Getting to
Zero Dropouts
Everyone graduates!
Getting to Zero Dropouts
Data:
Achievements from 2006 to 2012…
 District Dropout Rate: from 1.8% to 0.6%
 District Graduation Rate: from 85.7% to 89.3%
Changes in Dropout Rates from 2006 to 2012…
 IEP: from 1.7% to .5%
 Latino: from 7.1% to 2.0 %
 FRL: from 6.1% to1.6%
 ELL: from 6.8% to 1.8%
 Homeless: from 12.1% to 4.0 %
Strategy #1
Partnerships:
Strategy #2
We have the…
VISION
PASSION
BELIEF
…that every student has a path to success in education
and life and that we can get the dropout number to…
Strategy #2
Strategy #3
Response to Intervention:
Strategy #4
Champions:
Assistant
Superintendent of
School Leadership
BVSD Graduates
Initiative
Director of Student
Services K-12
Director of Online
Learning
Secondary
Principals
Coordinator for
Counseling Services
EARSS Grant &
Attendance
Advocates
Assistant Principal
of Boulder
Universal/Assistant
Director of Online
Learning
Secondary
Assistant Principals
Secondary School
Counselors &
Counselor Corps
Grant
Strategy #5
Boulder Graduates Initiative:
Strategy #6
Dropout Recovery:
Strategy #7
Strategy #7
Strategy #7
Strategy #7
Strategy #8
Policy, Practice & Review:
Strategy #9
Get the…
in the…
Strategy #9
Strategy #10
Getting to Zero Dropouts
Assistant Superintendent
Boulder Valley School District
deirdre.pilch@bvsd.org
720.561.5111
Founder & CEO
Colorado Youth for a Change
steve.dobo@comcast.net
303.619.5276