Innovations
With the passing of our dear friend K. Patricia Cross, we reflect upon her ongoing support of community colleges and students. Pat’s dedication to higher education teaching and learning helped to shape the field, with an emphasis on the enhancement and expansion of student learning to improve academic success. According to the K. Patricia Cross Academy, “she has gifted higher education an incredible legacy that has both inspired and enabled thousands of educators to improve both the theory and craft behind their teaching, impacting an entire generation of students in the process,” and we...
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June 7, 2022
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Hear from community college leaders on the evolution of today’s digital transformation.
The history of EdTech has led us to the doorstep of a new era in which data plays a larger role than ever before. Join a panel of today’s leading community college voices for a tour through EdTech’s evolution to contextualize today’s digital transformation, and plan for what’s next.
In this new era, community college leaders are faced with solving for complex challenges that the pandemic has highlighted, including EdTech tools that don’t work well...
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Resources from the Walmart Brighter Futures 2.0 Project
Section I
Program Summary
Section II
Sample Work Plan
Section III
Impact on Individual and Community
Section IV
Success Stories
Section V
Challenges and Lessons Learned
Section VI
Collaborative Partnerships
Section VII
Project Forms, Documents and Other Materials
Application
Demographics Form
Section VIII
Project Publicity and Donor Recognition
Press Release 1
Press Release 2
Section IX
Sample Sustainability Plan
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When looking at national data about American students who are identified as English language learners (ELL), overlapping definitions from two prominent sources are important to note. The U.S. Census Bureau uses the American Community Survey (2013) to obtain information about factors that disproportionately affect ELL students and their families. The survey compares statistics between "native" and "foreign" households, definitions which are determined by where the householder was born. Not all children whose parents were born outside of the U.S. are identified as ELL. However, when...
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2023-2024 Innovation of the Year Award and 2024-2025 League Excellence Award recipients were recognized at the 2025 Innovations Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
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