Essential Skills Committee

The next Essential Skills committee meeting will take place on Tuesday, January 24th at 2:30pm in the Teaching Learning Center (TLC 203).

Los Angeles Harbor College Essential Skills Sub-Committee

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 (2:30pm)

Teaching & Learning Center (LRC 203)

1. 1.      Welcome& Intro’s 

1. 2.      Essential Skills Activities Updates
   1. a.       FTLA
   2. b.      Reading Apprenticeship Winter Conference (February 1-2): Shazia Khan &Daryle Nagano-Krier

1. 3.      Essential Skills Pathway Update
   1. a.       Research request submitted
   2. b.      Dev Com 037Z 

1. 4.      Updates from the Learning Assistance Center (Sally Fasteau) 

1. 5.      Updates from the TLC Facilitators (Anjie) 

1. 6.      Achieving the Dream Update (LeigeDoffoney) 

1. 7.      Flex Updates: Workshops during the week of January 30^th
   1. a.       Literacy Center Open House: (time and day TBA)
   2. b.      Reading Apprenticeship workshop and Faculty Inquiry Group: (time and day TBA)
   3. c.       Webinar: Increasing Retention & Persistence of First-Year Minority Male Students (Thursday, February 2^nd, 10am-11:30am; SSA 219) 

1. 8.      Assistance for SLO #1 (writing) grading needed: January 25, 2012
   1. a.       Full-time faculty receive flex credit
   2. b.      Part-time faculty receive $150.00 

1. 9.      Student Success Initiative (SSI) Meetings 

1. 10.  Upcoming Essential Skills Meetings: every third Monday of each month

• February 13^th or 27^th @3:00pm (choose one)
• March 19^th @ 2:30pm
• April 16^th @ 2:30pm
• May 21^st @ 2:30pm
• June 18^th @2:30pm