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Back-to-School All Staff Lunch and Meeting

fmwentworth — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:46:45 +0000

Welcome back to the fall semester of 2008. There will be an all staff lunch from 12:00-1:00 and a meeting from 1:00-4:00 PM. Our project will be to review and revise our WASC Self-Study report.

Two Commissioner Positions on WASC Open

ccsfaspres — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:00:44 +0000

The Western Association of Schools and Colleges Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (the body which accredits CCSF) is soliciting applications for two commissioners from the public. Applicants for the positions may not be:

1) An employee, member of the governing board, owner, or shareholder of, or consutant to, an institution or program that either is accredited or pre-accredited by the agency or has applied for accreditation or pre-accreditation;
2) A member of any trade association or membership organization related to, affilitated with, or associated with the agency; or
3) A spouse, parent, child, or sibling of an individual identified in (1) or (2) of this definition.

Applications are available in the Senate office (Conlan 202). More information about accreditation is available at http://www.accjc.org/index.htm.

WASC Leadership Team meeting

fmwentworth — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:37:40 +0000

The WASC leadership team met on July 2 to share progress on sections of the WASC report and to plan for the fall. The next meeting will be in the fall after school starts.

Meetings with Serramonte support, ESL and ASE staff.

fmwentworth — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:09:05 +0000

Summer school classes are ending this week. The Director met with support staff, ESL teachers at the main site and ASE staff to discuss fall planning.

WASC Leadership Team Meeting

fmwentworth — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:48:43 +0000

The WASC Leadership Team met today to assess progress on the WASC report and discuss plans for finishing writing of the rough drafts. The group met at the Doelger Senior Center in order to become more familiar with programs held at this community location. The Leaderhip Team will meet again on July 2, 2008 to review final rough drafts. At the back-to-school meeting on August 18, 2008, all staff will have the opportunity to discuss and contribute to what has been written.

WASC Leadership Team Meeting

fmwentworth — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:03:41 +0000

Our WASC Leadership Team met today, May 22, 2008, and everyone has done a lot of good work. I feel privileged to be able to work with such good and dedicated people. As our work continues on WASC we will be posting information here. If you have any comments please post them here.

WASC Student Survey

fmwentworth — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:54:37 +0000

The WASC student survey is up on our website. Just click on this link to have a look at it: http://www.quia.com/sv/188699.html Students can access it easily by going to our ESL Resource page/General Information. The link is at the bottom of the General Information page.

370 Mbps avec des DNS malades

zwan — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:43:25 +0000

A la faveur de la nuit du web, cette soirée de récompense des meilleurs sites, qui clôture la SNI, on a pu apprendre qjue le Burkina dispose désormais d'un backbone international de 370 Mbps, le luxe comparé aux 4 Mbps de 2002!

Il n'a pas été précisé si cette indication représente le débit en download ou en upload ou encore un débit symétrique, mais soyons raisonnable penchons plutôt pour le premier, C'est tout de même une (r)évolution pour le Burkina numérique.

Mais comment comprendre alors les ruptures de connexion auxquels on est si souvent confronté?

D'après ce que j'ai pu constater, ce sont les serveurs DNS de l'ONATEL qui causent généralement les dégâts, ils lâchent à tout moment, il faut réellement se pencher sur la formation des administrateurs réseaux et revoir les capacités de ces deux serveurs qui nous sèvrent des heures durant. On a malheureusement pas les mêmes capacités que les chinois pour retenir des chiffres: il serait en effet, plus facile pour les chinois de mémoriser des chiffres que les mots à base de l'alphabet latin!

Pour ma part, j'utilise pour pallier a ce problème des DNS externes assez fiables: ceux de OpenDNS
Ces serveurs de noms libres d'accès vous permettent en effet de résoudre les noms de domaines à partir de n'importe où dans le monde (sauf peut être en Chine et en Arabie saoudite... ).

J'ai cependant eu du mal à accéder à certains sites du domaine bf. en utilisant exclusivement OpenDNS!
Néanmoins, ça vaut le coup d'essayer, mieux vaut être couper de quelques sites que de ne pas pouvoir accèder à internet du tout.

Pour aller plus loin, il existe aussi l'OpenNIC (www.opennicproject.org ou www.opennic.glue), un registrar non-officiel doté de DNS qui vous permettront d'agrandir votre espace web avec des sites en .geek, .grep, .glue, .oss, .null,...
Bien sûr que ça existe! N'hésitez à y faire un tour! Car sait-on jamais, www.zwan.geek, c'est toujours possible!

Tchuss!

WASC midterm visit

facespace — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:12:17 +0000

Thank you for making the midterm visit a great success. Our visiting team expressed their appreciation for the opportunity to observe and obtain answers to their questions. Although they did not have time to visit every classroom, they got a good snapshot to demonstrate progress on our action plans.

While feedback on our progress was positive, the following two areas require special attention:

ongoing development of schoolwide professional development plan
ongoing refinement of assessment strategies to document achievement of ESLRs

There were no new areas identified for improvement.

ESL Staff Meetings Thursday April 24

Yelena Zimon — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:21:05 +0000

Both day time and evening ESL teams accomplished a lot at the ESL staff meetings yesterday. The level group writing tutorials provided by the Writing Committee were well received by the teachers. The important thing is to use the materials developed by the Committee creatively. You are free to adapt activities to your particular class and to other picture prompts you want your students to write about. We hope that all instructors will be able to implement the Banking activity in their classes and we would like to receive your feedback by Thursday May 8. You can leave a comment to this posting and/or send an email to your tutor. We will also share our experiences at the staff meetings on May 8. After the last CASAS testing of the year (week of May 19), we will implement a writing assessment based on one of the CASAS picture prompts.

Thank you for adopting books from the Resource Center. Please make sure to pick up your boxes from Room 18. We had a night student book sale fundraiser yesterday night - 2 books for $1 - and raised $61.50! We are going to have a book sale for the daytime students in Room 31 (sewing classroom) on Monday 10:30-10:45 and 12:15- 1:00. I will recruit volunteers from my class to supervise the sale.
Just a reminder - Monday April 28 is the date of our mid-term WASC review. Please welcome Nancy George and Kara Rosenberg to our campus.
Another reminder - please send 2 student reps from your class to the ESL tudents Leadership teams meetings this week. Day time students will meet on Tuesday April 29 in Room 1 12:15-12:45; I will be expecting evening students in Room 21at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday April 30.
Summer school assignments are coming out next week.

WASC Schoolwide Action Plan

facespace — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:52:55 +0000

Here are our updated action plans for your reference. This is also a "living" document that requires ongoing revision and additions.

Schoolwide Action Plan

WASC Midterm Progress Report is ready for your review

facespace — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:38:01 +0000

Here is a copy of our midterm progress report. Please review and share your comments.

ESL STAFF MEETINGS APRIL 3, 2008

Yelena Zimon — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:19:39 +0000

The main focus of both morning and evening ESL staff meetings yesterday was on the Writing Across the Curriculum materials, including rubrics and worksheets. There were some valuable suggestions on the rubrics, as well as on the WASC report. We approved the rubrics as a working document. Teachers decided to implement the rubrics at each level. The recommended materials from Focus on Grammar were well received and teachers will use them in the writing lessons. More materials are on display in the Resource Center. You are welcome to use the ones appropriate to your level. The Writing Committee will continue to develop pre-assessment worksheets and writing assessments for each level.

WASC Visiting Committee Scheduled for Midterm Visit

facespace — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:29:58 +0000

Expected Schoolwide Learning Results

Two members from our Visiting Committee for our last Self-Study and full accreditation term visit will be returning to FACE. Nancy George, Visiting Committee Chair, and Kara Rosenberg, Visiting Committee Member, are scheduled to visit our campus on Monday, April 28. This one-day midterm visit is a routine follow-up for our full six-year term of accreditation awarded in 2005. The Visiting Committee will review a copy of our report, which presents a brief overview of our school, student achievement, and progress on our action plans. A copy of this report will be posted here soon.

Accrediting Commission for Schools

You know what annoys me?

theawkwardgirl — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:37:38 +0000

People who try to do everything.

Reading ___'s Xanga annoys me because she's trying to pursue a Biochem/Bioengineering/Pre-med and Int'l Rel/Pre-law double major. Nice girl, she is. But who in their right mind would pursue both of those things. Let's be realistic here. Is she really going to become a lawyer and bioengineer? Seriously, calm the fuck down and stop trying to be an overachiever. Stupid Monta Vista.

On a slightly less bitchy note, we have late start tomorrow because of WASC accreditation. Hooray.

This Friday is the Quinlan Dance. I want to go out of curiosity and boredom. Planning to wear that purple shirt I bought in New York (if I can get it through laundry quickly enough).

And in conclusion, I just can't wait to go to college, damn it.