1. Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform Strategies for Ensuring Access and A Range of Options for All Students Jay T. Engeln Resident Practitioner: School/Business Partnerships National Association of Secondary School Principals

2. No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. President Franklin Roosevelt

3. …educational reform is a central issue both politically and for our economic future. Governor Elliot Spitzer New York (D)

4. Connect & Succeed How do you unite people that care deeply about the issues and people that want to improve present practice?

5. Business Partnership Trends  Committed to supporting public education  Mutual benefits will define most new partnerships  Accountability is expected  Increased involvement in school reform/redesign initiatives

6. Education quality impacts America’s economic competitiveness and long-term success. Business Education Network First Annual Report, 2006 U. S. Chamber of Commerce

7. 10 million jobs will go unfilled by 2010 because the available workforce will lack the needed skills to fill the positions. Business Education Network First Annual Report, 2006 U. S. Chamber of Commerce

8. Raising a country’s average level of educational attainment by one year can increase the per capita gross domestic product by 3% to 6%. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

9. $13.5 Trillion United States Gross Domestic Product Impact of one year increase in average level of educational attainment : 3% = $405 Billion 6% = $810 Billion

10. Rigor Relevancy Relationships

11. Barriers to Change… Tradition Lack of perceived need to change Limited time and resources Union contracts Facilities Inertia

12. Breaking Ranks II Breaking Ranks in the Middle Breakthrough High Schools

13. Why Break Ranks? Source: Jay Greene and Greg Forster. Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the United States. The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, September 2003. Who Makes it Through High School?

14. “School Academic Rigor & Support Self-Assessment Tool” Breaking Ranks II Appendix #1, page 163 How does BRII help ensure access and a range of options for all students?

15. Helpful Features of Breaking Ranks II  Multiple examples – urban, rural, suburban- of schools successfully implementing recommendations.  Realistic recognition of the challenges paired with strategies for success.

16. Breaking Ranks II

17. Cornerstone Strategies  Connections with students (increase quantity and quality of interactions)  Personalized planning (frequent and meaningful opportunities to plan and assess academic and social progress)  Adapting to differences (use a variety of instructional strategies and assessments to accommodate different learning styles)

18. Strategy #2: Relationships Connections with Students  Increase the quantity and improve the quality of interactions between students, teachers, and other school personnel by reducing the number of students for which any adult or group of adults is responsible.

19. Relationships  “The glue that holds people together in a team, and that commits people to an organization, is the emotions they feel.” Daniel Goleman

20. Strategy #3: Advisory Program Personalized Planning  Implement a comprehensive advisory program that ensures that each student has frequent and meaningful opportunities to plan and assess his or her academic and social progress with a faculty member.

21. Strategy # 4: Instruction Adapting to Differences  Ensure that teachers use a variety of instructional strategies and assessments to accommodate individual learning styles.

22. What is the most pervasive instructional strategy in your school?  Think about it…tell the person next to you…

23. Breaking Ranks II

24. Three Core Areas:  Collaborative Leadership and Professional Learning Communities  Personalization and the School Environment  Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

26. Breaking Ranks II

27. Recommendations  6) Recognize diversity  10) Small learning units  12) Personalized plan for progress  13) Personal adult advocate  14) Sense of caring  18) Coordinate delivery of physical and mental health and social services for youth  20) Alternatives to tracking  24) Extend academic learning beyond the walls of the campus  29) Integrate assessment into instruction

28. Vision without funding is just a hallucination. Henry Ford

29. Guiding Principles for Business and School Partnerships A How-To Guide for School-Business Partnerships

30. A How-To Guide for School/Business Partnerships  Preliminary Planning  Laying the Foundation  Implementation  Sustaining Partnership Over Time  Evaluation www.corpschoolpartners.org

31. Risk Behavior Patterns by Partnership Exposure (%) Alcohol Use Drinking/Driving Discipline Problems

32. Student Positive Outcomes by Partnership Exposure (%) Improved Reading Improved Writing Improved Math Skills Improved Problem Solving

33. Student Discipline Referrals & Suspensions

34. Honor Roll Percent of Students Enrolled

35. Good to Great -Jim Collins “Sustainable transformations follow a predictable pattern of buildup and breakthrough. Like pushing on a giant, heavy flywheel, it takes a lot of effort to get the thing moving at all, but with persistent pushing in a consistent direction over a long period of time, the flywheel builds momentum, eventually hitting a point of breakthrough.”

36. Materials Contact Jay Engeln at engelnj@principals.org for permission to download copies of A How-To Guide for School/Business Partnerships and/or other related materials.

37. Copies of A How-To Guide for School/Business Partnerships are available compliments of the Council for Corporate and School Partnerships and The Coca-Cola Company.