Faculty Coaches Showcase Focuses on Student Success Data

The Student Success Initiative hosted a Faculty Coaches Showcase May 6 at ACC’s Highland Business Center.

The event highlighted faculty coaches’ work with departmental data on student performance, how that data impacts decision-making, and creative solutions to instructional challenges.

Approximately 50 faculty, staff, and administrators attended the event and had the opportunity to talk with the coaches about departmental initiatives and their work over the past year.

President Kinslow opened the event with an overview of the Student Success Initiative. Five coaches gave presentations: Assistant Professor of Speech Tasha Davis, Professor of Biology

Alice Sessions, Professor of Developmental Reading Mary Leonard, Associate Professor of Developmental Writing Caryn Newburger, and Associate Professor of Philosophy Susan Alvarado.

Faculty coaching is a key part of the Student Success Initiative. Elected by their peers, coaches facilitate efforts to increase the depth and use of student data, to help identify the needs of students and ways to address those needs. The program began fall 2009 with 19 faculty coaches and has grown to include 35 faculty representing 39 instructional areas.

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