Webinars
Texas Coreq Project Webinar Learning Series: Creating Effective Learning Environments at a Distance
Friday, 7/31, 1:00-2:30pm CST
Presenter: The Charles A. Dana Center
Designing effective virtual corequisite courses calls for attention to content, pedagogy, and psychosocial factors. In this interactive session, participants will engage with content alignment strategies and pedagogical techniques that provide support for students who have been underserved in the past. Additionally, participants will explore elements of learning science that contribute to student engagement and success.
Texas Coreq Project Summer Webinar Learning Series: Collaborative Learning for Virtual Corequisites (Encore using Blackboard Collaborate)
Thursday, 7/30 10:30-12:00pm CST
Presenters: Carmen McCullough, Kelly Greenwood, and Colleen Hosking, Math faculty, Austin Community College
Corequisite courses can benefit by retaining collaborative learning when transitioning to the online environment. Participants in this session will see how to establish a successful group dynamic on Day 1, experience how to utilize features of breakout rooms in online platforms such as Blackboard Collaborate, and collaborate with other instructors on ways to implement the tools in their own courses.
Texas Coreq Project Webinar Learning Series: Engaging in Rapid-Cycle Approaches to Corequisite Improvement
Friday, 7/24, 1:00-2:30pm CST
Presenter: Dr. Lindsay Daugherty, Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Continuous improvement approaches are increasingly being used by educators to ensure that corequisites and other critical programs and initiatives are being implemented effectively. These practitioner-driven approaches utilize rapid cycles of improvement to make changes to programs and courses in a more structured way, providing opportunities for reflection and data use. This interactive session will start with a brief overview of rapid-cycle approaches to continuous improvement. Lindsay will then give some examples of how Texas colleges have engaged in continuous improvement approaches through work with RAND and the Texas Corequisite Project. She will discuss some barriers colleges have faced to engaging in rapid-cycle continuous improvement and provide tips on how to overcome those barriers. She will also give recommendations on how to begin and continue the process at your institution. For participants interested in learning more about rapid-cycle improvement prior to the session, a toolkit for Texas colleges can be found at this link.
Texas Coreq Project Webinar Learning Series: Corequisite Course Coordination
Friday, 7/17, 1:00-2:30 pm CST
Presenter: Charles A. Dana Center
Many departments have implemented a course coordinator role for high-enrollment gateway math and English courses, especially those with support components. We invite current course coordinators as well as those interested in creating such a role to participate in this interactive webinar. Take your multi-section courses beyond consistency to ensuring effective and equitable instructional practices. Participants will be given time to reflect on how to make the best use of course coordination under current conditions, as well as when instruction resumes face-to-face.
TEXAAN Webinar: Appreciative Advising with Dr. Jennifer Bloom
Friday, 7/17. 12:00-1:00pm CST
Appreciative Advising is the intentional collaborative practice of asking positive, open-ended questions that help students optimize their educational experiences and achieve their dreams, goals, and potentials.
Dr. Jennifer Bloom is a co-founder of the Appreciative Advising and Appreciative Education movements. She established the annual Appreciative Advising Summer Institute, the Appreciative Education Conference, an on-line Appreciative Advising course, the process for Certifying Appreciative Advisers, and other exciting initiatives related to Appreciative Advising and Appreciative Education. Dr. Bloom has co-authored six books and numerous articles and has presented her work at over 350 higher education institutions and conferences.
Catch the Next Webinar: Transformative Teaching Track
Wednesday, 7/15, 10:30-12:00 CST
Presenters: Allegria Villarreal, CTN Director of Prof Dev/Asst Professor English, ACC and Rafael Castillo, CTN Director of Curr and Instr/Professor English, Palo Alto College
This webinar will explore the theory and practice of culturally responsive/sustaining pedagogy and how it can be utilized in hybrid and online delivery of course content. The session will include discussion of suggested assignments, culturally relevant literature for the classroom, and issues of digital equity that should be considered in curriculum design for the fall. More information in the flyer here. (please make a link here to the document I’ve attached to this email)
Texas Coreq Project Webinar Learning Series: The Lenses We Employ in our Equity Work: Moving from Deficit to Anti-Deficit Approaches to Serving Students
Friday, 7/10 1:00-2:30pm CST
Presenter: Desiree Zerquera, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of Leadership Studies, University of San Francisco
The way we see the world is defined by the lenses we use to understand people, problems, and solutions. They are shaped by our formal education, social interactions, and society around us and we employ these lenses both consciously and unconsciously. To work towards strengthening equity through our work in education – especially in corequisite implementation, it is imperative that we are aware of the lenses we use and continuously reflective on the ways these lenses work to impede or advance our capacity to enact equity.
One dominant lens in equity work in education is that of deficit. Often employed with good intentions, it can create challenges to advancing equity. In this interactive webinar we will be asked to engage with our own lenses and learn about deficit as an impediment to equity in higher education. Attendees will be asked to reflect on the ways deficit shapes their own work, and consider examples of anti-deficit alternatives. This session is encouraged for faculty, staff, and administrators from different sectors of higher education.
Texas Coreq Project Summer Webinar Learning Series: Collaborative Learning for Virtual Corequisites
Friday, 6/26 1:00-2:30pm
Hosted by Carmen McCullough, Kelly Greenwood, and Colleen Hosking, Math faculty, Austin Community College
Corequisite courses can benefit by retaining collaborative learning when transitioning to the online environment. Participants in this session will see how to establish a successful group dynamic on Day 1, experience how to utilize features of breakout rooms in online platforms such as Zoom, and collaborate with other instructors on ways to implement the tools in their own courses.
Early Findings from a Randomized Control Trial of Corequisites in Texas Community Colleges, April 2019
The Texas Corequisite Project hosted the webinar “Early Findings from a Randomized Control Trial of Corequisites in Texas Community Colleges”. The study was conducted by Trey Miller with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Lindsay Daugherty with Rand Education. It provides insights into the implementation, impact, and student experiences in corequisites. Overall, there were positive outcomes across corequisite models and student groups. In particular there was a positive impact on underserved populations, completion of ENGL 1301, and two-year transfer rates. You may download a copy of the presentation here.
The Texas Corequisite Project is working with Rand Education and AIR on a Continuous Improvement Toolkit that will be released May 28. All Texas colleges and universities are encouraged to download the Toolkit and use it as needed for their individual institutional work in corequisite education.
Supporting Continuous Improvement for Texas Corequisites Webinar, March 2019
The Texas Corequisite Project hosted the webinar “Supporting Continuous Improvement for Texas Corequisites” presented with our colleagues at Rand Education. It provides an overview of continuous improvement and its value for building effective corequisites. Continuous improvement is an intentional, structured, and ongoing process that helps institutions of higher education to:
- set goals around program quality
- identify and gather data to be used in examining programs
- identify ways to improve the quality of programs, and
- evaluate the changes that are implemented.
As we all seek to provide effective corequisites for our students, a clearly defined and articulated plan for continuous improvement will be key to success.
Texas Corequisite Project Introductory Webinar, October 2018
For questions or additional information, please contact the Texas Corequisites Project at txcoreqs@austincc.edu or (512) 223-7965