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Cleveland Metropolitan School District Working Together to Create a College- Going Culture Karen Thompson, Maggie McGrath, Jeff McKissick

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Cleveland Metropolitan School DistrictWorking Together to Create a College-Going Culture

Karen Thompson, Maggie McGrath, Jeff McKissick

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Agenda and Overview

• Cleveland Metropolitan School District Implementation of Naviance

• Mayor's Call to Action and the Higher Education Compact

• Using Naviance to support the creation of a college-going culture throughout a large urban district

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Naviance Implementation in the Cleveland School District

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Career and College Readiness in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District

• Cleveland Goes to College, Career and College Readiness Coaches, College Now

• New and Innovative Schools

• College ambition and expectation has been growing but persistence and completion remain low.

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Historical College Going and Completion Numbers Chart for CMSD Students

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College-Going at New and Innovative Schools in the Cleveland School District

4-Year High School Graduation Rate College Enrollment within 1st Year0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

71%68%

72%

63%

56%59%

94%90%

Nation Ohio All CMSD Schools New & Innovative Schools

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College Completion Rates in CMSD

2005 20060%

2%

4%

6%

8%

10%

12%

14%

16%

1% 1%

4%5%

5%

5%

4%

4%

Time to College Graduation within 6 Years (Associate's, Bachelor's and Higher)

Graduated in 2 years or Less Graduated in 3 Years Graduated in 4 Years

Graduated in 5 Years Graduated in 6 Years

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CMSD Naviance Implementation

• System to bring all of the pieces together

• High quality data on college access

• Improved interface with students and families around college process

• Integrated well with other student information systems

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CMSD Naviance Implementation

• Student Usage Rates on the Rise

• College Applications on the Rise

• eDocs introduced in half of schools with full roll out in 13-14 school year

• Planned implementation of course planner for 13-14 school year

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Student Usage Rates On the Rise

• Senior usage rates went from 6.1 Logins/Student in 2011-12 to 10.6 in 12-13. Usage amongst seniors stayed steady at 73% with at least one login. •Junior usage rates have also increased from 3.8 in 2011-12 to 4.8 in 12-13.

2011-2012 2012-2013

# of Logins 25090 33090

2,500

7,500

12,500

17,500

22,500

27,500

32,500

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College Applications 5565 7172

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Higher Education Compact of Greater Cleveland

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Focused Foundation Investment Capacity Building/System Impact

Support the introduction of a college planning and tracking system in CMSD

Provide specialized college guidance services to high performing CMSD students – Cleveland Foundation College Now Scholars Program

Create a college-going culture in targeted CMSD high schools

Create a community plan

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Background: Development of a Community Plan

• December 2010: Mayor appointed a small group to develop recommendations to create a community action plan to increase college readiness, access and persistence in Cleveland.

• December 2010-July 2011: Group collected data, reviewed existing efforts, completed research and conducted interviews, developed a white paper - developed four recommendations to create Higher Education Compact.

1. Publicly launch the Higher Education Compact

2. Adopt a Dashboard to Measure Progress

3. Develop an efficient and effective organizational structure

4. Continue planning for expansion of initiative and scholarship

• October 2011: Launched Higher Education Compact of Greater Cleveland.

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Foundation of Higher Education CompactThree Factors to College Success

Does the student have the content knowledge, critical thinking and research skills, and academic habits to successfully complete

college work without remediation?

Does the student have the awareness, opportunity, support, and financing necessary to select andattend a college that is the “right fit?”

Does the student have the academic and self-management skills, resilience, resources, and institutional support to successfully navigate and persevere through college?

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Progress to Date

• Launch

– Launch event with more than 300 people on October 6, 2011

– Ten funders committed $300,000 for operating budget

– Branding and marketing materials developed: www.highereducationcompact.org

• Recruitment /Participation of Compact Partners

- Higher Education Institutions: 17 higher education institutions which enroll 80% of CMSD

students share data and create proactive plans

- Cleveland Metropolitan School District: Launch Cleveland Goes to College Program

- Practice Partners: Data sharing and use of Naviance Succeed

• Activities

– Annual Symposium held in June 2012 and 2013 with over 300 participants at each

– Raising the Bar: Dashboard Report released in December 2012

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First Annual Dashboard

Report Released• High School Graduation Rates are rising• CMSD College Readiness Rates are low• CMSD is aggressively addressing college readiness• More CMSD graduates are enrolling in college• Community Partners are aligning their work• College completion rates for CMSD graduates are low but rising• Compact colleges and universities are focused on intervention

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College Success: Outcomes & Goals

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Using Naviance to create a college-going culture in a large urban school district

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Average Number of times Students take the

ACT

1.67

2009 2010 20110%

20%

40%

60%

80%

Percentage of On-Time Graduates Tak-ing the ACT

NationOhioCMSD

College Access in CMSD

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Percentage of Students Completing at Least One

College Application by Feb. 15

50%

Average Number of Completed College

Applications per Student

4.31

College Access in the CMSD

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Percentage of Students that completed the FAFSA in 2012

59%

2011 201240%

45%

50%

55%

60%

47%

59%

57%

CMSD FAFSA Completion Rates

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College Access in the CMSD

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Naviance Milestones Tracking Worksheet

Goal Actual

9th Grade "On track" (Naviance User) 4 100% 50%10th Grade "On track (9th + OGT) 8 50% 50%11th Grade "On track" (10th + ACT) 4 60% 50%12th Grade "On track" (11th +College+FAFSA) 8 75% 63%

Last, First Name School Grade On-Track Off-Track

Student #1 East Teach Campus-9th 9 Y Student #2 East Tech-Engineering 9 Student #3 Jane Addams Business Careers9 Y Student #4 Jane Addams Business Careers9 Student #5 East Tech-Community 10 Y Y Student #6 East Tech-Community 10 Student #7 East Tech-Engineering 10 Student #8 East Tech-Engineering 10 Y Y Student #9 John Adams \Financial Services10 Y Student #10 John Adams Campus-College Board10 Y Y Student #11 New Tech@East Tech 10 Y Student #12 New Tech@East Tech 10 Y Y

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Lessons Learned Along the Way

• Building the systems and structures that you need to do the work must be done first. •Quality data and data analysis is critically important.

•Progress happens at the speed of trust – build trusting relationships amongst stakeholders.

• Be comfortable with ambiguity.

• Communicate constantly.

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Contact Us for More Information

Karen ThompsonDeputy Chief Curriculum and InstructionCleveland Metropolitan School [email protected]

Maggie McGrath ArmourCollege Success ConsultantThe Cleveland [email protected]

Jeff McKissickIT Manager and Naviance Implementation ManagerCollege Now Greater [email protected]