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Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

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Professional learning communities

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Private Institutions Collaborate In Implementing Senate Bill 1 Initiatives, Linda P. Young, Brenda Priddy, Jan Lantz Jan 2013

Private Institutions Collaborate In Implementing Senate Bill 1 Initiatives, Linda P. Young, Brenda Priddy, Jan Lantz

Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

Funds were made available to each of our institutions, Campbellsville University, Lindsey Wilson College, and St. Catherine College through the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities for faculty training for the implementation of Senate Bill 1. By pooling the funds available to each of our institutions, we designed a Senate Bill 1 Symposium, an initial six-hour workshop to introduce Senate Bill 1, tailored to the needs of our institutions that provided rich resources and a quality experience. From the core of faculty trained at the initial workshop, each institution was able to build additional training for faculty and to …


Reflection On Carte As Eastern Kentucky University’S Response To Senate Bill 1, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, Dorie Combs, Ginni Fair, Jessica Hearn Jan 2013

Reflection On Carte As Eastern Kentucky University’S Response To Senate Bill 1, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, Dorie Combs, Ginni Fair, Jessica Hearn

Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

Using a grant from the Council on Postsecondary Education to respond to specific mandates of Senate Bill 1, Eastern Kentucky University created the Curriculum Alignment for Retention and Transition at Eastern initiative (CARTE). In its first phase, CARTE developed a hybrid professional learning community, an organizational network of embedded professional learning communities whose major task consisted of aligning sixty-four syllabi identified as key University courses in General Education and Teacher Preparation with the Kentucky Common Core Standards, and a chart for insuring deep learning on the part of the faculty. In addition to meeting 100% of our major goal, the …