Caney Valley Oklahoma Schools
| August 12, 2009 |
I will be presenting an all-day workshop dealing with Helping Students Graduate: Tools & Strategies to Keep Students in School for the faculty of the Caney Valley Oklahoma School System as part of their opening school ceremonies.
Television Show on Dropout Prevention
I recently appeared with Paul Broome, Education Coordinator, Office of the Albuquerque Mayor on a PBS show entitled New Mexico in Focus: discussing the dropout problem. You can view the show (although the voice and sound aren’t in sync) at.
“http://newmexicoinfocus.org”>newmexicoinfocus.org
The Gates Foundation and Remediation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MDC, Inc., announced on June 22, that it would provide $16.5 million in grant money for 15 community colleges and five states to expand remedial education programs. The announcement referred to a recent report from Jobs for the Future that notes that remedial classes cost taxpayers more than $2 billion a year. Nearly 60% of all students who enroll in a community college start with remedial courses yet two-thirds of them never graduate.
My opinion: It is silly to remediate when students do not have the ability to take college level courses. Students, parents and college people should not accept the concept that everyone who files for college is qualified. Unfortunately college is a business. Colleges continue to build additional buildings and add additional seats and need to fill them. High school diplomas need to be validated by colleges by not accepting students who do not meet the minimum standards set by colleges. Students will come to understand that they must succeed in high school before they become accepted to college.
That is my opinion. I would like to hear yours. I will post the best on this site.
Odessa Texas Schools
| July 1, 2009 |
I will be presenting an all-day workshop for the Odessa Texas School Staff at Odessa High School.
The workshop will be: Helping Students Graduate: Tools and Strategies to Keep Students in School. The workshop focuses on the U.S. Department of Education’s acknowledged successful strategies that I helped developed with the National Dropout Prevention Center based at Clemson University and the best practices that I have seen in schools around the world. The strategies have been field-tested, are research-based, and data-driven.
Attendees will not only learn what to do but how to use the strategies.
SREB Atlanta
| July 10, 2009 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 2:30 pm |
I will be presenting a workshop entitled Helping Students Graduate: Tools and Strategies to Help At-risk Learners
The workshop will be: Helping Students Graduate: Tools and Strategies to Keep Students in School. The workshop focuses on the U.S. Department of Education’s acknowledged successful strategies that I helped developed with the National Dropout Prevention Center based at Clemson University and the best practices that I have seen in schools around the world. The strategies have been field-tested, are research-based, and data-driven.
Attendees will not only learn what to do but how to use the strategies.
SREB – Atlanta
| July 11, 2009 | ||
| 8:30 am | to | 10:00 am |
I will be presenting on Saturday, July 11th @ 8:3AM – 10AM a workshop entitled: Creating School Cultures That Embrace Learning: What Successful Leaders Do.
Richmond Virginia -”From Vision to Practice Fifth Annual Institute: Seven Million Minutes from Pre-Kindergarten to Graduation
| July 14, 2009 9:00 am | to | July 15, 2009 1:00 pm |
I will be delivering workshops in Richmond, Virginia on July 14th and 15th. There will be two breakout sessions dealing with “Helping Students Graduate: Tools and Strategies to Keep Students in School” on July 14th. At the luncheon on July 15th, I will be presenting a session on “Building America’s Global Competitiveness: From The Schoolhouse to The Workplace.” President Obama addressed both issues in his address in Washington, DC.
This event is a statewide conference hosted by the Virginia Department of Education., Each of the state’s 132 school divisions have invited each to bring teams of teachers/administrators to the institute to learn about /discuss/plan efforts to improve their graduation rates. The institute will be held in Richmond, Virginia.
