About the Project

Establishing good standards in Basic Skills

The Basic Skills Initiative: Student Success Continuum is funded by a grant from the Chancellor's Office. The Basic Skills Professional Development Initiative—Academic Fundamentals is being proposed out of the need to provide basic skills, and by extension English as a Second Language (ESL), education to students underprepared for college-level work, including those unable to pass the California High School Exit Exam.
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BSI Newsletter

September, 2008

Basic Skills Initiative (BSI) newsletter - Issue 2 
In this issue... The BSI Handbook | Collaborations in ESL | Integrating Career Technical Education & Basic Skills | Discipline Sessions - Pre-Algebra | Take a Short Quiz about Community College Faculty | BSI August Institute, Basic Skills Coordinators' Sessions | Adjunct Issues | Project Coordinators Download PDF...

March, 2008

Welcome to Issue 1 of the Basic Skills Initiative (BSI) newsletter. The BSI Steering Committee, made up of faculty and administrators from around the state are in the process of planning professional development, research projects, and activities to help our colleges better prepare our students for success.  Download PDF...

Basic Skills Initiative Database

The Basic Skills Initiative Effective Practices Database. Click here...

The Basic Skills Initiative (BSI) created the database of professional development and student programs as a part of the English as a Second Language/Basic Skills Professional Development grant funded by the California Chancellor’s Office.  This database contains programs, strategies and practices that colleges submitted using two criteria: demonstrated student success and sufficient quantitative and/or qualitative data to substantiate their effectiveness.