Transcript Superintendent’s Dropout Challenge Integrating Dropout Prevention and School Improvement

Superintendent’s
Dropout Challenge
Integrating Dropout Prevention
and School Improvement
December 2, 2009
MDE Dropout Challenge Support Team
Leisa Gallagher, Challenge Coordinator
Jan Ellis, Office of State Superintendent
Bersheril Bailey, GLE at Learning Point Assoc.
Susan Codere Kelly, HSCE Project Coordinator
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Dropout Challenge
• Introduced by State Superintendent
Flanagan on June 30, 2009
• MDE Dropout Challenge Website
• www.Michigan.gov/dropoutchallenge
• http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7140-5235_53792---,00.html
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2009-10 Dropout Challenge
• In every Michigan elementary, middle,
and high school
• Identify 10-15 students in or nearing a
transition year, who exhibit multiple
risk factors
• Provide research-based supports and
interventions
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Challenge Overview
• Turning the Tide
• Early Warning Signs
– Poor grades in core subjects
– Grade retention
– Low attendance
– Disengagement in the classroom
• Implementing the Challenge
• Recognizing Progress
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Alliance for Excellent Education
Fact Sheet
High School Dropouts in America
– Who is dropping out?
•Where are students dropping out?
– Why do students drop out?
– What are the costs of dropping out?
See 2-page handout
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Michigan Data
• Begin with the data
• The data is not new
• Why focus on dropout prevention?
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CLASS OF 2008 DISTRICT AND BUILDING GRADUATION RATE ANALYSIS
2008 District Graduation Rate Overview
Number of School
Districts
Total Number of School Districts
Districts with Grad Rates at 100%
Percent of
Districts
609
Number of
Students
Percent of
Students
142,564
9
1%
283
0.2%
Districts with Grad Rates from 90-100%
140
23%
27,117
19.0%
Districts with Grad rates from 80-89%
230
38%
53,294
37.4%
Districts with Grad rates from 70-79%
95
16%
22,722
15.9%
Districts with Grad rates from 0-69%
135
22%
39,148
27.5%
2008 All Building Graduation Rate Overview
All Buildings
Percent of
Buildings
Number of
Students
Percent of
Students
Total Number of School Buildings
972
131,204
Buildings with Grad Rates at 100%
23
2%
772
0.6%
Buildings with Grad Rates from 90-100%
319
33%
65,259
49.7%
Buildings with Grad rates from 80-89%
217
22%
33,883
25.8%
Buildings with Grad rates from 70-79%
62
6%
10,241
7.8%
Buildings with Grad rates from 60-69%
44
5%
5,995
4.6%
Buildings with Grad rates from 50-59%
47
5%
2,435
1.9%
Buildings with Grad rates from 40-49%
36
4%
1,828
1.4%
Buildings with Grad rates from 30-39%
39
4%
1,724
1.3%
Buildings with Grad rates from 20-29%
65
7%
2,709
2.1%
Buildings with Grad rates from 10-19%
64
7%
3,713
2.8%
Buildings with Grad rates from 0-9%
56
6%
2,645
2.0%
76% or 99,914 students attend 559 schools where eight out of ten students graduate
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9.6% or 12,619 students attend 289
schools where less than 1 out of 2 students graduate
7.5% or 9,896 students attend 185 schools where less than 1 out of every three students graduate
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Dropout Prevention
IES Practice Guide
Recommendations, p. 6
• Diagnostic
– Identify students at risk of dropping out
• Targeted Interventions
– Assign adult advocates
– Provide academic support and enrichment
– Implement programs to improve classroom behavior
• Schoolwide Interventions
– Personalize the learning environment
– Provide rigorous and relevant instruction
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Dropout Prevention
IES Practice Guide
• Recommendation Checklist, pp. 10-11
• Lists 6 recommendations with tasks
• Supporting information for each recommendation
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Level of evidence
Brief summary of evidence to support recommendation
How to carry out recommendation
Potential roadblocks and suggested approaches
• Conclusion
• Appendix D – Technical information on the studies
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Gallery Walk
IES Recommendation Checklist, pp. 10-11
For each recommendation, indicate
• Green dot – practice currently in place
• Yellow dot – practice in development, needs
strengthening
• Red dot – practice critical, need to adopt
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Gallery Walk Reflection
• Summarize Responses
• Resources to Support Recommendations
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Resources
National High School Center
http://www.betterhighschools.org/pubs/#Dropout
– Developing Early Warning Systems to
Identify Potential High School Dropouts
• Guide
• Tool
– Approaches to Dropout Prevention: Heeding
Early Warning Signs with Appropriate
Interventions
(See excerpt in packet)
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Michigan Student Information Log
Early Warning Signs (EWS)
Adapted from NHS Center Tool
• Student Information
• A,B,Cs
• Attendance
• Behavior
• Content - Academic Course/Credit
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Implementation Resource
Bringing Off-Track Youth into the
Center of High School Reform
• Jobs for the Future
• Lessons and Tools from Leading Communities
– Improving Schools’ Capacity to Keep Students On
Track
– Expanding the Options
– Improving and Supporting Options
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Additional Resources
• Everyone Graduates (Johns Hopkins)
http://www.every1graduates.org/
Putting Middle Grades Students on the
Graduation Path (Balfanz)
http://every1graduates.org/PDFs/NMSA_ExecutiveSummary_Balfanz.pdf
http://every1graduates.org/PDFs/NMSA_Policy_Brief_Balfanz.pdf
• Center on Instruction
http://www.centeroninstruction.org/
• America’s Promise
http://www.silentepidemic.org/
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Integrating Dropout Prevention in
the School Improvement Plan
• Where do the Dropout Prevention
Recommendations fit in the School
Improvement Framework?
• Does your school improvement plan extend
deep enough to
– reduce the dropout risk?
– address the interaction between the As, Bs, and Cs?
• Use matrix to analyze alignment.
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Dropout Prevention
• 2009-10 Focus on
– Awareness
– Developing EWS and Supports
– Identify 10-15 students
– Share results
• 2010-11 System-wide initiative
– Fully integrated into school improvement
plan
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Graduation Town
Digital Learning Community
• For Challenge Schools
• Supported by Title IID Technology
Funds
• Hosted by MASSP
• Stay tuned for more information
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Dropout Prevention Summit
• Date in February 2010 TBD
• Additional support for identifying and
supporting students at risk of dropping
out
• Emphasis on taking research to
practice
• Survey: Live and/or e-conference
options
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Contact Information
Leisa Gallagher
Susan Codere Kelly
Dropout Challenge Coordinator
[email protected]
HSCE Project Coordinator
[email protected]
Jan Ellis
Bersheril Bailey
Office of the Superintendent
[email protected]
MDE Liaison, GLE at Learning
Point Associates
[email protected]
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