350 Club Pilot Projects

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350 Club Pilot Projects

• BACKGROUND
• 350 refers to the minimum score that defines
  grade level proficiency on the California
  Standards Test
• No Child Left Behind requires schools to have a
  specific percentage of students demonstrating
  proficiency each year
• Achievement goals are gradually ratcheted up and
  schools that dont meet those goals face
  sanctions that interfere with local
  decision-making

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350 Club Pilot Projects

• PURPOSE
• To provide additional supports to students whose
  previous years scores were close to but still
  below the 350 mark so that they could advance
  into the Proficient category in the following
  year
• To demonstrate the capacity of Family Resource
  Centers to collaborate with schools in order to
  reach specific achievement goals in a relatively
  short period of time (one year)

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350 Club Pilot Projects

• INTERVENTION
  DESIGN PART I
• Pilot project sites Loma Verde, Montgomery,
  Otay, Rice and Vista Square Elementary Schools
• Target audience students with previous year CST
  scores of less than 350 in either Language Arts
  or Math (some schools narrowed target audience by
  focusing on ELL students, certain grade levels,
  or using the intervention to complement an
  existing program)
• Timing interventions were carried out in Spring
  2006, in the three months immediately preceding
  administration of the CST to students

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350 Club Pilot Projects

• INTERVENTION
  DESIGN PART II
• Components
• Kick-off event to which parents of targeted
  students were invited and extra supports for
  maximizing student achievement were offered
  through the school and FRC
• Series of four workshops for parents on How to
  Help Your Child Succeed in School, was provided
  in English or Spanish, as appropriate
• Extra tutoring time and learning tools for
  students were provided
• Note that program design varied from site to site
  in two ways target audience and intervention
  strategies

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  OBSERVED OUTCOMES PART I
• Engagement of target audience in intervention
  activities

Students already involved in after school
tutoring were the target population
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350 Club Pilot Projects

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  OBSERVED OUTCOMES PART II
• Improvement of CST scores for the most
  meaningfully engaged participants

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350 Club Pilot Projects

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  RECOMMENDATIONS
• Schools and FRCs should continue to partner to
  address the challenges presented by No Child Left
  Behind
• FRCs should engage parents in order to help them
  become involved in boosting academic achievement
  and identify needs for family support services
• Schools should provide increased learning time
  and additional high impact learning tools, such
  as Successmaker software