1. December 14, 2010

2. Review District Focus and IAT Focus Overview of district OGT passage and 9 th Grade Retention Data Identify risk factors Identify components of OGT Intervention and 9 th Grade Promotion Establish Action Plans

4. To successfully graduated and prepare students for life after high school. 1. Successful passage of the Ohio Graduation Test 2. Credit acquisition

5. 1. 11 th and 12 th grade students who have not successfully passed all portions of the OGT 2. Credit acquisition and grade promotion of at-risk 9 th grade students

6. Every 26 seconds another student gives up on school, resulting in more than one million American high school students who drop out every year. From the Alliance for Excellent Education, http://www.all4ed.org

7. Last year one APS student dropped out every.81 days. Ohio Dept. of Education iLRC Power User Report

10. Dropouts are four times less likely to volunteer than college graduates, are twice as less likely to vote or participate in community projects, and represent only three percent of actively engaged citizens in the U.S. today. From the Alliance for Excellent Education, http://www.all4ed.org

14. Nearly one-third of all public high school students and nearly one-half of all African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans fail to graduate from public high school with their class. From the Alliance for Excellent Education, http://www.all4ed.org

16. Dropouts were more than twice as likely as high school graduates to slip into poverty in a single year and three times more likely than college graduates to be unemployed in 2004. Dropouts are more than eight times more likely to be in jail or in prison than high school graduates. From the Alliance for Excellent Education, http://www.all4ed.org

19. 1. Identify 11 th & 12 th grade students who have not successfully passed all portions of the OGT. 2. Identify Intervention components: What materials/program/strategies will be used? Who will provide the intervention? Where will the intervention take place? What is the frequency & duration of the intervention? 3. Establish progress monitoring procedures: How will you know the intervention is working?

20. OGT Pyramid in SIP What are we already doing? Can we expand or refine our current practices?

21. Ideas: Sample OGT Tests Modified OGT Tests Attendance

22. Retentions

27. 1. Identify at-risk 9 th grade students 2. Identify Intervention components: What materials/program/strategies will be used? Who will provide the intervention? Where will the intervention take place? What is the frequency & duration of the intervention? 3. Establish progress monitoring procedures: How will you know the intervention is working?

28. RttT has identified the following to be risk factors for the 9 th Grade 1. Failed two or more courses in 8 th grade 2. 36 or more days unexcused absence, or having persistent absence 3. Persistent suspension-5 or more days out of school related to poor behavior or other issues.

29. What are we already doing to support 9 th grade promotion?

36. Ideas: Attendance data Discipline data Grades Others?

37. Each team will create 2 action plans today 1. 11 th and 12 th grade student who have not passed the OGT 2. Promotion of at-risk 9 th grade students Identify students Identify Intervention components: What materials/program/strategies will be used? Who will provide the intervention? Where will the intervention take place? What is the frequency & duration of the intervention? Establish progress monitoring procedures: How will you know the intervention is working?

40. For these and other resources you can go to www.akronschools.com/pyramid www.akronschools.com/pyramid Professional Development High School Aimee Kirsch akirsch Judy Gray jswan Follow us on Twitter: APSPyramid