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Washington Center Collaborative Newsletter
November 2020
Welcome to the Washington Center Collaborative!
The Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education is launching a new
initiative to convene critical conversations about matters of importance. The
Collaborative features monthly newsletters, virtual gatherings, and a Slack
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for asynchronous conversation.
A conversation that matters: How can political science help us understand the
results and implications of the 2020 Elections?
facilitated by Carlos Huerta, Political Science faculty at Texas A&M
University-Corpus Christi
DATE: Monday, November 16, 2020
TIME: 12:00 pm PST | 1:00 pm MST | 2:00 pm CST | 3:00 pm EST
LOCATION: RSVP for Zoom link
In this conversation, we will discuss explanations for why individuals choose
to vote and how they make their vote choices. Dr. Huerta will provide an
analysis of the 2020 election results and implications for governing and
democracy.
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Future Conversation Topics
* COVID & Equity: How is the pandemic impacting students? (Dec 11)
Jeannette Smith, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Engagement and Julia
Metzker, Director of the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate
Education at Evergreen State College
* Trauma-informed Practice (Jan TBD)
Tara Hardy, Poet and Member of the Faculty, Evergreen State College
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Practicing Equity
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In our continued quest to support the academic success of all students, each
edition of the newsletter will feature an equity-focused practice or strategy
that can be used to support our work in the classroom or with our colleagues.
We invite our readers to consider submitting short features for this section of
our newsletter by sending an email to
washcenter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:washcenter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Practicing%20Equity>.
Wise and effective feedback helps students learn
Consider a moment when you’ve received feedback recently. Perhaps, it came
through a peer review or student evaluation. When were you able to “hear” the
comments, and when did you react defensively and shut down? When did feedback
motivate you to improve? How might you provide feedback that motivates students
to learn?
Feedback is a form of formative assessment that reinforces students’
understanding of excellent work and helps close the gap between where they are
and where you want them to be. Yet, as Hattie and Timperley (2007) have shown,
not all feedback is equal. General statements such as, “This is a good essay. I
really liked the introduction,” or “Don’t jump to conclusions,” evaluate rather
than educate. Such statements communicate an assessment of quality but they
don’t provide information about what was done well or how to improve.
Similarly, editing student work or providing the correct answer isn't useful
feedback because it short circuits the learning process. The student didn’t do
the work - you did.
Wise feedback conveys high expectations and confidence that the learner can
meet those expectations. Wise feedback fosters learning because it alerts the
students in time for them to modify their behaviors or actions. Effective
feedback provides learners with the information they can action by illustrating
how they’ve succeeded and where they need to focus their energies to increase
the quality or depth of their learning. Providing feedback that is both wise
and effective can be a challenge. The three Ps provide a strategy you can
employ to consistently provide high-quality feedback.
Process: How did the student complete the task? How effective was their
approach?
Product: How well does the product demonstrate what the student has learned?
Progress: What skills and knowledge has the student gained? What can they do to
continue progressing towards the learning goal?
Different learners will require more or less directedness in the feedback for
them to find it helpful. To learn what students most need, provide each learner
with one or two comments on one of the 3Ps. Observe who uses the feedback and
what specific feedback leads to changes. With practice, you can begin to
differentiate for diverse learners by varying the amount, type, and specificity
of the feedback as you learn what individuals need.
Hattie, J., & Timperley, H. (2007). The power of feedback. Review of
Educational Research, 77(1), 81–112.
[This inclusive teaching tip was adapted from Learning That Matters: A Field
Guide to Course Design for Transformative Education by Caralyn Zehnder, Cynthia
Alby, Karynne Kleine, and Julia Metzker (available December 2020).]
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Washington Center Events
For over 20 years the Washington Center has been honored to host a National
summer institute, as well as several regional events. The pandemic has brought
changes to all of our lives, and the Washington Center is no different. We are
reimagining how we can continue to offer high-touch, tailored events where
teams can make progress on issues that matter on their campuses. If you are
interested in attending one of our events, please send an inquiry to
washcenter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:washcenter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Washington%20Center%20Events>.
Learning Community Summit
On October 23-24, the Learning Community Association, the National Learning
Community Conference Committee and the Washington Center hosted a dynamic
virtual Learning Committee Summit with a keynote by Larry Roper, Professor of
Language, Culture and Society at Oregon State University. This virtual event,
attended by more than 200 people, generated many critical conversations. You
can watch recordings of the sessions and join the conversation on our Slack
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Reports from the Field
Call for Stories of Change
Over the last 20 years, we have hosted teams from over 500 campuses who have
come to Olympia to do their own reimagining by designing change initiatives
that better serve and support students. We invite campus teams to share brief
“reports from the field” that will be featured in the monthly newsletter. If
you have a story to share, please contact us by email at
washcenter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:washcenter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Reports%20from%20the%20Field%20>.
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Learning Community Research and Practice
Volume 8, Issue I | Special Issue: Living-Learning Communities
Guest editors Mimi Benjamin, Jody Jessup-Anger, Shannon Lundeen, and Cara Lucia
The current issue of the journal explores residential learning communities
through a combination of research and practices from the field manuscripts.
Residential learning communities or living-learning communities afford
integration of and collaboration between academic affairs and student affairs.
The articles in this special issue address unique elements and experiences in
residential learning community programs.
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This special issue will explore the ways in which learning community programs
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social isolation. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts that share
lessons learned and describe the creative responses they used to sustain
learning community programs in remote learning environments.
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We are for the academic success of all students. Ultimately, the measures of
our success are improvements in students’ persistence, achievement, and
graduation rates—particularly students who are the first in their families to
go to college and those from groups historically under‐served in higher
education. As a high impact strategy, learning communities offer a powerful
learning environment for students at key points in their educational pathways,
and implementing successful learning community programs in an intentional way
helps to build institutional capacity for transformation.
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