Thursday, October 10 | 10:40–12:00 pm
Cultures of Growth, Purpose, and Belonging: Classroom Learning Mindset Supports
Strand: Building Culturally Robust and Positive Practices That Humanize Our Students: Professional Learning and Leadership Development
Room: Garden 1
Mindsets are our beliefs about ourselves as learners and the learning environment. These beliefs shape how we interpret difficulty, make meaning, and participate in the community. Motivate Lab’s research shows mindsets are critical predictors of academic performance, persistence, and motivation. The Lab, a Curated Support and Technical Assistance partner with the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, works to advance research on learning mindsets and translates that research into practice for educators, with a particular focus on increasing equity within educational systems. This session will explore current research on learning mindsets (i.e., growth mindset, purpose and relevance, sense of belonging) and how supporting students’ learning mindsets improves educational outcomes for all students—particularly students from historically marginalized and underserved populations. In collaboration with current California community college partners, we will also offer specific instructional strategies for faculty and staff to incorporate into their teaching and practice to support students’ learning mindsets.
Presenters: Aubrey Kuan Roderick, Cuesta College; Marcus Kolb, Motivate Lab; Chris Hulleman, Motivate Lab/University of Virginia
Linking Innovators: Building Community in the Competitive Framework of STEM
Strand: Achieving Equity in the Classroom: Critical Changes That Champion Race-Consciousness and Improve Teaching and Learning
Room: Garden 2
This offering will explore the importance of integrating student staff as partners in the management of special programs to help establish a more dynamic learning climate for student engagement and involvement. Students often have key insights into finer details about student needs, likes, and barriers to their engagement with programs that institutional staff can miss. Their voices on program evaluation can help ensure that program development is more student-centered and maximizes opportunities for them to gain from the experience. In addition, their participation in decision-making builds a sense of ownership and responsibility over their program development and fosters a culturally inclusive approach to student programming. When integrated in this way, program development also becomes a way for students to develop as leaders, acquire professional skills, and develop a greater sense of belonging to their institution.
Presenters: Sagar Dhunna, Yanet Garcia, Patsy Morales Gonzalez, Jessica Ochoa, and Karen Salazar, Cypress College
Using Data to Inform, Guide, and Monitor Equitable and Race-Conscious Dual Enrollment Partnerships
Strand: Collaborating Across Sectors and Segments: Race-Conscious Partnerships and Networks
Room: Garden 3
Learn how colleges and high schools involved in the Dual Enrollment for Equitable Completion (DE4EC) initiative are building race-conscious, equitable dual enrollment programs that disrupt the status quo—making historically underrepresented students the priority for these opportunities. Representatives from DE4EC learning partner RDP Consulting and The RP Group will highlight new evidence showing the impact these experiences have on high school and college outcomes for Black/African American, Latinx, and first-generation participants. DE4EC students and practitioners will further animate how dual enrollment helps participants develop a sense of academic self-efficacy and advances their preparation for college success. Leave with actionable ideas as to how to advance equitable dual enrollment based on lessons from DE4EC, as well as metrics and resources that can inform equity-minded goal setting, programming, and ongoing improvement.
Presenters: Kristen Fong and Rogeair Purnell, RDP Consulting; Darla Cooper, The RP Group
LA College Promise: Closing Equity Gaps and Guiding Students Toward Completion
Strand: Redressing Structural Inequities to Achieve More Equitable Institutions
Room: Garden 4
LA College Promise Program (LACP) is a comprehensive two-year program focused on completion and rooted in the student experience. LACP is providing the “guided” piece to Guided Pathways at a time when our minoritized students need more than a pathway of courses. Seven years later, the data shows that we have kept our promise to increase both access and success by closing equity gaps. The session will highlight how we innovated at scale and expanded the program to be responsive to student needs and institutional changes. This session will highlight the opportunities presented when colleges center the student journey and leverage their College Promise programs as onramps to Guided Pathways.
Presenter: Deborah Harrington and Joanna Zimring Towne, Los Angeles Community College District; Cynthia Lopez, Los Angeles Valley College
Allyship in Action: Enhancing Support for Black and Marginalized College Students
Strand: Collaborating Across Sectors and Segments: Race-Conscious Partnerships and Networks
Room: Harbor
This session explores the practice of allyship, allyship in action, and how it can be a force multiplier in supporting marginalized voices on your campus. Using intersectional frameworks, participants will learn strategies for fostering inclusive environments and advocating for equitable policies and practices through self-introspection activities, interactive assessments, and small group discussions. Attendees will gain actionable insights into how they can participate in improving student success and campus cultures through collaboration, advocacy, and allyship.
Presenters: Byron Reaves, Career Ladders Project; Regina Mahiri, Santa Rosa Junior College
Ideas Into Action: Creating and Implementing Student-Centered Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Change at the Department Level
Strand: Achieving Equity in the Classroom: Critical Changes That Champion Race-Consciousness and Improve Teaching and Learning
Room: Pacific
In fall 2020, a team of English/ESL faculty at Pierce College started an effort to address equity gaps, success rates, and institutional racism in the English and ESL disciplines. To adopt formal changes and make IDEA recommendations to department faculty, the team gathered multiple student, faculty, and administrator perspectives, assessed the current state of student success, and reviewed practices regarding Learning Outcomes, Course Objectives and Descriptions, syllabi and prompts. This interactive session will detail the efforts of Pierce College’s Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Team to invoke institutional change and show how to involve students and other discipline faculty in the process.
Presenters: Christopher Corning, Ashley Granillo, Andrew Ortega, Brad Saenz, and Mike Urquidez, Los Angeles Pierce College
Student Parents: Empowering Parents to Accomplish Their Academic Goals by Offering Student Parent Trauma-Informed Services
Strand: Redressing Structural Inequities to Achieve More Equitable Institutions
Room: Salon 1
The presentation will highlight the five trauma-informed principles in developing whole student support for student parents. The presentation emphasizes program structures that foster a campus collective mindset, a sense of belonging to achieve holistic support for student parents. The presenters will highlight the importance of implementing cross-collaboration (EOPS/CARE, CalWORKs, Early Childhood Education Center, Mental Health and Wellness, Basic Needs) to maximize student parent resources and services. Participants will also engage in an empathy map activity with the presenters and other participants to highlight protective factors and risk factors impacting student parents’ academic success. The presenters will highlight the importance of student parent voices in developing student parent programming and optimal resource utilization.
Presenters: Hannah Gamez, Ashley Martinez, and Lynnete Navarro Sullivan, Moreno Valley College
Empowering First-Gen Students: Transforming Social & Family Capital for Academic Success
Strand: Creating Equitable Support Systems for Students and Employees with Love and Compassion
Room: Salon 2
Join us for an engaging session exploring equity and race consciousness in higher education. This session will spotlight the Circle of Champions approach, a framework designed to foster inclusivity and activate diverse student capital into a supportive network. Through storytelling, interactive polling, small group discussions, case studies, role-playing exercises, and multimedia presentations, discover actionable strategies to effectively support first-gen students. Gain insights into bridging equity gaps and promoting diversity on your campus. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding and empower first-gen students for success!
Presenters: Luis Chavez and Bryan Reece, FirstGenAmerica
From Data to Dialogue: Fostering Inclusive Campus Communities Through Holistic Profiles
Strand: Strategic and Integrated Planning to Create Caring, Equitable, and Race-Conscious Campus Communities
Room: Salon 7 & 8
Data-informed decisions are only as good as the research that guides them. Yet, much of the data we encounter focuses on specific topics, such as retention or campus climate, which then often directs initiatives centered on those specific metrics individually. San Bernardino Valley College has created an integrated data framework to discover who our students are as a whole by utilizing quantitative and qualitative analyses from multiple data sources. Holistic student profiles were created and shared to initiate a campuswide conversation of equity awareness. By involving our campus community of administrators, faculty members, classified professionals, students, and the community at large to generate strategies based on the presented data, we aim to have every voice heard as we work together to address the inequitable systems our students encounter.
Presenters: Keynasia Buffong, Amy Mills, Joanna Oxendine, and Vinnie Wu, San Bernardino Valley College