• Learning Communities at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)
• Learning Communities National Resource Center at Evergreen State College
• Select Learning Communities Bibliography
• Scholarships for Teaching and Learning
• Faculty Assessment of Teaching and Learning
• News about Teaching and Learning

• Bailey, T., & Alfonso, M. (2005).  Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges.  New Agenda Series, 6 (1). Lumina Foundation for Education.  Retrieved on July 8, 2008, from Teachers College, Columbia University.  Community College Research Center Web site:
  http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/

• Bailey, T. & Morest, V.S. (2006). “The Community College Equity Agenda in the Twenty-First Century: Moving from Access to Achievement.”  In T. Bailey & V.S. Morest (Eds.), Defending the Community College Agenda (pp. 246-267). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

• Bailey, T. (2007, April 9). A cutting edge formula for student success.  Community College Week.

• Bloom, D. & Sommo, C. (2005). “Building Learning Communities: Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration at Kingsborough Community College.” Retrieved on July 8, 2008 from http://www.mdrc.org/publications/410/full.pdf

• Cabrillo College. (2008). Digital bridge academy.  Retrieved on July 8, 2008, from http://cabrillo.edu/academics/wdba/

• Collins, A. et al. (1987). Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the craft of reading, writing and mathematics. Technical Report No. 403. Cambridge: BBN Laboratories.

• Conley, D.T. (2007). “Challenges in the transition from high school to college.” In N. Hoffman, J. Vargas, A. Venezia, & M.S. Miller (Eds.), Minding the Gap (pp. 93-104). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

• Grubb, W.N., et al. (1999). Honored but invisible: An inside look at teaching in community colleges.  New York: Routledge.

• Karp, M.M., Hughes, K.L., & O’Gara, L. (2008). An Exploration of Tinto’s Integration Framework for Community College Students. Working Paper No. 12. Retrieved on August 15, 2008, from Teachers College, Columbia University. Community College Research Center Web site: http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/

• Schwartz, W., & Jenkins, D. (2007). Promising Practices for Community College Developmental Education.  A Discussion Resource for the Connecticut Community College System.  Retrieved on July 2, 2008, from Teachers College, Columbia University. Community College Research Center Web site: http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?uid=551

• Scrivener, S., Bloom, D., LeBlanc, A., Paxson, C., Rouse, C.E., & Sommo, C., et al. (2008, March). A good start: Two-year effects of a freshman learning community program at Kingsborough Community College. MDRC. Retrieved July 8, 2008, from http://www.mdrc.org/publications/473/overview.html

• Upcraft, M.L., Gardner, J.N. & Barefoot, B.O. (2004). Challenging and supporting the first-year student: A handbook for improving the first year of college. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

• Visher, M.G. Wathington, H., Richburg-Hayes, L. & Schneider, E. et al. (2008). The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites and research design. NCPR Working Paper. Retrieved on July 2, 2008, from Teachers College, Columbia University. National Center for Postsecondary Research Web site: http://www.postsecondaryresearch.org/

• Zeidenberg, M., Jenkins, D., & Calcagno, J.C. (2007). Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed? CCRC Brief No. 36. Retrieved on July 8, 2008, from Teachers College, Columbia University. Community College Research Center Web site: http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/

Digital Storytelling Resources

• http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ctl/dstory/
  DST at La Guardia, with a selection of student and faculty stories, assignments, resource links and more
  
  
• http://www.storycenter.org/
  “Listen Deeply, Tell Stories” is the motto of the Center for Digital Stories in Berkeley, California
  
  
• http://www.digitales.us/index.php
  Terrific range of resources, tips, handouts and sample stories
  
  
• http://www.edutopia.org/use-digital-storytelling-classroom
  Although targeted towards K-12 education, the author makes seven brief yet excellent suggestions that college faculty may also find useful in her article: How To Use Digital Storytelling in Your Classroom
  
  
• http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/resources.htm
  Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling