Promising Practices: Municipal Leadership for Postsecondary Success

1. Promising Practices: Municipal Leadership for Postsecondary Success • Stakeholder Map (Degree Phoenix) • Indicators of Student Success (Portland’s All Hands Raised) • Loss-Point Analysis (San Francisco) • Tracking Progress Publicly (Riverside) • Strategies to Increase Matriculation and Persistence (Philadelphia)

2. DEGREE PHOENIXStakeholder Map

3. Indicators of Student Success

4. Where we are losing students? All SFUSD students SFUSD students at City College Loss Point 1: NotCompleting SFUSD High School 5,500 1,500 Loss Point 2: Not Successfully Transitioning Loss Point 3: Remediation at City College 4,000 Loss Point 4: Not Completing City College 1,000 3,000 910 are placed into remedial Math or English at City College SF State University= 420 SFUSD 650 do not complete at City College within 5 years Other 4-year colleges= 1,270 Other 2-year colleges = 310 350 complete at City College within 5 years City College= 1,000 9th Graders Drop Out/ Leave Graduate High School Don’t enroll in any post-secondary Enroll in post-secondary

5. How Riverside will track progress • The “report card” • A public statement • Easy to grasp • Community wake-up • Sets the vision • States clear goals • Utilizes official data • Measurable results • Data team updates annually • Demonstrates accountability • Catalyst for conversation and media coverage

6. Strategies to Increase Matriculation • Office housed in City Hall offering information and referrals • Reached out to over 25,000 Philadelphians of all ages through presentations and workshops, since 2010. • PhillyGoes2College website has been accessed over 166,000 times • Trained over 4,156 Coaches through 303 workshops, since Sept 2010. • Eight Anchor agencies engaged to reach into their communities to recruit adults to be trained as coaches. • Additional outreach to faith-based and other organizations that engage youth. In 5th year of rewarding deserving Philadelphia High School Students with tickets to sporting events across the city as an incentive to achieve academic excellence. Over 6,000 tickets distributed, with 90 high schools participating.

7. Philadelphia’s • Strategies to Increase Matriculation • Mayor’s Returning to Learning Partnership • Tuition discount program encouraging city employees to pursue a college education • Twelve area colleges and universities offer a 25% discount to employees • Hosts annual college fairs for city employees • The College Countdown Center • A collaboration between the Mayor’s Office and the School District housed in Parent, Family, Community Services Office helping parents, families, adults, immigrant and faith-based communities support their children in preparing for college and pursue a postsecondary education for themselves • Held first college fair for parents and adults • Citywide Financing College Campaign • Coordinated series of programs and services throughout the city assisting college-bound students and parents in financially preparing for college • Over 50 FAFSA Completion Workshops offered from January through April • 10% increase in FAFSA completions from 94,082 in 2008 to 103,254 in 2012 • Moved from unranked to 2nd nationally in completed Gates Scholarship applications

8. Strategies to Increase Persistence • Mayor’s College Completion Committee • Membership - 12 area colleges and universities and School District of Philadelphia • Formed a “community of practice” devoted to data-driven decision-making to increase Philadelphia student persistence and completion at their respective institutions • Used findings from OMG Pathways to Completion Report to: • Facilitate dialogue to grow analytic capabilities among member institutions • Sponsor Success and Risk: Using Data to Assess Philadelphia College Students’ Success Convening • Reach consensus on definitions and fields on revised template for IHE data request • Utilizing their internal institutional research on college success indicators, higher education partners will share findings to inform college preparation practice in K-12 community • Assisting School District with curriculum alignment to PA Common Core Standards and determining “college readiness” indicators

9. Five Strategies in Ten Cities From “Mayoral Leadership for Postsecondary Success and Career Readiness”, Kenneth K. Wong, NLC, 2012.

10. Lessons Learned: Education-Workforce Alignment City Examples: • Boston:Internships • San Francisco: Career and Technical Education • Dayton: Online career tool; internships • Riverside: Community college representation on WIB • Phoenix: Internships; training simulations; mentors

11. Selected NLC Postsecondary Success Resources • Municipal Action Guide: Municipal Leadership for Postsecondary Success: Getting Started http://www.nlc.org/Documents/Find%20City%20Solutions/IYEF/Education/municipal-leadership-for-postsecondary-success-getting-started-oct-2012.pdf • Municipal Action Guide: Conducting a Scan of Local Efforts to Promote Postsecondary Successhttp://www.nlc.org/Documents/Find%20City%20Solutions/IYEF/Education/conducting-a-scan-of-local-efforts-to-promote-postsecondary-success-oct-2012.pdf • Municipal Action Guide: Using and Sharing Data to Improve Postsecondary Success http://www.nlc.org/Documents/Find%20City%20Solutions/IYEF/Education/using-and-sharing-data-to-improve-postsecondary-success-oct-2012.pdf • Mayoral Leadership for Postsecondary Success and Career Readiness http://www.nlc.org/Documents/Find%20City%20Solutions/IYEF/Education/mayoral-leadership-for-postsecondary-success-career-readiness-oct-2012.pdf