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Richard Woods, Georgias School Superintendent Educating Georgias Future gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgias School Superintendent Educating Georgias Future GEORGIA COLLEGE AND gadoe.org CAREER ACADEMIES: PERFORMANCE

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Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent

“Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org

GEORGIA COLLEGE AND CAREER ACADEMIES: PERFORMANCE CONTRACT OVERVIEW, QUESTIONS, AND UPDATES

GCCA 2018 Grant Workshop

July 12, 2018

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What is a Georgia College and Career Academy (GCCA)?

  • A specialized school established:
  • as a charter school, or
  • pursuant to a contract for a Strategic

Waivers School System, or

  • pursuant to a contract for a Charter

System

  • Formalizes a partnership that

demonstrates a collaboration between business, industry, and community stakeholders to advance work force development between one or more local boards of education, a private or public

  • rganization or agency, and one or more

postsecondary institutions

Definition*

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Note: The definition of a CCA was amended with the passage of SB 348 during the 2016 legislative session. The new definition allows CCAs created within a Strategic Waivers School System (SWSS) contract to be eligible for TCSG capital funding

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What is a Georgia College and Career Academy (GCCA)?

  • Many college and career academies
  • riginate from district CTAE programs
  • College and career academy courses are

a reflection of the needs of the local businesses and community

  • Georgia has 43 college and career

academies approved by the State Board

  • f Education
  • 23 have their own charter contracts
  • 16 are in a Charter System contract
  • 4 are in a Strategic Waivers School

System (SWSS) contract

Facts & Features

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What is the basic flexibility bargain incorporated into all GCCA performance contracts – for charter schools, charter systems, and SWSS districts?

ACCOUNTABILITY AUTONOMY

Freedom from state and local controls Flexibility to Innovate Waivers from state and local laws, rules, guidelines Strong partnership with business, industry, and community stakeholders Achieve and Maintain TCSG Certification

School districts and schools

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Strong Academic Results

Financial Sustainability Well-Trained and High- Functioning Governing Board Legal and Regulatory Compliance

What Makes a GCCA “High Quality”?

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Operates under shared governance and leadership that support the Academy’s performance contract, maintain liaison with business and industry partners, and fully utilize flexibility to support student performance and school effectiveness

Meets regularly and complies with Open Records and Open Meetings Laws Governing board sticks to governance and stays out

  • f management

The majority of the GCCA’s governing board members represent business and industry Receives regular updates

  • n academic operational,

and financial progress of the school Participates in required governing board training each year

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Governance Standards

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  • The strategic partners that together create a Georgia

College and Career Academy will also make decisions together regarding the Academy's provision of the workforce development needed by the community, including what Career Pathways, Dual Enrollment, and post-secondary certifications will be offered, the Academy personnel that will provide instruction and leadership, and the Academy's use of the revenues it receives from its strategic partners (including the CCA's governing board, CCA management, the school district, the local technical college partners, and other post-secondary, business, and community partners).

GCCA Partners Roles and Responsibilities Matrix

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  • There is now a GCCA Partners Roles and

Responsibilities matrix that is used to describe the decisions that are (or will be) made by a Georgia College and Career Academy's strategic partners

  • GCCA applicants must place a checkmark in the cells
  • f the matrix to show the agreement reached with

their strategic partners on the respective roles and responsibilities of each partner as it relates to each

  • f the decisions listed
  • There are checkmarks included in the template as a

starting point for discussion among the strategic partners

GCCA Partners Roles and Responsibilities Matrix

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  • Please note that the Division has replaced the old

MOU requirement with a GCCA Partners Roles and Responsibilities matrix

  • New GCCAs and GCCAs seeking a performance

contract renewal are required to submit a completed GCCA Partners Roles and Responsibilities matrix

  • The matrix is incorporated as an addendum to a

charter school, charter system, or SWSS contract

GCCA Partners Roles and Responsibilities Matrix

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  • The matrix distinguishes between whether your

GCCA was created as a stand-alone charter school or as a school/program within a SWSS or charter system

GCCA Partners Roles and Responsibilities Matrix

Standard 1: Governance and Leadership GCCA Certifi- cation Standards and Assur- ances CCA with a stand-alone charter contract CCA included within a charter system contract CCA included within a SWSS contract Charter School Non- profit Gover- ning Board Charter School Man- age- ment Local School District * Local Tech- nical Col- lege Part- ner Other Higher Educa- tion Partner (s) Busi- ness Partner( s) Com- munity Partner( s) CCA Gov- erning Board CCA Man- age- ment Local School Dis- trict* Local Tech- nical Col- lege Part- ner Other Higher Educa- tion Part- ner(s) Busi- ness Partner( s) Com- munity Partner( s) CCA Gov- erning Board CCA Ma- nage- ment Local School Dis- trict* Local Tech- nical Col- lege Part- ner Other Higher Educa- tion Part- ner(s) Busi- ness Partner( s) Com- munity Partner( s) Operates under shared governance and leadership that support the Academy’s performance contract, maintain liaison with business and industry partners, and fully utilize flexibility to support student performance and school effectiveness. S1-A1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

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School System Flexibility

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SCHOOL SYSTEM FLEXIBILITY CHOICES As of 05/03/2018 Charter Systems 45 Strategic Waivers School Systems (SWSS) 133 Title 20/No Waivers School Systems 2 Total 180

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Once charter application is approved by LBOE, application is processed on a first-come, first- served basis

Petition reviewed*

  • Legal review to

ensure eligibility

  • Substantive

review

GaDOE panel interview with applicant

Letter to applicant

  • Core focus
  • Compliance

Applicant responds to letter

GaDOE makes approval/denial recommendations to SBOE

SBOE views Item for Information

SBOE approves Action Item Execution

  • f the

Contract

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Performance Contract Review Process to Establish a GCCA as a Charter School

*In partner- ship with The Office of College and Career Transitions (TCSG)

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SWSS or charter system contract amendment petition is approved by LBOE

GaDOE conducts

  • Legal review to

ensure eligibility

  • Substantive

review

Review by The Office of College and Career Transitions (TCSG) Letter to applicant

  • Core focus
  • Compliance

Applicant responds to letter

GaDOE makes approval/denial recommenda- tion to SBOE SBOE approves Contract Amendment Contract Amendment is Executed

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Performance Contract Review Process to Establish a GCCA within an SWSS or Charter System Contract

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  • Georgia law requires GCCAs to be certified by TCSG,

through their Office of College and Career Transitions

  • To be certified, GCCAs must:
  • 1. Increase student achievement
  • 2. Provide for dual credit and dual enrollment
  • pportunities
  • 3. Address workforce development needs
  • 4. Demonstrate local governance and autonomy
  • 5. Increase work-based learning opportunities
  • 6. Articulate how collaboration between business,

industry, and community stakeholders will advance workforce development

  • 7. Provide evidence to support performance contract

renewal

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GCCA Performance Contract Initial Approval and Renewal Process

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  • The performance contract renewal application includes a

GCCA submitting proof that it met all five Standards established by The Office of College and Career Transitions

  • Standard 1: Governance and Leadership. Operates under

shared governance and leadership that support the Academy’s performance contract, maintains liaison with business and industry partners, and fully utilizes flexibility to support student performance and school effectiveness.

  • Standard 2: Strategic Planning and Sustainability. Maintains

and communicates a purpose and direction that fully utilizes flexibility to support a commitment to high expectations for learning as well as shared values and beliefs about teaching and learning.

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Performance Contract Renewal Process for GCCAs

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  • Standard 3: Teaching and Assessing for Learning. Ensure

curriculum, instructional design, and assessment practices fully utilize flexibility to support and ensure teacher effectiveness and student learning.

  • Standard 4: Economic and Workforce Development. Develop

Career Pathways, Dual Enrollment, and Post-Secondary Certifications which fully utilize flexibility to support an alignment to the economic and workforce needs of the community and are driven and evaluated by its business partners.

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Performance Contract Renewal Process for GCCAs

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  • Standard 5: Performance Contract. The GCCA fully utilizes

flexibility provided by a performance contract. GCCAs must fully utilize flexibility to support innovations, and must meet fiscal and governing board requirements established in its performance contract ✓GCCA has met the performance goals listed in its charter contract ✓GCCA implemented the essential features and innovations included in its performance contract ✓GCCA maintained its fiscal integrity ✓GCCA implemented board governance with integrity

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Performance Contract Renewal Process for GCCAs

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  • GCCAs that demonstrate they have put in place the

conditions needed to achieve certification by The Office of College and Career Transitions will be recommended to the State Board of Education for initial performance contract approval

  • This includes approval of GCCAs that are “stand

alone” charter schools, and GCCAs established by an SWSS or Charter System contract

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GCCA Performance Contract Initial Approval Process

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  • GCCAs that achieve certification by The Office of

College and Career Transitions will be recommended to the State Board of Education with a positive recommendation for performance contract renewal

  • This includes approval and renewal of GCCAs that

are “stand alone” charter schools, and GCCAs established by an SWSS or Charter System contract

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GCCA Performance Contract Renewal Process

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The Certification process involves the following series of events:

  • 1. Preliminary visit to GCCA
  • 2. On-site review: analysis, verification, and synthesis
  • 3. Exit Conference and Summary Report
  • 4. Final team reports and outcomes
  • 5. Joint review by Office of College and Career Transitions

(OCCT) and GaDOE District Flexibility and Charter Schools Division

  • 6. TCSG Board review and decision to approve/deny

certification

  • 7. Academy implementation of recommendations and

final outcomes

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Office of College and Career Tran- sitions GCCA Certification Process

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  • Any Georgia College and Career Academy opened by, or any

existing CCA included within, a Charter System or Strategic Waivers School System must meet the definition of a College and Career Academy as defined in the law and State Board Rule

  • The Charter System or Strategic Waivers School System must

notify the Department and TCSG of the opening of the CCA

  • The charter system contract must be amended to add the CCA

as an Essential or Innovative Feature

  • The SWSS contract must be amended to add the CCA to its list
  • f schools

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GCCAs within a Charter System or a Strategic Waivers School System

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Additional Information

Louis Erste Associate Superintendent, District Flexibility, Charter Schools, Policy, and Governmental Affairs lerste@doe.k12.ga.us 404-651-8734

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Allen Mueller Director District Flexibility and Charter Schools Division amueller@doe.k12.ga.us 404-657-2529 Francesca Black Staff Attorney District Flexibility and Charter Schools Division fblack@doe.k12.ga.us 404-456-0027