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Keeping Every Student on the Path to High School Graduation, College Readiness and Adult

Success

Investing in Innovation (i3) winner

Diplomas Now

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Recognition for Diplomas Now

A PBS NewsHour feature highlighted Diplomas Now – Dec 6, 2012

“ But Chicago Talent Development Charter High School is not like most places. Centered in one of Chicago's toughest neighborhoods, it's a new approach to an old problem…already it's made a difference. At Chicago Talent, average daily attendance is at 90 percent - that's eight points above Chicago public schools. And so far, 92 percent of 9th graders are on track to graduate - 28 points above the district average. – CBS

“ Results of the program, piloted here last year,were so impressive that the program has spreadto four more cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, NewOrleans and San Antonio. The expansion is beingfunded with a three-year, $5 million grantfrom the PepsiCo Foundation. – USA Today ” ”

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$30M federal grant + $6M match through generous support of the PepsiCo foundation

60 high poverty middle and high schools in 10+ districts reaching 57,000 students

Conduct randomized experimental study validating the impact of the model, and focusing on the conditions necessary to:

Achieve 80% grad rates in high schools

Reduce by 66% the number of students entering high school below grade level

1,700 Applicants 49 Grantees

“Cutting-edge ideas that will produce the next generation for reform.” - Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education

Diplomas NowInvesting in Innovation Fund Validation Grant

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• The majority of the nation’s dropouts attend a small sub-set of its middle and high schools

• Within them we can identify the students who will not graduate absent effective intervention

• Effective interventions at the school, classroom, small group and individual level exist

Diplomas Now: Theory of Action

The Challenge: Assemble and assign interventions in a way that

works at the scale and intensity required

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The Challenge is Concentrated

A small set of high schools drives the nation’s dropout crisis, costing society too much money and wasting young minds.

About 1,600 high schools produce half of the nation’s dropouts.

Those schools currently are not designed to help kids off track succeed – there are too many needy kids and not enough resources.

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Early Identification

Diplomas Now is based on research by the nation’s leading dropout expert who found that a sixth grader with even one of the following Early Warning Indicators (EWI) was 75 percent more likely to drop out of high school:

poor Attendance

poor Behavior

Course failure in English or math

Future Dropouts Can Be Identified as Early as 6th Grade

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Education is the best pathway out of poverty

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There is little work in the 21st century without a high school diploma and it is nearly impossible to support a family without some post-secondary schooling or training.

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Research-based whole school reform model designed by Johns Hopkins University at the Center for Social Organization of Schools

Established model working in schools since 1994

Serving more than 100 schools, reaching more than 76,000 students nationwide

Serves as lead partner and operator in multiple sites nationwide

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Talent Development has demonstrated 5 point increases in Average Daily Attendance, 8 point increases in academic curriculum completion and 8 point increases in 10th grade promotion, improving likelihood of graduation by 8 points (MDRC 2005 study).

Communities In Schools has demonstrated up to 5 point increase in graduation for high implementing school sites (ICF study).

City Year has demonstrated increases in improving on-track attendance (50% of students went from chronic truancy to above 90% ADA) and literacy achievement (90% increase in raw literacy score improvement).

Demonstrated Impact of Three DN Partners

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Student EngagementAcademic Achievement Culture

Aligned with the Common Core State Standards

Meets students’ holistic needs for success

Creates school safety positive climate

Full-time Academic and Social-Emotional Supports

• Cost effective

• Comprehensive model

• Multiple years of support

• Integrates school day with extended day

• Provides whole school and individualized

supports

City Year’s Whole School Whole Child ModelFull-Time Academic and Socio-Emotional Supports

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Communities In Schools surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Our Unique ModelOur evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community's unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Communities In SchoolsIntegrated Student Supports

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Diplomas NowA Comprehensive Secondary School Turnaround Model

• Case management for

social service referrals to

community partners

• Brokering and engagement

of community partners

• Family Engagement

• Whole school prevention

services• Teams of near peer

mentors

• Instructional supports

• Attendance monitoring and

coaching

• Behavior monitoring and

coaching

• Afterschool/extended

learning

• One on one small group

mentoring

• Whole school positive

climate• School organization and

scheduling (double and

triple dosing)

• Teacher teaming and

research-based curriculum

• Job-embedded professional

development

• Early Warning Indicator

and Response Systems

• School climate

Integrated

Student

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Targeted

Support & Whole School

Prevention

Whole School

Reform

Shared belief that the way to fundamentally transform high-need schools & change the trajectory from dropout to graduate for the majority of students is

through collective impact.

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Diplomas NowA Comprehensive Secondary School Turnaround Model

Baton RougeBoston Chicago

Columbus Detroit

Los Angeles Miami

New York CityPhiladelphiaSan Antonio

Seattle Washington, DC

Shared belief that the way to fundamentally transform high-need schools & change the trajectory from dropout to graduate for the majority of students is

through collective impact.

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Data Supports• Easy access to student data

on the Early Warning Indicators

• Benchmarks tied to national and state standards

• On-site facilitator to leverage EWI data

Professional Development

Supports• Job-embedded coaching -

Math and English instructional coaches

• Professional learning community

• Professional development linked to grade/subject instructional practice Student Supports

Interventions to address early warning indicators of• Attendance• Behavior • Course Performance

Multi Tiered Response to Intervention Model• 8 to 20 City Year AmeriCorps members:

whole school and targeted academic and socio-emotional supports

• Communities In Schools on-site coordinator: case managed supports for highest need students

75-90 students

Teacher Team (4

teachers)

• Whole school attendance, positive behavior, college-going culture

• Strengthening student resiliency

Organizational Supports

• Inter-disciplinary and subject focused common planning time

• Bi-weekly EWI meetings• On-site school

transformation facilitator

Instructional Supports• Double dose math &

English• Extra help labs• Common college

preparatory or high school readiness curricula

Diplomas Now ModelSurrounding Teachers with Support

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Diplomas Now Initial Results-Cohort 12011-2012 i3 Schools

Getting off-track students back on track: The progress of students flagged with an off track indicator prior to the final marking period of the 2011-2012 school year in the twelve Diplomas Now i3 schools.

Overall Success : Average percentage of students who stayed on track and those who got back on track in Diplomas Now i3 schools over the 2011-2012 school year.

*Averages based on longitudinal data from participating 19 grades (seven 6th grade, four 7th grade, four 8th grade, and four nine 9th grade) in 11 schools in 6 urban districts. **Behavior data from 18 grades across 10 schools (one 9th grade excluded due to missing data)

Preventing students from falling off-track : Average percentage of students in Diplomas Now schools that were on track at the end of the first quarter and stayed on track through the remainder of the 2011-2012 school year.

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On TrackAverage* Percentage of Students

On Track

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Projected Change in Graduation Rates

• After one year of implementation these results translate into projected graduation rate increases of 10-20 points.

• Each additional graduate generated has a positive net societal benefit of $292,000*

*The Consequences of Dropping Out of High School http://www.northeastern.edu/clms/wp-content/uploads/The_Consequences_of_Dropping_Out_of_High_School.pdf

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Evolution of Diplomas Now

Research Base, Model

CreationValidation

Scale and National Impact

Breakthroughs in education research from Johns Hopkins University

Private sector seed funding – PepsiCo Foundation

Strong early results and expansion

Policy briefings and legislative agenda

Scale to multiple cities and multiple feeder patterns (50-75 schools)

Largest secondary school turnaround study Randomized Control Trial evaluation conducted by leading researcher MDRC(a leading non-profit and non-partisan research organization)

Amended Title I policy based on Diplomas Now study

Federal Investing in Innovation award and private sector match

Building partnerships to create pathways to college and career readiness and job training

Leveraging partnerships to provide students with additional mentoring and job shadowing opportunities

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Importance of the i3 Study

Diplomas Now is implementing the largest national Randomized Control Trial (RCT) of secondary school reform in the country

• will provide DN and our district partners with research-validated proof points for turning around secondary schools

• will demonstrate the conditions necessary for maximizing the impact of each partner.

• has significant potential to inform DOE strategy and education legislation targeting low performing schools.

• will provide an evidence base for how to turn around struggling schools

• will give districts, schools and CBOs replicable, cost-effective and research-validated components to support students in a variety of school settings

DN i3 RCT