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		<title>GSCC Continues!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LaGuardia Community College Foundation Receives $1.05M for Global Skills for College Completion Long Island City, NY—January 19, 2012&#8211;LaGuardia Community College Foundation has been awarded a $1,048,143 grant from the Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation to continue the development of Global Skills for College Completion (GSCC). GSCC, a project partnership between LaGuardia Community College and Knowledge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.globalskillscc.org/gscc-continues/</link>
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		<title>Resources From the Pedagogy Matters! Jam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last February, the GSCC Team hosted a National Jam where scores of developmental education faculty from across the country participated in an online discussion on the topic of developmental education pedagogy. For those who may have missed the Jam, or would like to follow up on the results, read the concise wrap up of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.globalskillscc.org/resources-from-the-the-pedagogy-matters-jam/</link>
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		<title>AMATYC honors Bronte Miller with the 2011 Teaching Excellence Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) honors GSCC member Bronte Miller with the 2011 Teaching Excellence Award. Bronte teaches at Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville, Virginia. We warmly congratulate Bronte. &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.globalskillscc.org/amatyc-honors-bronte-miller-with-the-2011-teaching-excellence-award/</link>
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		<title>The GSCC Experience: New Model For Professional Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A survey of GSCC faculty and a follow-up dialog in a Choice Event provided insight into what has been most valuable about their participation in the project and this new model of professional development. Foremost, they find the experience of GSCC to be a highly effective model of professional development. Faculty noted the benefit they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.globalskillscc.org/the-gscc-experience-new-model-for-professional-development/</link>
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		<title>Moneyball and GSCC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw the movie Moneyball, the story of how the use of a new kind of statistical analysis of player performance changed baseball. I was struck by the similarities with GSCC. By looking at the patterns of individual players, within a common framework (getting to first base, etc), they were able to develop and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.globalskillscc.org/moneyball-and-gscc/</link>
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		<title>Appreciative or Strengths-based Coaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Appreciative Inquiry is about searching for the best in people, their organizations and the relevant world around them. In the case of GSCC, it&#8217;s about searching for the best in classroom pedagogy. The GSCC faculty design team incorporates Appreciative or Strengths-based Coaching into their discussions in ePortfolios, Pedagogy Circles and Choice Events. Instead of looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.globalskillscc.org/appreciative-or-strengths-based-coaching/</link>
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		<title>Report on Jam: Turning Around Failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the public policy initiative Getting Past Go hosted a Jam titled Turning Around Failure: System Triage for Severely Under-Prepared Adults in Higher Education. The Jam was a great success; people from across the spectrum and every level added their voices to Turning Around Failure.  In total, the Jam saw over 150 participants from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.globalskillscc.org/report-on-jam-turning-around-failure/</link>
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		<title>Jam on Serving the Most Academically Challenged Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Jam, hosted by Knowledge in the Public Interest, Education Commission of the States and Jobs for the Future, is scheduled to take place on August 4, 2011, 11 a.m. &#8211; 6 p.m EST. It will address: lowest-level learners and defining who is the lowest-level learner; pedagogy and curriculum; institutional strategies; state and federal policies; and taking action [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.globalskillscc.org/jam-on-serving-the-most-academically-challenged-students/</link>
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		<title>Camp PAC,  Semester 4 Kick-Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The GSCC faculty is getting ready for the semester 4 kick-off in Camp PAC (Patterns, Assessment, Community). Camp PAC will consist of a two-day virtual convening that will take place both asynchronously and synchronously on August 2nd and 3rd. In Webinars, faculty will be brought up to date on the grant and on the project&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.globalskillscc.org/camp-pac-semester-4-kick-off/</link>
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		<title>30 Second GSCC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Skills for College Completion is a project which seeks to raise pass rates in Developmental Math and English by asking faculty to look deeply and methodically at what they are doing in the classroom and by tagging their classroom practice with a closed set of themes. We asked faculty two questions: * How has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.globalskillscc.org/30-second-gscc/</link>
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