The Alliance for College Readiness Elgin Community College Elgin, IL

School District U-46 School District 301 School District 303 Elgin Community College District 509 School District 300

The Alliance for College Readiness (2016 edition) District Leadership Team Student Services Team (STEPS) Kindergarten Readiness Team Math Team English Language Arts Team Science Team ELL TeamTech TeamData Team

A Brief History of Collaboration Tech Team Recruitment ??????? 2016 Transition Academy Kindergarten Readiness 2014 ELA Team ELL Team 2013 Science Team Data Team 4 th year math class Literacy workshops 2012 Dean Senior Day End of Health Careers Team 2009 Bridge PLANS Brochures Placement Testing Health Careers Team 2008 Summit 3 Teams Mission Vision 2006

You won’t have time to make them all yourself! Alfred Sheinwold

Your questions Participation What does participation and recruitment look like for the Alliance? How do we get people to talk? What challenges and successes have we had? Data How do we get data? How do we use data? What challenges and successes have we had? Community Involvement How do we involve the community? What challenges and successes have we had?

Participation Top Down Regional and district leadership Building leadership Departmental/divisional leadership Bottom Up Teacher to teacher Counselor to counselor Parent to teacher to student support

Participation Top Down Regional and district leadership Building leadership Departmental/divisional leadership Bottom Up Teacher to teacher Counselor to counselor Parent to teacher Validation and Respect = Trust

Validation and Respect

Trust Alone time Griping Distractions Listening Data Dialogue

Data What do we collect? Quantitative: College Readiness Rates for D509 College Going Rates Persistence Degree completion Qualitative Team report-outs Surveys from projects Student artifacts Meeting minutes How do we collect it? ECC’s Institutional Research Office National Student Clearinghouse ECC placement data Google (we love google) Shared folders for aggregate data Google FORMS Google SURVEYS Team folders

Data: What do we do with it? SHARE it Set GOALS from it TALK about it Celebrate and question it Challenge: Readiness Rates ECC District 509 Latino high school graduates 33% ready in math 45% in writing. ECC District 509 African- American high school graduates 10% ready in math 33% ready in writing.

Community Involvement If you build it... The Chicken and the Egg

Community Involvement You Chamber of Commerce Community Agencies LCC 3 counties???? Universities Us ECC 4 school districts; 11 high schools Elgin Partnership for Early Learning P-20 council JP Morgan Chase; Wintrust Bank Local Funders

Community Involvement Transition Academy Grants Mentors Business Partners Churches Kindergarten Readiness Grants P-20 Council Elgin Partnership for Early Learning United Way of Elgin

Your questions Participation What does participation and recruitment look like for the Alliance? How do we get people to talk? What challenges and successes have we had? Data How do we get data? How do we use data? What challenges and successes have we had? Community Involvement How do we involve the community? What challenges and successes have we had?

And often experience comes from bad judgement Rita Mae Brown

Alison Douglas Director of College Readiness/Professor of English Elgin Community College