Academic Alliance April Meeting Notes
4/13/06
1. College faculty presence to set the pace for dual enrollment classes in the high school
2. Scholarship offers from FSU to top students, even if just for books
3. Publicize COMPASS test info for all subjects (promo) – e.g. what score do you need to get into the intro college courses.
4. Promote college prep at the middle school level
a. Parent/teacher conference
b. GEAR UP??
5. Help encourage kids to work for college prep versus grades for Promise.
6. Perhaps give practice college finals
7. College faculty/administrators come to first parent-teacher conference to meet 9th grade parents.
8. Write letters informing parents courses needed to succeed in college at the middle school level.
9. FSU faculty to go to high school faculty Senate days
10. send high school teachers to sit in college classes
11. shadow program
12. don’t teach class topics as separate from the whole
13. honors algebra II or trigonometry
4/14/06
1. Present to school administrators, guidance counselors, superintendent and legislature.
2. Give COMPASS in high school
3. Get entrance exams, objectives for our college courses and share them with high school teachers.
4. Visits from faculty to high school/middle schools, during the school day – to give workshops and camp-like activities.
5. Gear UP tours ok but have high school students shadow college students in actual classes to give a more realistic picture of college. (e.g. spring break so we don’t encourage them to miss high school classes.)
6. Absenteeism is a big issue.
7. Have graduates of a high school come back to that school.
8. Use specific contact people – work from Amie’s Gear UP list.
9. Visits by college faculty during homeroom would be good.
10. Visits by college faculty to high schools in IS days – e.g. math program high school and college could meet for open communication.
11. Make use of county-wide teacher prep meeting days at tht estart of the year
12. Be clear on our message. Make a mandate on important things: clear, unified message.
13. Give the COMPASS to freshmen, sophomores, so they have a chance to change their course.
14. Try to mine the EXPLORE/PLAN data since all WV students are taking these exams. Work with Mr. Maxey on further research.
15. Anecdotal evidence of teachers points to a fading of effort for students in the last third of a class, but to get school policies changed we may need hard data. Don Tobin willing to work with teachers on data collection and analysis to document this effect.
16. Put in some tracking options for schools that are big enough to support them. (E.g., Honors/Regular/Applied versions of a course.)
17. Create a short handout or overview of the big-point statistics from Mr. Maxey’s presentation.
1. Ability to meet in discipline areas to discuss CSO’s that matter in college
2. FS: share syllabi, outcomes, finals for intro courses.
3. keep open dialogue
4. 1-2 meetings per year
5. MSTC- not much for math yet
6. Motivation, effort
7. college faculty/students in classroom to reinforce what chemistry teachers are saying
8. Teach a lesson in high school/ guest class sessions back and forth
9. Goal setting: someone to look into how to set reachable, attainable goals
10. need research on what is known
11. Grant Idea:
a. effective goal setting
b. support it
c. explore/plan data
d. guidance counselors
e. dev. On math/sci.
f. look at Programs of study
12. how to coordinate days we could get together?
Example: one day a year?
13. RESA plus Wetzel!
1. Go to professional meetings together
2. write grants together
3. lobbying together for complete, continuous curriculum
4. board, superintendent
5. in Morgantown- need more credibility for teacher recommendations
6. committee- starting point
a. grant-writing
b. lobby for resources
c. share plan, explore data
i. Jim Maxey- mine this data
d. data studs we (h.s) send to us (college) schools-specific
e.feedback loops high school to college and vice versa
7. Issues: time, money
8. FSU Students and Faculty(college) out to high schools to communicate expectation importance to students(young freshmen).
9. Introduce our programs bring it to schools
10. find common time
11. CATS issues- how to change
12. FS: define what incoming freshman profile should be.
tell students
“tell” high school administrators – convince “Vertical Teaming”
13. Keep seniors in rigorous classes
14. issues with PROMISE Scholarship
ex. If make a certain ACT score, G.P.A. doesn’t count (as long as you take the full core)
15. study correlation of who kept PROMISE and what courses they took. (Morgantown has it. Pass rate for PROMISE and general population.
