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Upcoming Workshops

Workshop Series: Building IRPE Capacity to Advance Equity-Driven Change

Fridays, January 21, 28, and February 4, 2022 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | Virtual

Presenters: Gio Sosa, Crafton Hills College; and Hannah Lawler, Santa Monica College

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Join us for a virtual workshop series focused on methods and practices IRPE offices can utilize to foster campus cultures that are able to activate racial equity data and inspire positive change for racially minoritized students. We will cover approaches and strategies to assess the data culture at your institution, facilitate equity data conversations, and cultivate inquiry and curiosity amongst campus practitioners. This workshop series will incorporate a blend of live-synchronous coursework via Zoom and asynchronous engagements via Canvas.

Below is a general overview of each of the three workshops. Participants will be invited to the Canvas course up to a week in advance of the workshop series to access materials that will support learning outcomes throughout the series. All workshops will be recorded via Zoom and recordings will be posted to Canvas for reference should participants miss a live workshop and/or wish to revisit workshop content at a later date.

Workshop Series Dates:

Workshop #1: Friday, January 21, 2022
Workshop #2: Friday, January 28, 2022
Workshop #3: Friday, February 4, 2022

Registration Fees:

RP Group Member Rate: $350
Non-member Rate: $450

Workshop #1: Strategies to Foster Your Campus’ Data Identity and Data Culture

Participants will learn how to prepare their campuses to activate racial equity data and help ensure practitioners don’t get stuck in analysis paralysis.
Participants will learn how to build trust and community around equity data by identifying what institutional data culture is, receive an institutional data culture assessment, and learn methods that IRPE offices can leverage to facilitate discussions based upon the findings.

Workshop #2: How to Establish an Equity-Driven Culture of Inquiry

Participants will learn how to navigate scenarios where institutional practitioners are unsure about what action to take based upon data or metrics.
Participants will learn strategies to cultivate and stimulate inquiry and curiosity to help practitioners dig deeper and gather more information and insights to inform action.
Participants will learn key concepts to facilitate and communicate racial equity data and help practitioners reframe deficit-minded research questions into equity-minded approaches to inquiry.

Workshop #3: Facilitating Conversations About Race, Racial Equity, and Racism Stemming from Data

Participants will learn how to identify and engage resistance using a reflective process to examine the personas of resistance and application of strategies to navigate through it.
Participants will learn how to ensure sustainable outcomes and improvement harnessing equity-minded processes that can be integrated within participatory governance frameworks.
Participants will learn about important connections to and applications of data coaching models to help institutionalize equity-driven priorities.

Recorded Webinars and Workshops

Workshop Series: Reframing Metamajors to Create Equitable Guided Pathways

Workshop 1: Designing Metamajors to Address Equity Gaps

Thursday, May 6, 2021 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Presented by WestEd
Presenter: Kathy Booth

Clarify how you can construct metamajors that help students imagine their futures, connect with others who share their dreams, and practice the essential skills within related disciplines.
Learn a new framework to help students imagine, connect, and practice throughout their college journey.
Leave with a set of tools that help to identify core skills at the metamajor level that connect academic pathways to jobs--particularly for non-CTE disciplines.

Workshop 2: Leveraging Student Support (Re)defined in Guided Pathways

Thursday, May 13, 2021 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Presented by RP Group
Presenter: Darla Cooper

Examine the Imagine-Connect-Practice Framework through the lens of the Six Success Factors in order to support a more effective and holistic approach to providing students with a valuable experience in their metamajors.
Explore what metamajors would look like if students were experiencing the Six Success Factors as they Imagine, Connect, and Practice.

Workshop 3: Aligning Course Learning Outcomes to Occupations

Thursday, May 20, 2021 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Presented by JobSpeaker
Presenter: Jarlath O’Carroll

View the end-to-end technical support structure that will help students see their pathway through education into jobs and a career. The technical support provides a front-facing view into the metamajors but also provides on-going engagement of a skills pathway that ensures students see the benefits of their work.
See how the technical support helps students stay on the path, collect essential skills, find work-based learning opportunities, and understand how their path leads into employment.

Webinars/Workshops

2021 Webinars/Workshops

Emerging Practices and Resources to Support ESL Placement and Throughput: Innovations and Practices, November 2021 (Recording)
Webinar highlighting innovations and practices from a few community colleges designed to support English language learners in the California Community College system.
Emerging Practices and Resources to Support ESL Placement and Throughput: Guided Self-Placement, October 2021 (Recording)
Webinar showcasing examples of GSP models used at different colleges and highlight relevant research around effective GSP practices.
Keeping Students on Their Transfer Path during the Pandemic and Beyond, October 2021 (Recording)
Webinar featuring a panel of students and transfer practitioners sharing their pandemic-related transfer experiences. Hear about ways students could advocate for themselves and how colleges can take action to support students with transfer, during the pandemic and beyond.
Keeping Students on Their Transfer Path during the Pandemic and Beyond, October 2021 (PPT)
Slides from webinar featuring a panel of students and transfer practitioners sharing their pandemic-related transfer experiences. Hear about ways students could advocate for themselves and how colleges can take action to support students with transfer, during the pandemic and beyond.
How Does Algebra 2 Affect Math Throughput?, September 2021 (Recording)
Webinar recording reviewing the evidence and recommendations from a new Multiple Measures Assessment Project (MMAP) research paper that explores the impact Algebra 2 completion has on transferable, college-level math throughput for students in STEM or SLAM pathways.
How Does Algebra 2 Affect Math Throughput?, September 2021 (PPT)
Slides from webinar reviewing the evidence and recommendations from a new Multiple Measures Assessment Project (MMAP) research paper that explores the impact Algebra 2 completion has on transferable, college-level math throughput for students in STEM or SLAM pathways.
Fun with Maps! Practical GIS Tools for Institutional Effectiveness, August 2021
Webinar archive from August 18th, 2021 covering GIS tools and resources that can be used to support data-informed decision-making related to educational access, basic needs, equity, and strategic enrollment management. Tim Smith of Long Beach City College and Karen Snow of Calbright College share methods, planning considerations, and resources to support institutional effectiveness.

2020 Webinars/Workshops

2020 RP Group Institutional Effectiveness Project of the Year Award
Video presenting Coastline College’s Aeron Zentner with the RP Group’s 2020 Institutional Effectiveness Project of the Year Award.
2020 RP Group Research and Evaluation Project of the Year Award
Video presenting De Anza College’s Mallory Newell, Jerry Rosenberg, and Ola Sabawi with the RP Group’s 2020 Research and Evaluation Project of the Year Award.
Predictive Modeling to Improve Student Outcomes, October 2020
Webinar by the Orange Coast College highlighting lessons learned and outcomes associated with a 3-phase predictive analytics project to improve enrollment.
CCC Data Warehouse Utilities for Researchers, September 2020
Webinar by the CCC Technology Center of CCC Data, a part of the Data Services Program initiative from the CCCCO covering CCC data platforms, data resources and report options, and ways to connect with the Data Warehouse.
Focus on Equity: Scaling DI Calculations for Rapid Dashboard Development, September 2020
Webinar showing the 'DisImpact' package in R that helps scale DI calculations across many different levels of disaggregation, outcomes, cohorts, and scenarios, with just a few lines of R code.
Where the Six Success Factors and Affective Strategies Meet to Support Online Learning, August 2020
Webinar providing new ways to engage and support students in an online environment through affective non-cognitive approaches, strategies, and practices guided by our Six Success Factors.
Dr. Cooper Presents in ACTLA's Digital Dialogues on Student Support (Re)defined, May 2020
Webinar in part of the Digital Dialogue Series with Dr. Cooper speaking on the important role tutoring and learning assistance has on building virtual partnerships with students and communities online.
Focus on Equity: Identifying Disproportionate Impact Using Excel, June 2020
Webinar featuring an excel tool to identify disproportionate impact and a demonstration of the tool for examining various student outcomes data.
Students Speak Their Truth about Transfer, May 2020
Webinar featuring students, a transfer director, and their respective experiences around transfer as they relate to transfer study findings. Plus, get a useful overview of Starfish and Canvas shell to help students close to the transfer gate.
PIER to PIER: All About Canvas, April 2020
Watch and listen to this speaker/host-only version of an April PIER to PIER meeting discussing and demonstrating data uses and implications around Canvas.
IRPE Community and Member Engagement Meeting, April 2020
Watch and listen to the 2020 April 16th recorded webinar.
Show me the numbers. How are colleges collecting and using data on LGBTQ+ students?, January 2020
Watch and listen to the 2020 January 31st recorded webinar.

2019 Webinars/Workshops

Institutional Practices to Increase Student-Centered Formula Performance Outcomes. December 2019 (PPT)
View the PowerPoint to the 2019 March 25th recorded webinar.
Institutional Practices to Increase Student-Centered Formula Performance Outcomes, December 2019 (Recording)
Watch and listen to the 2019 December 9th recorded webinar.
Collecting Student Voices: Presented by AIR & The RP Group, March 2019
Watch and listen to the 2019 March 25th recorded webinar.

Resources to Support Equitable Placement Implementation

A Qualitative Exploration of AB 705, February 2021
Webinar sharing the results of interviews with 14 colleges statewide on their implementation of AB 705.
MMAP: Supporting DSPS Students in Transfer-Level English and Math, May 2020
Webinar sharing results from a statewide analysis of transfer-level English and Math for DSPS students by various disability types and how De Anza and Coastline colleges are supporting DSPS students in transfer level courses which are now online.
Corequisite Supports for Math and English, April 2020
Webinar by Pasadena City College, Porterville College, and Allan Hancock College showcasing their corequisite supports and outcomes for transfer-level English, Statistics and B-STEM math courses and how they are transitioning online.
Evaluating AB 705, April 2020
Webinar addressing the requirements of title 5, AB 705, and AB 1805, how to evaluate pre-transfer level curriculum and placement models that deviate from the default placement rules. It also addressed ideas on how to deal with online spring 2020.
AB 705 and ESL, April 2020
Webinar sharing the ESL structures at Irvine Valley College and Laney College and the Guided Self-Placement Models for ESL students at Laney and Cerritos Colleges.
Access, Enrollment and Success: Statewide Results for Transfer-Level English and Math - DSPS Students, November, 2019
Webinar focusing on outcomes of DSPS students in transfer-level English and math courses. We will be joined by Antelope Valley and Los Medanos Colleges to share how they are supporting DSPS students as well as the CCCO to answer your questions.
Analysis, Evaluation, and Collaboration: AB 705 for Institutional Research Professionals, November 2019
Webinar helping IRPE professionals support and evaluate local AB 705 implementation.
ESL and AB 705: Research and Implementation, October 2019
Webinar sharing examples from Cuyamaca College’s ESL department and research pertaining to statewide ESL student journey types.
Access, Enrollment and Success in Transfer-Level English and Math Courses in the California Community Colleges, September 2019
Webinar presenting the results from the statewide analysis of transfer-level English and math courses between fall 2015 and fall 2018.

Note: Slides 11 & 12 in the audio recording have been updated. Please refer to the PowerPoint.
AB 705 In Action! Experiences of Early Implementers, September 2019
Webinar sharing examples from the English and Math departments at Citrus College and College of the Redwoods on their work adapting to AB 705 changes a year in advance of compliance.
Developing an AB 705 Evaluation Plan, November 2018
Webinar discussing how to develop an evaluation and/or research plan to track and monitor student placement and throughput under AB 705.
AB 705 Adjustments, Ethnicity, Gender and Special Populations, October 2018
Webinar sharing the default placement rules disaggregated by various student populations. Examples were shared on how various colleges are supporting special populations to help them succeed in transfer-level courses.
Evaluating Innovative Curriculum Under AB 705, October 2018
Webinar providing a method for proposing and evaluating corequisite and two-semester developmental innovations. The process and methods covered will provide clarity regarding how colleges are coming into compliance with AB 705 and AB 1805.
Adapting MMAP to AB 705 - Full Post Conference Workshop Video, July 2018
Slides of the full post-conference workshop on AB 705 in.
AB 705, ESL and English Composition, August 2018
Joint webinar by RP Group and CATESOL sharing AB 705, ESL, and English Composition.

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