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• Partnership: University of Chicago Charter School-Ounce of

Prevention Fund

• 2009- present

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Birth to College Collaborative

Why?

• Achievement gap appears at 9 months old
• Nationally, only 40% of four-year-olds attend a publicly funded

prekindergarten

• Only 50% of these programs are high quality
• Benefits to high quality prekindergarten fade as early as kindergarten

due to lack of alignment

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Birth to College Collaborative

Birth to College Collaborative

Vision We will build a model of public education for children and their families that begins at birth and creates success in school, college and life. Mission The Birth-to-College Collaborative mission is to align and create instructional approaches and academic and social supports to accelerate student learning, while honoring and building on the strengths of the families we serve.

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Objective 1

• Develop and engage in a comprehensive, transformative approach to professional

development that results in a new, shared belief system and set of values, behaviors and practices that will demonstrably improve outcomes for children and their families. Objective 2

• We will launch and refine a coordinated, high-quality, birth-to-age-eight model of

public education that establishes consistent expectations for children’s development and learning, standards, curriculum, assessment and family supports from birth to 3rd grade.

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Birth to College Collaborative

Objective 3

• We will provide our families with a coherent set of experiences from birth to grade

three, including intensified supports for parents of children with special needs, while at the same time honoring and building upon our families’ strengths. Objective 4

• We will document our efforts to develop a birth-to-eight education model, and

disseminate best practices and lessons learned from the project to inform initiatives in other school communities and influence broader educational reform.

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Birth to College Collaborative

• Goal: Creation of a seamless pathway- “Birth to College”
• Hybrid Funding: Foundation, private philanthropy, public
• Challenges
• Building shared philosophy
• Ongoing focus given other priorities
• Keeping students in the pipeline
• Alignment through entire school pathway

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Birth to College Collaborative

Chicago 2015 Leadership Exchange October 23, 2015 Jonathan Furr Executive Director Education Systems Center at NIU

Illinois Pathways Background

Education and economic development systems not adequately aligned

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(Center on Education and the Workforce: https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/9pvw2eqcu0x8jz665nxg)

National Forecast by Sector and Education

Illinois Pathways Background (cont’d)

Youth unemployment at historic highs

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(Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ALFS_SUMTAB)

Illinois Pathways Goals

• 1. Increase the number of Illinoisans who attain a postsecondary

credential with labor market value and are ready for employment in high-demand, high-wage occupations involving the application of STEM knowledge and skills

• 2. Spur state and regional economic development by developing

a homegrown talent pipeline for areas of workforce need

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Illinois Pathways Targeted Sectors

Illinois Pathways Overarching Strategies

• 1. Align State education, workforce, and economic

development systems to support targeted sectors and

• ccupations
• 2. Launch and support statewide, public-private partnerships in

high-growth industry sectors, known as STEM Learning Exchanges

• 3. Support regional career pathway systems in targeted industry

sectors and occupations that respond to local economic development objectives

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STEM Learning Exchanges

• 1. Advise communities on career pathway system

structure and best practices in a particular sector

• 2. Deliver high quality curricular and professional

development resources

• 3. Expand access to real world challenges and work-

based learning

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Organized and led by an industry-supported nonprofit or public entity

Illinois Manufacturers Association Education Foundation

• 30 of 48 community colleges; moving toward 60 high schools

developing a Manufacturing Pathway of Learning

• Since 2008 expanded MSSC Certified Production

Technician authorized instructors from 4 to > 100; credentials from 50/year to > 3,200/year

• Young Manufacturers’ Summer Academies – middle school

youth

• Advanced apprenticeship models with German American

Chamber of Commerce

STEM Learning Exchange Impact

STEM Learning Exchange Impact

CompTIA

• Modularized, half-day or full-day

presentations about careers in IT

• Raspberry Pi professional development and

student competitions

• Developed sequence of IT work-based

learning in high school; 90 employer commitments for internships in 2015 summer; expanding model throughout Illinois

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RTTT3 School Districts: 25 school districts implementing at least two career pathways in prioritized sectors

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Learning Exchange Partners: Regions working with Learning Exchanges to support career pathways in a particular sector or sectors

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Pathways to Prosperity Network: Chicago, Aurora, East St. Louis, Peoria

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60 x 2025 Network Communities: Voluntary network; aligning pathways with collective impact processes

Regional Implementation to Date

Jon Furr jfurr@niu.edu ilpathways.com

Denver Leadership Exchange Cradle to Career Strategies: P-TECH 9-14 Model

Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs IBM Corporation

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The context for our work

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• United States is experiencing a Skills Gap
• Center for Labor Market Studies: Employment rates for teens, ages 16 to 19, and

young adults, ages 20 to 24, have dropped to new post-World War II lows

• Employers cannot find talent
• August 2013: IBM has 1,800 jobs unfilled
• High school is not longer enough
• Average pay: $9/hour
• Pathways to Prosperity (Harvard): U.S. must broaden the range of high-quality

pathways offered to young adults

• Community college graduation rates hover at or about 25%.
• There are 28 million middle skill jobs – those requiring postsecondary degrees –

currently available in the U.S., with these jobs paying close to $40,000 per year on average.

• Over the next 10 years, 14 million new jobs requiring middle skills – a 50% increase –

will be created, with those needing STEM skills the highest paid of those jobs.

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• Focus: A new grade 9-14 public school model focused on STEM fields

and Career and Technical Education

• Mission: Enable students to master the skills that they need either to

graduate with a no-cost Associates in Applied Science degree that will enable them to secure an entry-level position in a growing STEM industry, or to continue and complete study in a four-year higher education institution.

A new model for education: P-TECH 9-14

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• Systemic Partnership: K-12, higher education, and industry
• Public school model: Open to all students, with no cost to students

and their families

• Early College: Six-year scope and sequence integrating high school

and college coursework and leading to an AAS degree for all students

• Career-Readiness: Workplace Learning sequence including

skills mapping, coursework, mentors, worksite visits, speakers and skills-based, paid internships

• Personal Pathways: Focus on mastery, not seat time that

enables students to graduate in 4, 5, or 6 years

• Funding: Public education funding model

Key Tenets

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The Power of Partnership

Public School District, Lead School Partner & School Leader Employer Partner(s) Community College System & Lead College Partner

High School Re-design Movement

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 2011 Brooklyn, NY 2012 Brooklyn, NY Chicago 2013 New York Chicago 2014 New York Chicago Connecticut 2015 New York Chicago Connecticut 2016 New York Chicago Connecticut Colorado Rhode Island Australia

P-TECH Replication

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1. Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) : Partnership: New York City Department of Education, The City University of New York, New York City College of Technology, IBM 2. Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy: Partnership: Chicago Public Schools, City Colleges of Chicago, Richard J. Daley College, IBM 3. Excelsior Academy: Partnership: Newburgh Enlarged City School District (NY), SUNY Orange, IBM 4. Norwalk Early College Academy: Partnership: Norwalk Public Schools (CT), Norwalk Community College, IBM

IBM partner schools

Real Results

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Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH )

• 530 total student population
• Average attendance rate is 90%
• 93% retention rate in legacy cohort
• 91% college readiness in legacy cohort
• 6 graduates within 4 years

Norwalk Early College Academy (NECA)

• 153 total student population
• 40% of students placed into college

level work at the end of 2014-15 school year. Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy (Goode)

• 829 total student population
• 133 students in grades 10, 11, 12

currently enrolled in college courses

• 13 students completed internships

with IBM in summer 2015; 44 students overall Excelsior Academy

• 100 total student population
• 96% average attendance rate
• 78% of 10th grade students

enrolled in college coursework

The First Six: P-TECH Brooklyn Graduates

June 2015: Six students graduated with their high school diplomas and AAS degrees

• Accelerated through the program in 4 years
• All graduated with AAS in Computer Information Systems,

awarded by New York City College of Technology

Cletus Andoh Gabriel Rosa Radcliffe Sadler

Key innovation: Industry partnership

Industry is a full partner in all aspects of the school, but has special responsibility over the Workplace Learning umbrella:

• Skills mapping to ensure graduates are ready to enter the workforce

and/or pursue higher education

• Workplace Learning curriculum
• Mentors for all students
• Workplace experiences: Speakers, worksite visits, job shadowing
• Skills-based, paid internships
• First in line for jobs

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The Playbook: P-TECH 9-14 School Model

• www.ptech.org
• Implement with quality and fidelity
• No need to reinvent the wheel
• Share best practices
• Highlight exemplary efforts

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“This country should be doing everything in its power to give more kids the chance to go to schools like this one.” – President Barack Obama at P-TECH (October 25, 2013)

National recognition

• Major media: Time

Magazine; Wall Street Journal; The New York Times, PBS NewsHour

• Perkins Reauthorization:

P-TECH as a model