[Factc] Work on Your Thorny Institutional Learning Problems

[Jennifer Whetham]

Friends and Colleagues:

I really love, admire, read, and re-read Estela Mara Bensimon’s landmark article on closing equity gaps<http://bit.ly/2JD329E>.

In the first part of this essay, Bensimon argues we must move away from looking at equity gaps as student learning problems and instead view them as organizational learning problems. To do this, schools must make disaggregating data an institutional practice, which renders what was “previously invisible” visible.  And then, the institution, and its practitioners, must “discuss the undiscussable.”

This is rigorous work, this is hard work, and it is a social justice imperative we grow highly skilled at these kinds of core foundational moves.

From the application to the final celebration (Hint: haikus and hilarity!), both these Institutes will support your cross-functional team in a full process that begins with identifying an organizational learning problem and ends in a two year plan.

Plenary and concurrent sessions are tailored to the unique and specific problem your school plans to address; you’ll have opportunity for peer and collaborative mentoring from other two and four year colleges . . . and best of all, national experts will give you customized feedback to ensure your resulting plan is both visionary and actionable.

If you have questions about either Institute, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me.

Peace,

Jen

Washington Center for Undergraduate Education

2018 Summer Institutes


Now accepting applications from 2- and 4-year institutions

Reviewing Applications NOW through April 15, 2018


20th ANNUAL
National Summer Institute on Learning Communities<http://wacenter.evergreen.edu/nsilc>
July 9-12, 2018

• Propose, create or expand a learning community
• Strengthen campus partnerships
• Enrich guided pathways
• Enhance residential learning
• Cultivate equity mindsets



3rd ANNUAL
Using Evidence for Improvement:
Teaching & Learning National Institute<http://wacenter.evergreen.edu/teaching-and-learning-national-institute>
July 29–Aug 1, 2018

• Address opportunity gaps and cultivate equity mindsets
• Build capacity for leadership at multiple levels
• Design sustainable professional development
• Use evidence to improve student learning

TLNI is a partnership of Achieving the Dream, Inc., National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, the National Survey of Student Engagement, the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education, and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.




 For more information:
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[Compass]Jennifer Whetham
Program Administrator, Assessment, Teaching, and Learning
Faculty Development
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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