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Spearheaded by John Squires (who has since moved to Chattanooga State Community College), this page outlines the redesign, looking at impact on students, cost savings, lessons learned, and sustainability. All data as of June 2009.

One poster contributed that his school was working on a redesign of their developmental math program, based loosely on the redesign at Cleveland State. Part of Student Context: Community.

A national leader in the field of civic participation and community change, Everyday Democracy helps people of different backgrounds and views talk and work together to solve problems and create communities that work for everyone.

Mentioned by Jammer in Developing a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto as a potential collaborator to promote public dialogue.

Carrie Glaser; Shae Issaacs; Jon Merrow; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); Learning Matters, etc. New York, NY; Learning Matters, Inc; Alexandria, VA: Distributed by PBS Home Video (2007). Documentary explores the paradoxes of the nation's 1200 community colleges.

Mentioned by L.H. in Developing a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto.

By Gail O. Mellow and Cynthia Heelan (2008) This page is the announcement of the book from LaGuardia Community College and the text/video of Dr. Mellow's lecture for the Robert H. Atwell lecture.

Produced by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Division of Information Technology at LaGuardia Community College, part of The City University of new York. September 2010. Includes profiles of the student body (general and entering students), enrollment profile, and demographics about degrees earned.

Part of the Contextualization discussion, backing up the statistic that, at LaGuardia, more students need developmental math than writing.

By Gerald M. Nosich, published by Pearson 2012 (4th edition). This is the worldcat record, which provides access to earlier/alternate editions, as well as helping to find copies in your local library.

One Jammer noted that he found this book supportive of his interest in building community. See Student Context: Community thread.

By Michael W. Galbraith, and Melanie Jones in Journal of Developmental Education; 30.2 (2006): 20-27. Author's abstract: This article suggests that a balance of the art and science of teaching is essential if the learning and teaching process is to be a meaningful and rewarding educational journey. This notion is explored through a dialogue, held over a 3 year period, with a developmental mathematics instructor at a community college who discovered that technique alone was not sufficient to becoming a good instructor. An unusual situation occurred as a result of the dialogue: Discussion of research-based literature on college teaching and personal experiential reflectivity merged and resulted in an organizing framework for understanding the artistic and mechanic elements of effective instruction. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library. This is a link to the TOC on the National Center for Developmental Education's website.

Part of Phil Taylor's Web Site, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK. This is an excerpt from his book, The Fine Art of Propaganda: A Study of Father Coughlin's Speeches by The Institute for Propaganda Analysis, and published in 1939.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

Movie-making software available through the cloud (e.g. to everyone; free registration required).

One Jammer uses this site with her students; discussed in the Student Context: Community thread.

A project of LaGuardia Community College's Center for Teaching and Learning. Project Quantum Leap (PQL) seeks to develop new lessons and courses that focus on problem-solving and to integrate these into the developmental math curriculum. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.

Mentioned in the Contextualization thread, as an example of a program that allows students to learn within the context of "real world" projects like the environment and climate change.

On Virginia Western Community College website

Liz shared this in Instructional Strategies:Reflection/Meta-cognition

on the California Community Colleges Success Network.

Mentioned in Putting It All Together. Includes guidelines and resources for acceleration in developmental education.

Located at Patrick Henry Community College, the Center emphasizes active learning and cooperative learning.

In Instructional Strategies: Peer Engagement

Professor Forrest Helvie, Norwalk Community College, Independent Reading Project

Author of this project mentioned in Pedagogy Cafe

Published by Capital Community College, Hartford, CT. Various resources to help students learn more about grammar and writing.

Shared in Instructional Strategies: Peer Engagement

Slideshare presentation by Dr. Curtis R. Rogers, Communications Director South Carolina State Library

One of several resource mentioned in Pedagogy Matters Campaign: Strategies and Resources for Action to serve as inspiration to formulate and communicate a message to deepen public understanding of developmental education.

A comprehensive evaluation of Achieving the Dream, a nationwide program designed to boost the academic success of community college students, reveals that overall trends in student outcomes at the first 26 institutions to join the project remained relatively unchanged after five years, even though the colleges adopted a wide range of strategies to improve them.

Learn more about CCBC's Accelerated Learning Project (ALP), including information on their summer institute.

There was a lot of discussion about accelerated learning programs in the Pedagogy Cafe. Michelle Zollars recommended the CCBC ALP summer institute to learn more.

A project of Global Voices Online. Goal is to build a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and online activists.

One of several resource mentioned in Pedagogy Matters Campaign: Strategies and Resources for Action to serve as inspiration to formulate and communicate a message to deepen public understanding of developmental education.

A national public policy initiative to improve developmental studies in postsecondary education.

One of several resource mentioned in Pedagogy Matters Campaign: Strategies and Resources for Action to serve as inspiration to formulate and communicate a message to deepen public understanding of developmental education.