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Diplomas now summer institute

Diplomas now summer institute. DIPLOMAS NOW Welcome and Opening Doug Elmer. In middle schools and high schools across the country, there’s a revolution going on…. ROLL CALL. Baton Rouge Boston Chicago Columbus Detroit Los Angeles Miami New York City Philadelphia San Antonio Seattle

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Diplomas now summer institute

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  1. Diplomas now summer institute

  2. DIPLOMAS NOW Welcome and Opening Doug Elmer

  3. In middle schools and high schools across the country, there’s a revolution going on…

  4. ROLL CALL Baton Rouge Boston Chicago Columbus Detroit Los Angeles Miami New York City Philadelphia San Antonio Seattle Washington, DC

  5. The Diplomas Now collaboration

  6. Teacher Teams and Small Learning Communities Tiered Student Supports Curriculum, Instruction, and Professional Development Can-Do Culture and Climate

  7. DIPLOMAS NOW Year In Review Jim Balfanz Dan Cardinali

  8. DIPLOMAS NOW HISTORY • Prior to 2007 • 3 organizations with history of high impact work in partnership with schools • Talent Development, CIS and City Year begin partnership based on research of JHU and PEF • The PepsiCo Foundation provides planning grant to create a business plan for collaboration (named Diplomas Now) • Plans in place for model pilot in Philadelphia. • 2007-2008 • PepsiCo Foundation commits $5M over three years • DN pilot with the Feltonville School in Philadelphia. • Feltonville meets AYP, sees big impact decreasing early warning indicators among students • 2008-2009

  9. DIPLOMAS NOW HISTORY • DN expands to 4 additional cities • Showing 2x-3x target improvement in the Early Warning Indicators • DN is featured in cover stories in EdWeek and USA Today; • 2009-2010 • Featured on CBS evening news • Pepsi commits $6 million as a part of i3 grant application. DN awarded $30 million prestigious grant in inaugural Investing in Innovation competition from the US Department of Education • DN largest i3 validation winner. • 2010-2011

  10. DIPLOMAS NOW HISTORY • Implementation begins at 12 i3 sites participating in largest randomized control study of its kind • Inspired by DN, White House and DOE launches “Together for Tomorrow” to strengthen partnerships between schools and community partners • Diplomas Now teams delivered approximately 468,000 hours of student support and 45,000 hours of professional development for teachers during the 2011-2012 school year • Recruited 20+ additional schools for i3 study launch in following school year 2011-2012

  11. Diplomas now Growth 12 Cities 10 Cities 1 City 5 Cities 10 Cities

  12. Diplomas now footprint 2011-2012 22,000 students Boston 3 schools Seattle 2 schools Detroit 1 school New York City 2 schools Philadelphia 5 schools Chicago 1 school Washington, DC 2 schools Los Angeles 3 schools Baton Rouge 3 schools Miami 4 schools

  13. Diplomas now footprint 2012-2013 40,000 students Boston 3 schools Seattle 2 schools Detroit 3 schools New York City 4-5 schools Philadelphia 6 schools Chicago 3 schools Columbus 3 schools Washington, DC 3 schools Los Angeles 5 schools Baton Rouge 3 schools San Antonio 2 schools Miami 6 schools

  14. results Progress of students flagged for absenteeism,poor behavior and course failure through the third quarter of the 2011-2012 school year. 44% decrease 55% decrease 63% decrease 61% decrease

  15. Public /private partnerships for Collective Impact • PepsiCo Foundation • Founding and i3 match investor • United Way Worldwide • National partner • GlaxoSmithKline • Philadelphia DN investor • Department of Education • Investing in Innovation partner • Informed Together for Tomorrow partnership • Districts • 12 DN partner districts • States • Informed ESEA waiver applications in MA, OH, Louisiana

  16. Fox News video from Detroit Media highlights

  17. Diplomas now in the news • WAMU-FM: Scaling Up Solutions to the Dropout Problem • Associated Press: Washington Middle School Wins Attendance Contest • Los Angeles Business Journal: L.A. Learning to Curb High School Dropouts • The New York Times: ‘Chronically Absent’ Students Skew School Data, Study Finds, Citing Parents’ Role

  18. Where we can go Strong implementation and results will allow us to: • Ensure that our students are receiving the quality education they deserve • Support teachers in becoming top-tier educators • Use data to determine the most effective strategies for supporting students and schools • Provide the field with replicable school turnaround components that have already been tested and validated

  19. DIPLOMAS NOW What We Are Learning Dr. Robert Balfanz

  20. Fate of the Republic Rests with the Nation’s 11, 12 & 13 Year Olds

  21. Attendance Matters Even More than We Thought • Chronic Absenteeism is much more pronounced than commonly recognize- 6 to 8 Million Students are missing a month or more of school per year • Chronic Absenteeism is like Bacteria in a Hospital, an unseen force creating havoc, because we do not measure it • Its greatest impact is on low income students • The magnitude and impact of chronic absenteeism means we need to re-think we thought we knew about closing the achievement gap

  22. Impact of Attendance on Achievement

  23. Impact of Attendance on High School Graduation & Post-Secondary Enrollment

  24. If graduation is determined by course grades, what affects grades? • Attendance is 8 times more predictive of course failure in the 9th grade than prior test scores • – Demographic & economic background characteristics explain 7% of course failures • – Eighth-grade test scores explain an additional 5% (12% total) • – Student behaviors--absences and effort- explain an additional 61% (73% total)

  25. DN Policy and Practice Implications • Need to be advocates-districts and states need to measure and report on chronic absenteeism rates at the school level • Need to use the Collective Intelligence of the DN Network to learn more about why students do not attend school-particularly high school students • Stay tuned for DN Attendance Census Day

  26. Behavior – • it’s also about effort

  27. What Influences Student Achievement? Huge Analysis of 8,000 Studies Finds: • Strongest Influence was Student Expectations-This was three times as powerful as teacher expectations • Second was Teacher Credibility in Eyes of Student- This was five times as powerful as matching teaching with student learning styles • Fifth was Teacher-Student relationships-This was three times as powerful as reducing class size

  28. Behind all of these is student and adult effort

  29. The Enemy of Effort is Poverty • It over-concentrates the neediest students in a sub-set of schools not designed for the educational challenge they face – leads to adult burnout, disbelief, frustration, and a survivor/triage mentality • It teaches students that life is capricious. It is a high stress existence. Physical , emotional and mental stress all pull on the same energy reserves. This pushes students towards absenteeism, low effort, poor behavior and limited expectations. It eats away at trust.

  30. Shaped experiences in school can change behavior • The art of DN is creating these experiences

  31. Shaped experiences For adults: • Need to create shaped experiences that show that collective effort has positive impact For students: • Need to create shaped experiences that show that effort leads to success

  32. Course Performance – • B’s are gold

  33. The Power of B’s • In Chicago, virtually all students with a B average or higher in the 9th grade graduate in 4 years • In a forthcoming study, we found that to have a 75% chance of post-secondary attainment - 9th graders needed to: • attend 95% of the time • have a B average • no course failures • no behavioral incidents • be on age for grade

  34. Implications for Policy and Practice • A core goal of our DN work is to enable students to experience common behavioral and academic expectations as they travel from class to class • We need to move to benchmarking grades against artifacts which show students what A, B, and C work is • Understand that the ABC’s drive student achievement and advancement

  35. The bottom line • Driving down off-track indicators increases achievement & graduation rates, driving up on-track indicators • Good attendance, strong effort and good grades increases college success

  36. DIPLOMAS NOW Principal Panel Doug Elmer

  37. Logistics announcements • Video Booth during meals and transitions/breaks in the Foyer – share your DN Story! • Appreciation Table • Share your appreciation to your colleagues at the table located in the foyer • Lunch is back in ballroom • Reception • Hear from our national leaders and national sponsors • Hyatt Atrium Lobby • 5:30-7:00pm • appetizers provided • cash bar available

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