Supporting Dual Enrollment Instructors & Counselors

This page provides resources to support counselors working with dual enrollment students and educators sourced from both the high school and community college who teach dual enrollment courses. 

Counselors

• Activating Networks for Equitable Counseling (CLP October 2022)  A CLP project focusing on  student-centered, equity-minded approaches to counseling. 

  •  Equity-grounded Counseling: Serving Black Students (Webinar)

  • Counselor Conversations: Strengthening Our Practice with Equity in Mind (Webinar)

  • Lessons from the Pandemic: Implementing Systemic Changes in Counseling and Student Services (Webinar)

• Developing a Comprehensive Advising Model:  From Start to Finish: A counseling framework and timeline developed by Karina Smith at Boise State for her dual enrollment students. Presented to the dual enrollment exchange on December 3rd, 2021. Access the full presentation recording on the Dual Enrollment Exchange Spotlight page. 

• SAUSD A-G Crosswalk: Supports dual enrollment program by documenting the alignment of high school and college courses to ensure equitable transcription on the high school transcript. 

• Counselor Conference Examples:

  • IEDRC Counselor Conclave website (flyer attached)

  • 7th Annual SDICCC Counselor Conference 2022 (website) (Flyer)

Instructors

Recorded Trainings

• BACCC|SDIRC|IEDRC Dual Enrollment Instructor Community of Practice 2024-2025 COP for dual enrollment instructors sourced from high schools and community colleges. Resources  and recordings from quarterly meetings. 

• Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Dual Enrollment  (Presentation)  (BACCC Professional Development) Often in dual enrollment programs, college teachers are working with high school students for the first time and may not know how to best work with this population. One way to engage all students is culturally responsive teaching, or using cultural knowledge and prior experiences so content is relevant to students. This curriculum provides an overview of what is culturally responsive teaching, why it matters, and how to reflect on existing curriculum to make sure instruction is teaching to and through the strength of students. Curriculum written by previous high school CTE/Science teacher and DE instructor Amal Amanda Issa. 

• Adolescents Brain Development (CLP Professional Development) 

• Pedagogy and Classroom Management 101  (CLP Professional Development) 

  • Pedagogy and Classroom Management 101 (Video)

  • Pedagogy and Classroom Management 101 (Slides)

  • Pedagogy and Classroom Management 101 (Information Sheet)

• CCAP Dual Enrollment Teaching Model FAQ: This FAQ provides information about the common teaching models leveraged by dual enrollment programs (co-teaching, college instructor, high school instructor who meets minimum qualifications). 

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources can be used to reduce the textbook costs associated with dual enrollment programs. 

• Open Educational Resources + Dual Enrollment (LA Orange County Regional Consortium): Highlight on best practices and California examples. 

• ASCCC OERI Canvas Site: Learn about Open Educational Resources that reduce the cost of textbooks for students... an important question in any dual enrollment program!

• OER in Dual Enrollment: Leveraging Open Educational Resources to Expand Equitable Access (Midwest Higher Education Compact & SREB) Provides national context to make the argument for the adoption for OER. 

• Sources of OER Content: 

  • Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI): Open Educational Resources by Discipline, ASCCC OERI has worked with the ASCCC OERI Discipline Leads to provide the curated lists of resources 

  • MERLOT: The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of peer reviewed, discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material. Membership is free. 

  • LibreTexts: The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.

  • OpenStax: Source for high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print. 

  • The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM): Searches well-known OER repositories like OpenStax, OER Commons, MERLOT but also sites like HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive and NYPL Digital Collections where valuable but often overlooked open educational materials may be found.

• Find additional OER resources under the Highlighting Best Practices section of this website. 

Training Programs

• CalState LA Teaching Dual Enrollment Students (Training) 20 hours of online training, earn two (2) continuing education units

CTE Teacher Training Resources

• CTE Teach: In partnership with the California Department of Education, CTE TEACH supports the unique needs of new Career Technical Education (CTE) teachers transitioning from industry into the classroom as well as seasoned CTE teachers.