Advocacy for All One District’s Mission to Ensure Equity and

Access

Dr. M. Carolyn Girardeau

Executive Director High School Programs

Bernadette Hardeman

API Grant Coordinator

Tyler Joi Bailey

DCPS Alumni

May 2, 2013

A Dream Deferred: The Future of African American Education

Today’s Focus

Explain how DCPS built an infrastructure for access and equity for all students.

Driving questions:

• Where are we now?

• How did we get here?

• Where do we want to go?

• How will we get there?

• How will we know we are (getting) there?

US Census Bureau

Learn more,

earn more!

People with

more education

earn more

money. Here

are annual

earnings based

on degree.

Where are we now?

Change has a considerable psychological

impact on the human mind. To the fearful it

is threatening because it means that things

may get worse. To the hopeful it is

encouraging because things may get better.

To the confident it is inspiring because the

challenge exists to make things better.

~ King Whitney, Jr.

Duval County Public Schools At A Glance

22nd largest district in the nation & sixth largest district in

Florida

Increased graduation rate by nearly 20% over last four

years

Established post-secondary ready curriculum requirements

six years ahead of state – 82.9% of graduates meeting

criteria versus 60.2% for state

2010/2011, an acceleration program available in every

region of district

DCPS currently has 40 career academies; 6 meet national

standards and three are national model schools

30+ Years of Progress

1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015

1981

IB &

*College

Prep

Stanton

1997

IB &

*College

Prep

Paxon

1998

AICE

Raines

2003

AICE

Mandarin

EC

Robert Lee

2005

AICE

**Raines

EC & IB

Ribault

2009

AP Honors

Baldwin

EC

Englewood

Sandalwood

2010

AP Honors

Atlantic Coast

Douglas Anderson

Darnell Cookman

First Coast

Andrew Jackson

F. H. Peterson

A. P. Randolph

AICE

Ducan Fletcher

Nathan B. Forrest

IB

Terry Parker

Edward White

Samuel Wolfson

*College Prep is now considered AP Honors

**Board approved plan to revitalize Cambridge AICE at Raines

2012/2013

Cambridge Sec I

Jefferson Davis

Mandarin

Northwestern

MYP – 5 year

Mathew Gilbert

Andrew Jackson

Stillwell

Expansion Highlights Academic & Community Excellence (ACE) Process

◦ Board Approved February 3, 2009

Four programs accessible in each quadrant of the city

◦ Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE)

◦ Advanced Placement (AP) Honors

◦ Early College

◦ International Baccalaureate (IB)

Increased access to dual enrollment offerings at each

high school

Response to Senate Bill 4, effective July 2010

◦ Requires school districts to advise students of and offer more

acceleration courses

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DCPS

Expansion Funding

SOURCES

API

SLC

SAI

PRODUCTS

Coordinator Salaries

AVID

Professional Development

Formative Writing

Bridge Activities

Membership & Application

Fees

Where do we want to go?

Equity and access with deliberate focus on both

recruitment & retention

Continuous professional development for

coordinators, counselors, teachers, and administrators

Increased performance on state, national and

international assessments

A leader in the state and nation in the design and

sustainability of quality acceleration programs

How will we get there?

A bridge that works in one place almost

never works in another. Each bridge

requires careful design that considers its

purpose, who will use it, the conditions

that exist at its anchor points…and the

resources required to construct it.

~Susan Loucks-Horsley

Acceleration Programs Framework

Building a Culture of College &

Career Readiness

AWARENESS

◦ “Get Plugged In”

◦ Annual Jacksonville Goes to College Week

◦ National College Fair

◦ Annual College and Career Readiness Forum

Funding of 39 new counselor positions

Development of Acceleration Program Recruitment Video

Expansion of the AVID Program

Conference for Middle School Students and their Families

Building Continued…

PARTNERSHIPS

o College Board

o JAXPORT

o National Association of College Admissions Counselors

o Postsecondary Institutions

Building Continued…

OUR FOCUS: RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP

◦ Student Focus Groups

◦ Annual Student Voices Panels

◦ Annual AP/AVID Scholars Academy

◦ Virtual and Face to Face Exam Reviews for Students

◦ Annual Success by Design Conference for Middle

School Students

◦ Annual Success by Design Counselor Conference

◦ Virtual and Face to Face PLCs

◦ Formative Assessments

College &

Career

Readiness

Forum

Research Brief

College &

Career

Readiness

Family

Conference

2012 Jacksonville National College Fair 7,179 in Attendance

2012 Jacksonville National College Fair 160+ Colleges and Universities From Around the US

Programs in the News

o Jacksonville’s intervene high schools make a

recruitment pitch

Posted: June 5, 2011- 12am | Charlie Patton

o 2 of Duval’s 3 Gates Millennium scholars credit

intervene schools

| May 26, 2011| Topher Sanders

o Duval students named Gates Millennium Scholars

| April 25, 2012 | Teresa Stepzinski

Programs in the News

o Ex-Duval students offer feedback; Accelerated

learning program veterans share their experiences

| March 10, 2012 | Batteiger, Amber

o Duval students striving to ace AICE international

academic program

Posted: October 7, 2012 - 8:16pm | Updated: October 8, 2012 - 3:17am

o Jacksonville Goes To College

William Jackson, October 12, 2012 - 5:03pm

o Two Outstanding Students Awarded Gates

Millennium Scholarships

April 29, 2013

We will know we are getting there when…

Principals champion the work

School-based teams are intentional about

postsecondary readiness

Program enrollment reflects school demographics

Support systems address social, emotional,

developmental, and academic needs

Student achievement is consistent across schools

… you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo’

papa and yo’ mama and nobody else can’t

tell yuh and show yuh.

~Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God

Q & A

Final Thought…