2019, and those who attended received a copy of the Awards Program during the conference's closing ceremony.
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The Faculty Voices Discussion Toolkit contains resources developed for the Faculty Voices Initiative by project partner Public Agenda. These resources are designed to launch conversations among faculty and others about issues surrounding community college student success and completion. The toolkit includes a discussion starter, detailed moderator guide, and additional moderator resources. Print versions of the discussion starter, Expanding Opportunity for All, are available to community colleges for the cost of shipping, while supplies last. Contact Cynthia Wilson to request copies for your...
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