Building the Pipeline Towards College Readiness: Florida Partnership

1. Building the Pipeline Towards College Readiness: Florida Partnership Mark Matthews Senior Educational Manager mamatthews@collegeboard.org (850) 491-8569

2. Higher Ground: Achieving the A Systematically A school environment that provides all students the opportunity to reach their highest academic achievement potential level

3. What does this school environment look like? • Culture of academic rigor and relevance • Use of data to close gaps in student academic achievement • Collaborative decision making in leadership teams • Set high expectations that hold students and adults accountable

4. Aligning an Academically Rigorous Curriculum to College Readiness • All students can meet high expectations for academic performance when they are taught to high standards by qualified teachers. • The rigor of a high school curriculum is the greatest predictor of degree completion. • Finishing a mathematics course beyond Algebra 2 more than doubles the odds a student will complete a bachelor's degree.

5. Aligning an Academically Rigorous Curriculum to College Readiness • African American and Latino students’ college degree completion rates are more positively affected than any other group by rigor of high school curriculum. • The knowledge and skills required for college success are comparable to the knowledge and skills required by well-paying, entry level jobs with opportunity for advancement in today’s knowledge-based global economy.

6. Aligning an Academically Rigorous Curriculum to College Readiness Challenges • Opportunity to learn in high school courses varies tremendously. • Courses are not vertically aligned to provide sustained development of knowledge and skills required for college success. • High school exit exams are not designed to measure students’ readiness for college.

7. College Board Standards for College Success Purpose • Prepare all students for the intellectual demands of college-level work by the time they graduate high school. • Increase the number and broaden the diversity of students prepared to succeed in Advanced Placement® courses.

8. College Board Standards for College Success Purpose • Provide a model for states and districts to align K-12 curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development to national standards of college readiness. • Align College Board programs, including SpringBoard®, to clear definitions of college readiness.

9. College Board Standards for College Success Development strategy • Identify the knowledge and critical thinking skills that first-year college faculty expect of entering freshmen in English language arts and mathematics and statistics. • Map back from these expectations to articulate a coherent framework of high expectations and rigorous academic study beginning in grade 6 to prepare students for college.

10. How can we create this environment in our schools to improve academic achievement for all of our students?

11. The College Board College Readiness System A flexible set of programs and services that helps schools • Infuse rigor, set high expectations, and align the school culture to college readiness • Expand access and opportunity • Inspire students’ hearts and minds to achieve

12. College Readiness System Data Analysis & Interpretation Curriculum Instruction Pre-AP AP® CollegeEd® Prof. Dev. SAT® MyRoad™ PSAT/NMSQT® SpringBoard® Professional Development Leadership Monitoring School Improvement Master Schedule

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14. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats

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