High+Impact+Practices

The 10 High-Impact Educational Practices: []

UPCOMING **HIPs Webinar** (System-wide). It is free and only an hour. Ken O'Donnell and I will be doing some final planning tomorrow and I will forward any useful information to consider prior. Meeting link: @https://csuelm.calstate.edu/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1265232154261 **No need for a password; I do think using your Saclink email will make getting on easier, though. **
 * High Impact Practices discussion -- Wednesday, March 9th from 11a-12p.**

At this webinar, Ken made an announcement about an ITL Director Search: 

**High Impact Practices: Evidence of value, uses, resources (Project 3) ** ** High-Impact Practices: ** Here's an example of the effectiveness of a First-Year Learning Community! The note below is from the prof (Beth Strasser) who teaches Physical Anthropology (LC with First-Year Seminar):

Hey Vanessa, Just wanted to share how your students did compared to those in the section they were embedded in (coupled with) as well as the other section. Clearly, once again, your students out-performed the others – congrats!!!!!
 * ||  ||   ||   || Exam 3 || Final Grade ||
 * Section coupled with: || Mean || 78 || 77 ||  ||
 * ||  || Median || 78 || 79 ||   ||
 * Freshmen Seminar: || Mean || 80 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">82 ||  ||
 * ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Median || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">83 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">82 ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Independent section: || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Mean || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">80 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">79 ||  ||
 * ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Median || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">80 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">79 ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Project #3 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Review the literature on high-impact teaching practices. Identify specific strategies to be implemented into a selected course. Have a conversation with a fellow FLC member about the rationale for selected teaching practices and specific ways to implement these practices. Share the conversation with the FLC group and explain how the process helped transform their thinking about teaching. (Related to goal #3)
 * ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Median || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">80 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">79 ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Project #3 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Review the literature on high-impact teaching practices. Identify specific strategies to be implemented into a selected course. Have a conversation with a fellow FLC member about the rationale for selected teaching practices and specific ways to implement these practices. Share the conversation with the FLC group and explain how the process helped transform their thinking about teaching. (Related to goal #3)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Project #3 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Review the literature on high-impact teaching practices. Identify specific strategies to be implemented into a selected course. Have a conversation with a fellow FLC member about the rationale for selected teaching practices and specific ways to implement these practices. Share the conversation with the FLC group and explain how the process helped transform their thinking about teaching. (Related to goal #3)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I just presented a paper about service learning and literature at the Modern Language Association Convention in Los Angeles two weeks ago. Here's a link about our panel: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">__ [] __

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I am working with an English Professor on the following project. I'd like to share our conversation through Roberta Rosenberg's letter to the MLA editor:

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">During the last MLA convention, I [Roberta] and 5 other professors participated in a special session on teaching literature through service learning and civic engagement. We did a roundtable with 4 presenters from universities around the country. Alice Villasenor (USC) and professors from Stony Brook, UCLA and other schools presented the latest pedagogy and theory for teaching literature through service learning. The session's presentations were met with both enthusiasm and a desire on the part of the audience members to continue the discussion.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">There are a few essays on this subject, one by Laurie Grobman in the 2005 Professions and one on poetry in the 2010 Professions. Although the academe has adopted service learning as a tested and true pedagogy (recently AACU did sessions on "High Impact Roles for Faculty"), literature professors have come quite late to the subject and, as a result, there are few available books. The only current one that I have found is Susan Danielson and Ann Marie Fallon's edited collection //Community Based Learning and the Work of Literature (2007).//.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Aside from the Danielson and Fallon text, most of the material that is available is often quite rudimentary and written more for K-12 teachers. It tends to be heavy on social action/service and light on the pedagogy and complexity.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Our MLA session has created an email discussion list with the sole purpose of (1) proposing a permanent discussion group on service learning and literature and (2) creating an Options for Teaching Literature through Service Learning and Civic Engagement.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Do you think that MLA might be open to such a proposal? If so, I and several other professors from across the country would be interested in creating such a volume.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you very much for your advice.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Best wishes, <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Roberta Rosenberg <span style="color: #888888; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Professor of English <span style="color: #888888; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Director, Center for Service Learning & Social Entrepreneurship <span style="color: #888888; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Christopher Newport University __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[|http://service.cnu.edu] __

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;">- Interesting articles/books on service learning and literature: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;">1. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Gregory Jay, "Service Learning, Multiculturalism and the Pedagogies of Difference" //Pedagogy// 2008 <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">2. Laurie Grobman, "Is there a Place for Service Learning in Literary Studies," //Professions// 2005. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;">3. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Leslie Wheeler, "On Capstones, Service Learning & Poetry," and Sidonie Smith "The English Major as Social Action" //Professions// 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 115%;">4. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Susan Danielson & Ann Marie Fallon editors, //Community Based Learning and the Work of Literature// (2007)