Alameda Science and Technology Institute: AUSD

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Alameda Science and Technology Institute AUSDs
Early College High School Program
Scientia potentia est.
Knowledge is power.

• A Presentation to the Alameda Board of Education
• 22 April 2008

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What is ASTI?

• Alameda Science and Technology Institute (ASTI)
  is an Early College High School (ECHS) providing
  a rigorous college preparatory curriculum
  preparing students to then enroll in full-time
  college courses in grades 11 and 12 with
  additional ASTI support.
• ASTI students benefit from a small school setting
  co-located on the College of Alameda campus.
• ASTI is a partnership between College of Alameda
  and Alameda Unified School District.
• Adhering to national ECHS Core Principles, ASTI
  aims to serve students who have been historically
  under-represented in post-secondary attainment.

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The ASTI Course of Study

• The ASTI Course of Study was created to enable
  students to achieve two years of transfer college
  credits while simultaneously satisfying AUSD high
  school graduation requirements.
• ASTI has also established a system whereby its
  Juniors and Seniors receive additional supports
  during the school day to help with college work.
• Thus, these ASTI students bring ADA to AUSD and
  also FTE (Full-Time Enrollment) funding to COA,
  meanwhile adhering to CDE state policy supporting
  Early and Middle College programs.

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ASTI Achievements to Date

• ASTI is a school of choice and option for
  families who want an accelerated ECHS academic
  program.
• Almost all ASTI courses earned UC a-g course
  approval.
• Moreover, ASTI is now a candidate for WASC
  accreditation.
• Because all ASTI Juniors and Seniors are also
  full-time college students at College of Alameda,
  ASTI has also helped COA meet its enrollment
  goals while increasing AUSDs college attendance
  rate simultaneously.
• ASTI will graduate its first Senior class this
  year in June. Most of these students will attend
  four-year colleges, and the majority of ASTI
  seniors will have earned as much as two years of
  transferable college credit to ease college
  transition in terms of readiness, time and money.

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ASTI Senior Achievements

• 100 of our ASTI Seniors are college-going and
  while still in high school! 100 will continue
  on.
• Every ASTI Senior will have earned anywhere
  between 30 and 95 college units, with ASTI
  Seniors averaging 63 COA units per student.
• These are not just easy college classes but
  instead are actually College of Alameda IGETC
  classes required for four-year university
  transfer.
• 18 out of 28 graduating ASTI Seniors will attend
  four-year universities next year 10 will
  continue on at community colleges before
  transferring on.

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How ASTI Fits AUSD Goals

• AUSD has espoused very specific student
  achievement goals with regard to eliminating the
  achievement gap that is currently evidenced in
  AUSD and most other K-12 districts.
• ASTI is a minority-majority school, representing
  its aim to meet ECHS Core Principles that outline
  explicit goals of enrolling students of color,
  first-time college goers and students of low
  socio-economic status.
• As an Early College High School, ASTI aims to
  consciously address and reverse the
  predictability of racial and SES academic
  achievement and moreover college attainment.
• Thus, ASTI and AUSD goals are shown to cohere and
  align.

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The Strength of a Small School

• ASTI benefits from being a small autonomous ECHS
  school located on the College of Alameda campus.
• ASTIs distributed leadership model allows
  teachers to help make and implement ECHS
  operational decisions.
• ASTI teacher Emily Ramos has now completed her
  Administrative Services Credential coursework.
• ASTI teacher Jennifer Ahn has now completed her
  coursework for college advising at UC Berkeley.
• ASTI and its staff work very well together and
  have evidenced leadership for this successful
  ECHS.

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www.ASTIschool.com