California State University Center to Close the Achievement Gap

1. California State UniversityCenter to Close the Achievement Gap 2010/2011 School Year Kick-Off Chula Vista Elementary School District

2. By the year 2025, California will be one million bachelors degrees short of meeting our workforce needs.

3. High Priority Schools Grant Program Turnaround Failing Schools Student Data System American Recovery and Reinvestment Act State Takeover FICMAT Firing Teachers Multiple Measures District Assistance and Intervention Team Law Suits Growth Model Adequate Yearly Progress Whole-system Reform National Content Standards Norm Referenced Categorical Reform Closing Schools Alternative Assessments Textbook Adoption Year 5 Program Improvement Poverty State Receivership Reconstituting Schools Academic Performance Index Growth Targets Failing Schools Quality Education Investment Act Project Based Learning Merit Pay “These kids don’t all start at the same point.” Budget Cuts School Assistance and Intervention Team Teach to the Test A through G Title I Multiple Pathways to Success Too Much Testing Immediate Intervention in Underperforming Schools Portfolio Assessments Hopelessness Drop Outs Status Bar Career and Technical Education Narrowing of the Curriculum Declining Enrollment Inquiry-drive Learning “It is developmentally inappropriate to have those expectations for these kids.” High School Exit Exam

4. Breaking Through the Clutter

5. Center to Close the Achievement Gap Best Practices Teachers and Administrators Partnerships

6. Partnerships

7. Best Practices AYP Min. Proficiency AYP Min. Proficiency

8. Best Practices

9. Creating a System of High Performance

10. Creating a System of High Performance Chula Vista ESD

11. Creating a System of High Performance

12. Lessons Learned from CVESD • High expectations for students • Dispositions that lead to effective instruction • Demonstration of the collaborative nature of teaching • Effective differentiation of instruction • Effective use of data to monitor and adjust instruction • Deep knowledge and understanding of content and pedagogy

13. Teachers and Administrators • An effective teacher is the most important factor in raising student achievement. • The California State University prepares two-thirds of California’s teachers and nearly 15 percent nationwide.

14. College Ready and Proficiency Language Arts CST Proficiency for EAP College Ready Students

15. College Ready and Proficiency Math CST Proficiency for EAP College Ready Students

16. Not College Ready and Proficiency Language Arts CST Proficiency for Students NOT College Ready on the EAP

17. Not College Ready and Proficiency Math CST Proficiency for Students NOT College Ready on the EAP

18. Proficiency Bands CVLCC

19. Teachers and Administrators

20. Questions?

21. What’s On the Horizon? • NCLB / ESEA Re-Authorization • Common Core Standards • Summative/Formative Assessments • How do we Continue as a Catalyst for Change and Break Through the Clutter?

22. Closing the achievement gap would add $2.4 trillion to U.S. GDP.