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Accreditation Timeline

Criterion Committees:
Criterion 1
Criterion 2
Criterion 3
Criterion 4
Criterion 5

What’s Working at Each Site?

• Accuplacer/Assett/College Placement Test given during Sophomore and/or Junior year followed by “Brush Up”
• Parents’ night with HS, Community College, and University counselors
• Summer remediation classes with no charge
• High school credit for college experience
• Summer Engineering School for high school students
• Plato software lab for high school
• Math and English classes during summer at Community College
• Math department at CC provided mathematics course for high school seniors
• Business partnerships with community college
• A Plus schools = free credit at CC
• Teaching Academy
• Jump start program
• Improved communication between high school and CC
• Academic Advisor Specialty in teaching
• A Day in the Life – all day on campus—sit in classes
• Dual credit scholarship
• College mentors to high school students
• Live and online tutoring
• Working with high risk students
• Creating clear pathways to postsecondary
• Working with ninth grade students to develop understanding of career options
• Use of contextual teaching in the classroom—secondary and postsecondary
• Remediation project called “Arc”

Best Practices Reported

• “Day in the Life”
• Academic advisors
• Track successful students after graduation
• 2 week “Brush Up”
• Information to parents and students with guidance counselors helping to “build a schedule” for 11^th and 12^th grade—Having a “Parent Night”
• Using competencies for articulation/pathway succession rather than courses
• Linda Montgomery’s Excel spreadsheet has great potential
• Need student involvement at this conference
• Electronic data dissemination including forms, marketing, PR, recruiting, and data
• Using student organizations to aid in recruitment
• Chat room like the one at Ivy Tech
• Smart Thinking—feedback in 1-2 days
• Summer Engineering camp
• Teaching Academy
• Prep class for Accuplacer
• Paid internships for students
• Developing a booklet or handbook for students and parents with specific and detailed info.
• CD Rom info to give to students
• Team meeting once a month
• School assigned to college counselor
• Early intervention
• College students as mentors to high school students
• Common course numbering at high school, community college, and universities
• Involve students in recruitment
• Create a community of learning for students by grouping them into cohorts
• Correlate high school exit exam to college placement exam
• Compile and share list of potential speakers
• Advisor/Advisee groups
• Involve college instructors at high school morning or evenings
• “Save the Senior Year”
• College tutoring on line
• Contextual Learning

Many of these overlap with the first section. That would indicate that these are high interest best practices that were reported by groups.

Recommend for Next Summit

• Introduce reps from local areas
• Opportunities to hear how CC uses the difference in cost at CC and university to “sell” the CCTI program
• How to develop a student handbook 9-12 with steps for entry into CCTI program
• More contextual teaching strategies for all students
• More career guidance strategies
• More about professional development opportunities
• Smart Thinking program
• More about testing early
• Include a youth component
• A Plus Schools
• Teaching Academy in Ohio
• Assessments connected to high school state standards
• Effective recruiting and retention models
• Examples of successful remediation programs
• Strategies to “hook” secondary folks to provide remediation
• Clearly defined roles for business partners
• More workshops for business partners
• More about the St. Louis program “A Day in the Life”
• Invite student participants to lead sessions and have sessions designed for them
• Have partnerships bring printed materials they use. We need more examples
• Offer more time for teams to meet and work
• Online chat rooms for students—between partnerships
• More about summer internships and ways to use internships to earn elective credit
• More about ways to get parents involved
• More about what is expected of business partners
• More about the “Brush up” idea from Oregon
• More about the ACE program
• On line tutoring programs
• More about the Teacher Academy from Anne Arundel

High Interest Areas (repeated many times)

• Student involvement at Summit
• Student online tutoring
• Recruitment of students – successes
• Teacher Academy from Anne Arundel
• Brush Up program from Oregon
• A Plus Schools
• Contextual teaching
• More workshops for business partners—more about how to be effective partners
• Academic advisors—Advisor/Advisee
• More input and involvement from guidance—college and transition advisors
• Paid internships for students
• Examples of pamphlets and papers used by each partnership
• Conducting successful parent nights or experiences
• How sites are using early placement testing

Partnerships involved in this Role Alike session

Ivy Tech

Miami/Dade

Lehigh Carbon

Southwestern Oregon

Sinclair

Maricopa

Anne Arundel

St. Louis

Northern Virginia

Prince George’s

Fox Valley