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

2. 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.

3. Isn’t this what we aspire to be…

4. 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.

5. Definition of Civic Engagement
Civic Engagement is individuals sharing their skills and knowledge through actions intended to improve communities, states, nations, the world, and themselves.

6. Why do we need to improve civic engagement?
Kansas ranks 6th in the percentage of juveniles in detention facilities in the nation.
Individuals without a high school diploma, whether they get a GED or not, make up 72.8% of Kansas’ prison population.
Kansas spends between $9,972 and $13,025 per year, depending on what data you use, to educate each child in the public school system.
The cost of a incarcerating a single individual in a Kansas correctional facility for a year is $24,703, more the $67 per day
Source: KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Annual Report Fiscal Year 2016 and 2016 KSDE Fiscal Audit

7. Why do we need to improve civic engagement?
Kansas ranks:
41st in voter turnout for local elections
38th in doing favors for neighbors
33rd in talking with neighbors
27th in expressing our opinions on the internet
24th in discussing politics with family and friends
23rd in voting
Source : 2016 Kansas Civic Health Index

8. Participatory Citizen Personally Responsible Citizen
Get smart, do well, do good, build a life
Participatory Citizen
Personally Responsible Citizen
Justice
Oriented
Citizen
Justice-Oriented Citizen: They question and change established systems and structures when they reproduce patterns of injustice over time.
Participatory Citizen: They actively participate and take leadership positions within established systems and community structures.
Personally Responsible Citizen: They have good character: they are honest, responsible, and law-abiding members of the community.

9. Creating a Vision for Kansas – State Outcomes
Kindergarten Readiness
Individual Plan of Study Focused on Career Interest
High School Graduation Rates
Post Secondary Completion/Attendance
Social/Emotional Growth Measured Locally
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.

10. What is success? Happy Fulfilled
To give back to the community and be in the service of others
Skills and attributes that allow one to earn a living in the middle class or beyond
Not living in our basement

11. 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

12. 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.
Percent of students who graduated from high school in the Class of 2010:
80.0%
Students who graduated, went to post secondary school and returned or graduated in year two:
54.3%
Thus the effective post secondary rate is:
43.4%
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.

13. Graduation/Postsecondary Success

14. Percentage of high school students who enrolled in a two- or four-year postsecondary institution in the academic year immediately following
graduation. The first year after high school includes any enrollment that occurs between August 15 of the graduation year and August 14 of the
following year . Shown only for classes which have completed the first year after high school.

15. 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.