1. Kansas Leads the World in the Success of Each Student.
Dr. Randy Watson, Kansas Commissioner of Education

2. Creating a Vision for Kansas
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
- John F. Kennedy

3. Sally Cauble
Represents constituents throughout western and central Kansas, including 87 school districts
First term on State Board began in 2007
Past vice chair
Serves on Teacher Vacancy and Supply Committee and two national education committees

5. Kansas leads the world in the success of each student..
A NEW Vision for Kansas….
Kansas leads the world in the success of each student..
Based on the feedback received across the state, the board has adopted as its new vision for education “Kansas leads the world in the success of each student.”
We intend to challenge the status quo, move away from placing emphasis on a single test score and focus more on helping each student identify and achieve their career aspirations.
Teachers, administrators and support staff already are doing great work preparing Kansas’ students for success, and this new vision stands to unite our efforts across the state. You will hear us say we need to rethink how our schools are asked to operate. From a state perspective, we will look at every requirement to determine if and how we are supporting or impeding our schools’ abilities to address the needs of each child.

6. What is success? Happy Fulfilled
Skills and attributes that allow one to earn a living in the middle class or beyond

7. There are no little things…
If you improve just 1/100th more today than yesterday, then do it again tomorrow and every single day, it will only take you days to be 25% better. You need to get better, Randy. Start now.

8. I am a little slow…
Remember that what I am teaching you is founded in science and it has been proven to work, over and over, time after time. Randy, how much or little you want to change, if at all, is entirely up to you. I think you are smart enough to change.

9. Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas
Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas. Kansans Can achieve anything and, together, Kansans Can lead the world in the success of each student.

10. The business and industry focal groups cited non-academic skills with greater frequency than the community groups:
Recall that the community groups cited non-academic skills 70% of the time and academic skills 23% of the time. These frequencies are remarkably similar to those expressed by the community groups. If volume can be equated with importance, the business and industry groups are saying that the non-academic characteristics are more important than academic skills, including applied skills, and that non-academic skills are at least as important to them as to the community groups, maybe more so.
One cited experience as a characteristic of the ideally prepared 24 year old (the tiny yellow line).

11. Creating a Vision for Kansas – State Outcomes
Social/Emotional Growth Measured Locally
Kindergarten Readiness
Individual Plan of Study Focused on Career Interest
High School Graduation Rates
Post Secondary Completion/Attendance
Among the outcomes being considered by the state board are:
High School Graduation Rates
Post Secondary Completion/Attendance
Remedial Rate of Students Attending Post-Secondary
Kindergarten Readiness
Individual Plan of Study Focused on Career Interest
Social/Emotional Growth Measured Locally
Education Commissioner Randy Watson and members of the State Board of Education will meet with business, education and state leaders to build agreement on how we will work together to achieve this vision for Kansas education.
Kansas schools are already doing tremendous work to address the needs of individual students, but in order to achieve this new vision we cannot expect schools to go it alone. This requires a unified effort with businesses, communities, parents, higher education, and elected officials working with educators to help provide the supports and experiences Kansas students need for their future success.

12. Five Year Graduation Rate
84.2%
Five Year
Success Rate
54.4%
Five Year
Effective Rate
45.6%
83.0
54.5
45.2
84.9
53.0
45.0
85.6
55.2
47.2
85.8
55.8
47.8
Graduation Rate: The 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate is the number of students who graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma divided by the number of
students who entered high school four years earlier (adjusting for transfers in and out).
Success Rate: The sum of the percentage of students who enrolled in postsecondary in both the first and second year following high school graduation plus the percentage of
students who graduated from postsecondary.
Effective Rate: The percent of 9th graders in a cohort who graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma and either enroll in postsecondary in both the first and
second year following high school or graduate from postsecondary (graduation rate x success rate).

13. What Kansan’s want from their schools
Kansas children need quality preschool including all day kindergarten
Changes need to be made to address school culture
New dynamic roles for counselor and social workers
Collaboration between schools and businesses
Reorganize schools around students, not the system
Community service needs to play a bigger role
We also learned that Kansans believe
Every child needs access to quality preschool education
School culture needs to be addressed – we must value the student going to a two-year or certification program as much as a student attending a four-year institution.
Counselors need to be able to help students identify and explore career interests
Must be collaboration between schools and businesses to prepare students for postsecondary pursuits
Schools must be reorganized around the student, not the system to meet unique needs
Community service is an important part of preparing students for life after high school.

14. Defining Success A Successful Kansas High School Graduate has the
Academic preparation,
Cognitive preparation,
Technical skills,
Employability skills and
Civic engagement
to be successful in postsecondary education, in the attainment of an industry recognized certification or in the workforce, without the need for remediation.

15. How was the Vision Developed?
20 community tours with over 1,800 participants.
Participants broken into 287 focus groups of 5-6 individuals answering 3 questions.
What are the skills, attributes, and abilities of a successful 24-year-old Kansan?
What is K-12’s role in developing this successful Kansan, and how would we measure success?
What is higher education’s role in developing this successful Kansan, and how would we measure success?

16. From the first set of focus group responses, what characteristics of success were most frequently cited?
This result is a little surprising since about 66% of the respondents were educators, education administrators, or former educators—people who mostly teach, or used to teach, academic skills. Nevertheless, the soft skills—social-emotional, personality skills, or 21st century skills—they have lots of names—were cited 70% of the time.

17. Progress of a single class of students through postsecondary education
Progress of a single class of students through postsecondary education. Each segment of the bar chart corresponds to one of the following definitions:
College, Retained, etc.)
graduate, he or she is not counted again elsewhere in the report. A graduated record is reported before all other possible categories (e.g. New to
GRADUATED: Student has completed an associate's, bachelor's or higher degree (certificates are not included). Once a student is counted as a
NEW TO COLLEGE: First year that the student was found in the Clearinghouse database.
enrollment at any postsecondary institution, not retention at the same institution.
RETAINED: Student was enrolled during the previous year and continues to be enrolled in the current year. The graphs show the student's continued
RETURNED AFTER STOP OUT: Student was enrolled, did not appear in postsecondary education the following year, and reappeared in a year thereafter.
completion.
NO LONGER ENROLLED & NOT GRADUATED: Student was enrolled in postsecondary education, but currently is not and there is no record of
participate in the Clearinghouse are not in the Clearinghouse database.
than 93% of the nation's two- and four- year postsecondary enrollment. Students who are enrolled in postsecondary institutions that do not
NOT IN NSC TO DATE: Student was not found in the Clearinghouse database. (Note: Institutions that participate in the Clearinghouse represent more
than 97% of the nation's two- and four- year postsecondary enrollment. Students who are enrolled in postsecondary institutions that do not

18. Advanced Placement Credit
Beginning July 1, 2017, each state university shall award:
Credit for all Advanced Placement (AP) examination scores of three (3) or above for the equivalent course or courses at their institution.

19. Student Success
Kansas needs 71% of workers to have a post secondary certificate or degree. Approximately 36% need to be bachelor degrees or higher Approximately 35% need to have a certificate or associate degree

20. Lessons from Gallup Research
“Caring (not content) is King”
Mentors are needed
Excitement about the Future
Strengths, not Weaknesses
Long-term Projects
Project-based Learning
Work Experiences Connected to Learning (Intern, Apprentice, etc.)
Deep, Lasting Engagement
“Someone who encourages my development”
“Do what I do best every day”
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21. It’s How You Do It
32%
30%
20%
Long-term project taking a semester or more to complete
Internship or job where applied learning
Extremely involved in extracurricular activities and organizations 6%
Of All Graduates Experienced All Three
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22. How was the Vision Developed?
Online presence for those who could not make any location of the original listening tours.
Same three questions asked
Over 100 responses submitted

23. However, this is the percent of students who GRADUATED from high school that went on to pursue post secondary schooling. To get the effective post secondary rate, we must subtract out those students who did not graduate from high school.
Students who graduated and returned or graduated in year two:
54.3%
Percent of students who did not graduate from high school in the Class of 2010:
14.0%
Thus the effective post secondary rate is:
40.3%
Remember…Kansas needs to have at least 70-75% of high school graduates to obtain post secondary credentials to fill the available jobs in our state
The green area represents the percent of the graduating Class of 2010 in Kansas who went on to pursue post secondary education.
Percent of students who started one year earlier in post secondary education and returned somewhere for a second year
Percent of students who started one year earlier in post secondary education and have graduated (most likely a certificate or associate degree)
Let’s focus on six years after high school graduation for the Class of 2010
Added together, 54.3% of students who started their post secondary career either graduated or came back in the second year.
Progress of a single class of students through postsecondary education. Each segment of the bar chart corresponds to one of the following definitions:
College, Retained, etc.)
graduate, he or she is not counted again elsewhere in the report. A graduated record is reported before all other possible categories (e.g. New to
GRADUATED: Student has completed an associate's, bachelor's or higher degree (certificates are not included). Once a student is counted as a
NEW TO COLLEGE: First year that the student was found in the Clearinghouse database.
enrollment at any postsecondary institution, not retention at the same institution.
RETAINED: Student was enrolled during the previous year and continues to be enrolled in the current year. The graphs show the student's continued
RETURNED AFTER STOP OUT: Student was enrolled, did not appear in postsecondary education the following year, and reappeared in a year thereafter.
completion.
NO LONGER ENROLLED & NOT GRADUATED: Student was enrolled in postsecondary education, but currently is not and there is no record of
participate in the Clearinghouse and are not in the Clearinghouse database.
NOT IN NSC TO DATE: Student was not found in the Clearinghouse database. (Note: Institutions that participate in the Clearinghouse represent more
than 97% of the nation's two- and four- year postsecondary enrollment. Students who are enrolled in postsecondary institutions that do not
participate in the Clearinghouse are not in the Clearinghouse database.

24. How was the Vision Developed?
7 Business/Industry tours with more than 110 businesses.
Met with local Chambers of Commerce
Asked same three questions
Partnered with Kansas State University to analyze data.
Largest Qualitative Study completed.
Conducted a Reunion Tour in 10 regional locations to share results and to answer, “Did we hear you correctly?”

25. How was the Vision Developed?
Board held several retreats to analyze data and build a new Kansas Vision.
New Vision was launched in the fall of 2015 at the KSDE Annual Conference.
Attendee’s included over 1,000 Kansas educators.
Approximately 100 Business Professionals and Legislators