Prealgebra Classroom Research: Working Together to Improve Student Learning Learn about the research project of a Teaching Community at Los Medanos College and the impact it had on mathematics instruction. Visit site

How Jay Got His Groove Back See how Pasadena City College's Faculty Inquiry Group worked to improve retention in its Mathematics classes. Visit site

Powerful Uses of Technology in Developmental Composition Find out more about the English Division at Glendale Community College's in-depth evaluation, revision, and implementation of an advanced electronic pedagogy -- called Full E-mersion -- for its developmental composition program. On this site, you can hear reflections from faculty participants in the Faculty Inquiry Group, and examine, as they did, the experience and work of students in the new program. Visit site

What FIGS Do: Create professional communities in which educators can share what happens in classrooms Articulate and negotiate the most important outcomes for student learning Use the tools of classroom research to understand the experience of students more deeply Share insights and findings Examine a wide range of evidence, from examples of student work to campus-level quantitative data that describes patterns of student performance Invite, and offer, critical reflection and peer review Collaborate in the design of curriculum, assignments, and assessments Build trust as an essential component of ongoing improvement Support professional identity and responsibility among educators