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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">My dear friends and colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">I’m so excited to announce that we are now accepting proposals for the
<a href="http://bit.ly/2020atlc">2020 Assessment, Teaching, and Learning Conference</a> at the
<a href="http://mapq.st/2sRuCfA">Lynnwood Convention Center</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">This year’s theme is
<i>Rethinking Student Instruction: Exploring the Faculty Role in Guided Pathways</i> and
<span style="color:black">includes a major focus on key implementation issues related to guided pathways— in particular good practices focused on successful faculty leadership & engagement in the work. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">We invite proposals for 90 minute concurrent sessions in four key areas:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Equity-Minded Praxis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Guided Pathways: Design, Models, Approaches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Faculty Leadership & Engagement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Research-Based Learning Frameworks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">After you read the descriptions of the conference stands in the
<a href="http://bit.ly/2urzEjk">Call for Proposals</a>, please consider filling out the
<a href="http://bit.ly/2sOjeky">proposal form</a>. <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">
Proposals are due by 5:00 PM on February 19<sup>th</sup>, 2020.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Questions?</span></b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black"> Please contact Jennifer
Whetham at <a href="mailto:jwhetham@sbctc.edu">jwhetham@sbctc.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.55pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764">Assessment, Teaching, and Learning
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.55pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764">• o: 360-704-4354 • c: 206-310-1291<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.55pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">2019-20 ATL Initiative: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><a href="http://bit.ly/2BpQe3q" title="http://bit.ly/2BpQe3q"><span style="color:blue">Supporting
Faculty Engagement in Guided Pathways</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.55pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Add Your Voice: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><a href="http://bit.ly/2odbDJM" title="http://bit.ly/2odbDJM"><span style="color:blue">Take
the Survey</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">“The problems of racism in writing classrooms are not primarily pedagogical problems
to solve alone. Racism is an assessment problem, which can only be fully solved by changing the system of assessment, by changing the classroom writing assessment ecology. Thus assessment must be reconceived as an antiracist ecology.”</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> </span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="15" height="15" style="width:.1562in;height:.1562in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.png@01D5D207.FB0AA300" alt="FB671723"></span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Asao
B. Inoue, <i><a href="http://bit.ly/2xvacY4" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies</span></a></i></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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