Cradle to College and Career
Pathway to Success
Cradle to College and Career is…
A system of integrated services and
professional development, both public
and private, that begins in the early years
and leads to appropriate postsecondary
success for all students that includes
academic, occupational, and
independent living that benefits the
individual and community as a whole.
P-16/P-20: Envisioning a Pipeline
“If people begin to see the
educational system as a
single entity through which
people move, they may
begin to behave as if all of
education were related.”
Harold Hodgkinson in
“All One System’, 2000
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Insulated Educational Pipeline
Improvements across systems and settings
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What is the Logic behind P-16/P-20?
• Regardless of the type of system a state or local
community chooses, it is important to note that the
goal is the same: to create a system of education that
links and coordinates each education level into a
seamless system fundamentally guided by the
principle that success in college begins in
prekindergarten.
Education Commission of the States
• ECS reports that over 37 states now have P-16/P-20
initiatives
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What Keeps Us from Seeing the Pipeline?
• Focus on our own immediate
issues and needs
• Fragmentation across levels and
content areas
• Divisions across general, special
and technical education
• Ineffective articulation between
secondary, post–secondary and
employment
• Lack of relationships that
undergird communication
• Insufficient opportunities to learn
about levels that precede and
follow our own
• Infrequent opportunities to track
goal attainment throughout the
entire pipeline
Fragmented Funding Streams
Education
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Public Schools
ESEA, Title I
School Lunch & Breakfast
Head Start
IDEA
After-School Programs
Textbook Funding
Tests & Achievement
Teacher Issues
GED
Health & Food
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Social Services
Medi-Cal – EPSDT
Healthy Families Parent Expansion
Child Health & Disability Program
Expanded Access Primary Care
Trauma Case Funding
Co-payments for ER Services
Child Lead Poisoning Prevention
Program
HIV/AIDS Prevention & Education
Breast Cancer Screening
Food Stamps
WIC
Child & Family
Services
• TANF
• GAIN, CAL Learn, Cal
WORKS, etc.
Mental Health &
Probation
• Child Care – CCDBG, SSBG, Cal WORKS
Child Care, etc.
• After-School Programs – 21st Century
Learning Centers, etc.
• Promoting Safe & Stable Families
• Child Abuse & Neglect Programs
• Foster Care – Transition, Independent
Living, Housing, etc.
• Adoption Assistance, Adoption
Opportunities
• School-Based MH
Services for Medi-Cal
Kids
• Probation Officers in
Schools
• Cardenas-Schiff
Legislation
• Health Care Through
Probation
• Mental Health
Evaluations
• Juvenile Halls
Boyfriend
in trouble
Mom
Dad
9 year old
5 year old
Baby 1 1/2
Mom’s sister
Source: Dunkle, M. (2002) Understanding LA Systems that Affect Families. Los Angeles, CA: George Washington University and the LA County Children’s Planning Council
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What does it look like?
• A system of integrated services and
professional development, both public
and private, that leads to appropriate
post- secondary success for all students.
• This includes academic, occupational,
community participation, and
independent living that benefits the
individual and community as a whole.
Why is it important?
• Every school day, more than seven thousand students leave
school. Annually, that adds up to about 1.3 million students.
• Research conducted by Cecilia Rouse, when she was professor of
economics and public affairs at Princeton University, shows that
each youth who does not complete high school, over his or her
lifetime, costs the nation approximately $260,000.4
• Unless high schools are able to graduate their students at higher
rates, nearly 13 million students will drop out over the next
decade. The result will be a loss to the nation of $3 trillion.
• If the students who dropped out of the Class of 2009 had
graduated, the nation’s economy would have benefited from
nearly $335 billion in additional income over the course of their
lifetimes.
(Alliance for Educational Excellence, Issue Brief 2009)
Why is it Important?
• Most dropouts follow identifiable pathways through
the education pipeline.
• The categories of educational risk factors:
1) Academic performance: Students who struggle in the classroom
and fall behind academically are more likely to drop out. Low grades,
low test scores, F’s in English and math, falling behind in course credits,
and being held back one or more times all have been linked to lower
chances for graduation.
2) Educational engagement: Students who become disengaged from
school and develop disciplinary problems are more likely to drop out.
High rates of absenteeism or truancy, poor classroom behavior, less
participation in extracurricular activities, and bad relationships with
teachers and peers all have been linked to lower chances for graduation.
Achieve, Inc., Identifying Potential Dropouts: Key Lessons for Building an Early Warning Data System , A Dual Agenda of High Standards and High
Graduation Rates, 2006
Short “Shift Happens” Videos
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2
U&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4FJMJtt8dk&
feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8
&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBwT_09box
E&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdTOFkhaplo
&feature=related
Vision for All
• Requires we redefine or
reframe success, and
• Ensures that demography
does not equate destiny
Changing how we work starts with changing how
we think. Think outside the box.
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What does it require?
• Start with Vision planning - begin with
the end in mind and work backwards
• Understand and practice person centered
thinking
• Increase the effective use of diminishing
resources
What does it require? (Cont.)
• Develop social skills along with academic
skills
• Begin career discussions early
– foster throughout school experience
• Engage Vocational Evaluators and Career
Assessment Professionals
What does it require? (Cont.)
• Assessment of values, skills, interests
• Development of transferable skills
• Help students build self determination:
―Choice-Making
―Decision-Making
―Problem-Solving
―Goal-Setting & Attainment
―Internal Locus of Control
―Positive Attributes of
Efficacy and Outcomes
Expectancy
―Self-Observation
―Self-Evaluation
―Self-Reinforcement
―Self-Instruction
―Self-Advocacy &
Leadership
―Self-Awareness
―Self-Knowledge
What does it require? (Cont.)
• Adoption of Universal Design for Learning
• Use of Assistive Technology
• Development of skills required to reach goals
– Resilience
– Persistence
– Problem Solving
– Identifying and using resources
– Self-evaluation and adjust
What does it require? (Cont.)
• Adoption of Universal Design for Learning
• Use of Assistive Technology
• Development of skills required to reach goals
– Resilience
– Persistence
– Problem Solving
– Identifying and using resources
– Self-evaluation and adjust
What does it require? (Cont.)
• Integration AND implementation of
SCAN skills across ALL areas of learning
http://www.academicinnovations.com/report.html
• Ensure competency - teacher prep
• Provision of professional development
Reflections!
Questions?
Discussion.