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Strengthening a Non-Traditional Approach to Student Success
SEAtS supported Kingsman Academy during their successful Alternative Accountability Framework (AAF) charter goal amendment to the DC Public Charter School Board (DC PCSB). The proposed AAF goals allow the school to use non-traditional metrics to measure student success. Join us as we hear from Kennesha Kelly on how Kingsman Academy are held accountable for their See The Story
Starting with Strengths by Thrively
RAPSA Webinar series is proud to introduce Starting with Strengths by Thrively Let’s work together as a community of thought leaders to flip a deficit model of education and adopt a strengths-based approach to academic, social, and emotional growth. When we start with strengths, we discover the wealth of assets students bring with them by See The Story
What Have We Learned to Improve Online Instruction?
Serving At-Promise Students During the COVID-19 Crisis Presentation Slides Discover emerging distance learning best practices for At-Promise Students. At-Promise students rely on positive relationships with their teachers to overcome the trauma they have experienced in their lives. The onset of the COVID crisis resulted in the cessation of classroom connections. Hear from your colleagues about See The Story
How Can We Support At-Promise Students Receive Economic Impact Payment?
Serving At-Promise Students During the COVID-19 Crisis Presentation Slides Join Scott Herod and Ernie Silva in a conversation about how to find economic support for your students. Scott Herold is the CEO and Founder of Rock the Cause Records and leads the Business of Music and Paid Work Force Development programs at High School for See The Story
What Helpful Legislative/Regulatory Suspensions and Support has Your State Undertaken?
Presentation Materials The May 15th RAPSA webinar will be facilitated by Kathy Hamilton – Youth Transition Director of Boston Private Industry Council. Help RAPSA Help You Survey We’d like to increase funding for at-promise youth who you serve who are over the age of 17. Please respond to this BRIEF survey to help us. TAKE See The Story
How are you handling Graduations and other senior activities?
Presentation Slides Join Us for RAPSA’s Bi-Weekly Webinars Covering the Needs of At-Promise Students During the COVID-19 Crisis The May 1st RAPSA Webinar will be facilitated by Leslie Talbot – Leslie Talbot is the Founder and Principal of Talbot Consulting, an independent education management consulting practice. Founded in 2006, Talbot Consulting projects include school/program design See The Story
Serving At-Promise Students During the COVID-19 Crisis – Strategies for Maintaining Relationships in an Online Setting
The April 17th RAPSA Webinar will be facilitated by Lisa DiGaudio, Ed.D. Dr. DiGaudio is the Founding Principal at New Dawn Charter High School. Lisa has published several books with Teacher’s Discovery, including “Informational Text Analysis in 10 Lessons: Life Skills Edition” and “Seminal U.S. Document Analysis in 10 Lessons.” A classroom teacher, teacher leader, See The Story
Serving At-Promise Students During the COVID-19 Emergency
RAPSA will be hosting an interactive webinar for leaders creating strategies for serving at-promise youth during this emergency on April 3rd at 11 am PT. We will have a 60-minute time set aside to share strategies and seek answers to some of the issues that are facing at-promise students across the country. Each of the See The Story
The Power of Networks: Using Shared Accountability to Increase Student Success
Nick Mathern – Vice President of K-12 Partnerships for Achieving the Dream (ATD). Gateway to College is a network of 35 college-based high school completion programs in 20 states for young people who have dropped out of high school or who are significantly off track. Because alternative high schools don’t typically have clear accountability targets, the See The Story
Empowering At-Promise Students with Occupational Leadership Skills
Robin Dewey, Program Coordinator, Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley PDF Version Download recording link: https://rapsa.webex.com/rapsa/ldr.php?RCID=98acbc9b08510f2a38b427e1a5a115fa Playback recording link: https://rapsa.webex.com/rapsa/lsr.php?RCID=98acbc9b08510f2a38b427e1a5a115fa Security/ Password: zU5mmipA Career technical education is often the hook that reengages at-promise students. Such programs offer the opportunity to develop essential occupational safety and health skills that have a powerful impact on a student’s See The Story
Changing from At-Risk to At-Promise
Education leaders have long called for a paradigm shift in how underserved students in low-income communities are perceived and taught. This year the California Legislature has acted to replace the term “at-risk” with the more people-centered “at-promise” in California’s Education and Penal Codes. Join the Reaching At-Promise Students Association’s (RAPSA) edWebinar to learn more about See The Story
Synthesizing Scientific Methods with Authentic Student Voices
Do you want an empirical explanation for your work with at promise youth to use with funders, policy makers and potential partners? Join RAPSA’s June 28th webinar with Jonathan Zaff, Ph.D.
Jonathan has published more than 80 articles combining systematic, mixed methods social science methodologies and analysis with the authentic voices of young people to present an accurate depiction of who at promise young people are, what they can achieve, and what the most promising strategies are for providing supports for youth from historically disenfranchised communities, so that they emerge as thriving adults. If anecdotes aren’t enough to convince funders and policy makers, learn about the detailed research that Jonathan has undertaken to support students like yours.
The Power of Summarization! Instruction for Alternative High School Students
Presenter: Dr. Sally Brown, Assistant Professor in the School of Education at College of Idaho Dr. Brown will be unfolding why students who struggle with reading often have deficits in the area of reading comprehension. The webinar will cover: a brief description of the research base and a review of the literature on main idea See The Story
Skills to Succeed Academy by Accenture
Presentation Materials: Slides Recording Playback Recording Password: 6PdAU2K4 Tuesday, April 30, 2019 11:00 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) RAPSA will be joined by Chenique Vassell, Consulting Senior Analyst to give our listeners an overview of Accenture’s Skills to Succeed Academy. The Skills to Succeed Academy is a free online, highly interactive learning platform that builds See The Story
At- Promise Matters – Exploring the connection labels and motivation
Larry Bell is a leading educational consultant and author who’s work across the Country demonstrates that all students are at promise of success. From teaching at a large high poverty high school in Virginia to working as Supervisor of Multicultural Education, Larry learned that what we say to students matters. As a multi-state teacher-leader, Larry See The Story
Unlocking Student Talent
As educators, it’s our mission to build students’ expertise. Yet many of us remain unaware of essential research into how expertise is truly developed. Guided by inaccurate folklore around “talent,” we unconsciously limit our students’ aspirations and fail to align our schools and classrooms for optimal growth. Now for the good news: we can promote See The Story
Measuring Success of Career Training In Alternative Settings
RAPSA is delighted to partner with one of our members, the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) to bring you a RAPSA Webinar on August 21 from 2-3pm EDT. Please note the webinar instructions above. Schools serving to reengage opportunity youth often face conflicts between their missions and traditional state measurements of College and Career ready. See The Story
Supporting Authentic Student Voices and How earning college credits by high school students ON CAMPUS can improve education outcomes.
Lots of people talk about promoting authentic student voices and vision. Join RAPSA to see great examples, such as student produced you-tube video, hip-hop videos in various languages that thousands of students are using. Talk with a Minnesota high school student who has been selected to be one of several (non-voting members) of the St. Paul See The Story
Charter Authorization for Schools Serving Opportunity Youth
Join school design expert Leslie Talbot, SUNY’s Executive Deputy Director for Best Practices and Partnerships, Vanessa Threatte, and the Chair of the DC Public Charter School Board, Darren Woodruff, for an open dialogue about the challenges associated with authorizing charter schools to serve opportunity youth. While the charter school debates rage on concerning student creaming See The Story
Understanding the new metrics system (DASS) and how it is being used for Alternative Schools in California
Beginning in 2018, all schools with Dashboard Alternative School Status (DASS) will receive a Dashboard report. What measures will be used to evaluate their progress? Join the California Department of Education (CDE) in this free Webinar to find out! Beginning in 2018, DASS schools will be held accountable for meeting all of the same state See The Story
RAPSA presents The Majority Report
The major question for our California schools: Are we doing enough to support California’s Latino students – over three million in K12 and nearly one million in higher education? Find out in The Majority Report from Ed Trust West. The Education Trust–West’s The Majority Report: Supporting the Educational Success of Latino Students in California provides See The Story
Thoughts in the shadow: Unleashing the power of vocabulary and its impact on college and career success
Working with at-promise youth does require that we as educators are their partners in equipping those students with verbal tools powerful enough to bring their thoughts to light. Join us for a frank conversation about the correlations among vocabulary and college readiness, career advancement, and a general sense of well-being. Throughout our conversation, we will: See The Story
Enabling Lifelong Learning Via Mindset
Presented by Dr. Tami Hocker, SIATech At – promise individuals had faced a variety of adversity in their life experiences and many of them have resulted in supporting fixed mindset tendencies in their educational and life learning practices. Many feel that they are either born with the ability to be successful in their courses or See The Story
Getting Accountability Right for Alternative Schools: Challenges and Opportunities
Every 26 seconds another young person in America drops out of school. We have an estimated 5.5 million “Opportunity Youth” — those who are neither in school nor working. Across the country, states and districts are working to create a range of educational options to recover these students and get them to high school graduation. See The Story
May is Safe Jobs for Youth Month. Webinar on How you can help prevent job injuries to youth
Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley’sLabor Occupational Health Program Young Workers Project, RAPSA and others May is Safe Jobs for Youth Month! An annual public awareness campaign that highlights the importance of preventing young workers from getting injured on the job. Young workers under age 25 are twice as likely to get injured on the job as older See The Story
Policy Forum Proceedings 2016
RAPSA’s free webinar discussing the findings from the newly published 2016 Alternative Accountability Policy Forum Proceedings. The Proceedings were developed by researchers from Stanford’s Policy Analysis for California Education team who participated in the Policy Forum and did a wonderful job of capturing the energy and expertise of the participants at the October 2016 event. See The Story
Moving the Needle on Youth Disconnection
Register now for an overview of a new evidence based study by Measure of America on youth disconnection for important geographies (states, metro areas, and rural and urban communities) as well as by race, ethnicity, and gender, that shines a light on these often overlooked young men and women. Join your RAPSA colleagues in this See The Story
NLC’s 2015-16 Reengagement Census
The National League of Cities has released its 2015-16 Reengagement Census. Join Andrew Moore, Director of Youth and Young Adult Connections, and Niels Smith, 2016-17 Heinz Graduate Fellow, to learn more about the study and trends of Reengagement Centers across the country. This year’s summary includes data from 20 different reengagement programs across the country. See The Story
WestEd Resarchers Lead RAPSA in Exciting Discussion of Characteristics and Education Outcomes of High School Dropouts Who Re-Enroll
The Regional Educational Laboratory West at WestEd has published a study prepared for the Institute of Education Sciences. The study, Characteristics and education outcomes of Utah high school dropouts who re-enrolled, examines diploma attainment by youth who drop out of high school. The researchers Vanessa Barrat and BethAnn Berliner presented a RAPSA webinar on January See The Story
Making High School Relevant – A Framework for Career Technical Education
Join Alisha Hyslop from the Association for Career and Technical Education and Kisha Bird from the Center for Law and Social Policy in an exploration of how meaningful CTE can impact the lives of low-income out-of-school youth. Both presenters are advocates for improving career development offerings at the federal level. Ms. Hyslop will share research See The Story
Archived Webinars Before 2016
It’s not easy being real and rigorous: How tough teaching can help turn around classrooms and schools Presented by Matt LaPlante In this presentation, Utah State University professor Matthew LaPlante will introduce a set of six questions teachers and administrators can ask themselves and use to evaluate whether they are using tough teaching approaches in See The Story