Central Texas strategic plan to build the strongest educational pipeline in the country

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Central Texas strategic plan to build the
strongest educational pipeline in the country
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History of the Blueprint

• Based on 2 years of research and thousands of
  hours of engaging the community, led by the
• Brought together 150 business CEOs, college
  presidents, community and education leaders to
  set priority goals
• Developed an unprecedented, comprehensive
  strategic plan
• Includes priority goals, indicators and targets,
  partners, and action strategies going forward

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Goal 1 Children Enter Kindergarten School Ready

• Why?
• 1 in 3 Central Texas Children are born to mothers
  without a HS diploma
• Parents have limited access to high quality
  care Areas with high concentrations of poverty
  lack accredited childcare centers
• Children enter Kindergarten every year not
  knowing a single color or letter and never having
  held a single book or crayon
• Current Goal 1 Efforts
• Created the first student School Readiness
  Standard in the history of the state
• Expanding early childhood services through
  Success by Six
• Developed local ECE services matrix and family
  checklists/guides
• Take Action!
• Work with your childcare provider to become
  state or federally accredited
• Help distribute Born Learning materials to
  families
• Promote early childhood and Pre-K legislation
  and funding

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Goal 2 Central Texas Eliminates Achievement Gaps
While Improving Overall Student Performance

• Why?
• Outcome gaps between groups are almost 40
  percentage points by 8th grade
• Highest needs schools have twice as many
  teachers not qualified
• Current Goal 2 Efforts
• Para Una Buena Vida campaign linking education
  to economic prosperity
• Regional English Language Learners Taskforce
• Outreach campaign to attract hundreds of middle
  school coaches/mentors
• Programs to identify and promote research-based
  practices to increase student achievement
• Take Action!
• Volunteer to be a middle school coach or mentor
• Promote PUBV messaging to schools, churches, and
  families
• Hire a student for the summer- provide
  opportunities to succeed

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Goal 3 Students Graduate College-and-Career
Ready and Prepared for a Lifetime of Learning

• Why?
• About 80 of our high school students are
  counted as on-time graduates, but another 20
  are lost in the system and never tracked to
  completion
• Just over 40 of Central Texas seniors are
  academically college ready
• 43 of those who go to college get any degree
  within 6 years
• Current Goal 3 Efforts
• New college credit opportunities for high
  schoolers in areas like engineering expanding
  higher ed transition opportunities
• Expansion of college and career readiness
  standards and assessments
• Austin College Access Network of collaborative
  providers
• Take Action!
• Join a schools Career Tech Ed Advisory
  Council
• Help to disseminate career readiness standards
• Volunteer for Countdown to College to help
  at-risk students transition into college

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Goal 4 Central Texas, as a Community, Prepares
Children to Succeed

• What does it mean for not just our teachers and
  schools to be accountable, but our community to
  be accountable for every student?
• Take Action!
• Join the Speakers Bureau to spread the word on
  the Blueprint

www.TheBlueprintforEducationalChange.org