Creating a better future for women and families in the Redding area

A Community Forum on

Public Education

“Raising the Bar for Our Children and Schools:

Reach Higher Shasta”

Enrollment

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Remediation6% to 50%

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75% to 90%

- Achieve (2008)

On-the Job Lexile RequirementsLexile

National Adult Literacy Study 1992International Center for Leadership in Education 2009

Construction

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Craftsman Nurse Sales Secretary

High school

text book

Blueprint for Reform(Reauthorization of ESEA)

All students graduating or on track to graduate ready for college and a career by 2020.

Assessments at the high school level must do a better job of measuring real world knowledge and skills that students will need to be successful after high school.

Anchor assessments should measure college and career readiness. Tests given earlier than high school need to signify progress toward that standard.

“proficient must mean prepared—all the way up and down the line.”

Creating College & Career Readiness1. Creating and maintaining a college-going culture in the school

2. Emphasizing key cognitive strategies

3. Holding high expectations for all students, then providing differing degrees of scaffolding based on student need

4. Creating a core academic program that is aligned with and leads to college and career readiness by the end of 12th grade

5. Making the senior year meaningful, challenging and engaging

6. Reducing course selection choice in favor of college-focused and career-aligned offerings

7. Creating assignments and grading polices that more closely approximate college expectations each successive year of school

8. Promoting key self-management skills and academic behaviors with formative feedback to students toward skill/behavior development

Shasta CountyOffice of Education

Leading Indicators ofCollege & Career Ready Students

• Third grade literacy

• Fifth grade numeracy

• Grades 6 to 8– Strategic reading, expository writing, higher order skills,

research, academic behaviors and Algebra I preparedness

• Grades 9 to 12– Four years of expository-based English, Algebra II/higher level

math, three years of laboratory science, and a rigorous senior year for seamless transition to postsecondary education toward a viable career path

Four Attributes of College & Career Ready Students

©2011 Jay Westover

Rigorous Course of Study seamless transition to postsecondary education

Viable Career PathsCTE pathways and regional industry sectors

Course Sequencesalignment with postsecondary options

©2011 Jay Westover

Creating a better future for women and families in the Redding area