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Innovative Pathways to Graduating Students College and Career Ready Department of Secondary School Reform Tamika Tasby and Dionne Tyus www.pgcpsready.com @PGCareerAcademy

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Our presentation from the 2014 NCAC Conference in Crystal City Virginia. Check out our work on innovative pathways to college and career readiness for our students in Prince George's County.

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Page 1: NCAC Conference Presentation - Innovative Pathways to College and Career Readiness

Innovative Pathways to Graduating Students College and Career Ready

Department of Secondary School Reform

Tamika Tasby and Dionne Tyus

www.pgcpsready.com@PGCareerAcademy

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Overview of Prince George’s County Public Schools

Academies Overview

Innovative pathwaysDual EnrollmentInternships

Q & A

Agenda

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Please allow us to introduce ourselves

Tamika Tasby

www.linkedin.com/in/tamikatasby

Dionne Tyus

www.linkedin.com/in/dionnetyus

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18th largest school district in nation

Over 125,000 students63% of population is economically disadvantaged Population includes urban, suburban, and rural areas

Located outside of Washington, DC

207 schools24 high schools

Home to 165 different languages from 149 countries

Home of 4 state colleges and universities

Prince George’s County Public Schools Facts

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Architecture & Design

Aviation & Transportation

Business & Finance

Engineering & Science

Environmental Studies

Global Studies

Graphic Arts, Media & Communication

Health & Biosciences

Homeland Security & Military Science

Consumer Services, Hospitality & Tourism

Information Technology

Law, Education, & Public Service

We offer the following 12 career academy options for our students beginning in 9th grade:

PGCPS Career Academies

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Career Academies enrollment by the numbers:

PGCPS Career Academies

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What is innovation?

What innovative pathways are your schools are using for College and Career Readiness?

Ice Breaker

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Dual enrollment is an arrangement with a college or university that allows eligible high school students to take college courses for credit

Benefits of dual enrollment include: Allows all students to earn college credit Lowers the overall cost for college

Dual enrollment students have higher high school graduation rates1

Dual enrollment students have higher grades in college and earn more college credits1

Helps high school students get comfortable with doing college level coursework

1- Karp, M. (2013). Dual Enrollment for College Completion: Policy Recommendations for Tennessee. Community College Research Center. Teachers College, Columbia University.

What is Dual Enrollment?

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Maryland State Department of Education’s College Readiness and Completion Act of 2013 required school districts and local universities to increase their offerings to high school students in order to support college readiness.

School districts are required to pay a portion of tuition for qualifying 11th and 12th graders who are also enrolled in college courses.

So…what was the impact on PGCPS? What was our approach to this new requirement?

The catalyst for our focus on dual enrollment

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PGCPS pays: Tuition for ALL students dually enrolled in qualified courses at any

Maryland state college or university for fall, spring, and/or summer sessions

Fees and textbooks for students who receive free and reduced meals.

Students receive dual high school and college credit for pre-approved courses Grades are weighted No developmental courses

Currently, no restriction on the number of courses that students can take to receive college credit

To support the new dual enrollment requirements, PGCPS is taking the following approach:

PGCPS’s approach to dual enrollment

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Minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA

Enrolled in 11th or 12th grade

Meet college requirements on college admissions tests: SAT, ACT, Accuplacer

Minimum requirements may vary at each college

Students must receive principal, counselor, and parent approval of course selection

Criteria for dual enrollment students

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PGCPS administers the Accuplacer college placement exam to each student meeting minimum qualificationsExam fee paid by PGCPSStudents test during the school day at their high schoolTest offered in Fall and Spring

PGCPS administers SAT to all 11th gradersExam fee paid by PGCPSStudents test during the school day at their high schoolTest offered in Spring

Equity and Access

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Comprehensive communications strategyMultiple parent information sessionsPress releases and media blitzStudent and parent list serves and newslettersDistributed information to school websitesRobocalls to students’ homes

Internal professional development and marketing

Frequent meetings with college and university partnersDeveloping program implementation guidelinesBuilding partnership

Keys to Success

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Dual Enrollment by the numbers…

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Areas of Study for Dual Enrollment Students

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Looking Ahead

Specific dual enrollment options integrated in to Career Academy pathways

Guaranteed admissions agreements with partner colleges

Online dual enrollment system to automate the registration and approval process.Goal is to integrate with IT systems at

infrastructure at colleges

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What are some pathways to college readiness used in your schools?

What are some innovative pathways to career readiness?

Poll the Audience

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Career Academy Internships at PGCPS

A career academy internship is: o An experience working at least 135 hours in a specified role related to a students’

selected career academy

o An opportunity to provide career readiness experiences for Career Academy students through work as closely aligned with student’s assigned career academy as possible

o All students are required to have an internship in their senior year

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Career Academy Class of 15 Class of 16 Class of 17 Class of 18

Across all 12 Career Academies

166 727 1280 2404

Our Internship Numbers by Year

Below are our total number of career academy students taking on internships over the next 4 years:

How are we doing it?

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Traditional InternshipStudent certification requirements

Student interest

Etc.

Our strategy uses three types of internships for our career academy students.

Three Forms for Internships

Work Simulation Opportunity for

internship experience while remaining in your school

Team of students solving significant business or community problem

Job Shadow Rotation

Student interest

Partner interest strong but limited ability for traditional internship

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Partner Engagement Builds the future workforce

Students serve as a 5-10 year talent strategy for partners

Investment at a very low cost to your business – have our students provide a solution for you!

Parent Engagement

Parent meetings to discuss internships (requirements, needs for support, and process for placement)

Engagement prior to internship process and follow up engagement after student interviews are complete

We have over 400 business partners interested in supporting our career academies. Our traditional internship model engages partners, parents and students in order to meet the internship requirements for our students.

Traditional Internship – Partner and Parent Engagement

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Job shadow rotation is a 40-45 day opportunity for students

Provides students with the opportunity to explore a career that they are interested in, but may have stipulations on exposure.

For opportunities that have peak student interest and high partner interest, but limited ability to allow students access to perform a traditional internship role.

Job Shadow Rotation – Partner & Student Interest

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Proposed Public Safety Internship

To support students in the Law, Education, and Public Service career academy interested in careers in public safety, below is a sample Public Safety Job Shadow Rotation with various public safety agencies across our county:

Public Safety Experience # of Days Potential Supervisors

District Police Office 2 District office supervisor

County Office of Public Safety Communications

4 Supervisor of public safety communications

Defense Attorney’s Office 3 Associate attorney; supporting attorney or legal secretary

Prosecutor’s Office 3 Associate attorney; supporting attorney or legal secretary

Police Ride Along 2 Two officers from different units

County Police Investigations Unit 2 TBD

Examiners Office 2 TBD

Central Fire Dept Office 3 TBD

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Public Safety Experience # of Days Potential Supervisors

County Office of Emergency Management

4 TBD

County Office of Homeland Security 4 TBD

Satellite Police Office – National Harbor or other location

2 TBD

Prince George’s County Police Explorers Program

6 Police Explorers Program leads

Proposed Public Safety Internship (cont’d)

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Design Thinking is a solution based problem solving approach that focuses on empathy for the problem context, creative generation of insights and solutions, and rationality for various solutions.

This innovative process method is one of the most utilized methods of problem solving for both business and worldwide issues. It's being used by numerous corporations, small boutique businesses, and non-profits around the world, such as Proctor & Gamble, Capital One, Rent the Runway, and The Clinton Global Initiative, to solve significant business and community problems.

Work Simulation –Cutting Edge Innovative Practices

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PGCPS interning students placed in cross-functional teams and provided either a local county issue or a problem a business is encountering in the marketplace. The students are given tools to help them solve the problem, along with the design thinking process to utilize to create potential solutions.

Design Thinking for PGCPS Work Simulations

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Presenting our students as a talent pathway

Law, Education and Public Service Career Academy (819)

Pre-Law and Forensics

Pre-Law/Social Justice (451)

Serve as Interns, Fellows, Mentees to Various Public Safety Workforce

Entry Level Career with Public Safety (100) Matriculate to Grad or Law School (15)

Continued Career with Public Safety (90)

Public Safety Job Selection (110)

Relationships with County Public Safety during University Matriculation (200)

Forensic Sciences (368)

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50% Select/Admitted to Local University (409)

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The process to innovate takes place inside and outside of the classroom through the student and partner connection:

Partner and Student Engagement

Partners

Partners signing on to support our students through: o Fundingo Sponsorshipo Presentationso Industry field trips o Associated work to better understand the

industry for the problem, and in class support (certain number of requested hours to support students)

o Presentation preparation

Students

Students taught the design thinking process for analyzing problems and creating innovative solutions

Students’ work in teams and take a county or local problem and work along side partners to create a solution

Required to present to forum of county leadership/business leadership for feedback on their designed concept

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Contact Information

For additional information

PGCPS Career Academies – www.pgcpsready.com

PGCPS Dual Enrollment Programwww.pgcpsready.com/dualenrollmentTamika Tasby – [email protected]

PGPCS Internship Programwww.pgcpsready.com/partnersDionne Tyus – [email protected]