Individual Accomplishments

Rebecca Martin

I have:

• Added scientist spotlights
• Incorporated critical feedback with assurance for sense of belonging
• Analyzed demographic data from previous 5 years to track changes in student success with modifications
• Developed new curriculum with CUREs and environmental justice themes

Kathleen Perillo

I have:

• Infused many of my assignments with multicontextualism by focusing more on high contextual approaches
• Developed more "sense of place" activities which engage students in local field work in a single location for the entire quarter
• Shared information on how to learn, metacognition and a growth mindset with my students

Michelle Stoklosa

I have:

• Incorporated more metacognitive activities
• Included a "Scientist Spotlight" activity
• Added more local and relevant topics

Next steps: Introducing Bloom's Taxonomy, adding more Scientist Spotlight assignments, adding Critical Feedback with Assurance intervention

Team Accomplishments

Strengthening our Department/Program

Accomplishments/Action Plan:

Our Action Plan goals focused on expanding our geoscience majors. With the lack of personal connection with individual students during remote teaching and what we learned from our outcomes data, we altered our main goal to emphasize developing a sense of belonging and addressing stereotypes and identity in all of our classes to support the success of all students and broaden participation. We have made significant progress with our strategies:

• All team members completed Universal Design Training
• Activities on sense of belonging, metacognition and science identity are incorporated in our classes
• Members of our department have attended our workshops and all will be using critical feedback with assurance in winter term as part of a department assessment project
• Established a relationship with our MESA program
• Polled our classes in Spring 2020 to begin gathering data on potential majors in our program (we learned there is not a clear way to do this with data gathered by the college)

Next Steps:

• Incorporate "Critical Feedback with Assurance" intervention in all courses (Winter 2021)
• Involve our students and department in an outreach Earth Day activity in 2021(partnering with alumni and our Foundation)

Developing our Campus Community

Engaging our Colleagues:

We offered three workshops in a series for our STEM colleagues. Faculty were welcome to attend one or all three. Over these five hours of shared time we covered some of our key themes from our SAGE trainings that we believe help us achieve our goals of student success and equity. We emphasized developing a sense of belonging, using high context strategies, metacognition, and strategies to promote students' science identities.  Workshop sized ranged from 14-25 participants.

Many faculty attended all three workshops and we received excellent feedback.  These faculty committed to using one or more of the strategies we shared for winter quarter.

Next Steps:

• We would like to offer our workshops again, ideally in person. If the entire year is spent online, we may offer the inclusive learning workshop online in the spring.
• Other STEM faculty have now expressed interest in having a monthly "happy hour" to engage in brainstorming and sharing of ideas.

Team Members

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