The South Dakota GEAR UP program aims to increase the number of Native American and financially eligible students prepared for and graduating from higher education. It works with 24 middle schools and 14 high schools to provide academic support, summer programs, mentoring, campus visits, and assistance with financial aid and scholarships. The program emphasizes rigor, relationships, and relevance to intrinsically motivate students and ensure they are academically prepared and believe they can succeed. It also supports students and families to help guide students through higher education.
This academic plan outlines the multi-dimensional efforts of Keene State College and the Division of Academic Affairs to achieve academic excellence. It comes at a time in history when it will not be enough for educational institutions to be known for the physical attributes of their campus or community, or the measures of the many inputs that historically have equated with status in the educational pecking order. Our stakeholders—students, parent, community, system and legislators—are demanding evidence of real educational outcomes, which are captured best in one overarching College strategic goal—achieving academic excellence. The institutions that rise to this new challenge will succeed and prosper, while those that do not will languish. While the Division of Academic Affairs at Keene State College has primary responsibility for meeting this challenge, our success will depend on the creative energies and hard work of the entire College community.
Keene State College’s Strategic Plan challenges the college community to work together in “a dynamic progression to a new level of academic excellence.
This presentation focuses on how teaching for a global era fits into a new framework for elementary and secondary education. The attached listing shows funding sources--including the federal stimulus package--that can be leveraged to support the new vision of education.
In 2013, youth development nonprofit Our Piece of the Pie released its school-=based Dashboard that measured student performance. The system, unique to Connecticut, took multiple inputs from a variety of data sources and combined them into an integrated data warehouse.
Now, in 2014, OPP has produced Dashboard 2.0 that integrates the original dashboard with a Holistic Performance Index that measures student academic progress, student attendance, student behavior, career- and workforce-readiness, social emotional growth, and credit accumulation.
Partnering with Your Child for College ReadinessErica Wyatt
This is a Power Point presentation that I presented to parents, K-12 educators and administrators at the 2014 Wisconsin Education Association of Student Support Programs (WEASSP) Conference.
Presented by Chris Gabrieli, chair of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, at the Massachusetts Early College Initiative launch event on March 23, 2017. #ecil17
Event sponsors: Massachusetts Executive Office of Education, Department of Higher Education, Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
Event partners: MassINC, Massachusetts Business Roundtable, Rennie Center, Jobs for the Future
This academic plan outlines the multi-dimensional efforts of Keene State College and the Division of Academic Affairs to achieve academic excellence. It comes at a time in history when it will not be enough for educational institutions to be known for the physical attributes of their campus or community, or the measures of the many inputs that historically have equated with status in the educational pecking order. Our stakeholders—students, parent, community, system and legislators—are demanding evidence of real educational outcomes, which are captured best in one overarching College strategic goal—achieving academic excellence. The institutions that rise to this new challenge will succeed and prosper, while those that do not will languish. While the Division of Academic Affairs at Keene State College has primary responsibility for meeting this challenge, our success will depend on the creative energies and hard work of the entire College community.
Keene State College’s Strategic Plan challenges the college community to work together in “a dynamic progression to a new level of academic excellence.
This presentation focuses on how teaching for a global era fits into a new framework for elementary and secondary education. The attached listing shows funding sources--including the federal stimulus package--that can be leveraged to support the new vision of education.
In 2013, youth development nonprofit Our Piece of the Pie released its school-=based Dashboard that measured student performance. The system, unique to Connecticut, took multiple inputs from a variety of data sources and combined them into an integrated data warehouse.
Now, in 2014, OPP has produced Dashboard 2.0 that integrates the original dashboard with a Holistic Performance Index that measures student academic progress, student attendance, student behavior, career- and workforce-readiness, social emotional growth, and credit accumulation.
Partnering with Your Child for College ReadinessErica Wyatt
This is a Power Point presentation that I presented to parents, K-12 educators and administrators at the 2014 Wisconsin Education Association of Student Support Programs (WEASSP) Conference.
Presented by Chris Gabrieli, chair of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, at the Massachusetts Early College Initiative launch event on March 23, 2017. #ecil17
Event sponsors: Massachusetts Executive Office of Education, Department of Higher Education, Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
Event partners: MassINC, Massachusetts Business Roundtable, Rennie Center, Jobs for the Future
For the latest free CDE seminar we were very pleased to welcome Jon Bellum, Provost and Senior Vice-President at Colorado State University-Global Campus, to Senate House to talk about a case study for retention in online learning.
Colorado State University-Global Campus is a 100% online public institution focused on providing adults with career-relevant bachelor’s and master’s degrees. A university wide retention and persistence program was designed to provide its non-traditional students with the support they needed throughout the student lifecycle. Since implementing this process improvement, CSU-Global has been able to maintain first-to-third term retention rates that exceed 80% and a four-year retention/graduation rate that exceeds 75%.
The presentation ran through the processes involved in implementing this programme and reviewed the outcomes.
The slides and seminar is of interest to anyone involved in developing courses for online or flexible delivery – audio for the session can be found at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
High School and Community College Partnerships - Bridging the Gap to Higher EdHobsons
Relationships between high schools and local colleges can be a win-win for both sides of the fence. In this webinar, Nancy Daves (former College Counselor at San Jacinto College), Suzie Thomas (Director of Student Personnel Services at Clear Creek ISD), and Dr. Pam Campbell (Assistant Vice Chancellor for Educational Partnerships at San Jacinto College) discuss the positive impact of the relationship between Clear Creek ISD and San Jacinto College near Houston, TX. Learn how the relationship formed, how it helped ease students' transition to higher education, and get tips for beginning or enhancing a similar relationship in your community.
Presentation for the 2017 AACC conference featuring three ATD initiatives: Adjunct Faculty, Teaching & Learning National Institute, and the OER Degree Initiative
Presented at the 2013 NPEA conference by: Urban Teacher Center, Higher Achievement Baltimore
http://www.educational-access.org/npea_conference_speakers2013.php
We had the opportunity to attend the partners meeting at Roosevelt High School to share what is Linked Learning, pathway status, steps to certification, and how partners can work together.
Dr. Luis Vazquez, Regents Professor and Associate Vice President for Research at New Mexico State University, covers grad student funding sources, budgeting, and strategies for getting more funding.
1. South Dakota
Gaining Early Awareness and
Readiness for Undergraduate
Programs (GEAR UP)
Stacy Phelps,
Senior Program Manager
2. SD GEAR UP Mission
Increase the number of financial aid eligible
and American Indian students that are
prepared to graduate from higher education
3. SD GEAR UP Goals
• Increase the academic performance and
preparation for post-secondary education of
GEARUP students
• Increase the rate of high school graduation and
participation in post-secondary education for
GEARUP students
• Increase the educational expectations of
GEARUP students, and increase student and
family knowledge of post-secondary education
options, preparation, and financing
4. Summer Honors Program
Legacy
• Begin back in 1992
• 90% of participants are Native American
• 100% graduation rate from high school
• 87% placement rate in higher education
– Additional 9% in military
• 62% of students have graduate from or are
still enrolled in higher education
• 34 Alumni have received full ride scholarships
– 24 Gates Millennium Scholars
– 13 other Full Ride Scholars
(Creighton Scholarships, Coca Cola,
Packard Foundation, WISE Start)
5. Basis of the SD GEAR UP Model
• SD GEARUP increases the number of Native American
students that achieve success in higher education
through a rigorous, pre-college enrichment program
that is acceleration based and comprehensive by
design
• SD GEAR UP utilizing rigor, relationships, and
relevance as foundation
• SD GEAR UP identifies and engages stakeholders in
partnership focused on the success of individual
students
• SD GEAR UP informs and empowers families about
the realities, opportunities, and expectations of higher
education. Families become engaged in their student’s
academic career beginning in their sixth grade year
6. SDGEARUP Summer Honors
• Six week summer residential pre-
college enrichment program.
• Served over 250 students in grades 9-
12 in summer 2012.
• Includes students from all nine
reservations in SD and over 35 schools.
7. SD GEAR UP Implementation
Project will serve a cohort of 6,600 students in 6th - 12th
grades each year over a 7-year period
A federal matching grant (For each federal grant dollar spent
must be matched by an in-kind partner dollar.)
Activities:
• Foundational service to all grade levels
• Middle school to high school transition services to all grade
levels
• Middle school enhancements
• Middle to high school transition services
• High school enhancements
• High school to post-secondary transition services
• Other support services, i.e., professional development and
parent services
• Mini-grants to partner schools
9. The New Three Rs
• Rigor-all students need the chance to
succeed at challenging classes, such as
algebra, writing, and chemistry
• Relevancy-courses and projects must
spark student interest and relate clearly to
their lives in today’s rapidly changing world
• Relationships-all students need adult
mentors who know them, look out for them,
and push them to achieve
10. What we have learned
• Students succeed when they are
intrinsically motivated
• Students succeed when they are
academically prepared
• Students succeed when they believe
they can be successful
• Students succeed when they are
appropriately supported
11. Students succeed when they
are intrinsically motivated
• Emphasize importance of goals early
and link goals to students interests
• Establish short and long term goals
• Help students to see themselves as
part of an overall big picture
• Emphasis on delayed rewards, de-
emphasis on immediate rewards
• Career awareness
12. Students succeed when they
are academically prepared
• Each year of school is important
• Expose students to professional careers
early with clear pathways to success
• Plan and practice, practice, practice
successful behaviors
• Develop a Cohort Process of students-
positive peer support
• Rigorous acceleration based curriculum
with high expectations for success
13. Students succeed who believe
they can succeed
• Mentoring and Modeling
• Regular articulation of paths to success
• Financial Aid, College Visits, Expectation
that students will go to college.
14. Students succeed when they are
appropriately supported
• Families need to have a better understanding
of what their students are going through so
they know when to or not to intervene
• Life skills with emphasis on personal finance,
time management, and study habits
• Navigation of educational systems, higher
education and career awareness, and
academic planning
• Expose families to college life, prepare for
separation anxiety, and inform of positive
advocacy and support strategies
15. STUDENT ACTIVITIES
• Middle school academic and summer
program
• High school programs: freshman
transition, mentoring, summer programs
• Higher Education Campus visits
• Financial Aid and Scholarship
application development assistance
• Mentoring/social structure/web based
community
16. FAMILY ACTIVITIES
• Inform families about the quality opportunities in
higher education here in South Dakota
• Provide information to families focused on the value
of higher education
• Inform families about how to prepare and support
their students’ path towards success in higher
education
• Work with families to inform them of all possible
pathways to higher education-tribal colleges to BOR
institutions, etc.
• Develop an understanding of the financial realities
and the financial potentials of higher education
planning
17. SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
• Update school staff about higher education
planning opportunities and assist them in
building awareness in families
• Assist in school planning and leveraging
activities focused on academic student
success
• Supply career planning software and
professional development training
• Focus on changing mindset of school staff and
faculty that Native American students can
succeed in higher education
18. COLLEGE ACTIVITIES
• Inform higher education institutions staff and faculty
of the unique Native student needs
• Inform higher education institutions of strategies to
effectively work with Native students and their
families
• Create a positive matriculation environment between
SD GEAR UP schools and Higher Education
institutions
• Ensure higher education institutions are
demonstrating all of the positive things they have to
offer Native students
• Develop multiple paths focused on Native students
success, i.e. from tribal colleges to BOR institutions.
19. High School Transition
Strategies…Students
• Provide a rigorous academic
environment with mandatory study halls
at night.
• Provide financial literacy courses for
students on managing scholarship
resources.
• Develop mentoring support
opportunities with American Indian
College alumni from SD GEAR UP.
20. High School Transition
Strategies…Students
• Utilize an acceleration-based, extended
residential summer enrichment model.
• Use transitioning high school senior students
as mentors and role models to younger
students in summer programs--emphasizes
leadership responsibility.
• Develop positive peer cohort groups that go
to college together.
• Extended visits to college campus, three day
versus three hour.
• Extended visits include faculty and students
from individual departments on campuses.
21. High School Transition Strategies
for Families and Students
• Provide intensive workshops on:
– College awareness;
– Career exploration;
– Financial aid workshops;
– Academic year calendar development on critical deadlines;
– Scholarship application completion strategies (specifically
targeting Gates Millennium, state and local scholarships);
and
– College entrance applications.
• Host overnight college dorm stays for
families.
• Host family workshops focused on how to
raise a college bound student.
22. Strategies for Higher
Education Partners
• Building pathways to higher education thru
partnerships: tribal colleges, vocational schools, board
of regents of institutions--articulation agreements and
expanded dual enrollment programs.
• Extended visits to college campus, three day versus
three hour.
• Detailed orientation visits with departments on each
college campus.
• Facilitate expanding efforts of SD GEAR UP on more
post secondary campuses.
• Coordinating statewide discussions on Native
American student recruitment, retention, and success
plan.