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Tremaine Kirkman

• Paly Freshman (Jordan, Escondido)
• Youth Community Service member
• YCS Fellow 2008-2009
• President, Student Equity Action Network
• Member, Paly Freshman Football Team
• Member, Paly Pep Band
• Pursuing UC A-G curriculum
• Stanford EPGY

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Potential Success Factors

• High Expectations
• Of yourself, first and foremost
• Working hard and doing your best
• From your family
• Help and support nobody is perfect
• From your teachers
• Need to believe in us and be personally invested
  in our success

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Potential Success Factors

• College-Ready Mindset
• College as a given, not an aspiration
• Expectation since elementary school
• Understand importance of achievement for your
  future success
• Follow college sports ?
• College-Ready Habits
• Develop good study habits
• Take responsibility for your school work
• Use academic enrichment tools/support

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Potential Success Factors

• College-Ready Know-How
• Get advice from counselors, college graduates
• Seek out college prep resources
• Especially if no college grads in the family
• Take courses in junior high to be ready for high
  school
• Think about what you want to do with your summer
• Create a college plan for high school
• Including courses, activities, test prep, etc.
• Create a support system with like-minded friends
• Share what you know!

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Students Want High Expectations
Percentage of students who feel strongly that
they would have worked harder if schools had
demanded more of students, set higher academic
standards and raised course requirements for
graduation
72
Source The Horatio Alger Association of
Distinguished Americans, The State of Our
Nations Youth, 20052006, 2005. From Achieve,
Inc. October 2008 slides, Case for Action
Raising Graduation Requirements.
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Potential Challenges

• Social Climate
• Can you be smart, cool and popular, especially as
  a minority student?
• Does the school/community celebrate our
  diversity?
• Is there an atmosphere of success around minority
  students?
• Are the success safety-nets in place for us?
• Where are the other minority students in my
  college prep classes?
• Why arent we being identified for GATE?

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Student Equity Action Network

• SEAN Mission College Readiness for All
• Launched summer 2008 at PNSC event
• Grass-roots student organization
• www.pasean.org http//blog.pasean.org
• SEAN Leadership
• Paly students
• Tremaine Kirkman
• Al Brooks
• Lucas Brooks

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Student Equity Action Network

• SEAN Impact Objectives for 2008-09
• Align PAUSD high school graduation requirements
  with state college requirements (UC/CSU A-G)
• College planning for minority freshmen
• Promote Stanford EPGY and other learning tools
• Publish informational briefing papers

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Student Equity Action Network

• Challenges in PAUSD
• The majority of Blacks and Latinos are
  non-proficient in math and English at all grade
  levels
• Only 46 and 40 of Black and Latino graduates
  meet UC A-G requirements
• vs. 71 and 81 for White and Asian
• Only 1 of Blacks and Latinos are identified for
  GATE
• vs. 10 each White and Asian
• Source State of California Department of
  Education, Dataquest 2007 and PAUSD Assessment
  Reports 2008

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Student Equity Action Network

• Challenges in PAUSD
• Our graduation requirements are not aligned with
  UC/A-G requirements (must figure out and opt-in
  to college track)
• Dr. Skelly plans to fix minor misalignments in
  English and Arts
• A GOOD START WE ALSO NEED
• 1 more year of math, including Geometry and
  Algebra II (currently Algebra I required)
• 2 years of foreign language (currently none
  required)
• Lab courses required for science credits
• Source www.pausd.org, www.paly.net

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Achieve, Inc.s American Diploma Project

• Achieve, Inc. is a bipartisan, non-profit created
  by the nations governors and business leaders.
• The Achieve Network includes 34 states that
  together educate 80 percent of the nations
  public school students.
• American Diploma states are aligning high school
  graduation requirements with state college
  standards.
• California joined in 2008.
• Source www.achieve.org

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SEAN Call to Action

• If they can do it
• A-G aligned San Jose Unified, Los Angeles
  Unified Mandatory American Diploma states
  Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, New York,
  Ohio, Tennessee
• Default (opt-out) American Diploma states
  Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana,
  Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, North
  Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas,
  Washington
• California Joined American Diploma Project in
  2008
• We can do it here!

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Conclusion

• Questions/Comments
• Contacts
• info_at_pasean.org
• tremainekirkman_at_yahoo.com
• Thank you!