Dropout Early Warning System DEWS Pilot Program

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Dropout Early Warning System (DEWS)Pilot Program

• Spring 2008

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Purpose of Program

• To identify students who exhibit characteristics
  of dropping out and actively work with these
  students to prevent them from dropping out and
  increase their chance of completing high school

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Dropout Early Warning System (DEWS)

• Reporting system that identifies potential
  dropouts and brings these students to the
  attention of school, district and state personnel.

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Indicators/Triggers Used by DEWS to Identify
At-risk Students

• Student attendance
• Absent 10 of days enrolled
• Student course achievement
• Current Year GPA 1.00
• Drop in GPA 0.50
• Student behavior
• Discipline count is 7 of days enrolled
• Student age

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DEWSReporting Capabilities

• Allows different levels of reporting.
• Detailed student level
• District summary chart
• State summary chart
• Allows editing of triggers
• Linked to a notification System

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Detailed Student Level

• Alphabetical listing of at-risk students by
  district
• Identifies data that placed students on the list
• Complete listing emailed on the 1st and 15th of
  each month
• New student listing emailed on other days

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Student Level
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District Summary School Level

• Number and Percent of students by category
• School listing within a District
• Two Reports
• Grades 8-12 green header
• Grade 9 only red header

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District Summary School Level
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Reporting Method

• Read-only Detailed reports emailed to users
• (Superintendents, Principals,
• Assistant Principals, Counselors)
• Electronic summary reports generated by users
• Available any time
• Sort capability
• Drill down to student level

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Report Access

• Detailed student level
• School
• District
• Summary school level
• School
• District
• State
• Summary district level
• District
• State (LDE)

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DEWS PILOT PROGRAMRequirements for Schools

• Generate and Examine DEWS Reports
• Develop process to check EWS data
• Is student really at-risk??
• Is student newly at-risk??
• Determine distribution strategy (Consider FERPA)
• Develop an Intervention Program
• - Must include 9th grade may include other
  grades
• - Should focus on newly at-risk students

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Dropout Intervention Program

• Interventions should be
• Immediate
• Appropriate
• Sufficient
• Take advantage of electronic capabilities to
  notify parents, truancy officers, etc.
• Be integrated w/ Positive Behavior Support
  Program

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Dropout Intervention Program Regional Workshops

• Regional Workshops for School Leadership Teams
• Purpose is to support development of intervention
  plan (sharing best practices)
• Organized by RESCs
• February-March
• Exact dates/locations TBA
• Participation optional

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DEWS Pilot Program Deadlines

• 3700/370 Allocations
• Budgets and assurances due immediately
• January 15 expiration date
• February 8 reimbursement request deadline
• 3,000/300 Allocations
• Budgets and assurances due immediately
• May 15 expiration date
• May 31 reimbursement request deadline

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DEWS Pilot Program Deadlines, cont.

• Final Reports
• Due to LDE by May 31
• Report forms to be provided by LDE
• District level report
• School level report

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RESOURCES

• Approaches to Dropout Prevention Heeding
• Early Warning Signs With Appropriate
  Interventions, National High School Center
• What Matters for Staying on Track, Consortium for
  Research on Chicago Public Schools, University of
  Chicago
• Making Good on a Promise What Policymakers Can
  Do to Support the Educational Persistence of
  Dropouts,
• Jobs for the Future

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Questions???

• Contact
• Bobby Franklin
• bobby.franklin_at_la.gov

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