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Presentations from the Tenth Annual State Teams P-16 Institute
Minneapolis, Minnesota
July 29-31, 2007
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Sunday,
July 29, 2007
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM |
Orientation for Team Members New to P-16 State Network
Presenters:
Danette Gerald and Ross Wiener, The Education Trust
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Sunday,
July 29, 2007
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
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Opening Plenary: Getting Some Traction on the Higher Ed Side of the Ledger
Presenter:
Kati Haycock, The Education Trust
Although change at the higher education level has been a rhetorical priority in our states, energy has primarily been focused on securing change in K-12. At most, folks think about how higher education can help secure necessary improvements in our schools. This opening address will examine why that perspective needs to change, and what we can do to move in the right direction.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
8:15 AM – 9:30 AM |
Plenary: Organizing Higher Education Systems to Improve Access and Success for Low-Income Students and Students of Color
Presenters:
Thomas Meredith, Commissioner
Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning
President, National Association of System Heads (NASH)
David Carter, Chancellor
Connecticut State University System
Sally Clausen, President
University of Louisiana System
In this session, three university system heads will describe a bold new five-year initiative aimed at cutting in half the gaps in access and success that separate low-income and minority students from others.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM
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Concurrent Session (Round 1):
Using Data to Improve Student Achievement in College-Level Mathematics
Presenters:
Ron Henry, Georgia State University, GA
Danette Gerald, The Education Trust, DC
Join analysts from nine university systems who are taking a close look at student performance in entry level college mathematics. The work in their “Mathematics Success Project” is just getting underway, but the data offer a fascinating window into what is happening to even the students who are entering at the “college ready” level.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM
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Concurrent Session (Round 1):
Higher Education Feedback Reports that Matter
Presenter:
Dianne Bazell, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, KY
Learn about one state’s effort to reshape those old “higher education feedback reports” that typically land in principals’ wastebaskets. Kentucky is moving toward transforming its feedback reports into more powerful vehicles for mobilizing and engaging P-16 communities to take responsibility for the transition from high school to college.
To Download presentation, please click on list below:
http://apps.cpe.ky.gov/bazell/nash73007hsfr2004.ppt
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM
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Concurrent Session (Round 1):
Assignment Alignment
Presenters:
Shana Kennedy, The Education Trust, DC
Jennifer Smith, The Education Trust, DC
Learn about Standards in Practice, a powerful tool to help teachers get consistent levels of rigor in their own work—course assignments—so that their students’ work meets college-ready standards.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM
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Concurrent Session (Round 1):
What Do College Placement Assessments Measure?
Presenters:
Laura Slover, Achieve Inc., DC
Christine Tell, Achieve Inc., DC
In this session, participants will learn about Achieve’s research on current college assessment and placement practices. We will also hear about how states and communities can use these findings to avoid sending mixed signals to high school students about what it means to be college-ready.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM
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Concurrent Session (Round 1):
Achieving the Dream: Building a Culture of Evidence
Presenters:
Rhonda Glover, Valencia Community College and Data Facilitator, FL
Bonnie Gordon, MDC, Managing Partner for Achieving the Dream, NC
Susan Goldberger, Jobs for the Future, MA
This session will explore a movement among some of the nation’s community colleges that focuses on understanding and making better use of data. We will discuss how Achieving the Dream engages faculty and others in taking a close look at data on student performance – starting with the first college transition year – and how these findings are then used to inform decision-making on campuses.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM
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Concurrent Session (Round 1):
Democratizing Knowledge: College Access and Success in Puerto Rico
Presenter:
Jose Cruz-Rivera, University System of Puerto Rico, PR
In this session participants will hear about the many processes by which low-income students in Puerto Rico are directed away from the fields where high status and high paying jobs are most plentiful. This session has many implications for our access and success work in the United States.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM
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Concurrent Session (Round 1):
New Tools for Understanding How Students Move—and Don’t Move—Through High School
Presenter:
Linda Murray, Education Trust-West, CA
This session will share information about a new set of “audit tools” being used to debunk myths. Come learn how these tools are also being used to gain support for restructuring the high school academic program and for preparing all students for college.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
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Concurrent Session (Round 2):
Improving Quality and Consistency of Secondary Mathematics Instruction
Presenters:
Sue Pimentel, Achieve, Inc., NH
Laura Slover, Achieve, Inc., DC
How do we ensure that high school mathematics coursework is consistently rigorous across a state? Learn about two strategies, using end-of-course assessments and backmapping college readiness standards, that can help.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
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Concurrent Session (Round 2):
Transforming the Role and Practice of School Counselors
Presenter:
Peggy Hines, National Center for Transforming School Counseling, The Education Trust, DC
How can we get school counselors—and those who manage them—on board with the effort to get all kids college ready? This session will focus both on what states and school districts can do to ensure that counselors fulfill their most important role in accelerating student success and on needed changes in counselor preparation and professional development programs.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
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Concurrent Session (Round 2):
Getting Better Results in Developmental Education
Presenters:
Jim Applegate, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, KY
Jill Eatherly, Tennessee State Colleges and Universities, TN
Join this discussion about how two states, Kentucky and Tennessee, are improving developmental courses, both in terms of policy and in the practice of delivering that instruction.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
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Concurrent Session (Round 2):
Thinking Differently About Public Reporting and Accountibility: Measures of College/Work Readiness That Might Be Included
Presenters:
Christine Tell, Director, American Diploma Project, Achieve, Inc., DC
Jan Somerville, Senior Associate, NASH, The Education Trust, DC
This session will explore available data for broadening the way we look at and recognize improvement in high schools, especially around readiness issues and post-high school success. Presenters will discuss new analyses of state high school report cards and college feedback reports and explore the role of State P-16 Councils in rethinking approaches to accountability at the high school transition point.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM |
Concurrent Session (Round 2):
How to Get a Measure of College Readiness at the End of 11th Grade—and What to Do When Students Don’t Test College Ready
Presenters:
Beverly Young, The California State University System, CA
Pia Alexander, Long Beach Unified School District, CA
This session will focus on how the California State University System convinced the California State Board of Education to add a “Part B” to the state assessment in order to measure whether students met college readiness standards. Presenters will also discuss how Cal State faculty members are supporting teachers as well as students who don’t test at the college ready level, as well as teachers across the state.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM |
Concurrent Session (Round 2):
Acting on Equity Gaps
Presenter:
Rebecca Martin, University of Wisconsin System, WI
In order to identify and address its equity gaps, the University of Wisconsin System is supporting six campus teams that have adopted the Equity Score Card indicators and benchmarking process. This session will describe how the Equity Score Card is being used to assess the campus’ effectiveness, how faculty are engaged as agents of change, and the progress that is being made as a result of this process.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM |
Concurrent Session (Round 2):
Regional Action to Improve Student Success in High School
Presenters:
Linda Rinker, Western Connecticut State University, CT
Linda Vaden-Goad, Western Connecticut State University, CT
Abbey Zink, Western Connecticut State University, CT
Learn how the Connecticut State University System is using a regional P-16 structure to mobilize collaboration between high school and college faculty to reduce the need for remediation. It turns out that communities do not have to wait for their
states to work out all of the kinks in alignment to improve college readiness among high school students.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
1:30 PM –2:30 PM |
Concurrent Session (Round 3):
Raising High School Requirements Without Increasing Dropouts?
Presenters:
Michael Cohen, Achieve, Inc., DC
Jennifer Vranek, Education First Consulting, WA
Learn about a policy framework development by Achieve, Inc. and Jobs for the Future to tackle this thorny issue. This session will focus on what we’re learning about high school policy and redesign strategies that work to raise achievement and graduation rates, based on a three-state pilot project in Indiana, Massachusetts and North Carolina.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
1:30 PM –2:30 PM |
Concurrent Session (Round 3):
Using Federal Program Funds Strategically to Support Getting All Students College Ready
Presenters:
Terese Rainwater, State Scholars Initiative, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, CO
Dolores Mize, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, CO
This session will explore how to move from programmatic silos to more systemic approaches to improving college readiness using resources available through State Scholars, Academic Competitiveness and Smart Grants, and GEAR-UP.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
1:30 PM –2:30 PM
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Concurrent Session (Round 3):
Addressing the Teacher Shortage, Especially in STEM Fields
Presenter:
Charles Coble, Three Mile Consulting Group, NC
This session will look closely at current efforts to hold higher education institutions accountable for the supply and quality of teacher candidates in STEM fields.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
1:30 PM –2:30 PM
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Concurrent Session (Round 3):
Using Data on Student Achievement to Help Understand and Assess the Effectiveness of Teacher Preparation Programs
Presenter:
Jeanne Burns, Louisiana Governor’s Office/Board of Regents, LA
This discussion will focus on the latest findings from Louisiana’s groundbreaking work to measure the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs, both traditional and alternative, in terms of the learning gains their teacher candidates produce. Help project directors in shaping up their plans to understand the roots of the differences they are finding even among programs on the same campus.
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Monday,
July 30, 2007
1:30 PM –2:30 PM
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Concurrent Session (Round 3):
NCLB Reauthorization: New Incentives and Support for College Readiness?
Presenter:
Ross Wiener, The Education Trust, DC
Join this discussion about what is happening in the reauthorization of NCLB, including possible incentives and support for college ready standards and enhanced P-16 data capacity.
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Tuesday,
July 31, 2007
8:15 AM – 9:15 AM
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Plenary: Reflections on the Role of Arts and Science Leaders in Teacher Preparation
Presenter:
Sheldon Ekland-Olson, University of Texas-Austin
More than ten years ago, academic leaders at the University of Texas-Austin took bold steps to rethink the preparation of future teachers, especially in Math and Science. The initiative that resulted from their efforts, called UTeach, has not only radically improved the preparation of teachers on the campus, but also dramatically increased their numbers. Come learn some of the lessons from UTeach—about faculty involvement and about attracting high-end undergraduates—as the national roll-out of this effort is just getting underway.
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Tuesday,
July 31, 2007
8:15 AM – 9:15 AM
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Concurrent Session (Round 4):
Continue the Discussion About UTEACH
Presenter:
Sheldon Ekland-Olson, University of Texas-Austin, TX
Do you have more questions about how the UTEACH program was created and why it has been so successful? Do you want to hear more about the “lessons learned” from this innovative effort? If so, join Dr. Ekland for a follow-up to the morning plenary.
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Tuesday,
July 31, 2007
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
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Concurrent Session (Round 4):
Improving Teacher Selection to Improve Student Results
Presenters:
Tim Daly, President, The New Teacher Project, NY
Matt Kramer, President, Teach For America, NY
This session will highlight how Teach For America and The New Teacher Project use data to continuously refine their selection processes with an eye toward recruiting teacher candidates who will produce bigger learning gains for students. There are lots of lessons here for both school districts and for traditional teacher preparation programs.
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Tuesday,
July 31, 2007
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
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Concurrent Session (Round 4):
Breaking the Higher Education Cartel
Presenters:
Jesse Solomon, Director, Boston Teacher Residency, MA
Learn about the Boston Teacher Residency Program, which exemplifies one district’s approach to preparing its own teachers. Lessons learned and implications for higher education-based preparation programs will be discussed.
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