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Focusing on Impact in your CBO & High School Partnership

Focusing on Impact in your CBO & High School Partnership. WACAC Share, Learn, Connect Meeting - USF March 12, 2014. Introduction & Polling the Audience Need for a Collaboration Assessing Your Partnership Impact at a Real School Common Pitfalls. Agenda. Need for Collaboration.

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Focusing on Impact in your CBO & High School Partnership

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  1. Focusing on Impact in your CBO & High School Partnership WACACShare, Learn, ConnectMeeting - USF March 12, 2014

  2. Introduction & Polling the Audience • Need for a Collaboration • Assessing Your Partnership • Impact at a Real School • Common Pitfalls Agenda

  3. Need for Collaboration

  4. San Franciscans with only a high school degree are 6 times less likely to earn a living wage than college graduates. Postsecondary Focus

  5. Pipeline Out of Postsecondary

  6. 61% eligible for free and reduced lunch • 29% English language learners • 66% would be generation college graduates • 4,000 graduates from SFUSD each year • College Success Network works with roughly 10,000 students across the Bay Area (including Alameda & Contra Costa counties) Scope of the Need

  7. The maze of college preparation, application, and selection • Insufficient resources for support • Lack of coordination between partners • Students who are being over-served and those who are not being supported at all Why Students Drop Off

  8. Assessing Your Partnership

  9. Accountability to Alignment to Collective Impact

  10. Who do you invite to the table? • How do we define SUCCESS for students? • Creating a common language. Building the Partnership

  11. www.postecondarysuccess.org • What IS happening in your school? • What ISN’T happening in your school? • How WELL or BROADLY is it happening? Asset Mapping

  12. Analyze how students are doing against indicators of college eligibly, awareness, and preparedness. Then ask: • WHY are we seeing this trend? • WHO is already working with this population? • HOW can we change practice to better support these students? • WHAT resources can the we bring to the school to change the trend? • WHAT is the ultimate goal for the population? Student Data

  13. Who is and isn’t being served well? • What are the areas of weakness? • What are our strengths to build on? • Prioritize goals and actions steps for THIS YEAR! Bringing it All Together

  14. Impact at a Real School

  15. Acceptance vs. Enrollment

  16. Financial Aid as a Barrier • Scaffolded Advisory Curriculum around Financial Aid • Outside Partners (CBO and corporate) to Support Curriculum • Targeted FAFSA Push using volunteer support • Identified lead contacts for Latino and African-American student and family outreach Curriculum & Staffing

  17. CBO roster review to determine which students were being over served and which weren’t being served at all…then facilitated shifting the resources • Awareness campaign around the needs of Latino and African-American students • Outreach effort to engage Latino and African-American students in postsecondary success programs Coordinate CBO Efforts

  18. Impact

  19. Common Pitfalls

  20. Lack of common vision, goals, or definition of success • Wrong people at the table (top down and bottom up) • Lack of accountability to each other, no clear action plan • Data fear! Common Pitfalls

  21. What will you do when you go back to your school site? First Steps

  22. Hanna Doerr Program Director hdoerr@sfedfund.org 415.695.5400 x3008 Thank you!

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