Professional Development

The MLEA Committee has offered FLEX Day pressentations to support faculty in adapting to the changes brought by AB705 and AB1705. (For more information on the data supporting the laws and Chancellor's office memos and presentations, navigate to the Resources tab at the left.)

• "Meeting Students Where They Are, Post-Pandemic and AB705," Flex Day Spring 2023
• "AB 1705 and Its Impact on English and Math," Flex Day Fall 2022

Each year, the Basic Skills Committee, which was dissolved with the creation of MLEA, allocated some of the BSI funds toward professional development opportunities. The committee supported the following:

• Fall 2015 FLEX: Keynote speaker John Hetts with the RP Group spoke about multiple measures, assessment, placement and acceleration models seen as best practices across the country.
• Spring 2016 FLEX: Mathematics instructors Ken Rand and John Perez from Hartnell College gave instructors innovative ideas to get students more involved in the learning process (in any class) and provided free tools to help with assessment and immediate feedback.
• Spring 2016 FLEX: LPC Business instructor Erick Bell and Sociology instructor Akihiko Hirose conducted a workshop on Cultural Sensitivity.
• Fall 2017 FLEX:
• Summer 2017: Two faculty to attend Great Teachers Institute.

Today, the MLEA is funding projects to support student success in transfer-level English and math with AB1705 funding from the state. If you are interested in designing a project that could use this funding, please attend an MLEA meeting to share your idea.