Diplomas Now Summer
Institute 2015
Opening Plenary
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Diplomas NowOn the Move Together
Robert Balfanz
2015 DNSI Keynote
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Diplomas Now Mission:
Building Pathways from Poverty to Post-Secondary
Success
By:
1) Transforming the Whole School
2) Providing the Right Intervention to the Right Student at
the Scale and Intensity Required
3) Creating the Conditions for Continuous Improvement
In The Nation’s Most High Needs Middle and High Schools
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Diplomas Now journey
• First Pilot School-Feltonville Middle School-Philadelphia-2008-09
• National Field Test Schools 2009-10, 10-11 (Denny and Aki still
implementing)
• Investing in Innovation (I3) Award-Randomized Field Trial (I3) –
Phase 1-2010-11 to 2014-15
• First graduating Middle School Students from i3 Cohort 1- 20132014, Cohort 2-2014-15
• First DN I3 graduating High School Students; Cohort 1-2014-15English, Booker T. Washington, and Newton High Schools
• I3 Phase 2-2014-15 to 2017-18
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Diplomas Now impacts
beyond
our
schools
Demonstrating the importance of combating chronic
absenteeism, finding alternatives to suspension, and
helping students get good grades-the ABC’s of Student
Success-USDOE launching major initiatives to combat
Chronic Absenteeism and Spread Early Warning Systems
• Demonstrating the power of taking an evidence-based
approach to school reform. Informed the strong stance
on evidence based reforms in Senate Help Committee
Re-authorization Bill for Elementary and Secondary
Education Act
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Diplomas Now impacts
beyond our schools
• Created one of the largest cross-district networked
improvement communities in US.
• Demonstrated the power of non-profits and school
partners intentionally integrating their efforts to make the
whole stronger than the components
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Diplomas Now is a
powerful antidote
to the challenging
times we live in
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Poverty has
increased in the past
decade making it
much harder to
be a child
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Number of people living
in concentrated poverty
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Neighborhood poverty has
increased substantially
…. as poverty has spread, it has not done so evenly.
Instead, it has also become more clustered and
concentrated in distressed and high-poverty
neighborhoods, eroding the brief progress made against
concentrated poverty during the late 1990s.
Brookings Institute Report on Growth and Spread of Concentrated Poverty 2000-2012
http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2014/concentrated-poverty#/M10420
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Double burden of poverty
Being low-income or poor in a
high-poverty neighborhood creates a
double burden
Beyond their own family circumstances,
students must confront the poverty of
those around them
The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America, 2008
http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2008/10/24-concentrated-poverty
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Double burden of poverty
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Neighborhood poverty
levels in Baltimore City
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Neighborhood poverty
levels in Ferguson, MO
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Neighborhood poverty
levels in Detroit
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The number of students being
distracted and stressed by out-ofschool struggles is 2-to-3 times
higher in areas of concentrated
poverty and reaches a level where it
can impact the whole class (8-10
students or more in a class)
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When the double burden of being lowincome and living in neighborhoods of
concentrated poverty is not met with
sufficient school reforms and student
supports unmet student needs lower
key outcomes
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Impact of poverty on
graduation rates
High school graduation rates by neighborhood
concentrated poverty (at 40% level)
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Impact of poverty on
graduation rates
Economically disadvantaged students’ high school graduation
rates by neighborhood concentrated poverty (at 40% level)
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Over the past 5 years
schools have had to meet
increased student need
with fewer dollars to spend
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From 2008-14, per student
funding declined in 4 of 5 states
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Federal funding also
declined from 2010 to 2013
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The success Diplomas Now has had in
schools and with high needs students
in an era when need increased and
resources declined is a testament to the
will and skill of the folks in the room
and creates an imperative for us to
keep going
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Diplomas Now
Next Steps
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What is the
national challenge?
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Scale of the
national challenge
310,000 more graduates are needed by
the class of 2020 for the nation to reach a
90% High School Graduation Rate
That’s 3 Rose Bowl Stadiums
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Who do the additional
graduates need to be for
90% of all students to
graduate?
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90% with equity requires
• Four of Five to be Low
Income
• One in Five to English
Language Learners
• One of Three to be
African American
• Two in Five to be
Students with
Disabilities
• One of Three to be
Latino
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What is the
local challenge?
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Scale of the
local challenge
At the local level the
challenge is at the arena
and large theater level
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How do we get more
graduates in DN schools?
• Complete the extension of the I3 study to
demonstrate impacts on high school
graduation and 9th grade success
• Create DN feeder patterns where we
can so our students are fully supported
from 6th to 12th grade
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How do we get more
graduates in DN schools?
• Continue to strengthen our network so we can
learn from each other and take on new challenges
as a networked improvement community - i.e. our
PepsiCo Foundation Design Challenge 1 and
PepsiCo Foundation Design Challenge 2.
• Work together to enable DN schools to become
continuous improvement schools
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Continuous improvement
schools
A new theory of school reform
• Brought to you by the DN Principals Network
• Traditional view of school reform is- you identify what is
needed to improve a school, implement it, and if it
works you fight like crazy to maintain it.
• Success leads to a defensive posture.
• Result is, after a period, reforms often dissipate as
forces which chip away at fidelity (funding cuts, staff
mobility etc.) are greater than those which maintain
it.
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Continuous improvement
DN schools
• Insight of DN principals is best defense is a good offense
• DN supports enable highly challenged schools to reform
and improve enough that they can focus energies on
the sub-set of issues or sub-sets of students which still
need to be addressed or further supported
• In short, schools can move to a state of continuous
improvement which is core operating posture of truly
great schools
• This conceptual shift enables them to ignite their growth
engine-and focus on getting better and better rather
than just maintaining the initial improvements
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Continuous improvement
DN schools
• Use Diplomas Now tools and supports and structures to
analyze the challenges that remain, develop new
solutions, test their impact, modify as needed, and share
their learning with others
• In this conference will also be introduced to some
continuous improvement tools from other fields along
with the concept of a growth mindset to help spark our
growth engines.
• Will also be related sessions on recent findings in the
learning sciences and the impact of poverty
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PepsiCo Foundation
Design Challenges
• Winners of Pepsi Design Challenge 1-how to support 12th
graders so they graduate ready for post-secondary
success and 8th graders so they are ready to succeed in
high school-will be announced tomorrow. Their tools will
be shared throughout the DN Network
• Today, launching Pepsi Design Challenge 2. Will have
awards for the DN middle and high Schools who spark
their growth engine and demonstrate strong use of
continuous improvement practices during the 2015-16
school year.
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Enjoy the
Conference!!!!
Get Your Growth Mindset On!!
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