Six Year Plan Presentation by Traci Gauer and Kitty Johnson for the Education Action Committee of th

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Six Year Plan Presentationby Traci Gauer and
Kitty Johnson for theEducation Action Committee
of theGovernors Workforce Development
CouncilJanuary 11th, 2007

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• Goals for today
• What do we know about our students that relates
  to their plans for the future?
• Saint Paul Schools Six Year Plan graduation
  requirement?
• Why are we implementing it?
• What is it? An overview of the Six Year Plan
  website.
• Who can and how to access students Six Year
  Plans?
• Challenges and questions we
• are/will have to deal with.

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Our Kids

• 92.39 of our seniors who graduated in 2004 told
  us they were going on to further education. If
  only it was truewe do know that 58.38 of the
  class of 2003 actually went on to post-secondary
  education from our Student Outcomes Study
• When asked if they had a developed career plan
  27.87 said no.
• 31.92 said they had not even applied to college.
• 20.44 of the students reported that they were
  going to attend a U of M Campus. 11.1 did.

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Saint Paul Schools Graduation Rates for the
Class of 2006Data from MDEs website

• 4-year
• American Indian 58.82
• Asian American 84.83
• Latino 59.59
• African American 69.52
• Caucasian 88.79
• All Students 79.59

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Nationally

• Data from the classes of 1972, 1982 and 1992
  tell us that only 45 to 49 of students who
  enter college and earn more than 10 credits
  actually earn a BA Degree
• Many even fail to earn 10 credits
• For students with GPAs in high school of C or
  lower the chances that they will earn 1 college
  credit is less than 50-50.
• Data is from the American Educator article
  entitled Its Time To Tell the Kids If You
  Dont Do Well in High School, You Wont Do Well
  in College (or on the job)

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The Alliance for Excellent Education
A bad education is a million-dollar mistake.
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Median Earnings by Educational Attainment for
Full-time Workers in Minnesota

• Advanced Degrees 53,540
• Bachelors Degree 42,059
• Some College 32,440
• High School Diploma 29,660
• No High School Diploma 24,061
• Source Growth and Justice (2004)
• Workforce First page 12

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According to the U.S. Department of Labor 2002
Report

• College graduates earn an average of 71 more per
  year than high school graduates
• Average lifetime earnings are
• High school graduate 1.2 Million
• College graduate 2.1 Million
• Masters Degree 2.5 Million
• Doctoral Degree 3.4 Million

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Each Year, One of Every Twenty High School
Students Leaves School
One Year Drop Out Rates by Race Grades
10-12 1990 1998 White 3.3 3.6 Latino
7.9 9.4 African American 5.0 5.2 Sourc
e NCES Drop out Rates in the U.S. 1998
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2000 Ed Trust Report of 24 year olds

• For every 100 kindergartners the number of
  students who graduate from high school/complete
  at least some college/obtain at least a BA degree
  is
• HS SC BA
• Caucasian 91 62 30
• African American 87 54 16
• Latino 62 29 6
• Asian 94 80 49
• American Indian 58 NA 7

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Data - College Readiness

• In 2000, the percent of SPPS students who
  required remediation when they attended
  institutions of higher education was between 37
  and 56 percent.
• Depending upon High School
• MnSCU Research and Planning and University
  of MN Office of Institutional Research and
  Reporting, 2002

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Our Kids

• When we surveyed 2877 ninth grade students last
  year, 41.4 of them ranked Getting help to
  create a plan for high school and beyond as
  their 1 response
• The 2 most popular response was Learning how to
  recognize their interests and abilities

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So, How Will The Six Year Plan Help?

• Wouldnt it be nice if every high school could
  say that every student who graduates in 2008 and
  beyond will have an up-to-date, compelling vision
  of their desired future and a detailed, viewable
  plan to get there?

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Why Design a Six Year Plan?

• Today many of us live hectic, highly stressful
  lives. Nothing seems permanent. Nothing can be
  taken for granted not our jobs, accumulated
  possessions, not even our closest relationships.
• So why plan for a future when everything seems so
  up for grabs? Why not just fly by the seat of
  our pants, making decisions as they come,
  one-by-one?
• Simply because even if such an Ill-take-things-a
  s-they-come life orientation worked at one time,
  it no longer does.

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Why Design a Six Year Plan?

• Without a compelling vision of our desired future
  and a detailed plan to get there, we are likely
  to take any fork-in-the-road that seems appealing
  at the moment . . . or we get bogged down,
  frustrated with our lives, without a vision of
  the future.
• Today, we usually need long lead-times to upgrade
  our interests, skills, and competencies just to
  stay current and competitive in the workplace.
  Flying by the seat of our pants simply doesnt
  work anymore.
• Thats why an up-to-date, compelling vision of
  our desired future and a detailed plan to get
  there are critical necessities for a successful,
  personally rewarding lifes journey.

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Goals of the Tools for High School Students
and 6 Year Planning Website

• Motivate students through an association with
  career and life planning. Too many students feel
  school is boring and irrelevant
• Create a culture of high aspirations. We must
  instill the belief that college is possible early
  on
• Provide students with a tool to help design a 6
  Year Plan. A place to tell us about their dreams
  and ambitions. The things we used to talk about
  at the dinner table
• Increase the number of students who are engaged
  in what they are doing in high school and how it
  connects to their future. Too many students
  follow the path of least resistance that take
  them through a series of disconnected classes
• Increase graduation rates for all students. We
  have to do better

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Goals of the Tools for High School Students
and 6 Year Planning Website

• Increase the number of students who go on to
  school after high school. Low skills and low
  wages or.
• Increase each students knowledge of career
  options. What are my options?, They told us that
  this is the area they want help with in the
  survey.
• Increase the number of students who have
  achievable individual career plans. A plan that
  makes sense.
• Increase the congruence between career plans and
  the courses students take. Students need to know
  the correlation between the skills required for
  high school and those required for success in
  college
• Increase all stakeholders involvement with
  students and what they are doing in high school.
  Kids want to talk about their futures but are
  enough people asking the right questions?

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Possible Themes by Grade

• Grade 9 Goal setting and focusing on developing
  a direction
• Grade 10 Career/Post-secondary Education
  planning and focusing on ME
• Grade 11 Career/Post-secondary Education
  exploration and focusing on making a plan
• Grade 12 Implementation and focusing on taking
  action

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Address www.6yearplan.spps.org
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Questions Anyone?
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Lets Check Out the Site!