P-16 Partnerships between Post Secondary Institutions & School Districts
Suggested audience: University Administrators, University Admissions Counselors, University and Secondary Department Chairs, Secondary School Administrators, P-16 Committee Members, Secondary School Counselors, School Board Members, and Organizations & Business Partners involved with the P-16 Initiative.
Educators at all levels share a set of opportunities and challenges in making a successful future possible for their students. How can secondary schools ( public schools, private schools, charter schools, virtual schools) and post secondary institutions work together to provide post secondary opportunities for students during their high school years? Let’s explore the possibilities and unravel the details needed to make these programs successful for the high school, the university, and the student.
EI speakers, Sandy Mers and Sally Summerfield, lead you through the steps of uncovering the opportunities you can create for your students. The team instructs you on all key points required for a successful dual credit program. Key points include:
- Communication– Who do we talk with at each stage? What information does each stakeholder need to have?
- Buy Buy in – How do we get buy-in from instructors, unions, board members, students, parents, secondary and post secondary administration?
- Costs – Need we say more? maginative ways to make the program affordable for all participants.
- Details..Details – They say that the “devil is in the detail” and they are right. What details need to be established on both sides of the table? Criteria for student participation? Identification of courses? Required paperwork?
- Timeline?..... Once it Has Begun – Key players and their roles once the agreements have been established
- Gather,Evaluate and Report Data – How do you know if what you did got the results you intended? Data! Who was served? What was successful and what needs tweaked? How do you make the data usable to students, schools, and the media.
- Next Steps – Your initial program is successful. Now what? Practice looking “outside the box” to tailor your program for the changing requirements of your individual situation.
RESHAPING the Box…
Building Bridges between Middle School & High School =
Multiplying Resources for School Districts
- Format: Consultant or presenter/trainer
- Suggested Audience: School District Administrators, Boards of Education, Attendance Officers, Treasurers School Counselors Middle School and High School Faculty. Middle schools and high schools within a school district serve a common community of students. The schools share similar concerns regarding their students, their faculty, and their finances. Sandy Mers and Sally Summerfield, co-founders of Educational Insight, impart innovative methods of reorganizing your resources to multiply the opportunities available to your students.
With you, we will work through the process of merging your resources to tackle issues including:
Acceleration -- How do you offer opportunities for acceleration tailored to each student’s strengths?
Remediation – Develop an individualized program of remediation and credit recovery without increasing staff.
Increase Graduation Rate - Opportunity, support and purpose are keys to increasing the graduation rate of your students. We will work with you to create opportunities for your students, develop a support system within your buildings, and implement programs that assist the students in creating a feeling of ownership and purpose in their lives.
Scheduling – Time is malleable. Investigate methods of manipulating the time available in your school day to incorporate innovate learning scenarios bridging the middle school and the high school
Truancy – Why are students absent from school? Why should they choose to attend? Discuss the motivating factors in students’ lives and ideas of how school can become their most attractive option.
Staffing – How do you attract the best staff when money is tight? What other enticements are possible? How many teachers do you need but how many can you afford? Look at new ways to multiply your staff without increasing your numbers.
Thinking Outside the Box… School Scheduling for the 21st Century
Time…How do you make time work for you? Schools have the demands of adapting to the new CORE graduation requirements while at the same time dealing with their own individual program needs. Let us work with you to uncover scheduling scenarios that will incorporate all of your programs.
“If I could save time in a bottle…the first thing that I’d like to do”….is to create the perfect schedule. Many of the programs you wish to incorporate into your school day are possible when you manipulate the variable of time. Educational Insight brings you two fresh sets of eyes to tackle your scheduling dilemmas. .
Have you considered:
- Common planning times
- Classes shared between teachers
- The use of university personnel within your school
- Internship programs
- 21st Century Skills Classes for all students
- Blended English, Math, Science, and Social Studies courses for middle school and high school students
- Sharing courses between middle school and high school
- Intervention time
- Exploration courses
- Shared courses with other schools
Sandy Mers and Sally Summerfield work with you to uncover scheduling scenarios which make the most efficient use of your resources
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