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for your use of the OWL. Happy Holidays!
 

Directory - Rancho Bernardo High School Faculty

CSUSM Faculty Liaison

Prof. Susie Lan Cassel (scassel@csusm.edu)

 

High School Faculty Participants

Colleen Bouris (coleenbouris@hotmail.com)

Mary Pat Fisk (mpfisk@heppc16.ucsd.edu)

Karen Kravchak (kravchak@sdcoe.k12.ca.us)

Rancho Bernardo High School’s (RBHS) team of three English faculty began working with CAPI in Spring 2001. What a productive collaborative relationship this past year has been!

2001/02 Accomplishments
Student Involvement with CAPI

• Nine (9) classes (approx. 315 students) used the OWL this year to receive feedback from CSUSM students on a wide range of writing projects, terms papers, and college entrance essays; and
• Over 100 students made use of the Diagnostic Writing Service (DWS).
• Many RBHS students participated in the ELM/EPT free testing day at CSUSM.

Faculty Involvement with CAPI

• Two RBHS English faculty completed their National Board exams this year (Mary Pat Fisk and Karen Kravchak);
• Faculty and students tested Inspiration Software;
• Faculty attended special CSUSM CAPI courses for English faculty; and
• Faculty attended and participated in the Spring 2001 and 2002 CAPI conferences and Writing Center Workshop and Summer 2001 CAPI Institute.

Writing Center News

• During the fall of 2001, RBHS launched its first Peer Writing Center, staffed by trained RBHS students.
• The initial responses from RBHS students are encouraging:
  • 150 RBHS students used the Center during the fall 2001;
  • 74% said their tutor was "very" polite and responsive to their concerns;
  • 51% said they felt they ended up with a better final product because of their visit; and
  • 64% said they received an A or a B on the assignment they discussed in the Center.

Future Plans

• The Writing Center faculty directors will process the statistics for writing center in effort to improve the service provided;
• A Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) mini-conference on site is being planned for fall 2002; and
• The CAPI team plans to develop a "writing culture" through the formation of a school newspaper, literary club/magazine, web-club, and on-line writing center.