Birth to College Collaborative Partnership: University of Chicago - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Birth to College Collaborative • Partnership: University of Chicago Charter School-Ounce of Prevention Fund • 2009- present 2

Birth to College Collaborative Why? • Achievement gap appears at 9 months old • Nationally, only 40% of four-year-olds attend a publicly funded prekindergarten • Only 50% of these programs are high quality • Benefits to high quality prekindergarten fade as early as kindergarten due to lack of alignment 3

Birth to College Collaborative Vision We will build a model of public education for children and their families that begins at birth and creates success in school, college and life. Mission The Birth-to-College Collaborative mission is to align and create instructional approaches and academic and social supports to accelerate student learning, while honoring and building on the strengths of the families we serve. 4

Birth to College Collaborative Objective 1 • Develop and engage in a comprehensive, transformative approach to professional development that results in a new, shared belief system and set of values, behaviors and practices that will demonstrably improve outcomes for children and their families. Objective 2 • We will launch and refine a coordinated, high-quality, birth-to-age-eight model of public education that establishes consistent expectations for children’s development and learning, standards, curriculum, assessment and family supports from birth to 3rd grade. 5

Birth to College Collaborative Objective 3 • We will provide our families with a coherent set of experiences from birth to grade three, including intensified supports for parents of children with special needs, while at the same time honoring and building upon our families’ strengths. Objective 4 • We will document our efforts to develop a birth-to-eight education model, and disseminate best practices and lessons learned from the project to inform initiatives in other school communities and influence broader educational reform. 6

Birth to College Collaborative • Goal: Creation of a seamless pathway- “Birth to College” • Hybrid Funding: Foundation, private philanthropy, public • Challenges • Building shared philosophy • Ongoing focus given other priorities • Keeping students in the pipeline • Alignment through entire school pathway 7

Chicago 2015 Leadership Exchange October 23, 2015 Jonathan Furr Executive Director Education Systems Center at NIU

9 Illinois Pathways Background Education and economic development systems not adequately aligned National Forecast by Sector and Education (Center on Education and the Workforce: https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/9pvw2eqcu0x8jz665nxg)

10 Illinois Pathways Background (cont’d) Youth unemployment at historic highs (Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ALFS_SUMTAB)

11 Illinois Pathways Goals 1. Increase the number of Illinoisans who attain a postsecondary credential with labor market value and are ready for employment in high-demand, high-wage occupations involving the application of STEM knowledge and skills 2. Spur state and regional economic development by developing a homegrown talent pipeline for areas of workforce need

Illinois Pathways Targeted Sectors 12

13 Illinois Pathways Overarching Strategies 1. Align State education, workforce, and economic development systems to support targeted sectors and occupations 2. Launch and support statewide, public-private partnerships in high-growth industry sectors, known as STEM Learning Exchanges 3. Support regional career pathway systems in targeted industry sectors and occupations that respond to local economic development objectives

14 STEM Learning Exchanges 1. Advise communities on career pathway system structure and best practices in a particular sector 2. Deliver high quality curricular and professional development resources 3. Expand access to real world challenges and work- based learning Organized and led by an industry-supported nonprofit or public entity

STEM Learning Exchange Impact Illinois Manufacturers Association Education Foundation • 30 of 48 community colleges; moving toward 60 high schools developing a Manufacturing Pathway of Learning • Since 2008 expanded MSSC Certified Production Technician authorized instructors from 4 to > 100; credentials from 50/year to > 3,200/year • Young Manufacturers’ Summer Academies – middle school youth • Advanced apprenticeship models with German American Chamber of Commerce

STEM Learning Exchange Impact CompTIA • Modularized, half-day or full-day presentations about careers in IT • Raspberry Pi professional development and student competitions • Developed sequence of IT work-based learning in high school; 90 employer commitments for internships in 2015 summer; expanding model throughout Illinois

Regional Implementation to Date RTTT3 School Districts: 25 school districts 1. implementing at least two career pathways in prioritized sectors Learning Exchange Partners: Regions working 2. with Learning Exchanges to support career pathways in a particular sector or sectors Pathways to Prosperity Network: Chicago, 3. Aurora, East St. Louis, Peoria 60 x 2025 Network Communities: Voluntary 4. network; aligning pathways with collective impact processes

Jon Furr jfurr@niu.edu ilpathways.com

Denver Leadership Exchange Cradle to Career Strategies: P-TECH 9-14 Model Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs IBM Corporation

The context for our work  United States is experiencing a Skills Gap • Center for Labor Market Studies: Employment rates for teens, ages 16 to 19, and young adults, ages 20 to 24, have dropped to new post-World War II lows • Employers cannot find talent  August 2013: IBM has 1,800 jobs unfilled  High school is not longer enough • Average pay: $9/hour  Pathways to Prosperity (Harvard): U.S. must broaden the range of high-quality pathways offered to young adults • Community college graduation rates hover at or about 25%. • There are 28 million middle skill jobs – those requiring postsecondary degrees – currently available in the U.S., with these jobs paying close to $40,000 per year on average. • Over the next 10 years, 14 million new jobs requiring middle skills – a 50% increase – will be created, with those needing STEM skills the highest paid of those jobs. Source: If applicable, describe source origin 20

A new model for education: P-TECH 9-14  Focus: A new grade 9-14 public school model focused on STEM fields and Career and Technical Education  Mission: Enable students to master the skills that they need either to graduate with a no-cost Associates in Applied Science degree that will enable them to secure an entry-level position in a growing STEM industry, or to continue and complete study in a four-year higher education institution. 21

Key Tenets  Systemic Partnership: K-12, higher education, and industry  Public school model : Open to all students, with no cost to students and their families  Early College: Six-year scope and sequence integrating high school and college coursework and leading to an AAS degree for all students  Career-Readiness: Workplace Learning sequence including skills mapping, coursework, mentors, worksite visits, speakers and skills-based, paid internships  Personal Pathways: Focus on mastery, not seat time that enables students to graduate in 4, 5, or 6 years  Funding : Public education funding model 22

The Power of Partnership Public School District, Lead School Partner & School Leader Community College Employer System & Partner(s) Lead College Partner 23

High School Re-design Movement P-TECH Replication 70 60 60 50 40 40 27 30 20 8 10 6 1 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn, NY New York New York New York New York Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut Colorado Rhode Island Australia

IBM partner schools 1. Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) : Partnership: New York City Department of Education, The City University of New York, New York City College of Technology, IBM 2. Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy: Partnership: Chicago Public Schools, City Colleges of Chicago, Richard J. Daley College, IBM 3. Excelsior Academy: Partnership: Newburgh Enlarged City School District (NY), SUNY Orange, IBM 4. Norwalk Early College Academy: Partnership: Norwalk Public Schools (CT), Norwalk Community College, IBM 25

Real Results Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy (Goode) Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH ) • 829 total student population • • 133 students in grades 10, 11, 12 530 total student population • currently enrolled in college courses Average attendance rate is 90% • • 13 students completed internships 93% retention rate in legacy cohort • with IBM in summer 2015; 44 91% college readiness in legacy cohort • students overall 6 graduates within 4 years Norwalk Early College Academy (NECA) Excelsior Academy • • 153 total student population 100 total student population • • 40% of students placed into college 96% average attendance rate 78% of 10 th grade students • level work at the end of 2014-15 school year. enrolled in college coursework 2 6