Call for Proposals
20th ANNUAL BUILDING BRIDGES CONFERENCE 
5 February 2010
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Four Points Sheraton

We invite you to submit a proposal for a 60-minute session at this gathering of extraordinary minds. This professional development event will provide us, as college educators, with the opportunity to learn and share our teaching successes with one another.  As a dedicated professional, you have developed or refined several instructional techniques and/or materials that have worked especially well for you and your students.  By presenting one or more of these strategies, your materials will assist other instructors in their quest to improve student academic success.

Possible topics:
First-Year Experience, Basic Skills, Learning Communities, English as a Second Language, Technology in the Classroom, Responding to Papers, Teaching Research, Teaching Reading, Critical Thinking, Grammar/Usage, Learning Disabilities, Coping with Student Attitudes, or any topic related to teaching composition, literature, or ESL.

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The hotel offers free wireless access. Bringing your own laptop and projector will help us keep costs down.
Screens and overhead projectors will be provided.

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Rank preferred breakout sessions: _____9:55 to 10:55 a.m.; ____ 1:25 to 2:25 p.m.; ____ 2:40 to 3:40 p.m. 

Every effort will be made to accommodate your choice with the overall program needs. 

For more information, please contact your campus representative on the Planning Committee (see attached). 

Please submit proposal electronically to jantitus@csub.edu or to your campus representative by 

25 January 2010

Help us make this the best conference ever!

2010 Building Bridges Conference 
 Planning Committee

	Bakersfield College	Pam Boyles, pboyles@bakerfieldcollege.edu
		Sheena Bhogal, sbhogal@bakersfieldcollege.edu
		Brenda Freaney, bfreaney@bakersfieldcollege.edu
		Jeannie Parent, jparent@bakersfieldcollege.edu

	CSUB	Jan Titus, jantitus@csub.edu
		Kim Flachmann, kflachmann@csub.edu
		Laura Peet, lpeet@csub.edu
		Rebecca Hewett, rhewett@csub.edu

	Cerro Coso 	Gary Enns, genns@cerrocoso.edu

	College of the Canyons	Fred D’Astoli, fred.dastoli@canyons.edu
		Adam Kempler, adam.kempler@canyons.edu
		Mike Harutunian Mike.Harutunian@canyons.edu

	College of the Sequoias	Jacquelynn Kamberg, jacquelynnk@cos.edu
		Jeff Maryanow, jeffm@cos.edu

	Intensive English Language
	Center, CSUB	Jeremy Caldwell, jcaldwell@csub.edu

	Porterville College 	Susan Regier, sregier@porterville.edu

	Taft College 	Gary Graupman, graupman@sbcglobal.net
		Kamala Carlson, kcarlson@taft.org
		Jessica Grimes, jgrimes@taft.org