1. Hotel Intercontinental, Toronto
Program Overview
for
Summer Institute
Hotel Intercontinental, Toronto
August 29, 2016

2. School College Work Initiative
Began 1997
Designed to build and sustain better linkages between the college system and the secondary school system to support expanded and improved transitions by secondary students to college

3. SCWI Activities/Forums
Last year 16 RPTs received approval for 109 activities and regional forums.
Over 38,000 students, teachers, college faculty and administrators participated.

4. School College Work Initiative
Led by Directors of Education and College Presidents
Goal: to support expanded and improved transitions by secondary students to college
Represents 24 colleges and 70 eligible school boards
Began with wide variety of activities and forums
Expanded to include DUAL CREDITS in

5. SCWI Organization
16 Regional Planning Teams
Chair
Board Reps
College Reps
Ministry of Education and Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
Council of Ontario Directors of Education
Administers SCWI, convenes meetings of CMT, provides reports to EDU/TCU, as per contract with CODE
Project Officer and Liaison Team
School-College-Work Initiative Co-Management Team
Comprised of:
Directors of Education
College Presidents
EDU Representatives
TCU Representatives

6. Dual Credit Programs
2005-6: 361 students, 36 school boards in pilot projects at 14 colleges
Comprised of college-level courses in which carefully selected secondary school students may be enrolled
Basically courses count as both secondary and college credits
Students who meet the college-level standards in these courses granted OSSD credits as well as college credits
Eligible students may take up to 4 non-compulsory OSSD credits
Dual Credit Programs - Policy and Program Requirements, 2013
Ontario Ministry of Education
Could you refer to the new Policy and Program Requirement guide at this point – audience will have a copy

7. Growth in Dual Credit Programs
14 pilot projects
450
programs
486
544
Approx.
500
361
students
18,584
19,151
19,958
Approvals for
22,400
Approvals
for
22,443
Hi David,
Did you want to skip and ?

8. Dual Credit Student Data Report 2013-14
David, the Dual Credit Student data report is not yet available – hasn’t been written yet since Michael only recently got the OnSIS data.
I’ve added a screen shot of the Report and changed the title of the slide.
Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, 2014

9. Dual Credit Student Participation
Student participation increased by 4% over (19,151students to 19,958 students)
Number of programs increased by 12%
In , approved vs actual student participants remained stable at 92%

10. Retention Rates
Sandra – steady improvement

11. Success Rates
Sandra
Notable improvement particularly given the increased number of students.

12. Target Group Participation by Program Focus
19,958 dual credit students provincially
16,899 in the primary target group (85%)
1,769 SHSM students (9%)
1,290 OYAP students (6%)
New for , RPTs were asked to identify the main target group by program.
This slide shows the relative proportion of programs by main target group.
Important that the 3/4 of the programs are for the primary target audience.

13. Provincial Dual Credit Footprint 2013-14
Dual Credits Students
Grade 11 and 12 Students
13,707
= %
Sandra
[5.3% in ]
[Our target is about 7.5%; Would mean 29,000 students]
This footprint is based on the number of dual credit students as reported by the RPTs divided by the provincial number of grade 11 and 12 students.
We want boards and RPTs to be able to calculate their individual footprint. For the first time with the approvals, as part of the approvals process, one of the criteria was the saturation by board for new program approvals or expansion of existing programs.
In areas where there was a high percentage of dual credits/grade 11 and 12 students, we were less likely to approve expansion or to approve new programs in order to have funds for “underserved” areas.
We do want to reach all schools. If there are schools where students in the primary target group do not have dual credit opportunities, RPTs should consider ways to involve these schools.
367,096*
* grade 11 and grade 12 enrolment (source: OnSIS)

14. Students who earned their OSSD 2014-15 OnSIS data*
Grad rate continues to improve
The focus of dual credits continues to be on helping students to earn their OSSD
Students who earned their diploma by the end of the school year they took their dual credit.
We know that some students take their dual credit in Grade 11 and some may need 5 years to complete their OSSD.

15. Transitions to Post-Secondary Education
After one year, students who took a dual credit in :
4,377 applied for college (31%)
2,721 registered for college (19%)
62% conversion rate (students who applied and registered|)
RPTs have data over a few years, and also college-specific data on applicants and registrants.
Numbers of dual credit students applying to and registering at university continue to be low (applicants: 3%, registrants: 1%).
The conversion rate seems to have gone down in ; Ministry staff are looking at this.

16. School Within a College (SWAC)
Carefully selected students
Classroom space provided by college
OSSD courses taught by secondary teacher
Dual credit course(s) done as well

17. Dual Credit Programs - Policy and Program Requirements, 2013
Learn More
Policy document:
Dual Credit Programs - Policy and Program Requirements, 2013
Ontario Ministry of Education

18. www.gotocollege.ca & www.scwi.ca www.alleraucollege.ca & www.iject.ca
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