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ELTsummit.org

What are we learning?Eric Schwarz

Co-Founder and CEO, Citizen Schools

Opening Address at Citizen Schools ELT Summit


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Per-Pupil Expenditure and NAEP Scores

Per-Pupil Expenditure for Fall Enrollment in 2008-2009 do llars NAEP Long-Term Reading Scores (Age 17)

NAEP Long-Term Math Sco res (Age 17)

SOURCES: Expenditures: Digest of Education Statistics 2010 (NCES 2011-015). Table 193. Age 17 NAEP Score: NAEP Data

Explorer. http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/report.aspx

THE NEED FOR EXPANDED LEARNING TIME

Over the last 40 years, school costs have grown significantly but results

have been flat


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Per-Pupil Expenditure and School Time per Year

Per-Pupil Expenditure for Fall Enrollment in 2008 -2009 dollars School Time per Year

SOURCE Expenditures: Digest of Education Statistics 2010 (NCES 2011-015). Table 193.

and time in the classroom remains flat despite the rising costs



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Industrial-eradesign

Limited teacher pipeline

Our education system is stuck in a box



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Tra d. Public Schools Typica l

Turnaround/ Transformation

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Rocketship Ed . Achievement First Unc ommon Sc hools C itizen Schools ELTMod el KIPP

HoursPerYear

Comparison of School Time Per Yea

EXPANDED LEARNING TIME LANDSCAPE

A lesson from charters is that most of the successful ones add a lot more

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Schools

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Citizen SchoolsELT ELT Model

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Whole School Benefits

SECONDSHIFT

STAFFING

ACADEMIC

PRACTICE

REAL WORLDLEARNING

FAMILYENGAGEMENT

COLLEGE TOCAREER EXPOSURE

BENEFITS TO PARTNERSHIP WITH CITIZEN SCHOOLS


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SNAPSHOT OF CITIZEN SCHOOLS PARTICIPANTS

96% of Citizen Schools ELT participants are children of color and 84%

are eligible for free- or reduced- priced lunch. Percentages of Englishlanguage learners and special education students are generally higher

than district averages.



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Citizen Schools operates primarily in middle schools but also in k-8 schools and one

k-12 school. Our focus is grades 6-8. About one-third of schools serve all middle

grade students in the ELT program.Two-thirds target all students in one or two

grades (6th or 6th and 7th) and make the program optional for other grades.

SNAPSHOT OF CITIZEN SCHOOLS ELT PARTNERS

*Data based on 18 schools. The program structure of one of our schools is not yet finalized.**Includes three New Jersey K-8 schools (we are serving all middle school students).


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Some schools started to implement ELT through the Massachusetts ELT

initiative; others started as part of their transformation or turnaroundstrategy through SIG; but a majority have chosen ELT as a strategy to

improve their school without benefit of any special additional funding.

PATHWAY TO ELT


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As we reach scale, we project direct costs for ELT will be $1,800 to $2,000 with a majority

of funds coming from existing k-12 sources. In FY11, ELT schools enrolled an average of

160 students at an average direct cost of $378,808 ($2,368 per student). Public funds

covered 82 percent of direct costs, with private funds covering remaining direct costs and

all indirect costs.

COSTS/SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR ELT


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Prior to instituting ELT, partner schools on average made no or minimal progress in

building student proficiency. On average, partner schools performed similarly but

slightly worse than district averages. Based on data from five schools that havepiloted ELT with Citizen Schools for one to four years, average annual proficiency

gains have been much larger.

PROFICIENCY RATES:AVERAGE ANNUAL PERCENTAGE POINT CHANGE

Average Pre-ELTChange for CSSchools (peryear; up to 5

years)*

Math (6TH Grade)

Average Changefor Districts

(2006-2010)*

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ELA (6TH Grade)

(0.7)

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(0.6)

Average Post-ELTChange for CS

Schools**

Average Pre-ELTChange for CSSchools (per

year; up to 5years)*

Average Changefor Districts

(2006-2010)*

Average Post-ELTChange for CS

Schools**

*Grade-level data not available for New Mexico**CS Schools include: Edwards (2006-2010), Umana (2006-2009), Salemwood, (2006-2010) , Garfield (2009-2010), and Jane Long


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KEY SUCCESS FACTORS TO IMPLEMENT HIGH QUALITYPARTNERSHIP-DEPENDENT ELT SITES

1. Strong principal and campus director

leadership and a shared culture of high

expectations

2. Shared data and training across first

and second shift educators. Alignment

of curriculum

3. High-quality, second-shift educators

provided by CBO partners with

excellent hiring, training and feedback

procedures


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Citizen Schools is a leading national nonprofit provider of expanded learning time programs forstudents in the middle grades. We uniquely mobilize thousands of adult volunteers to participate ineducation by teaching hands-on apprenticeships. Our programs integrate these authentic learning

projects with activities that build academic, leadership and study skills, preparing adolescents forachievement in high school, college, the workforce and civic life.

Eric Schwarz, Co-Founder and CEOMuseum Wharf308 Congress StreetBoston, MA 02118Tel: 617.695.2300Fax: 617.695.2367Email: [email protected]

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