Supporting College and Career Readiness through Partnerships & Community Catalysts

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Supporting College and Career Readiness through
Partnerships Community Catalysts

• New York City Case Studies
• 5.1.08

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Framing Questions

• What do your kids need? What is their
  performance telling you?
• Are your schools supporting college and career
  readiness?
• What are key processes to begin to leverage
  existing assets and drive towards transformation?
• How can the facilities better support this
  process?

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Learning Objectives

• Define college and career readiness in Reynolds
• Work with a diagnostic process and student
  performance data to discern where to direct your
  efforts
• Map and leverage existing assets apply models
  around community partnerships to support your
  efforts and improve college and career readiness

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About New Visions

• New Visions is the largest education reform
  organization dedicated to improving the quality
  of education in New York City's public schools.
• Working with the public and private sectors, New
  Visions develops programs and policies to raise
  the level of student achievement.
• Over the past four years, New Visions has worked
  with over 225 community organizations to create a
  diverse portfolio of 91 small New Century high
  schools, and has additional new schools planned
  over the next year.
• In addition to its agenda of seeding innovation
  and reform, recently New Visions was selected as
  a DOE Partnership Support Organization and works
  closely to help support 63 NYC public schools
  across the 5 boroughs.

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Why Small Schools?

• Providing Choices for Families
• Personalized Learning Environment
• Academic Rigor for All Academic Levels
• Designed for Multiple Learning Styles
• Co-Constructed and Co-Led with Community

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Case One Creating Small Partnership Schools

• New Visions Schools
• 35 Small Schools
• K-5, K-8, K-12, 5-12, 6-12, 9-12
• Begun in 1993
• Enrollments of 200-800
• Community Partnerships
• New Century High School Initiative
• 91 Small Schools
• 6-12, 7-12, 9-12
• Begun in 2002
• Enrollments of 375-550
• Co-Created with Community Partnerships

Partners support and deepen schools
effectiveness
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Partnership SchoolBrooklyn Academy for Science
and Environment
Model Implementation

• Co-lead partners the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and
  the Prospect Park Alliance
• Play a key role in co-teaching and developing
  the curriculum for the schools field studies
  course. This credit bearing class conducted at
  BBG and PPA enhances learning in Living
  Environment. Students are introduced to
  real-world science research skills, methods, ways
  of thinking, equipment.
• Representatives from the institutions serve on
  the School Leadership Team
• BBG and PPA staff participates in and lead
  staff development workshops
• BASE parents are invited to workshops and
  events hosted by both partner institutions.
• http//www.bbg.org/edu/base.html or
  http//basehighschool.net/

Data

• 98 of their seniors have already passed the
  Living Environment Regents with a 55 or higher

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Partnership SchoolEagle Academy
Model Implementation

• Lead partner 100 Black Men
• Every student in this all male school in the
  Bronx is matched with an adult male mentor who
  meets with the students on a weekly basis and
  plays a critical role as an advocate and overall
  source of support for the student.
• The school credits the mentor relationship with
  its solid attendance and a more disciplined
  approach to learning
• http//www.eagleny.org/home.aspx

Data

• School has average daily attendance rate of 90

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• Who are New Century Students?
• 84.8 Free and Reduced Lunch
• 91 Black and Latino
• 76.3 Levels 1 2 in 9th grade
• Currently 33,000 New Century students
• Full Initiative projects 38,000 New Century
  students
• Initiative Wide Performance Data
• Attendance - 86 NCHS vs. 82 City-wide
• Graduation Rates
• Cohort 2006- 78.5 vs. 58 City-Wide
  
• Cohort 2007- 77 vs. 59 City-Wide
  
  
• Based on 8th grade test scores for ELA and Math
• 2005-2006 year
• 2006/ 2007 figures respectively

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Impact?
A look at the data suggested improvement towards
higher attendance rate
100.0
90.0
NCHS average (85)
Citywide average (82)
80.0
2001 Attendance at high schools replaced by
NCHS (75)
70.0
60.0
50.0
Attendance at New Century High Schools in
0506, excluding transfer schools (n 72)
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A look at the data suggested improvement towards
higher graduation rate
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A look at the data suggested improvement towards
higher graduation rate
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Is high school graduation a sufficient
goal?What innovations are necessary for
college and career readiness?
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Understanding College Career Readiness Who Is
Our Target Population?
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Approximately 32,000 students
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The New Visions PSO serves students at every
grade level
35 students are not assigned a grade
Grade
Class
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The Challenge in Context Success for 100 of the
Students
Matriculated in College
59 On-Time HS Graduation
Not in College
ElementarySchool
MiddleSchool
HighSchool
Transition to college / workforce
Pre-school
Employed
Age
18
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Matriculated in College
41 Not Graduate On-Time
Employed
14.6 Dropout
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Your Challenge in Context Critical Engine of an
Economically Competitive East County
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Growth Industries Construction/ Green
Industries Health Careers Hospitality ?? ??
Training Needs According to theBureau of Labor
Statistics, between 2004 and 2014,80 percent of
the fastest-growing occupations will require
some postsecondary or advanced training. In
2004, 24 of jobs in the U.S. required a BA by
2010, that figure will climb to 36.
Source Southern Regional Education Board
(2005), High Schools That Work An Enhanced
Design to Get All Students to Standards
http//www.sreb.org/programs/hstw/publications/200
5Pubs/05V07_enhanced_design.pdf Source
National Commission on the Economy and Education,
Tough Choices or Tough Times
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Understanding College Career Readiness What
Can Data / Metrics Tell Us?
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Creating College Readiness Benchmarks
Students Meeting Multiple Benchmarks of College
Readiness
Class of 2007
Class of 2008
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Looking at Progress Towards College Readiness
Goal 80 College Readiness
Notes Includes only active students.
Excludes transfer schools. Students in schools
that annualize their credits may appear off track
now, if they were not awarded any credits in the
first semester.
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Arraying the Class of 2008 portfolio of schools
across the college readiness metric
Goal 80 College Readiness
School annualizes credit accumulation
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Understanding College Career Readiness Incubat
ing New Models with Community
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Case Two Partnering for New Career Schools

• Partners will support a spectrum of attainable
  post-secondary and career opportunities for New
  Visions CTE schools.

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College/Career Readiness Skills

• To succeed in high-wage jobs and higher-education
  students need sound Core Skills, higher-order
  Cognitive Skills, and a new set of Professional
  Skills. New Visions Career Schools will develop
  an integrated approach to the delivery of these
  skills.

• Core Skills
• Reading
• Writing
• Arithmetic
• Speaking and listening

• Cognitive Skills
• Problem Solving
• Acquiring and interpreting information
• Communicating
• Reasoning and making decisions
• Effective planning and implementation
• Research skills

• Professional Skills
• Soft Skills
• Time and resource management
• Teamwork
• Hard Skills
• Technology Proficiency
• Industry and career specific competencies

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Career Pathways - a Spectrum of Opportunities

• The New Visions Career School Model ensures a
  common core and a differentiated set of
  opportunities leading to clear and promising
  pathways towards college and careers

Advanced Regents w/ 75s Required Full Industry
Sequence Industry Pre-Training or Certifications
Advanced Regents Full Industry Sequence Industry
Pre-Training or Certifications
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Role of Industry Partners

• These schools will not be successful unless they
  achieve a new type of partnership with industry,
  where roles are clearly defined and both school
  and partners clearly understand the benefits

• Job talks
• Job shadow opportunities
• Co-development of curriculum
• Instructional materials

• Student-Employee Mentorship
• Job talks
• More targeted job shadow opportunities
• Co-development of curriculum
• Instructional materials

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Understanding College Career Readiness Model
Development Strategic Planning Process
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What does College and Career Readiness Look Like
in Reynolds?


On-Track Metric for College/Career Readiness
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How does Reynolds drive forward around this
process?
Problem / Goal Identification
Systems Mapping
System Diagnosis Gap Analysis
Identify Leverage Points
Prioritize Leverage Points
Develop Success Metrics
Create Action Plan
Implement Evaluate
Identify causal relationships among factors that
drive outcomes
Define the problem and/or goal for the project
Assess current system to understand root causes
of system ineffectiveness
Based on gap analysis, use targeted tools to
identify specific leverage points
Consider impact, resource requirements, and
stakeholder motivation in prioritizing actionable
leverage points
Align multi-sector stakeholders around a set of
common success metrics, including specific
performance indicators
Utilize a diverse collection of tools and
strategies to activate priority levers for change
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How do existing partnerships and internal
capacity currently feed into your
school/districts issues and goals?
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EXISITING RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERNAL CAPACITY
Certification Course Parent Association Elected
Official School Store Internships
Community College Computer skills Alumni
Guests Speakers Finance Background Job Shadowing
Owned a small business in the past
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What does your school/district need for student
success?
Academic Courses
After School Programs
Internship Opportunities
College/Career Pathways
How can existing/potential partnerships and
internal capacity operationalize solutions to
those needs?

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Mapping Assets to Student Success
Job shadowing In-Kind Donations
School Volunteers Job Placements Grants
Guest Speakers Internships Career
Mentors

• Larger Corporations
• Small/Medium-sized
• Businesses
• Foundations
• CBOs/
• Universities/
• Culturals
• State/ Federal

Job shadowing In-Kind Donations
School Volunteers Job Placements Grants
Guest Speakers Internships Career
Mentors
Grants Research
Projects Guest Speakers Loans School
Volunteers
Classes for MBA students Professors co-teach at
MBA Business School Tutors Mentors
Grant Programs CTE Small Business Loans
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Creating an Action Plan
Academic Integration
Partnership Strategy
Community Asset Map

• Mapping Templates

• Partnership Assessment Criteria Pathway
  Alignment
• Partnership Protocol
• Partnership Tracking Tool

• Asset Mapping
• Student Community Data

Potential Tools

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Relevant Users
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Sample Tool Partnership Assessment Criteria
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Sample Tool Partnership Tracking