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Maines Dropout Prevention Summit

• 2009
• What we learned

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The New 3 R's Promising Schools Where Everyone
Matters
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The Voice of Maines Youth

• Dont call me a dropout

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I am not

• A Deadbeat
• A loser
• Someone who doesnt care about my future
• Someone who is going no where
• I am a person

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Am I still a deadbeat?

• I want to make something of myself
• I do have drive
• I dont want to be just a number
• Now I know I am going to college
• I have a picture with me in my cap and gown
  holding my son, in a few years we will take
  another picture-this time my son will be wearing
  the cap and gown

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The next time you hear the word dropout

• Think of the person
• Think of the situation
• Do what ever it takes

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President Obama

• It will be the goal of this administration to
  ensure that every child has access to complete
  and competitive education, from the day they are
  born to the day they begin a career. That is a
  promise we have to make to the children of
  America.

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Weaving the strands of the summit together

• Americas Promise Alliance 5 Promises
• Caring Adults
• Healthy Start
• Safe Places in and after school
• Opportunity to give back
• Marketable Skills
• Listen to our youth
• Honor youth and families history
• Avoid Labels
• Connect the dots Create a plan

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Maine joined with 49 other states

• To make school completion a priority. You are
  part of a national movement to give all students
  the opportunity to graduate from high school,
  ready for college and work
• You made history!

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Words from the Childrens Cabinet

• Multiple Pathways
• Drop the Jargon
• Cross system data sharing
• Focus on strengths and assets of our youth and
  their parents/caregivers
• Identify barriers (policy and practices) getting
  in way of success
• Keep pushing uswe will back you up when its
  possible

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Summit Weaving

• Exhibitors share supportive youth practices
• Participants figure out what Maine has and what
  it needs
• The Maine Dropout Prevention Plan is committed to
  paper.

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Supportive youth practices in the exhibit area

• Basic Core Strategies
• School and Community
• Early Interventions
• Making the Most of Instruction

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It even snowed in July

• Workgroups identified
• Strengths
• Needs
• Opportunities
• Worries
• Top priorities for the state and communities to
  tackle

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• Giving up on students is not a productive
  solution for anyone-Robert Balfanz
• If we knew what to do to support our youth would
  we do it?
• The Outliers, Malcom Getwell
• Will we do it?

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You answered the call Are you ready to do

• Whatever it takes
• To get to 90 Graduation rate

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Next Steps

• Go back to your community
• Start conversations with youth, parents,
  teachers, agencies, businesses
• Hold a summit to rally your community to support
  positive youth development
• Use data to identify priorities
• Develop an effective plan
• Build strong partnerships to make lasting change
  happen

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Thank You

• For your passion
• For your commitment
• For having faith and patience when the evidence
  of success takes time to see