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Education Progress Luncheon

Education Progress Luncheon. Education Progress Luncheon. Our Community Wants:. Dalton State College to become a premier higher education institution with rich course offerings and advanced degrees. Our Community Wants:. To be a model environment for technical education and learning.

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Education Progress Luncheon

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  1. Education Progress Luncheon Education Progress Luncheon

  2. Our Community Wants: Dalton State College to become a premier higher education institution with rich course offerings and advanced degrees.

  3. Our Community Wants: To be a model environment for technical education and learning.

  4. Our Community Wants: Community engagement and understanding across the Birth-to-Work Continuum.

  5. 2010 – 2011 Action Steps • Understand and support the needs of a growing Dalton State College; • Increase community awareness of existing technical education programs and job opportunities; • Work to integrate high school career training with higher education entities, and…

  6. Identify the top strengths and weaknesses of each segment of local education.

  7. EOCT co-ops work ready MBA/GRADUATE tech access Waiting for Superman Pre-K Nutrition CRCT critical thinking articulation agreements Early Brain Development funding project-base learning Making education REAL near-peer program internships No Child Left Behind career prep How we do school Pathways to Prosperity Dual enrollment CTAE career pathways core curriculum Successful sustainable industries career academy Parental vocabulary 21st Century Learning education consortium headstart school readiness Technical education

  8. Three Work Groups Formed: Prenatal to Pre-K K-12 Higher/ Technical Education

  9. Producing productive citizens by strengthening the birth to work pipeline.

  10. Draft 2012 Initiatives Initiative 1: Educate our community on nutrition and healthy lifestyles and their impact on learning.

  11. Nutrition Related Issues • “Kids are racing to the schools on Monday morning because they are hungry and they know they will be fed at school.” • 52% of middle school and high school students surveyed consumed 0-2 servings of fruit and vegetables a day. • In a local longitudinal study conducted by Northwest Georgia Healthcare Partnership, roughly 50% of 2nd – 5th graders were overweight or obese.

  12. What Are We Doing About It? • A.C.H.I.E.V.E. Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and EnVironmentalChangE • NWGA Healthcare Partnership Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Research

  13. Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program

  14. Draft 2012 Initiatives Initiative 2: Provide Pre-K opportunities in the face of state budget cuts.

  15. 11% of this year’s kindergarten class had no access to Pre-K.

  16. What WeAre Doing . . . • Community-wide Pre-K registration • Summer Pre-K experience for those with no Pre-K before Kindergarten

  17. Draft 2012 Initiatives Initiative 3: Make the right technology more accessible to students.

  18. Why Technology? • Equality • Personalization • Bi-directional Learning • Cost

  19. Moving Forward . . . • Continue to explore high-impact, cost-effective technology. • Train teachers on best practices involving technology and learning.

  20. Draft 2012 Initiatives Initiative 4: Further develop relationships and articulation agreements between high schools, Georgia Northwestern Technical College, and Dalton State College so that students can move seamlessly between the systems.

  21. In 2007, only 41% of jobs were held by those with a high school degree or less. Source: Harvard Graduate School of Education Pathways to Prosperity Project

  22. By 2018, only 36% of jobs will be held by those with high school degree or less. Source: Harvard Graduate School of Education Pathways to Prosperity Project

  23. Source: Phil Peterson’s Voices for Georgia’s Children Presentation

  24. What we are doing about it . . . • Articulation agreements between WCS, Murray County, Christian Heritage, DPS, GNTC/DSC • Georgia Northwestern Technical College and Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy on one campus

  25. What we are doing about it . . . • Dalton State College’s Near Peer Program

  26. Near Peer Program • Compass test score improvement: • Math up 33% • Writing up 23% • Reading up 12%

  27. Dual Enrollment/ACCEL/MOWR Student Headcounts • Dalton State College: • Fall 2010: 40 • Fall 2011: 76 • Georgia Northwestern Technical College • Fall 2010: 0 • Fall 2011: 54 • Spring 2012: 70

  28. Dual Enrollment/Accel/MOWR/CNA Student Headcounts • Dalton Public Schools: • 2010 – 2011: 5 • 2011 – 2012:  9 • Whitfield County Schools: • 2010 – 2011: 24 • Fall 2011: 57 • Spring 2012: 86 • Murray County Schools: • 2011: 6 (Transportation is major obstacle)

  29. Draft 2012 Initiatives Initiative 5: Encourage the Board of Regents to approve more bachelor's degree programs and phase in an MBA program at DSC in place of KSU program.

  30. Draft 2012 Initiatives Initiative 6: Focus on Career and College Readiness in 5th – 12th grade.

  31. $2.61M Career Academy Grant • Will allow Career Academy to expose middle school students to career classes. • Family & Consumer Science, Agriculture, Health Care, Business, and STEM • Will allow building renovations. • Reflects partnership between GNTC, DSC, DPS, Murray County Schools, Whitfield County Schools, and 97 local businesses.

  32. Goals Moving Forward: • Industry involvement in competitions for relevant student organizations • “Career Film Festival” • College and Career Fairs • Share entrepreneurial and career initiatives especially with K-5 students

  33. Draft 2012 Initiatives Initiative 7: Form an on-going, community-wide education consortium so that we can keep the community involved in education and continue to discuss long-range/emerging issues.

  34. Next Steps • Work with Boards of Education and other community leaders to refine priorities. • Use University System resources to better understand problems and possible solutions. • Make smart decisions and good investments that prioritize workforce development in tight economy.

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