Effective Practices from High School to College Pathways

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• Effective Practices from High
  School to College Pathways

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Outcomes

• Participants Will
• Receive a high-level introduction to the research
  on and rationale behind high school/community
  college dual credit programs
• Obtain four different examples of how Bay Area
  community colleges work with their high school
  partners to offer students dual credit
  opportunities

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Bay Area Career Pathways Alliance

• Who We Are.
• BACPA is a regional collaborative network
  dedicated to the success of school-to-college
  career pathway programs in the San Francisco Bay
  Area
• What We Do.
• BACPA facilitates the sharing of resources,
  information and best practices among
  school-to-college career pathway programs in the
  Bay Area

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Introduction

• Audries Blake
  
  
  
  Interim Tech Prep Director
  
  
  Cabrillo College
• Kim Mansfield
  
  
  Guidance Counselor
  
  
  Cabrillo College/Santa Cruz ROP
• Carolyn Jung
  
  
  Tech Prep Coordinator/Professor
  
  
  Cañada College
• Kelley Karandjeff
  
  
  Coordinator
  
  
  City College
  of San Francisco
• Karen Huff
  
  
  Offsite Programs Coordinator
  
  
  Eden Area ROP
• Christine Roumbanis
  
  
  Tech Prep Coordinator/Professor
  
  
  Skyline College

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Reflective Questions

• What barriers have you discovered that exist in
  your organization?
• What are some successful strategies in reaching
  your key CTE participants?
• What is one feature of the models presented that
  you might incorporate in your own program?

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College Credit for High School
Students

• Dual enrollment definitions
• Dual enrollment
• Dual credit
• Articulation
• Dual Enrollment Policies Practices Earning
  College Credit in California High Schools

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College Credit for High School
Students cont.

• Dual enrollment programs
• Tech Prep
• Middle Early College High Schools
• ROP
• CA Partnership Academies
• Dual Enrollment Policies Practices Earning
  College Credit in California High Schools

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College Credit for High School
Students cont.

• Proposed Benefits - Students
• Increased academic rigor of high school
  curriculum
• High academic standards for low performing
  students
• Additional academic/CTE opportunities, advanced
  CTE coursework
• Reduced high school dropout rates and increased
  student aspirations
• The Open Door Assessing the Promise and Problems
  of Dual Enrollment
• Dual Enrollment Policies Practices Earning
  College Credit in California High Schools

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College Credit for High School
Students cont.

• Proposed Benefits Students cont.
• Improved transition to college work/life
• Free college credit, reduced tuition costs
• Accelerated time to degree/certificate
• Access to advanced technology
• The Open Door Assessing the Promise and Problems
  of Dual Enrollment
• Dual Enrollment Policies Practices Earning
  College Credit in California High Schools

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College Credit for High School
Students cont.

• Proposed Benefits Colleges
• Enhanced visibility
• Improved recruitment
• Increased preparation of future CTE students
• The Open Door Assessing the Promise and Problems
  of Dual Enrollment

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College Credit for High School
Students cont.

• Evidence of improved postsecondary outcomes CCRC
  Study
• Florida
• College Now Program New York City
• Dual Enrollment Students in Florida and New York
  City Postsecondary Outcomes

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College Credit for High School
Students cont.

• Limitations/Concerns
• Funding
• College liability for high school students
• Instruction/faculty selection, interest
  preparation
• Location for delivery
• Portability of credit
• The Open Door Assessing the Promise and Problems
  of Dual Enrollment

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SMCCD Consortia

• Cañada College(Redwood City)
• College of San Mateo(San Mateo)
• Skyline College(San Bruno)
• Carolyn Jung
• Christine Roumbanis

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What We Do.

• As a Consortium

• Locally

• Monthly Tech Prep Coordinators Meeting
• Standardized Articulation Agreement
• Update Tech Prep Brochures
• Work Collaboratively With Other CTE Partners

• Annual Articulation Meetings
• Create New and Update Existing Agreements
• Host High School Visits
• Update the SMCCD Tech Prep Website
• Meeting with Local Tech Prep Site Coordinators

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Benefits of Articulation

• Transition from HS or ROCP to college is seamless
• Articulated courses help form a clear path to a
  students future
• Create partnerships improve relations with
  community colleges
• Increase access to better resources and
  facilities

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Articulation Process

• Community college, high schools and ROCP faculty
  meet
• Update, revise, or add a new articulated course
• Mutually agree on course content, objectives,
  outcomes, and methods of evaluation
• Sign articulation agreement between the two
  institutions

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Certificate Process

• High School/ROCP or Job Train teacher identifies
  students who earn Tech Prep Credit
• Student completes Tech Prep petition
• Petitions sent to college
• TP Certificate sent to high school/ROCP or Job
  Train teacher
• Petition information entered into college
  database system

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Tech Prep Posting Procedure

• Student enrolls in any one of the SMCCCD colleges
• Student completes a minimum of 6 units with a
  C or better
• Credit by Exam applied to their college
  transcript

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Audries Blake Kim Mansfield
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Whats Next Steps to Career and
College!

• Why course was developed
• High school graduates need support to be
  successful
• Training beyond high school needed to earn
  career-sustaining wages
• Students need a plan to increase likelihood of
  completing their training

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Whats Next Steps to Career and
College!

• How Course Was Developed
• Collaboration between high school and community
  college counselors
• Brought in Admissions and Records personnel
• Course now institutionalized throughout County

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Whats Next Steps to Career and
College!

• Barriers Removed
• Residency requirements eliminated
• Eligible for course fee waiver through BOG
• Course offered on high school campus marketed
  and taught by high school counselors

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Whats Next Steps to Career and
College!

• Course Structure
• Concurrent Enrollment (Credits 1.5 cc5 hs
  CSU transferrable units)
• Students learn Cabrillos Six Career Pathways
• Flexible 9-module curriculum

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Whats Next Steps to Career and
College!

• Course Structure, contd
• Students given structure of educational plan
• Students receive priority registration at
  Cabrillos Running Start event

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Whats Next Steps to Career and
College!

• Course Content
• Career Planning Designing Your Future
• Lifestyle Matching PS Plans to Lifestyle
  Choices
• Decision Making Making WISE Choices
• Goal Setting Discovering Motivational Goals
• College Orientation Who Wants an Education?
• Time Management How to Manage Your Time, Get
  Good Grades and Still Have Fun
• College Assessment
• Education Plan
• College Application The 7 Basic Steps

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Whats Next Steps to Career and
College!
Cabrillos Six Career Pathways
Agriculture Natural Resources
Arts Communications
Business Marketing Information Systems
Engineering Industrial Technology
Home Health Recreation
Social, Human Governmental Services
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Whats Next Steps to Career and
College!

• Some program examples for students
• Accounting
• Construction and Energy Management
• Culinary Art Hospitality Management
• Criminal Justice
• Emergency Medical Tech, EMT
• Nursing
• Radiological Technology
• Dental Hygiene
• Early Childhood Education
• Engineering Tech
• Horticulture

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Whats Next Steps to Career and
College!

• Evaluation
• 99 of students surveyed indicated they would
  recommend the class to a friend.
• 95 of students surveyed indicated that taking
  this course effected their plans for the future.
• 75 of students surveyed indicated they planned
  to go to Cabrillo College after HS graduation.
• 20 of students surveyed indicated they planned
  to go to a 4-year university or college after HS
  graduation.

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Kelley Karandjeff
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City College Model

• Irvine Foundation Concurrent Courses Grant
• Builds on decade of CTE dual enrollment supported
  through Tech Prep, CTE Community Collaborative
• Includes research component performed by
  Community College Research Center at Columbia
  University
• Targets greater representation of low-income,
  under-represented students with a particular
  focus on engaging African-American and Latino
  students

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City College Model

• Concurrent Courses Model
• Seniors enroll in college courses aligned with
  their programs of study in the pathways/academies
  
• Students earn up to 6 units of college CTE credit
  and high school elective credit
• Pathways/academies include biotechnology,
  business, health, hospitality/tourism,
  information technology, law, teacher training,
  engineering and multimedia

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City College Model

• Each career academy/pathway features
• A cohort model
• A college preparation curriculum with a career
  theme
• Partnerships with employers, the community, and
  institutions of higher education
• An internship between their junior and senior
  years related to their chosen career fields

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City College Model

• Rationale for dual enrollment in the CTE field
• SFUSD has experienced reduction in hands-on CTE
  courses over the past two decades
• SFUSD instructors challenged to stay abreast of
  increasingly advanced CTE course work
• SFUSDs partnership with CCSF allows students to
  extend their pathway experience beyond what is
  available at the high school

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City College Model

• Benefits of dual enrollment
• Tuition and books are free for students
• Student credit is immediately transcripted upon
  course completion
• Coursework often is University of California (UC)
  and/or California State University (CSU)
  transferable

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City College Model

• Monica is enrolled in the Academy of Information
  Technology at Abraham Lincoln High School, which
  she selected in her sophomore year. Monica takes
  her academic classes as a cohort with students
  who are in the same academy.
• Monica takes good advantage of student services
  provided by the college to receive tutoring and
  meet with a college counselor. Her parents were
  informed about the academies and concurrent
  enrollment through a parent leadership program,
  and encouraged Monica to join the program.

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City College Model

• As a senior, Monica will have completed
  CSU-transferable "Orientation to Multimedia"
  during the Fall semester and "Intro to
  Information Systems in the spring. Monica will
  earn 6 college units and 10 high school credits
  by the time she graduates from high school.

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Karen Huff
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Building Bridges for Student Success

• Relationships 101 - Building relationships with
  high school counselors is number 1.
• What do counselors want to know?
• How Career Technical Education at the secondary
  level benefits students.
• Courses meet CDE standards and district high
  school graduation requirements.
• Courses are innovative and have support of the
  business community.
• Students are exposed to various career pathways.

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ROP Counselor Orientation 2009
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Building Bridges for Student Success

• What do counselors want to know?
• Students can earn college credits while in high
  school.
• ROP has articulated programs with community
  colleges.
• Some ROP programs meet UC entrance requirements.
• ALL high school seniors at the ROP Center and the
  high schools participate in the Chabot College
  Early Decisions Program.

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Building Bridges for Student Success

• Reaching ALL Students
• How Career Technical Education bridges the
  educational equity gap.
• ALL students enrolled in ROP courses gain
  knowledge regarding career pathways and post
  secondary options.
• ALL students regardless of status college bound
  or non-college bound have the opportunity to earn
  college credit and participate in the Early
  Decisions process.

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Building Bridges with Chabot

• Relationships 101 - Building relationships with
  community college instructors through the
  articulation process.
• What do college instructors want to know?
• How Career Technical Education at the secondary
  level benefits their programs.
• Courses meet CDE standards and district high
  school graduation requirements.
• ROP articulated courses are innovative. Student
  work on college level work while in high school.
• Students are exposed to various career pathways
  and are ready for the rigor of college.

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Resources
Bay Area Career Pathways Alliance
http//www.bayareacareerpathways.org
San Mateo County CCD http//www.smccd.net
/techprep
City College of San Francisco
http//www.ccsf.edu
Eden Area ROP http//www.edenrop.org
Cabrillo College http//www.cabrillo.edu
Dual Enrollment Policies Practices
Earning College Credit in California High
Schools http//www.tc.comlumbi.edu/centers/
concurrentcourses/publications.html
Dual Enrollment Students in Florida and
New York City Postsecondary Outcomes (CCRC Brief
No. 37) http//ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Public
ation.asp?UID578
The Open Door Assessing the Promise and
Problem of Dual Enrollment
http//www2.wiche.edu/index.php?qnode/10100
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