~ Our Journey: All Means All (PDF)

Sharing her learnings from collaboration and equity initiatives to support students from diverses backgrounds moving forward into postsecondary success, Fernandez drew on personal experienes in the Rio Grande Valley, law background, and commitment to the Atlanta Public Schools’ high-minority, high-poverty student population of 54,000.

An innovative thinker in using data to build student-teacher relationships and student postsecodary navigation, Gehlbach officially welcomed PAS participants and discussed collaborations.

Renick shared ten-year thinking and strategies underlying Georgia State’s remarkable and intentional success in achieving equity in graduation outcomes for minority and Pell-grant students, while also posing next steps and responding to questions. Georgia State draws many of its 50,000 students from a large and diverse metro area.

~ Eliminating Equity Gaps Through Data and Institutional Change (PDF)

~ Pathways to Adult Success in Oregon (PDF)

Over the past decade Chicago has experienced large gains in high school graduation and postsecondary participation rates. Hear from the University of Chicago Consortium of School Research and the Network for College Success on key factors behind these gains and the role that can be played by research and implementation support organizations in supporting them. Facilitated by Jenny Nagaoka and Christopher Mazzeo

~ Navigation Supports for Key Transitions: The Chicago Story (PDF)

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~ Resources (PDF)

Jenny Nagaoka, Deputy Director, UChicago Consortium for School Research, IL; Sarah Howard-Ivey, Senior Director, Partner School Network, Network for College Success, The University of Chicago, IL; Kareem Sayegh, National Student Success Manager, Network for College Success, The University of Chicago, IL

Targeted university, college, and school collaborations: how to make them happen and how to use them for youth success. Representatives of three higher education institutions from across the country discuss exemplars of collaborations with local school districts to support student transitions – their beginnings, activities, evolution and development, structure and direction, and vision for the future. Presenters will also share the hurdles, opportunities, and bumps in the road on the way to achieving cross-sector collaborations and outcomes for youth. Facilitated by Joanna H. Fox

Sylvia Symonds, Associate Vice president of Educational Outreach, Arizona State University, AZ; Ryan Goodwin, Director, University of Central Florida for Higher Education Innovation, FL; David Thomas, Associate Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Community College of Philadelphia, PA; Joanna H. Fox, Deputy Director, Everyone Graduates Center, MD

Leaders of south Alabama educational institutions positioned around Mobile Bay share what they have learned in assembling a collaboration for student success from their previously isolated efforts. What does it take to initiate a collaborative – what are the building blocks? How long does it take to get started and then, how much more time to see results? How are leadership and trust built? What are the benefits? A group of interconnected educators who have known each other for much of their professional lives put their heads together to ask, how do we do better? Facilitated by John Green

~ Creating a K-12 and Higher Education Collaborative to Build a Pipeline for Student Success (PDF)

Faron Hollinger, President and CEO, The Akribos Group, AL; Joyce Woodburn, Academic Dean, Baldwin County Public School System, AL; Catherine Preston, Director, Academic Advising and Transfer Services, University of South Alabama, AL; Melinda Byrd-Murphy, Dean of External Funding and Instructional Services at Coastal Alabama Community College, AL; Jill Howell, Founder, N2College Consulting, AL

Leaders from two districts and situations will focus on “the how” of helping upper-grades high school students in the transition from high school to college and careers, with carefully tuned, well thought out, and unrelenting support systems that nag and nurture. Strong systems of coaches and guidance characterize both efforts. The districts represented are Atlanta Public Schools, GA (54,000 students, largely African American and high-poverty), and Uplift Education, a public charter school network in the Dallas, TX area (20,000 students, largely Latinx and high-poverty). Facilitated by Joanna H. Fox

~ Uplift Transition Support Model (PDF)

~ Achieve Atlanta Overview (PDF)

Susanne Diggs-Wilborn, Vice-President, Achieve Atlanta, GA; Remy Washington, Managing Director, Uplift Education, TX; Daniel Gray, Senior Director of Road to College and Career, Uplift Education, TX

Organizing Communities to Build Pathways to Prosperity: Jobs for the Future (JFF) from Boston joined four Midwestern communities in the Great Lakes Collaborative to implement the Pathways to Prosperity framework and bring together leaders in K-12, higher education, business/industry, and government to develop and implement rigorous career pathways leading to high-wage, high-demand jobs with opportunities for further education. In this session, we will hear from JFF and their university and community colleagues in Madison, WI, about what they achieved, the enabling steps in cross-sector collaborations, and lessons learned from which others can benefit. Facilitated by Michael Grady

~ A Clearer Path to College and Career Success: The Madison Story (PDF)

Michael Grady, Education Consultant, RI; Leah Moschella, Associate Director for Pathways to Prosperity Network, Jobs for the Future, MA; Bridgett Willey, Director, Allied Health Education Career Pathways, University of Wisconsin Health, WI, Hugh Wing, Community Development Specialist, City of Madison, WI

Douglas County Public Schools, Georgia. The superintendent and a team of top administrators in a 27,000-student diverse district east of Atlanta, share what it takes to start a county education collaborative – and why this matters for kids. This once rural, increasingly suburban part of Georgia has long recognized that education and economic development go hand in hand. Rooted in the local and regional ethos, this session will work through the question “How can we accomplish our vision for the students?” ideas. Facilitated by Sarah Frazelle

~ Welcome to the Douglas County School System (PDF)

Trent North, Superintendent, Douglas County School System, GA; Michelle Ruble, Assistant Superintendent of General Administration, Douglas County School System, GA; Pam Nail, Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, Douglas County School System, GA; Melanie Manley, Assistant Superintendent of Student Achievement, Douglas County School System, GA; Melanie McClellan, Director, Carrollton-Carroll County Education Collaborative, University of West Georgia, GA

If our young folks don’t know why or where they are going, how can we expect them to be motivated to get there? This panel will spur the audience in considering best middle year practices in expanding experience and exposure as the basis for youngsters self-determination, management, motivation and course setting in critical developmental years. Facilitated by Joanna H. Fox

Ericka Uskali, Executive Director, National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Achievement, IL; Mike Sabin, Principal, McDevitt Middle School, MA; Virgil Sheppard, National School Partnerships Director, City Year, PA; Heather Lewis-Weber, Program Director, Spark, PA

In this session, two nationally renowned collaboratives – California’s CORE Districts and New York’s New Visions for Public Schools – each working in geographic areas with more than 1.1 million students, and focused on analyzing, understanding, and sharing data with school and district partners to increase student success in challenging high school courses and improving the success rates of underserved students in postsecondary schooling and workplace trainings, share what works, what doesn’t, future directions, and considerations in scaling effective practices through collaborative efforts and networks to large populations. Facilitated by Angela Romans

~ Collaboration at Scale: Postsecondary Planning Across School & Sector (PDF)

Noah Bookman, Executive Director, Executive Director for CORE Data Collaborative, CORE Districts, CA; Jeremy Greenfield, Deputy Director for College Readiness, New Visions for Public Schools, NY; Angel Zheng, Senior Policy Analyst, New Visions for Public Schools, NY

California’s 1000+ school districts are organized into 58 local county offices of education now charged with helping their districts allocate this increased per pupil funding available in schools with high risk populations. The Riverside County Office of Education, located East of Los Angeles, serves as an intermediary organization that has spurred education innovation for many years. In this session, county education leaders share navigation steps they have promoted across students’ aspirations and progress. Facilitated by Kathleen Barfield

~ Ensuring all atudents will graduate from high school well prepared for college and the workforce (PDF)

HANDOUTS:

~ Which Model Would You Use (PDF)
~ Blank Fishbone (PDF)
~ Blank Driver Diagram (PDF)
~ RCEC Driver Diagram (PDF)
~ RCEC V2 Driver Diagram (PDF)

Catalina Cifuentes, Executive Director, Riverside County Office of Education, CA; Mike Barney, Executive Director Instructional Services, Riverside County Office of Education, CA; Gil Compton, Director I, College and Career Readiness, Riverside County Office of Education, CA; Martinrex Kedziora, Superintendent, Moreno Valley Unified School District, CA

Practitioners from the field will share their experiences building and implementing data systems. Some key considerations include: identifying data based indicators, building champions within a district, considerations for rural and urban systems, and decision points around contracting with a vendor and building the system internally. Facilitated by Sarah Frazelle

~ Recommendations from the Data Working Group (PDF)

Xan Tanner, Co-Founder and President, Panorama Education, MA; Monique Gagnon, Administrator, Research and Evaluation, San Jose Unified School District, CA; Jeff Watson, Senior Advisor, AEM Corporation, WI

The role of Advance CTE (Career Technical Education) in Expanding Youth Horizons and Preparing Students for Life: Innovative educators highlight innovative programming that fosters gender and social equity in preparing young adults with life, technical, and thinking skills, and their applications in high-demand economic sectors well beyond the categories of “traditional academic” or outdated “vocational” high schools. Dive into a contemporary perspective on the role CTE plays in preparing youth for the future. Facilitated by Austin Estes

~ Career Technical Education as a Pathway to Adult Success: National, State and Local Perspectives (PDF)

Austin Estes, Senior Policy Associate, Advance CTE, MD; Tiara Booker-Dwyer, Assistant State Superintendent for Career and College Readiness, Leadership Development, and School Improvement, Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) ; James Stockdale, Academy Coordinator, Knight High School, CA; Eric Williams, Assistant Director of Emergency Medical Technology, Jones County Junior College, MS

Rural and District Networks Building and Sustaining Ideas and Progress. Networks of school districts that share ideas and capitalize on each other’s learning are flourishing across the country. In this session, experienced and newer networks share insights from their varied perspectives on supporting rural students: Kentucky districts where an intermediary organization brilliantly capitalized on successive eras of federal funding to advance Appalachian students’ success; an initiative in Ohio undergirded by the American institute of Research; and a Harvard Graduate School of Education-supported effort in Ohio and New York. Rural districts educate approximately one quarter of the youth in our country. How can their effectiveness be maximized? Facilitated by Joanna H. Fox

~ Partners for Education Appalachian Network (PDF)

~ Building an Early Warning System Network (PDF)

~ Building and Sustaining Networks (PDF)

Dreama Gentry, Executive Director, Partners for Education at Berea College, KY; Bi Vuong, Managing Director, Education Practice at Project Evident, NY; Amy Szymanski, Secondary Transition and Workforce Development Consultant, Ohio Department of Education, Office for Exceptional Children, OH; Jenny Scala, Principal Researcher, American Institute for Research (AIR), National High School Center, CA

Keith White, Director of Research and Effectiveness, Assessment and Evaluation, Public Education Fund (PEF), TN; Nicholas Siler, The Howard School, TN

~ A Public-Private Partnership (PDF)

Tom Nenon, Provost of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Memphis, TN; Angela Whitelaw, Deputy Superintendent of Schools and Academic Support, Shelby County Schools, TN; Christopher Xa, Chief Research Officer, Peer Power Foundation, TN; Dennis Ring, Development Director, Peer Power Foundation, TN; Marygrace Hemme, Director of Academic Initiative and Training, Peer Power Foundation, TN