Early College High School Design Integration Initiative

1. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Foundation for California Community Colleges

2. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative Presentation Overview: • About the Foundation for California Community Colleges • Description of the early college high school design • Scale and scope of the national ECHS Initiative • Rational for early college high school • Scale of FCCC ECHS work • Description of ECHS Design Integration Initiative

3. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative What our foundation is: Official Auxiliary Foundation to California Community Colleges system • 501 (c)(3) Non Profit Corporation • Founded in 1998 Our Mission and Vision: • Our mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the California Community Colleges system • Our vision is to act as innovators and leaders increasing the system’s resources, efficiency, and effectiveness. What we value: • Strategic thinking, collaboration, and execution • Innovation – The cornerstone of FCCC culture • Providing value to colleges – better, faster, lower cost

4. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative FCCC Primary Goals: • To provide financial and in-kind support to the California Community Colleges system • To reduce the costs of system, district, and college operations, equipment, and facilities • To enhance the effectiveness of local college foundations by supporting the Network of California Community Colleges Foundations • To develop, promote, and support programs that increase access to and improve the effectiveness of the colleges • To maintain the fiscal, administrative, and ethical integrity of the Foundation for California Community Colleges.

5. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative What are early college high schools? • A small, autonomous school operating under the formal auspices of a secondary-post secondary education institutional partnership • A school that targets underserved and under-prepared students • A place where students are expected to pursue the following high school and college graduation outcomes in five years or less: • an Associates degree and/or • Completion of a certification program that develops skills for a family-supporting job and/or • Eligibility to transfer with advanced standing to a four-year college or university

6. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative National ECHS Initiative Scope 12 Partners will help to establish 170 Early College High Schools by 2008: • Antioch University/Seattle • City University of New York • Jobs For the Future • Foundation for California Community Colleges • Georgia Department of Education and the University System of Georgia • Knowledge Works Foundation • Middle College National Consortium • National Council of La Raza • Portland Community College • SECME, Inc. • Utah Partnership for Education • Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

7. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative Why ECHS? The Challenge: Keeping Pace in a Global Economy • Of students entering U.S. high school only 7 of 10 will graduate. • Only 3 of 10 will complete a postsecondary degree. • Approximately half of U.S. high school grads have adequate college-level reading comprehension skills, most lack college-ready skills in math and science.

8. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative Why ECHS? Substantial disparities exist: All Students 68.9% American Indian 49.7% Asian/Pacific Islander 82.0% Hispanic 57.0% Black 55.3% White 75.7% Orfield, G., Losen, D., Wald, J., & Swanson, C., (2004). Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth are Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis, Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Contributors: Advocates for Children of New York, The Civil Society Institute.

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10. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Key Early College High School Elements: • Strong formal secondary-post secondary partnership committed to ECHS student outcomes. • Intentional focus on promoting literacy and college access and success with personalized learning plans for all students. • Partners establish a student support network dedicated to maximizing student potential and success.

11. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Key Early College High School Elements (Continued): • The school culture supports high expectations for all with a college-going “feel” often supported by “power of place” associated with college campus based activities. • Strong partnership support for professional development and school improvement. • Use of student assessment to inform school practices and effectiveness of ECHS Initiative • Partnership demonstrates a commitment to sustainability.

12. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Foundation for California Community Colleges Support: • Assists partner organizations in creating their design plans and completing their grant applications. • Selects the sub-grantees. • Provides technical assistance, coaching and professional development once sites are selected. • Coordinates the sharing of ECHS best practices and analyzes ECHS and student performance data. • Works with state agencies and education groups to promote and support Early College High Schools and the Early College High School model.

13. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Introduction: • Primary focus is to promote formal secondary-post secondary collaboration to accomplish ECHS student outcomes • FCCC will fund eight sub grantees • Three year grants are to support partnerships with start-up funds only. • Grantees will receive $173,400 over 3 years plus FCCC will provide professional development and coaching support. • Partnership must include current or formerly funded Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supported secondary school with tenth grade students attending by 2007-2008

14. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Overarching Goals: • To increase the number of students who graduate from high school college-ready. • To increase the number of students who experience college success. • To strengthen the National ECHS Initiative’s influence on in California high school reform/reinvention.

15. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Coaching & Professional Development: • Professional development activities will be mutually determined by partnership and FCCC • FCCC will annually provide the following: • Four days of coaching per school • One day of project leadership • One professional development convening • FCCC is eager to collaborate with other intermediaries working in California

16. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Application Submissions • Due Diligence Application with Scoring Rubric • Memorandum of Understanding • Draft • Signed by the chief executives of secondary and post secondary partners • Dates and processes for formal approval by governing boards • Resources are available for download at: http://www.foundationccc.org/Default.aspx?tabid=70

17. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Application Timeline: • February 22, 2007: • All proposals are due at 5:00 p.m. and must be sent two ways: • Email to: ECHS@foundationccc.org • Deliver three hard copies with original signatures must be by 5:00 p.m. to: • ECHS Proposals • Foundation for California Community Colleges • 1102 Q Street, Third Floor • Sacramento, CA 95814 • March 22, 2007: • Finalists selected, notified, and announced

18. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Critical Follow Up Dates: • March 26, 2007: • Successful candidates participate in a statewide conference 10 a.m. call • May 1, 2007: • Agreements signed between FCCC and successful recipients with timeline and schedule of payments • June 1, 2007: • A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or Agreement (MOA) between the participating college and high school is due in the FCCC office.

19. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Critical Follow Up Dates (continued): • June 22, 2007: • Mandatory meeting for teams from each selected site. Teams include College liaison, two faculty from each of four academic disciplines: English, mathematics, science, and social studies, college counselor, ECHS principal, ECHS faculty from each of four academic disciplines: English, mathematics, science, and social studies, and ECHS counselor. • June 1 – August, 2007: • Student identification, testing, and enrollment for Cohort 1

20. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Application Scoring: • The Due Diligence Application serves also as a Scoring Rubric. Please note on the tops of the columns the number of points possible for each benchmark element is listed. Readers will assign points to each section of the benchmark to arrive at the total score. • Applications will scored and ranked by a team selected by FCCC

21. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative • Application Scoring: • The Due Diligence Application serves also as a Scoring Rubric. Please note on the tops of the columns the number of points possible for each benchmark element is listed. Readers will assign points to each section of the benchmark to arrive at the total score. • Applications will scored and ranked by a team selected by FCCC

22. Early College High School Design Integration Initiative Contact Information: Foundation for California Community Colleges 3478 Buskirk Avenue, Suite 333 Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 Jeff Thompson – V.P. Learning Programs Email: jthompson@foundationccc.org Phone: 209-406-8188 Joyce Arntson – V.P. Grants and Development Email: jarntson@foundationccc.org Phone: 714-875-3605