higher education engagement for early college success april 21, 2010
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Higher Education Engagement for Early College Success April 21, 2010. Early College High School Week May 3 – 10 THSP.org/ ECHSweek. Agenda. What role do you play?. Texas Early College High Schools. The Texas High School Project has spearheaded promising educational programs in Texas. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Luzelma Canales Interim Associate Dean, Community Engagement & Workforce DevelopmentSouth Texas College
Dr. Donna EkalAssociate Provost of Graduate StudiesUniversity of Texas, El Paso
Higher Education Engagement for Early College Success
April 21, 2010
Agenda
Introduction Kim Fossey
Speaker Luzelma CanalesSouth Texas College
SpeakerDr. Donna EkalUniversity of Texas, El Paso
Panel Discussion Alma Garcia
Early College High School WeekMay 3 – 10
THSP.org/ECHSweek
What role do you play?
Texas Early College High Schools
The Texas High School Project has spearheaded promising educational programs in Texas
Public-Private Partnership Offers Unique Value to the State of Texas
– Commitment to a vision of public-private collaboration to promote state competitiveness is strong:
– THSP uniquely connects influential private voices together with TEA, policy makers, and on-the ground practitioners in a way that focuses cooperative energy to drive positive change .
All students: College Ready, Career Ready, Life Ready!
Private and Public Partners
PhilanthropyState of Texas
All students: College Ready, Career Ready, Life Ready!
THSP Encompasses Many Different Initiatives
School ModelsTexas-Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (T-STEM)Increasing the number of low income and minority college graduates in mathematics and science fields through new academiesEarly College High School (ECHS)Providing students who may not otherwise consider attending college a means of earning 60 college credits or an Associate’s degree by graduation through a new campus modelNew Schools / Charter Schools (NSCS)Supporting high performing charter schools to establish additional campuses and provide new options for students traditionally under-represented in higher education
High School Redesign (HSRD) & High School Redesign and Restructuring (HSRR)Redesigning comprehensive academically unacceptable schools and, in HSRD, creating small learning communities
NewSchools /
Academies
RedesignedSchools
All students: College Ready, Career Ready, Life Ready!
THSP Impacts Students Statewide
1 Through 2008-09 school year2 Source: Texas Education Agency 2006-2007 academic year
Statewide Impact THSP began with a focus on urban
areas – Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth, San Antonio – and the Texas-Mexico border
In partnership with TEA, THSP’s reach has expanded over time to include more mid-size cities and rural locations
Success has prompted a number of districts to independently replicate school models with their own funding
Even as THSP has reached 172 schools1, much work remains to impact the 1.2 million2 high school students in the state
Waco
El Pas
o
Lubbock
Ft Worth Dallas
Houston
Austin
San Antonio
Brownsville
7
58
Corpus Christi
5
Waco
Lubbock
Ft Worth Dallas
Houston
Austin
San Antonio
Brownsville
6
519
Corpus Christi
9
Program Key
HSRR / HSRD (93)
Number of Schools
1-2 3-4
#
5+
ECHS (29)
NSCS (12)
T-STEM (38)
10
7
5
All students: College Ready, Career Ready, Life Ready!
Early College High Schools
• Early colleges are based on the concept of acceleration not remediation. Rigorous curriculum with “wrap around” learning support services. Small class sizes allow more hands on teaching and innovation in the classroom
• The design and location of a particular ECHS may vary from school district to school district. All ECHS are public high schools funded by their districts.
All students: College Ready, Career Ready, Life Ready!
How is early college different from other accelerated models?
ECHS differ from programs like dual enrollment, International Baccalaureate (IB), Advanced Placement (AP) and dual enrollment in the following ways:
– Fully integrates the high school and college experience (socially and intellectually)
– Specifically targets student populations with lower probabilities of entering college; unlike AP, IB, or dual enrollment programs
All students: College Ready, Career Ready, Life Ready!
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation TEA/TX Legislature Greater TX Foundation Wallace Foundation Meadows Foundation
JFF
ECHS Network
Exemplars PD Network Education Service Centers Higher Ed Systems THECB Policy Work Group
CFT TEA ECHS
Funders
National Support
State Support
School Developers
Innovation
Scale
All students: College Ready, Career Ready, Life Ready!