Rooted in ongoing collaboration and reflection, Project Voltron is a multipronged initiative designed to move the needle for all students. The goal is to celebrate our work, unite the sequence, and launch a growth portfolio. In doing so, we continue bringing Letters together and ultimately give our collaborations and evolving ethos a more permanent home to share with students. This is how we go Voltron. Learn more...
The Courses and Programs Committee discussed and approved the ENGL 100 COR on August 25th 2022.
View the minutes attached to the 8 Sept 2022 Agenda: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PzlZ4X9Gilz1-OhfW4TSFQZipwhBMQyz/view?usp=sharing
This draft features content from our current ENGL 100 COR with with links to prior drafts
Visit the doc directly: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qi9D4nCto_ESGjNIiTuXpTytQz5cf-M5yvrFjqFAcSg/edit
This draft offers a first attempt to express the collection of ideas documented below--from Letters workshops to UC/CSU CIDs. This draft was pulled from early versions of our collaborative draft, the next version of which is shared above.
Visits the doc directly: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G8cz9d6Z02eiA6FCu3AseRAT_IL0OoboXC5LZatLHkA/edit?usp=sharing
The C-ID Course Descriptors are a list of required elements for English 100 assembled by CSU, UC, and Community College professors working in collaboration.
For a course to qualify for articulation, it must have at least these basic elements.
In other words, this is what we "must" do.
Visit the official site: https://c-id.net/descriptors/final/show/308
This doc attempts to distill all of the topics, ideas, values, objectives, skills, and overall themes shared throughout the content gathered and developed in this project.
This doc should be updated and used in juxtaposition with the current draft of the ENGL 100 COR as we continue to revise and finalize the course outline.
In other words, this is what we "can" do.
These notes from the Mid-semester meeting consider elements of our current ENGL 100 COR that set objectives and guide assessments. These notes respond to 3 framing perspectives:
Failure and Cultural Wealth: Gladwell's "The Art of Failure" and "A Framework for Understanding Latino/a Cultural Wealth"
Culturally Sustained Pedagogy by Django Paris
Labor - Based Grading Contracts by Asao Inoue, the introduction (pp. 3-19) chapter 2 (pp. 68-76).
Ideas collected from our English 100 Build-a-COR workshop at the end of the spring 2019 semester.
Description of ENGL 100 collected from our English 100 Build-a-COR workshop at the end of the spring 2019 semester.
These notes from the Spring 2019 Letters Retreat explore an emerging Letters ethos as well as models of instruction and assignments that promote writing and reading skills in the ENGL 100 classroom.
A collection of assignments that rely on contemplative practices shared during the Fall 2019 Letters Retreat with Full Time Faculty.
Ideas collected from our Hash-tag that Text workshop at the beginning of the fall 2019 semester.