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Stay StrongProject 8: College and Career Readiness Investment Fund Review Training

May 30, 2014 and June 2, 2014

Hilary Loeb hloeb@psesd.org 425-917-7603College and Career Readiness Manager

Overview of Presentation• Rationale for Stay Strong Projects• Overview of Stay Strong Projects• Overview of request for proposals (RFP) and rubric• Questions and answers

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Rationale for Stay Strong ProjectsMedian Lifetime Earnings by Highest Educational Attainment, 2009 Dollars

$973,000 $1,304,000

$1,547,000 $1,727,000

$2,268,000 $2,671,000

$3,252,000 $3,648,000

Source: Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce

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Rationale for Stay Strong Projects

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25%

50%

75%

100%

6.2%10.7%

10.9% 15.0%14.9%

33.9%

40.2%

79.1%

BottomSecondThirdTop

Source: Postsecondary Education Opportunity

US Bachelor’s Degree Attainment Rate for All 24 Year-Olds, by Income Quartile

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Overview of Stay Strong Supports: Project 5Create a Regional System for Career Awareness and Exploration ($1.2 million)

• Invests in new digital career exploration tools for students

• Creates a region-wide system linking students and with local employers who offer internships and other opportunities

• Career awareness and exploration will inform student plans for courses, college and career

• Also includes teacher externships

• Some tools already being used in Highline, Renton, Kent, Federal Way and Auburn

Impact: all students in the region, system-widePerformance Measures: Percent of students who are engaged & motivated on the Student Engagement & Motivation Survey

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Overview of Stay Strong Supports: Project 6Create an Integrated System of Middle and High School Advising ($3.0 million)

• Establishes a College and Career Readiness Advising Training System for middle and high school counselors and other school staff to support student success

• Expands the UW Dream Project partnership to provide high-need schools with Counselor Assistants

• 17 counselor assistants in 2013-14• 60 counselor assistants in 2014-15• 90 counselor assistants in 2015-16 (through Dec. 2016)

Impact: students in high-need high schools and feeder middle schoolsPerformance Measures: Percent of students who: submit FAFSA; complete FAFSA; meet minimum WSAC college entry requirements, graduate from high school in 5 years; take AP or IB; are suspended or expelled in 9th grade.

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Overview of Stay Strong Supports: Project 7

Adopt the College Board College and Career Readiness Pathway (ReadiStep, PSAT and SAT) ($3.3 million)

• Provides the Pathway for students in all districts, free of charge, during the school day.

• Results from the assessments will be used to inform High School & Beyond Plans and course planning

Impact: students in all middle and high schools in the regionPerformance Measures: Percent of students who: submit FAFSA; complete FAFSA; meet minimum WSAC college entry requirements, graduate from high school in 5 years; take AP or IB; are suspended or expelled in 9th grade; take remedial coursework in college

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Overview of Stay Strong Supports: Commitment 5Full Implementation of the High School & Beyond Plan

• As part of our application, the Road Map Consortium districts committed to supporting student completion of the High School & Beyond Plan in 8th grade and strengthening support and guidance to students in developing plans.

• We also committed to using the plans to inform course offerings and scheduling

• We are starting with high-need schools receiving counselor assistants and participating in the new career awareness supports.

Impact: all students in the region, system-widePerformance Measures: Percent of students who: submit FAFSA; complete FAFSA; meet minimum WSAC college entry requirements, graduate from high school in 5 years; take AP or IB; are suspended or expelled in 9th grade; take remedial coursework in college

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Overview of Stay Strong Supports: Project 8 College & Career Readiness Investment Fund ($4.1 million)

• Creates an investment fund that districts may access to strengthen course rigor and increase the variety of college and career ready courses available

Impact: Students in high-need high schools in the regionPerformance Measures: Percent of students who: meet minimum WSAC college

entry requirements, graduate from high school in 5 years; take AP or IB; take remedial coursework in college

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0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

$1,500,454

$1,500,454

$750,227

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3

Project 8 Investment Fund Goal and Project Examples

• Project Goal: To strengthen program and course pathways as well as course rigor and course selection, providing better choices to support personalized learning– Teacher training to offer more AP courses– Creation of a high school IB program– Technical assistance to support complex tasks such

as adjusting high school schedules to add new course sections

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Project 8 RFP Development Process

• Convened Investment Fund Technical Workgroup

• Shared criteria with RTT-D Executive Committee

• Revised RFP based on Technical Workgroup feedback

• Developed Scoring Guide

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Project 8 Investment Fund Grants 2013-14

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• Auburn School District: College Board Springboard Advising & Industry Certification, $200,880

• Federal Way Public Schools: AP Support, Persistence & Completion, $199,672

• Highline Public Schools: Ninth Grade Support, $250,000

Project 8 Investment Fund Grants 2013-14

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• Kent School District: AP Participation, College Bound Student, $220,754

• Renton – Seattle Partnership: International Baccalaureate Expansion and Family Support, $170,640

• Renton - Seattle Partnership: International Baccalaureate Expansion and Family Support, $251,552

• Tukwila School District: Get Ready, Get Out, Get In (AP Enrollment, Graduation, College Entrance), $200,000

Investment Fund Supports

• Information and collaboration sessions• Detailed comments on letters of intent• FAQs• Pre populated budgets• Technical assistance

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Overview of RFPhttp://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1603108/Race-to-the-Top-Project-8-RFP-Round-2-Application

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Overview of Criteria and Scoring Guidehttp://roadmapracetothetop.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Approved-Project-8-Criteria-and-Rubric.3.21.14-HL.pdf

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Scoring Process• Roles and responsibilities of lead facilitator• Roles and responsibilities of team facilitators• Roles and responsibilities of reviewers• Roles and responsibilities of note takers• Conflict of interest and confidentiality

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Scoring Process: Norms in 2013

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• Panel members will disclose potential or perceived conflicts of interest.

• Panel discussion and decisions today will remain confidential.

• No comments during the process will be attributed to individual reviewers.

• Panel decisions will be based on content in the proposals and research about evidence-based and promising practices.

• Panel members will use professional judgment in scoring proposals and arriving at consensus within and across review panels.

Scoring Process: Norms in 2013

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• Panel members will use a high bar when applying scrutiny to proposals by asking challenging questions about both the need for district strategies and the approaches to promoting students’ college and career readiness.

• Cell phones will be set to vibrate and calls should be answered outside of the meeting room.

• Facilitator will guide discussion to reach consensus about proposal scores and funding levels. Any adjustments to agenda during the course of the day will be approved by Race to the Top Director and Project 8 College and Career Readiness Manager.

• Others?

Scoring Process: Practice

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• Read Highline proposal excerpt Systems Level Plan – Theory of Action pages 5-11

• Using the scoring guide, rate the proposal based on• Requirements 1, 5 and 6• Priorities 1, 4 and 5

• Share your ratings with an elbow partner• Prepare to report out on your discussion:

• What were similarities?• What were differences in your ratings?• What additional support do you need to calibrate

scores?

URLs for Key Documents

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http://roadmapracetothetop.org/project-8-college-and-career-readiness-investment-fund/p8-r2-ref-matl-scoring-panel/

• Proposals • Round 1 proposal excerpts• Criteria and rubric

http://roadmapracetothetop.org/project-8-college-and-career-readiness-investment-fund/p8-addl-resources-for-round-2/

• Other supporting materials shared with districts:

Questions and Answers

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