Rigor That Works. Engaging High School Students with Community College Instruction:

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1 Engaging High School Students with Community College Instruction: Rigor That Works Jeannie Abutin Mitsch, Cypress College Adela Lopez, Fullerton College ) Gary Yee, Career Ladders Project Strengthening Student Success Conference October 8, 2010

2 Engaging High School Students with Community College Instruction: Rigor That Works Agenda: Review of CCI Initiative Review of Dual Enrollment Case Study of two courses taught in Dual Enrollment, for CTE Cypress Case Fullerton Case Lessons Learned for All Faculty, by Faculty Questions

3 Concurrent Courses Initiative: Pathways to College and Careers Funded by the James Irvine Foundation Provides support to eight secondary/postsecondary partnerships to develop, enhance and expand career focused dual enrollment programs for low income youth who are struggling academically or who are within populations historically underrepresented in higher education by providing them with rigorous, supportive and careerfocused dual enrollment opportunities. Career Ladders Project provides Technical Assistance for the initiative, under contract from Community College Research Center

4 Concurrent Courses Initiative: Funded Partnerships Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High School, Sacramento Partner: Sacramento City College City College of San Francisco Partner: San Francisco Unified School District Shasta Union High School District Partners: Anderson Union High School District, Shasta College Santa Barbara City College Partners: Santa Barbara High School District, Carpinteria Unified School District, South Coast ROP Los Angeles City College Partners: Hollywood High School, Downtown Business High School, Miguel Contreras Learning Complex Jordan High School, Long Beach Unified School District Partners: Long Beach City College, California State University Long Beach Tulare Joint Union High School District Partner: College of the Sequoias North Orange County ROP Partners: Anaheim Union High School District, Cypress College, Fullerton College

5 Dual Enrollment Allows high school students to enroll in college courses Broad participation (NCES): At 71 percent of public high schools, students took courses for dual credit 51 percent of colleges had high school students enrolled in college courses Over 800,000 high school students took a college course (7% of all high school students enrolled in community colleges in CA ( )) Participation appears to be increasing rapidly Recent K 12 high school reform initiative: Linked Learning

6 Why dual enrollment? Presumed benefits to dual enrollment include: Students experience college and learn college going behaviors Students enter college with credit already accumulated Potential cost savings to families and education systems Creation of connections between secondary and postsecondary institutions Presumed challenges to dual enrollment include: Student academic preparation, motivation, behavior Competition for student attention and time Faculty readiness and willingness to work with adolescents College flexibility in terms of scheduling, support services

7 Rigor that Works: the North Orange County Experience Initial Challenges: Difficult to recruit high school students into after school program Difficult to find willing faculty to teach dual enrollment course Initial courses not successful Low retention rate High absenteeism Small classes Initial tension between college rigor and course holding capacity Formative Assessment: Meet the needs of struggling students Address appropriate definition of rigorous college coursework

8 Rigor that Works cont.: Cypress College: Counseling 150: Life and Academic Success The Course Content Pedagogy Relationships Rigor Outcomes Student Reports Retention and Persistence Faculty Report Student Learning Outcomes?

9 Rigor that Works cont. Fullerton College: Ethnic Studies 118:, Introduction to Bilingual Crossculturalism The Course Content Pedagogy Relationships Rigor Outcomes Student Reports Retention and Persistence Faculty Report Student Learning Outcomes?

10 The Course Content Pedagogy Relationships Rigor ` Outcomes Rigor that Works cont.: Lessons Learned Student Reports Retention and Persistence Faculty Report Student Learning Outcomes?

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