Early College High School Design Integration Initiative

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Early College High School Design Integration
Initiative

• Supported by the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation
• Foundation for California Community Colleges

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Early College High School Design Integration
Initiative

• Presentation Overview
• About the Foundation for California Community
  Colleges
• Description of the early college high school
  design
• Scale and scope of the national ECHS Initiative
• Rational for early college high school
• Scale of FCCC ECHS work
• Description of ECHS Design Integration Initiative

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• What our foundation is
• Official Auxiliary Foundation to California
  Community Colleges system
• 501 (c)(3) Non Profit Corporation
• Founded in 1998
• Our Mission and Vision
• Our mission is to benefit, support, and enhance
  the missions of the California Community Colleges
  system
• Our vision is to act as innovators and leaders
  increasing the systems resources, efficiency,
  and effectiveness.
• What we value
• Strategic thinking, collaboration, and execution
• Innovation The cornerstone of FCCC culture
• Providing value to colleges better, faster,
  lower cost

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• FCCC Primary Goals
• To provide financial and in-kind support to the
  California Community Colleges system
• To reduce the costs of system, district, and
  college operations, equipment, and facilities
• To enhance the effectiveness of local college
  foundations by supporting the Network of
  California Community Colleges Foundations
• To develop, promote, and support programs that
  increase access to and improve the effectiveness
  of the colleges
• To maintain the fiscal, administrative, and
  ethical integrity of the Foundation for
  California Community Colleges.

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• What are early college high schools?
• A small, autonomous school operating under the
  formal auspices of a secondary-post secondary
  education institutional partnership
• A school that targets underserved and
  under-prepared students
• A place where students are expected to pursue the
  following high school and college graduation
  outcomes in five years or less
• an Associates degree and/or
• Completion of a certification program that
  develops skills for a family-supporting job
  and/or
• Eligibility to transfer with advanced standing to
  a four-year college or university

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• National ECHS Initiative Scope
• 12 Partners will help to establish 170 Early
  College High Schools by 2008
• Antioch University/Seattle
• City University of New York
• Jobs For the Future
• Foundation for California Community Colleges
• Georgia Department of Education and the
  University System of Georgia
• Knowledge Works Foundation
• Middle College National Consortium
• National Council of La Raza
• Portland Community College
• SECME, Inc.
• Utah Partnership for Education
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• Why ECHS?
• The Challenge Keeping Pace in a Global Economy
• Of students entering U.S. high school only 7 of
  10 will graduate.
• Only 3 of 10 will complete a postsecondary
  degree.
• Approximately half of U.S. high school grads have
  adequate college-level reading comprehension
  skills, most lack college-ready skills in math
  and science.

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• Why ECHS?
• Substantial disparities exist
• All Students 68.9
• American Indian 49.7
• Asian/Pacific Islander 82.0
• Hispanic 57.0
• Black 55.3
• White 75.7

Orfield, G., Losen, D., Wald, J., Swanson, C.,
(2004). Losing Our Future How Minority Youth are
Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis,
Cambridge, MA The Civil Rights Project at
Harvard University. Contributors Advocates for
Children of New York, The Civil Society
Institute.
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Early College High School Design Integration
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Early College High School Design Integration
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• Key Early College High School Elements
• Strong formal secondary-post secondary
  partnership committed to ECHS student outcomes.
• Intentional focus on promoting literacy and
  college access and success with personalized
  learning plans for all students.
• Partners establish a student support network
  dedicated to maximizing student potential and
  success.

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• Key Early College High School Elements
  (Continued)
• The school culture supports high expectations for
  all with a college-going feel often supported
  by power of place associated with college
  campus based activities.
• Strong partnership support for professional
  development and school improvement.
• Use of student assessment to inform school
  practices and effectiveness of ECHS Initiative
• Partnership demonstrates a commitment to
  sustainability.

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• Foundation for California Community Colleges
  Support
• Assists partner organizations in creating their
  design plans and completing their grant
  applications.
• Selects the sub-grantees.
• Provides technical assistance, coaching and
  professional development once sites are selected.
• Coordinates the sharing of ECHS best practices
  and analyzes ECHS and student performance data.
• Works with state agencies and education groups to
  promote and support Early College High Schools
  and the Early College High School model.

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• Introduction
• Primary focus is to promote formal secondary-post
  secondary collaboration to accomplish ECHS
  student outcomes
• FCCC will fund eight sub grantees
• Three year grants are to support partnerships
  with start-up funds only.
• Grantees will receive 173,400 over 3 years plus
  FCCC will provide professional development and
  coaching support.
• Partnership must include current or formerly
  funded Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  supported secondary school with tenth grade
  students attending by 2007-2008

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• Overarching Goals
• To increase the number of students who graduate
  from high school college-ready.
• To increase the number of students who experience
  college success.
• To strengthen the National ECHS Initiatives
  influence on in California high school
  reform/reinvention.

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• Coaching Professional Development
• Professional development activities will be
  mutually determined by partnership and FCCC
• FCCC will annually provide the following
• Four days of coaching per school
• One day of project leadership
• One professional development convening
• FCCC is eager to collaborate with other
  intermediaries working in California

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• Application Submissions
• Due Diligence Application with Scoring Rubric
• Memorandum of Understanding
• Draft
• Signed by the chief executives of secondary and
  post secondary partners
• Dates and processes for formal approval by
  governing boards
• Resources are available for download at
  http//www.foundationccc.org/Default.aspx?tabid70
  

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• Application Timeline
• February 22, 2007
• All proposals are due at 500 p.m. and must be
  sent two ways
• Email to ECHS_at_foundationccc.org
• Deliver three hard copies with original
  signatures must be by 500 p.m. to
• ECHS Proposals
• Foundation for California Community Colleges
• 1102 Q Street, Third Floor
• Sacramento, CA 95814
• March 22, 2007
• Finalists selected, notified, and announced

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Early College High School Design Integration
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• Critical Follow Up Dates
• March 26, 2007
• Successful candidates participate in a statewide
  conference 10 a.m. call
• May 1, 2007
• Agreements signed between FCCC and successful
  recipients with timeline and schedule of payments
• June 1, 2007
• A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or Agreement
  (MOA) between the participating college and high
  school is due in the FCCC office.

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• Critical Follow Up Dates (continued)
• June 22, 2007
• Mandatory meeting for teams from each selected
  site. Teams include College liaison, two faculty
  from each of four academic disciplines English,
  mathematics, science, and social studies, college
  counselor, ECHS principal, ECHS faculty from each
  of four academic disciplines English,
  mathematics, science, and social studies, and
  ECHS counselor.
• June 1 August, 2007
• Student identification, testing, and enrollment
  for Cohort 1

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• Application Scoring
• The Due Diligence Application serves also as a
  Scoring Rubric. Please note on the tops of the
  columns the number of points possible for each
  benchmark element is listed. Readers will assign
  points to each section of the benchmark to arrive
  at the total score.
• Applications will scored and ranked by a team
  selected by FCCC

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Early College High School Design Integration
Initiative

• Application Scoring
• The Due Diligence Application serves also as a
  Scoring Rubric. Please note on the tops of the
  columns the number of points possible for each
  benchmark element is listed. Readers will assign
  points to each section of the benchmark to arrive
  at the total score.
• Applications will scored and ranked by a team
  selected by FCCC

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Early College High School Design Integration
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Contact Information Foundation for California
Community Colleges 3478 Buskirk Avenue, Suite
333 Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 Jeff Thompson V.P.
Learning Programs Email jthompson_at_foundationccc.o
rg Phone [phone] Joyce Arntson V.P.
Grants and Development Email jarntson_at_foundationc
cc.org Phone [phone]