Presentation to the Women's Fund of Shasta County about the Reach Higher Shasta initiative. The initiative seeks to adopt A-G curriculum at the high school level to better prepare Shasta County students for performance in academic and professional settings. Shasta County students have high graduation rates from high school, but abnormally low transfer rates to post secondary education, and further, from graduating with any post secondary degree or credentials. Presentation compiled by LGH Marketing/Strategy http://www.lghmarketstrategy.com. Slides developed by InnovateEd and LGH Marketing/Strategy. Video concept and creation by LGH.

1. Creating a better future
for women and families
in the Redding area

2. A Community Forum
on
Public Education
“Raising the Bar for
Our Children and Schools:
Reach Higher Shasta”

7. Enrollment
33%
13%
7%

8. Remediation
6% to 50%
60%
75% to 90%

9. - Achieve (2008)

11. On-the Job
Lexile Lexile Requirements
National Adult Literacy Study 1992
1,500 International Center for Leadership in Education 2009
1,400
1,300
1,200
High
school
1,100 text
book
1,000
900
800
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12. Blueprint for Reform
(Reauthorization of ESEA)
All students graduating or on track to graduate ready for college and a
career by 2020.
Assessments at the high school level must do a better job of measuring
real world knowledge and skills that students will need to be successful
after high school.
Anchor assessments should measure college and career readiness. Tests
given earlier than high school need to signify progress toward that
standard.
“proficient must mean prepared—all the way up and down the line.”

13. Creating College & Career Readiness
1. Creating and maintaining a college-going culture in the school
2. Emphasizing key cognitive strategies
3. Holding high expectations for all students, then providing differing
degrees of scaffolding based on student need
4. Creating a core academic program that is aligned with and leads to
college and career readiness by the end of 12th grade
5. Making the senior year meaningful, challenging and engaging
6. Reducing course selection choice in favor of college-focused and
career-aligned offerings
7. Creating assignments and grading polices that more closely approximate
college expectations each successive year of school
8. Promoting key self-management skills and academic behaviors with
formative feedback to students toward skill/behavior development
Shasta County
Office of Education

14. Leading Indicators of
College & Career Ready Students
• Third grade literacy
• Fifth grade numeracy
• Grades 6 to 8
– Strategic reading, expository writing, higher order skills,
research, academic behaviors and Algebra I preparedness
• Grades 9 to 12
– Four years of expository-based English, Algebra II/higher level
math, three years of laboratory science, and a rigorous senior
year for seamless transition to postsecondary education
toward a viable career path

15. Four Attributes of
College & Career Ready Students
©2011 Jay Westover

16. Course Sequences
alignment with postsecondary options
Viable Career Paths
CTE pathways and regional industry sectors
Rigorous Course of Study
seamless transition to postsecondary education
©2011 Jay Westover

36. Creating a better future
for women and families
in the Redding area