1. Foundations Inquiry Team

2. Fall 2017 Goals
To inform use of affective domain in student learning outcomes, curriculum, teaching, professional development, & assessment in “foundations” courses in a variety disciplines.
Ensure that students demonstrate the skills, beliefs, and behaviors that lead to student success.

3. Accomplishments
Outlined a list of 6 areas of “best practices” to inform use of affective domain (cross disciplinary).
This stuff is juicy!
to inform use of affective domain in student learning outcomes, curriculum, teaching, professional development & assessment in “foundations” courses in a variety disciplines.

4. Accomplishments
Requested, received, & analyzed PRIE data with regards to the foundational classes (first 30 units students experience at the college).  
Identified possible “foundations” classes:
ENGL 100/105/100
MATH 120/200
COMM 110
HIST 201
BIO 130
ECON 100
ESOL 400
BUS 100
PSYC 100
(at this time this list may not be complete)

5. Accomplishments We have clear goals for Spring 2018:
Taking into account the our list of best practices and PRIE data -> Spring work with the goal of piloting a “Foundations CoP” in Fall 2018.
Coming back to this. Hold your horses for our “Moving Forward” slides.

6. Lots of ongoing projects & many work teams -> folks are busy!
Challenges
Finding available faculty and staff  
Sometimes intermittent attendance by those who could commit
Lots of ongoing projects & many work teams -> folks are busy!

7. Successes
We had many.
Yeah!

8. We had a committed team. Chris Gibson, English/Language Arts
Mary Gutierrez, Language Arts
Michele Haggar, Career Services
David Hasson, Math
Karah Parks, ESOL
Bianca Rowden-Quince, CTTL
Erinn Struss, ESOL
Phillip Williams, Math

9. Successes
Remained on track with regards to our overall goals and timeline.  
We did this by:
Setting clear goals
Establishing and communicating meeting times and dates (at the first meeting)
Starting each meeting with a clear objective
Dividing tasks & having timelines
Proactively seeking team members  
Creating an online house for all team members to access (a shared Google folder)
Starting with true inquiry
(We were researching what was already known about affective domain and used this as a foundation for our list of best practices

10. Moving Forward (Longer Term)
We would like to run a pilot:
When: Fall 2018
Who: Instructors teaching the “foundations” courses (ENGL 100/110/105, MATH 120/200, COMM 110, HIST 201, BIO 130, ECON 100, ESOL 400, BUS 100, PSYC 100)
What: 1 semester of reassignment time for curricular redesign & foundations CoP (with possibility of extending CoP another semester)
How: Reassignment time for creating curricula, piloting practices/lesson plans, and meeting with Foundations CoP
Why: Start small and practice what we preach

11. Moving forward (Shorter Term)
We have set a first meeting date for Spring At this meeting we will:
Schedule meeting dates for spring & decide on spring work plan.
In spring, we need to:
Set up parameters for Fall 2018 pilot
& . . .

12. Moving forward We need members from: Communications History Biology
Economics
Business
Psychology
& possibly Counseling!
Lithograph by Steve Thomas

13. Resources We would like: $$ Compensation $$:
Compensation for faculty involved in Foundations Inquiry work meetings in Spring 2018
Budget for pilot project in Fall 2018 (for reassignment time and, if possible, for occasional snacks at meetings)