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AdvanceNOLA Celebration Ralph’s on the Park December 6, 2011
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AdvanceNOLA Celebration
Ralph’s on the ParkDecember 6, 2011
Partner High Schools
Edna KarrSci AcademySci HighO. Perry Walker
AP Course Offerings in our Partner High Schools
2006-07 School Year
2011-12 School Year
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Why Advanced Placement?
“... schools in the new National Math and Science Initiative on AP are great examples of the power of quality instruction, more time spent on task, and rigorous, content-focused teacher training. The NMSI schools are having phenomenal success in raising AP scores among minority students. In the single year of implementation to date, the number of African-American and Latino students who scored a 3 or higher on AP exams in math, science, and English jumped more than 70 percent.”
U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne DuncanJuly 15, 2010
College Board AP Annual Conference
Partner High Schools: Demographics
Successes: Programmatic
Increases every year in numbers of students taking AP courses students earning qualifying scores AP courses offered student volunteers
Increased school buy-in Introduction of pre-AP courses
Successes: Programmatic
Students have stopped saying “I can’t take AP classes” and have started saying “I can’t take four AP classes.”
At two partner schools, at least 95% of returning seniors are taking at least one AP course.
AdvanceNOLA in action
AdvanceNOLA in action
Response to Challenges: School-Based
TeachersParentsCounselorsStudents
Response to Challenges: Policy
High mobility rates due to school choice model
Lack of feeder patterns
Looking Forward: Spring 2012
National Student Clearinghouse Mock exams: January 2012 Saturday sessions Volunteer opportunities AP exams to be taken on Tulane’s
campus AP student celebration?
Looking Forward: Long-term
Development of pre-AP programs in high schools and partner middle schools
Expansion of current AP programs to include foreign language, social sciences, and art
Cohort of AdvanceNOLA scholars who become mentors
Increased collaboration among AdvanceNOLA schools, AP teachers, and AP students
Alignment of remediation, common core curriculum, state testing, and Advanced Placement
AdvanceNOLA Celebration
Emily RemingtonAssistant Director, [email protected]