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Education Progress Luncheon. Education Progress Luncheon. Our Community Wants:. Dalton State College to become a premier higher education institution with rich course offerings and advanced degrees. Our Community Wants:. To be a model environment for technical education and learning. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Education Progress Luncheon

Education Progress Luncheon

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Our Community Wants:

Dalton State College to become a premier higher education institution with rich course offerings and advanced degrees.

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Our Community Wants:

To be a model environment for technical education and learning.

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Our Community Wants:

Community engagement and understanding across theBirth-to-Work Continuum.

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2010 – 2011 Action Steps

• Understand and support the needs of a growing Dalton State College;

• Increase community awareness of existing technical education programs and job opportunities;

• Work to integrate high school career training with higher education entities, and…

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Identify the top strengths and weaknesses of

each segment of local education.

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NutritionEarly Brain Development

Parental vocabulary

headstart

Pre-K

school readiness

tech access

career prep

co-ops

internships

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Successful sustainable industriesCTAE DUAL ENROLLMENT

MBA/GRADUATE

articulation agreements

career pathways

career academy

near-peer program

work ready

core curriculum

HOW WE DO SCHOOL

critical thinking

Making education REAL

No Child Left Behind

EOCT

CRCTWaiting for Superman

funding

education consortium

Pathways to Prosperity

21st Century Learning

project-base learning

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Three Work Groups Formed:

Prenatal to Pre-K

K-12

Higher/Technical Education

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Producing productive citizens by

strengthening the birth to work

pipeline.

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Draft 2012 InitiativesInitiative 1:

Educate our community on nutrition andhealthy lifestyles and their impact on

learning.

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Nutrition Related Issues• “Kids are racing to the schools on Monday

morning because they are hungry and they know they will be fed at school.”

• 52% of middle school and high school students surveyed consumed 0-2 servings of fruit and vegetables a day.

• In a local longitudinal study conducted by Northwest Georgia Healthcare Partnership, roughly 50% of 2nd – 5th graders were overweight or obese.

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What Are We Doing About It?• A.C.H.I.E.V.E.

Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and EnVironmental ChangE

• NWGA Healthcare Partnership Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Research

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Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program

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Draft 2012 InitiativesInitiative 2:

Provide Pre-K opportunities in the faceof state budget cuts.

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11% of this year’s kindergarten class had no access to Pre-K.

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What We Are Doing . . . • Community-wide Pre-K registration

• Summer Pre-K experience for those with no Pre-K before Kindergarten

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Draft 2012 InitiativesInitiative 3:

Make the right technology more accessible to students.

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Why Technology?• Equality

• Personalization

• Bi-directional Learning

• Cost

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Moving Forward . . .• Continue to explore high-impact, cost-

effective technology.

• Train teachers on best practices involving technology and learning.

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Draft 2012 Initiatives

Initiative 4: Further develop relationships and

articulation agreements between high schools, Georgia Northwestern

Technical College, and Dalton State College so that students can move seamlessly between the systems.

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In 2007,only 41% of jobs

were held by thosewith a high school degree

or less.

Source: Harvard Graduate School of Education Pathways to Prosperity Project

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By 2018,only 36% of jobs

will be held by thosewith high school degree

or less.Source: Harvard Graduate School of Education Pathways to Prosperity Project

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Source: Phil Peterson’s Voices for Georgia’s Children Presentation

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What we are doing about it . . .

• Articulation agreements between WCS, Murray County, Christian Heritage, DPS, GNTC/DSC

• Georgia Northwestern Technical College and Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy on one campus

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What we are doing about it . . .• Dalton State College’s Near Peer

Program

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Near Peer Program• Compass test score improvement:

Ö Math up 33%

Ö Writing up 23%

Ö Reading up 12%

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Dual Enrollment/ACCEL/MOWR Student Headcounts

• Dalton State College:– Fall 2010: 40– Fall 2011: 76

• Georgia Northwestern Technical College– Fall 2010: 0– Fall 2011: 54– Spring 2012: 70

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Dual Enrollment/Accel/MOWR/CNA Student Headcounts

• Dalton Public Schools:– 2010 – 2011: 5– 2011 – 2012:  9

• Whitfield County Schools:– 2010 – 2011: 24 – Fall 2011: 57 – Spring 2012: 86

• Murray County Schools:– 2011: 6 (Transportation is major obstacle)

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Draft 2012 InitiativesInitiative 5:

Encourage the Board of Regents to approve more

bachelor's degree programs and phase in an MBA program at DSC in place of

KSU program.

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Draft 2012 Initiatives

Initiative 6: Focus on Career and

College Readiness in 5th – 12th

grade.

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$2.61M Career Academy Grant• Will allow Career Academy to expose middle

school students to career classes.– Family & Consumer Science, Agriculture,

Health Care, Business, and STEM

• Will allow building renovations.

• Reflects partnership between GNTC, DSC, DPS, Murray County Schools, Whitfield County Schools, and 97 local businesses.

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Goals Moving Forward:• Industry involvement in competitions for

relevant student organizations

• “Career Film Festival”

• College and Career Fairs

• Share entrepreneurial and career initiatives especially with K-5 students

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Draft 2012 InitiativesInitiative 7:

Form an on-going, community-wide education consortium so that we can

keep the community involved in education and continue to discuss

long-range/emerging issues.

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Next Steps• Work with Boards of Education and other

community leaders to refine priorities.

• Use University System resources to better understand problems and possible solutions.

• Make smart decisions and good investments that prioritize workforce development in tight economy.

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