Showcase Session Partnership Building: Building School-College Partnerships

The Institute for Urban Education at The New School
New Programs and Approaches for
High School/ University Collaborations

Historic Partnerships
A range of schools, many reflecting creative and eclectic approaches to structuring education shared by Eugene Lang College
Programs targeted at the pre-college and college-ready levels, inadvertently but effectively excluding students not already college ready level but who could, with supports, succeed in college
Semester-by-semester options created great flexibility for some students and schools but not enough structure for students needing more support

Re-visioning the IUE
Work from our strengths
What is unique about The New School that might be helpful to K-12 educational efforts?
Address critical K-12 needs
How can The New School be part of the city’s efforts to ensure high school success and college access for all, especially those historically underrepresented in college?
Address critical college needs
What does The New School need in order to ensure all students succeed when they matriculate, and how might those lessons translate to other colleges?
Keep what works
How do we ensure continuance of programs and programmatic aspects that work?

Structuring the New Vision

College Opportunities: Strengthening the Existing Pipeline
Dual credit immersion in high-quality liberal arts coursework
Atypical dual credit classes—media studies, theatre, urban studies, civil rights
Classes taught by regular faculty
No more than 2 high school students per class
New community supports to mitigate risks for some
Community building activities related to recruitment efforts
Access to financial aid and application workshops
Increasing integration into freshman programming
Social activities

College Preparation: Deepening the Pipeline
Selection of “cusp” or “middle of the road” students
Two-year commitment to students with high-quality resources
Academic supports for writing, reading, speaking within college contexts
Continuous development of students’ self-efficacy, leadership, and self-awareness through experiential and reflective activities
Cohort model as support network
College mentors as age-appropriate resources for adjusting to expectations and culture
Focused supports for college and career awareness, college searches, applications, and financial aid
Continued supports for students who find The New School a strong match for them

The College Preparation Model
College
Engaging Projects
Support Systems
Cohort identity
Access to Resources
Mentoring
Community

The College Preparation Academic Model

College Preparation: The Extra-curricular Model
College Exploration Series:
Social Inquiry Project-Students build investigative skills and explore college by getting to know New School students through college panels, visiting college campuses, and learning about ways of accessing college resources.
College Planning Days- These interactive sessions engage students in learning about the college application and admissions processes as well skills that will support their success in college. Topics include the college search, admissions process, personal essays, financial aid, time management and improving study habits.
Media Action Projects:
Learning about basic media design concepts and research methods through the development of technical skills and conceptual frameworks for effective communication of ideas and information in today's networked, multimedia environment.
Learn practical skills needed for creating multimedia presentations and websites with a range of authoring/presentation tools
Critically examine social web media in terms of participation, political involvement and community formation.

K-12/College Partnership: Changing the Future High School Experience
Deep partner sites to explore creative pedagogy in education
5-6 pilot schools with school change teams of 4-6 teachers committing to a 2-year change cycle
Coursework on pedagogic approaches that inspire engagement and creativity (design, project/field based work, arts integration, critical discussion)
School change plans designed by teams to appropriately apply learning
Action research documenting practice and providing inquiry support
Integration with data-driven district inquiry goals
Focus on more challenged schools

IUE Learning Arm: Deepening Systemic Understandings about College Access
Data-rich analytics blended with fieldwork
Partnership with NYC DOE to have system data for rigorous analysis
Coordinated, planned qualitative data that will allow case studies to systematically, not just anecdotally, inform hard data
Partner schools help drive interpretation
Summer research hours in year 3 to interpret data across sites
Change teams lead planning of city convening around what we learned about bringing rich pedagogy into data-driven district change processes

Showcase Session Partnership Building: Building School-College Partnerships

by Marissa Lowman on Apr 13, 2010

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