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Expanding Dual Enrollment & Early College High SchoolA Powerful Strategy For Increasing College Success

By Dr. Daniel P. King, Superintendent

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• Texas ranks low in College Completion. We want to move to the front of the pack!

• Houston Endowment commissioned study shows only 1 in 5 Texas students earn a higher education credential within 11 years after entering 8th grade – or by about age 25.

• Dr. Steve Murdock (Rice University) projects these statistics (and economic outcomes) will only get worse due to changing demographics – unless we do something dramatically different!

THE CHALLENGE

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Expanding Dual Enrollment and Early College Opportunities

A number of studies (National, State and local) show the transformational power of students taking college classes while in high school.

This includes studies conducted by Jobs for the Future (Boston, MA), the American Institute for Research (Washington, DC), the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and a number of Community Colleges and Universities in Texas.

A POWERFUL STRATEGY

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Dual Enrollment Students have Better Education Attainment • High School Graduation rates above State and National

average

• 2x more likely to enroll in college after high school

• 2x more likely to enroll in a four year college

• College persistence rates are 2x higher

DUAL ENROLLMENT

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Dual Enrollment Students have Better Education Attainment (cont.) • 50% more likely to graduate from college within 6 years after

HS

• 75% more likely to graduate from college

• Positive impact is even more dramatic for minority students, males, low income students, first generation college enrollees, and students with lower GPA’s

DUAL ENROLLMENT

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• 30% Nationally completed an Associate’s Degree while in high school. A number of Texas Early College High Schools graduated 50-80% of students with Associate Degree

• In Texas 94% of Early College High School students earn college hours in high school compared to less than 10% of all high school students nationally

• Four-year high school graduation rates exceed State and National average

EARLY COLLEGE HS – A GAME CHANGER

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• Better college outcomes: Enrolling in college after high school, persistence in college, higher GPA, better college graduation rates

• Positive impact for students who enter high school performing below grade level

• Especially powerful for minority students, low-income youth, 1st generation college goers

• Demography does not have to be destiny, we need different strategies

EARLY COLLEGE HS – A GAME CHANGER

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Sustained Systemic Transformation

SUCCESS BY DESIGN

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Sustained Systemic Transformation

Our Goal:

• To be a game changer in our community

• Demographics will not be our destiny in terms of education attainment and economic potential

• PSJA students will out perform state and national average in terms of college completion

PSJA ISD – SUCCESS BY DESIGN

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Total Enrollment – 32,051

Total Number of Schools – 43

Percent PSJA ISD STATEWIDEHispanic 98.89% 51.34%

Economically Disadvantaged 89.00% 60.26%

ELL 41.04% 17.04%

DISTRICT DEMOGRAPHICS

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COMPAR ISON OF LONGITUD INAL DROPOUT RATES

2006-2013

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90.1%

87.3%

88%

FOUR-YEAR GRADUATION RATE

2007-2013

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Small schools offering an Associate Degree and/or up to 60 college hours for all students. These will be scaled to school wide over time.

PSJA/STC:DUAL TO DEGREE

SCHOOLWIDE EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL

SCHOOL WITHIN A SCHOOLEARLY COLLEGE HS

District-wide redesign of the 11th & 12th grades to provide dual enrollment opportunities for all students. All students will participate in a program of study leading to a certificate or college degree.

Redesign of entire high school to install supportive pathways that allow every student a possibility to earn up to 60 college hours or an Associate Degree.

Back-on-Track schools that adapt the early college concept for students off-track for high school graduation or have dropped out and seek to transition them to college.

• College, Career & Technology Academy

• PSJA Elvis J. Ballew High School

SYSTEMIC TRANSFORMATIONPSJA ISD – ECHS, Dual Enrollment & College Connected Pathways for ALL

COMMON ELEMENTS1. Meaningful college courses, tuition free2. High schools and college partners share

responsibility for secondary-postsecondary success

3. Untracked and developed at all high

schools4. Supported transition into postsecondary

BACK ON TRACK TO COLLEGE

• PSJA North ECHS (school-within-a-school)

• PSJA Memorial ECHS (school-within-a-school)• PSJA ECHS (school-within-a-school)

• PSJA North High School• PSJA Memorial High School• PSJA High School

• PSJA T. Jefferson T-STEM ECHS• PSJA Southwest ECHS• PSJA Sonia Sotomayor ECHS*

COLLEGE FOR ALL

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START COLLEGE NOW! COMPLETE EARLY! GO FAR!

PSJA ISD CLASS OF 2014 GRADUATES

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PSJA ISD CLASS OF 2014 GRADUATES

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PSJA ISD CLASS OF 2014 GRADUATES

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WHERE IS PSJA ISD’S CLASS OF 2014?

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Conference Tracks

Establishing and Scaling ECHS

“To and Through”

Systemic Transformation: Innovation & Replication

Back-on-Track to College

Academic Rigor

Empowering Parents

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THANK YOU PARTNERS & SPONSORS

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Texas A&M UniversityLightspeed Technologies, Inc.Surescore, Inc.Atomic Learning, Inc.

LivingTree

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OTHER PRESENTERS

Texas Education Agency

Region One ESC

University of Texas-Pan American

Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA)

La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE)

Texas Valley Communities Foundation

AVANCE

& Our Wonderful PSJA ISD Family!

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