AdvanceNOLA Celebration

Ralph’s on the ParkDecember 6, 2011

Partner High Schools

Edna KarrSci AcademySci HighO. Perry Walker

AP Course Offerings in our Partner High Schools

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2011-12 School Year

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Why Advanced Placement?

“... schools in the new National Math and Science Initiative on AP are great examples of the power of quality instruction, more time spent on task, and rigorous, content-focused teacher training. The NMSI schools are having phenomenal success in raising AP scores among minority students. In the single year of implementation to date, the number of African-American and Latino students who scored a 3 or higher on AP exams in math, science, and English jumped more than 70 percent.”

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne DuncanJuly 15, 2010

College Board AP Annual Conference

Partner High Schools: Demographics

Successes: Programmatic

Increases every year in numbers of students taking AP courses students earning qualifying scores AP courses offered student volunteers

Increased school buy-in Introduction of pre-AP courses

Successes: Programmatic

Students have stopped saying “I can’t take AP classes” and have started saying “I can’t take four AP classes.”

At two partner schools, at least 95% of returning seniors are taking at least one AP course.

AdvanceNOLA in action

AdvanceNOLA in action

Response to Challenges: School-Based

TeachersParentsCounselorsStudents

Response to Challenges: Policy

High mobility rates due to school choice model

Lack of feeder patterns

Looking Forward: Spring 2012

National Student Clearinghouse Mock exams: January 2012 Saturday sessions Volunteer opportunities AP exams to be taken on Tulane’s

campus AP student celebration?

Looking Forward: Long-term

Development of pre-AP programs in high schools and partner middle schools

Expansion of current AP programs to include foreign language, social sciences, and art

Cohort of AdvanceNOLA scholars who become mentors

Increased collaboration among AdvanceNOLA schools, AP teachers, and AP students

Alignment of remediation, common core curriculum, state testing, and Advanced Placement

AdvanceNOLA Celebration

Emily RemingtonAssistant Director, Programmingeremingt@tulane.edu504-701-0460