clinton county- a snapshot dropouts: one dropout is too many
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Clinton County- a SnapshotDropouts: One Dropout is too Many
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High Cost of High School DropoutsThe average annual income for a high school dropout in 2005 was $17,299, compared to $26,933 for a high school graduate, a difference of $9,634 per year. -US Bureau of the Census, 2006
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Trigger Question:
1. What are the factors, specific to Clinton County, that contribute to students dropping out of high school?
2. What factors inhibit our ability to solve this problem?
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Stakeholders- Current Team Howard Comstock Director, Family Resource
Center Ruth Rockwell, Clinton County Substance
Abuse Coordinator Deb Kloosterman, Capital Area Community
Services Director Monica Spicer, Counselor, Ovid-Elsie High
School Karla Palmer, School Nurse St Johns High
School Larry Lloyd, Clinton County RESA Barb Baumann, LCC Julie Banfield, CCRESA, Special Projects
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Other Possible Stakeholders
Parents Students Dropouts Community members Prisons Law enforcement Groups with resources
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Session Outcomes To build a shared understanding of the current
status of student dropouts in Clinton County To build a shared understanding of the root
causes of student dropouts in Clinton County To build a shared language surrounding the
dropout phenomenon Based on most influential factors, recommend
actions that would reduce dropouts Create a covenant, or agreement to act, signed
at the highest levels of each institution
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Key Information- Graduation Rates Bath Clinton DeWitt Ovid-Elsie Pewamo-
Westphalia St. Johns
86.75% 85.15% 94.01% 89.02% 100%
87.4%
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Costs to Clinton County
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Some questions to guide the process What do we know about students that
enter ninth grade and what happens to them?
What school indicators help predict who graduates and who doesn’t graduate in four years?
What is known about students who fall off-track?
What do we know about students that do not graduate?
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Questions cont.
What schools are successfully graduating students? -Closing the Graduation Gap, 2008
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What we learned so far
Student Suggestions Better Teachers Offer more Alternatives Tutoring Summer School More Supervision More school to home
communication Better mentoring between students
and teachers
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More Successful if: Evening classes More GED
opportunities Allowing students to
return when older
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Resources
http://www.k12.wa.us/research/pubdocs/pdf/dropoutreport2003.pdf
http://www.mea.org/dropouts/Dropout%20Hearing%20Press%20Release.pdf
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THE Three Phases of SDD:
DiscoveryPhase I
Action Phase III
DesignPhase II
Content consultants,Experts,Task forces,Etc.
DiagnosisPhase II
Diagnostic Results
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Clinton County Resource Team Anand Ramaswami, Director of Strategic
Initiatives Jean Morciglio, Executive Director of
Extension and Community Education Alexander Christakis, Cogniscope Gayle Underwood, Cogniscope