Student Supports at Mishawaka High School
Mishawaka High School ◆ School within a school ◆ 1517 total students ◆ Approximately 350 Early College Students ◆ Cohort 1 graduated 2019 ◆ Earned 1450+ STGEC credits ◆ 9 STGEC completers in year 1 ◆ 6 AGS projected year 2 3
Student Supports ◆ Advisories ◆ Summer Bridge ◆ My Foundations Lab ◆ Pathway guidance ◆ College Connection Coach/es ◆ College Counseling
Student Supports Advisories - together for 4 years ◆ Early College Advisories (Chorts 1-3) ◆ Cohort 4 - Advisories built from Honors English 9 ◆ Cohort 5 - Back to blended advisories
Student Supports Summer Bridge Program ◆ 9th - Honors English prep ◆ 10th - AP World History Prep ◆ 11th - dual-credit Math 136 ◆ 12th - dual-credit Bio 101 (summer 2020=1st time)
Summer Bridge ◆ Uplifts students while breaking down fears, misconceptions, and other obstacles
“ Everything is not what it seems. Summer school can be--and was--fun. English can be explained like math because it acts like it. Mishawaka High School, although big, is relatively easy to navigate. It is possible for me to attend Notre Dame, a college I wish to attend, even though tuition is so expensive. People are not all going to tease, bully, et cetera, when an intelligent individual gets something wrong or does not understand something. The world is so much different than it appears. ” - Joy Thompson, ‘19 (written before 9th grade)
Goal: more opportunities for more students 9
Accelerating College and Career Readiness with My Foundations Lab & Accuplacer
3-pronged ELA Supports for EC students 2. All Early College students 1. Summer Bridge are placed into Honors All EC students who were NOT English 9 (Unless the in Honors English in 8th grade Summer Bridge teacher must participate in Summer flags them for 9 general Bridge programs. The program after the Bridge.) is also open to kids who were in 8th grade honors English and just want to participate. 3. EC students are in Ivy Tech Student Success AND MyFoundationsLab support
An online curriculum that A standardized placement test. couples with an Accuplacer diagnostic.
Our Early College High School Mishawaka HS - Cohort 1, class of 2019 Started @ 73 students Graduated @ 66 - Entry GPA cutoff → 2.7 - Used MyFoundationsLab - 99% CCR in Reading and Writing by the end of 9th 13
MyFoundations Lab Accelerates Growth After two years of EC success with MyFoundations Lab, Early Daily CCR we piloted it with 22 College English students in Daily English. (2017-2018) 40% grew 10 or more points in Critical Reading and 50% grew 10 or more points in Sentence Skills. At the end of the experiment, one “ Daily ” student was CCR in Critical Reading and another was CCR in Sentence Skills. 14
2018-2019 -- 9th grade English “ Traditional ” Early College Regular English 9 and Honors English Students daily-English students Students 45 min. Of My Plan: 45 min. Of My Foundations Lab Foundations Lab every No intervention every other day. other day. No Accuplacer Participate until Reality: Not all teachers pass Accuplacer followed the plan with fidelity.
2019-2020 -- 9th grade English Early College NEW: All 9th grade students will Students will all take the Accuplacer in Critical get 45 min. Of Reading, Sentence Skills, and Math My Foundations in October and again in May. Lab every other day. We will measure growth. We will use scores to better place 5th year of this approach. students in appropriate classes.
Using the lessons of EC to improve all student outcomes TEST IDENTIFY PLACE 17
We intend to identify more students who can earn dual credits earlier and help them enter the STGEC pathway. 18
Mishawaka Jessica Mann mannj@mishawaka.k12.in.us 19
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