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.
Our Community Wants:
Community engagement and understanding across theBirth-to-Work Continuum.
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…
Identify the top strengths and weaknesses of
each segment of local education.
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
Three Work Groups Formed:
Prenatal to Pre-K
K-12
Higher/Technical Education
Producing productive citizens by
strengthening the birth to work
pipeline.
Draft 2012 InitiativesInitiative 1:
Educate our community on nutrition andhealthy lifestyles and their impact on
learning.
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.
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
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
Draft 2012 InitiativesInitiative 2:
Provide Pre-K opportunities in the faceof state budget cuts.
11% of this year’s kindergarten class had no access to Pre-K.
What We Are Doing . . . • Community-wide Pre-K registration
• Summer Pre-K experience for those with no Pre-K before Kindergarten
Draft 2012 InitiativesInitiative 3:
Make the right technology more accessible to students.
Why Technology?• Equality
• Personalization
• Bi-directional Learning
• Cost
Moving Forward . . .• Continue to explore high-impact, cost-
effective technology.
• Train teachers on best practices involving technology and learning.
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.
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
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
Source: Phil Peterson’s Voices for Georgia’s Children Presentation
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
What we are doing about it . . .• Dalton State College’s Near Peer
Program
Near Peer Program• Compass test score improvement:
Ö Math up 33%
Ö Writing up 23%
Ö Reading up 12%
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
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)
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.
Draft 2012 Initiatives
Initiative 6: Focus on Career and
College Readiness in 5th – 12th
grade.
$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.
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
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.
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.