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Promising Practices: Municipal Leadership for Postsecondary Success

• Stakeholder Map (Degree Phoenix)• Indicators of Student Success (Portland’s

All Hands Raised)• Loss-Point Analysis (San Francisco)• Tracking Progress Publicly (Riverside)• Strategies to Increase Matriculation and

Persistence (Philadelphia)

DEGREE PHOENIXStakeholder Map

Indicators of Student Success

Where we are losing students?

9th Graders

5,500

Drop Out/ Leave

1,500

Graduate High School

4,000

Don’t enroll in any post-secondary

1,000

Enroll in post-

secondary

3,000910 are placed into remedial

Math or English at City CollegeSF

USD

Loss Point 2: Not

Successfully Transitioning

Loss Point 1: Not Completing

SFUSD High School

Loss Point 4: Not Completing

City College

Loss Point 3: Remediation at

City College

SFUSD students at City College

All SFUSD students

SF State University= 420

Other 4-year colleges=

1,270Other 2-year

colleges = 310

City College= 1,000

650 do not complete at City College

within 5 years

350 complete at City College within 5 years

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How Riverside will track progress How Riverside will track progress

• The “report card”• A public statement• Easy to grasp• Community wake-up• Sets the vision• States clear goals• Utilizes official data• Measurable results• Data team updates annually• Demonstrates accountability• Catalyst for conversation and media coverage

In 5th year of rewarding deserving Philadelphia High School Students with tickets to sporting events across the city as an incentive to achieve academic excellence.

Over 6,000 tickets distributed, with 90 high schools participating.

Strategies to Increase Matriculation

• Office housed in City Hall offering information and referrals• Reached out to over 25,000 Philadelphians of all ages through presentations

and workshops, since 2010.• PhillyGoes2College website has been accessed over 166,000 times

• Trained over 4,156 Coaches through 303 workshops, since Sept 2010.• Eight Anchor agencies engaged to reach into their communities to recruit adults to

be trained as coaches.• Additional outreach to faith-based and other organizations that engage youth.

Philadelphia’sStrategies to Increase Matriculation

Mayor’s Returning to Learning Partnership• Tuition discount program encouraging city employees to pursue a college education• Twelve area colleges and universities offer a 25% discount to employees• Hosts annual college fairs for city employees

Citywide Financing College Campaign• Coordinated series of programs and services throughout the city assisting college-bound

students and parents in financially preparing for college• Over 50 FAFSA Completion Workshops offered from January through April• 10% increase in FAFSA completions from 94,082 in 2008 to 103,254 in 2012• Moved from unranked to 2nd nationally in completed Gates Scholarship applications

The College Countdown Center• A collaboration between the Mayor’s Office and the School District housed in Parent, Family,

Community Services Office helping parents, families, adults, immigrant and faith-based communities support their children in preparing for college and pursue a postsecondary education for themselves• Held first college fair for parents and adults

Strategies to Increase Persistence

Mayor’s College Completion Committee

o Membership - 12 area colleges and universities and School District of Philadelphia

o Formed a “community of practice” devoted to data-driven decision-making to increase Philadelphia student persistence and completion at their respective institutions

o Used findings from OMG Pathways to Completion Report to:

Facilitate dialogue to grow analytic capabilities among member institutions Sponsor Success and Risk: Using Data to Assess Philadelphia College Students’

Success Convening Reach consensus on definitions and fields on revised template for IHE data request

o Utilizing their internal institutional research on college success indicators, higher education partners will share findings to inform college preparation practice in K-12 community

o Assisting School District with curriculum alignment to PA Common Core Standards and determining “college readiness” indicators

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Five Strategies in Ten Cities

  Public-private partnership

Workforce & Economic

Development

Leverage Data

Expand Supports

Leverage Intermediary

Support

Boston X   X X X

Chicago   X      

Louisville X       X

Memphis   X X    

New Haven       X  

Philadelphia X     X X

Phoenix       X  

Portland         X

Riverside   X X    

San Antonio X     X X

From “Mayoral Leadership for Postsecondary Success and Career Readiness”, Kenneth K. Wong, NLC, 2012.

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Lessons Learned: Education-Workforce Alignment

City Examples:

•Boston: Internships •San Francisco: Career and Technical Education•Dayton: Online career tool; internships•Riverside: Community college representation on WIB •Phoenix: Internships; training simulations; mentors

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Selected NLC Postsecondary Success Resources

• Municipal Action Guide: Municipal Leadership for Postsecondary Success: Getting Started http://www.nlc.org/Documents/Find%20City%20Solutions/IYEF/Education/municipal-leadership-for-postsecondary-success-getting-started-oct-2012.pdf

• Municipal Action Guide: Conducting a Scan of Local Efforts to Promote Postsecondary Success http://www.nlc.org/Documents/Find%20City%20Solutions/IYEF/Education/conducting-a-scan-of-local-efforts-to-promote-postsecondary-success-oct-2012.pdf

• Municipal Action Guide: Using and Sharing Data to Improve Postsecondary Success http://www.nlc.org/Documents/Find%20City%20Solutions/IYEF/Education/using-and-sharing-data-to-improve-postsecondary-success-oct-2012.pdf

• Mayoral Leadership for Postsecondary Success and Career Readiness http://www.nlc.org/Documents/Find%20City%20Solutions/IYEF/Education/mayoral-leadership-for-postsecondary-success-career-readiness-oct-2012.pdf