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The Sustainability Challenge

The Sustainability Challenge. Little question that sustainability is a common challenge: Turnover of leading, elected advocates Competing priorities Lack of implementation planning Sustaining the college- and career-ready agenda presents some unique challenges:

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The Sustainability Challenge

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  1. The Sustainability Challenge • Little question that sustainability is a common challenge: • Turnover of leading, elected advocates • Competing priorities • Lack of implementation planning • Sustaining the college- and career-ready agenda presents some unique challenges: • Pressure intensifies once policies go into place that raise expectations for all students – and therefore their teachers and schools • The agenda really requires a shift in culture to one that acknowledges that all students will need to meet higher expectations to be successful and that all students can meet those expectations

  2. Sustainability More Important Than Ever • Many states have made progress on adopting many of the college- and career-ready policies and are now turning their attention to implementation • New opportunities afforded through Race to the Top funds • By 2010, governors in 28 out of the 35 ADPN states will face reelection or will be termed out.

  3. Taking Root: Strategies for Sustaining the College- and Career-Ready Agenda • To help states tackle these challenges and with the support of the GE Foundation, Achieve set out to uncover strategies and practices that would enable sustainable education reform – and specifically the college- and career-ready agenda. • Started by reviewing the existing research base

  4. Four Case Studies into Sustainable State Education Reform • Indiana’s Core 40 Reforms • Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 • South Carolina’s Education Improvement Act of 1984 • Texas’ Standards-Based Reforms • These four states were selected because they had successfully sustained their education reforms for a decade or more.

  5. Taking Root: Strategies for Sustaining the College- and Career-Ready Agenda

  6. Ten Strategies for Sustaining the College- and Career-Ready Agenda • Strong and Consistent Political and Education Leadership • External Champions Pushing for Change • A Coalition of Supporters • An Open and Transparent Policy Process • Strategic Communications and Outreach

  7. Ten Strategies for Sustaining the College- and Career-Ready Agenda • Investment in Implementation and Capacity-Building • Monitoring Progress and Making Mid-Course Corrections • Well-Integrated Policies that Promote P-20 Alignment • Highly Functional Quasi-Governmental Entities • Data Collection and Use

  8. Sustainability Audit • Tool developed to help states analyze their strength on seven indicators that are strongly associated with sustainable reform. • The goal of the tool is to provide states with a a set of guiding questions and sample responses that are illustrative of strong or limited conditions in each of the seven areas.

  9. Sustainability Audit • Breadth of Government Leadership • Intensity of Government Leadership • Strength of External Support • Level of Policy Integration • Strength of Implementation • Strength of Communications/Outreach Efforts • Favorability of Climate

  10. Secretary Paul Reville: Massachusetts’ Lessons for Sustaining the College- and Career-Ready Agenda

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