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USAdelante A Virtual Peer-to-Peer Professional Development Network
“Students supporting students to excel”
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USAdelante enables college students to graduate by providing the connections and guidance to excel
Overview
� Objective
� Create a student-to-student support community for students in college
� Strategy
� Connect students to each other to complete development exercises
� Next Milestone
� Support 300+ underrepresented college students in 2012-2013
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Traditional Mentorship
Support Models
USA Peer-to-Peer Coaching
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Management Team
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David Lopez Role: Co-founder, Recruitment/Outreach, Chairperson Executive Director at Teach For America – San Diego, Taught bilingual elementary in HISD, 8 years technical sales experience, Electronic Engineering/Management Science Roberto Cabral Role: Director of Operations GE Healthcare, Edison Engineering Development Program Graduate, Raytheon Software Engineer, Electrical & Computer Engineering Mayte Antelo Role: Curriculum Coach Nationally Certified School Psychologist in San Diego Unified School District, Masters in Educational and School Psychology, Masters Harvard Graduate School of Education Sergio Marrero Role: Pilot, Lead Education Pioneers Fellow, Teach For America’s Strategy/Innovation Group, Industrial Engineering, Deloitte Consulting, MBA & MPP, Harvard University We also have several volunteers with backgrounds in teaching and curriculum development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education we are interviewing for positions
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� Peer-to-peer model is the right way
� Too much at stake to limit
� Expanded pilot is critical next step
USAdelante Beta Pilot
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Importance
Why? Belief
How?
� College for all
� Underrepresented students at higher risk
� Additional support required
� Soft skills needed for success
� Professional leadership empowers communities
� Needed to keep US
competitive
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Pilot Structure
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� Goal � Is peer-to-peer coaching valuable for
students?
� How can we improve the model?
� 20 College Students
� 15 Schools
� 12 Weekly Calls & Exercises
Student Student
Completes Weekly Exercise
Weekly Call
Vision Planning Professional Development
Exercise Topics*
Self Assessment Personal Branding
Personal Vision Planning Mock Interview
Elevator Pitch Coping & Wellness
Career Path Mapping Mentor Preparation Call *certain exercises covered over two calls
1 exercise
10-15 questions
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Pilot Metrics
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� 120 hours of professional development (12/student)
� 82% felt they could relate to their partner
� 73% found the feedback from my partner helpful and insightful
� 70% found the exercises contributed to their development
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Challenging? Engaging? Useful? Long?
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Exercise Survey Question
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Were the exercises..
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Proposed Pilot
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� 300+ College Students
� 36 Exercises (4 Introduction)
� 10 Months
Monthly Outline
Intro Exercise Electives
Sample Exercise Topics
Personal Planning
Time Management
Student Leadership
Coaching Through Questions
Coping & Wellness
Elevator Pitch
Presentation Skills
School/Life Choices
Inspiration & Motivation
1 Exercise
10-15 Questions
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Team interaction
Structured Curriculum
Core Competencies*
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Collaboration Across Networks & Leading by Influence
Agility & Adaptability
Initiative & Entrepreneurialism
Effective Written/Oral Communication
Assessing & Analyzing Information
Curiosity & Imagination *The Global Achievement Gap, Tony Wagner
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Pilot Operations
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Goals
� Is there a positive impact on retention?
� Does the model maintain the sense of community?
Tools Feedback Loop
� FreeConferenceCall.com/Skype
� Google Spreadsheet
� YouTube
Dial In # and Partner List
Updated
Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri
Call & Feedback
Form
Sat
Reviews Feedback Modify Exercises (if needed)
Weekly Cycle
Forms
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Scaling Strategies
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College College College
High School
Graduating High School Networks
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College Student Groups
2 Leads Identified at: Harvard College Northeastern University Wesleyan University UConn (Training) University of Arizona (Training)
Potential Partners: Yes Prep IDEA Public Schools KIPP
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Next Steps
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Exercises / Feedback
Exercises and project plan for a year-long pilot is being developed to support a sponsor high school
Identify Partner School
Acknowledgements
• Finalist, MIT 100K Pitch Competition
• Finalist, Start-Up Weekend Harvard & MIT, iLab
• Semi-Finalist, Echoing Green Fellowship
• HBS Summer Social Enterprise Fellowship
High School
Develop Exercises
Online
Fundraise $
Identify & Onboard Students
Launch Pilot in August
Requirements from Partners
• Identify one lead per school
• Facilitate initial communication pilot participants
• Support fundraising for pilot program
• Attend weekly 1 hour calls with pilot lead
Finalize School Leads
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Pilot Operations
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Introduction & Forum Associates
Senior Associates Ambassadors
Milestones 5 Starter Exercises 10 Exercises +
1 Pay-It-Forward Video + 5 Consecutive Weeks + Rating > 7.5/10
20 Exercises 5 Pay-It-Forward Deliverables + 10 Consecutive Weeks + Rating > 8/10
Director Partner
TBD TBD
Checks Spreadsheet for Pair & Call information
Participates in Peer-to-Peer Coaching
Session
Submits Exercise Feedback
(Advanced Exercises) Submits Deliverable
Update Pairing, Leaderboard, &
Check Deliverables
Member Registers
Email with ID & Info
Sent
Coaching Process
Member USAdelante Google Form
Actions
• Pair ID • Date • Time • Conference # • Exercise Link • Comments
Google Form
• Member ID • Partner ID • Exercise ID • Exercise Rating • Partner Rating • Comments