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As dual enrollment continues to proliferate, community college instructors are increasingly confronted with a number of issues that come from teaching a rigorous collegiate curriculum to high school age students. Student success in this complex environment is best facilitated through the complementary actions of "turning down the instructional light" while simultaneously "turning up students' affect though positive psychology." Taken together, these instructional strategies create an educational environment that is challenging but primed for success.

Participants will take away strategies to mitigate their workload by shifting the instructional focus from teacher to student performance. Participants will also come away with concrete ways to enact positive psychology in productive ways. The training will provide participants an opportunity to engage in both discussions of theory as well as opportunities to develop strategies for their own classroom that are easily implemented.

Megan Brandon is currently serving as the Social Studies department lead at Colorado River Collegiate Academy (CRCA), an early college high school in Bastrop ISD. Megan is also adjunct faculty at Austin Community College, teaching the Learning Framework course to the CRCA freshmen. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice Administration and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, both from Middle Tennessee State University. She has been in the field of education since 2010, working as a community college adjunct instructor in both Tennessee and Texas before moving to the high school level.

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