1. Roadtrip Nation
Empowering students to define their own
Roads in life
Brian McAllister – Founder
Annie Mais – Education Director

2. Roadtrip Nation and Hobsons

3. Roadtrip Nation

4. Roadtrip Nation

5. Roadtrip Nation
The Roadtrip
- 3 months on the road
- 17,000 miles driven
- 85 interviews filmed
- Featured in Forbes Magazine
- Book deal with Random House
- Publicity tour

6. The Roadtrip Nation Interview Archive

7. The Roadtrip Nation Experience
12 multi-modal lessons
Cold-Calls
Student Interviews
Student Community

8. EPIC Evaluation Study
During the 2011-2012 academic school year, Dr.
David Conley and his team from EPIC conducted a
“deep dive” evaluation on The Roadtrip Nation
Experience in three San Jose Unified School District
PLUS Academies. This multi-method evaluation used
the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Deeper
Learning Rubric to answer the question:
How and to what extent does The Roadtrip Nation
Experience foster students’ Deeper Learning?

9. Key Insights and
Discoveries
Insight #1 Significant Increase in Student Self-Efficacy:
•For almost every question administered on a final EPIC
survey, Roadtrip Nation students at all three schools most
frequently selected “I can do better” over all other
response options.
•In addition, more Roadtrip Nation students selected “I
can do better” than those not participating in the program.
•This finding is significant evidence of The Roadtrip Nation
Experience supporting students’ development of self-
awareness and desire to improve.
•Roadtrip Nation students not only identified the need to
do better—they did do better.

10. Key Insights and
Discoveries
Insight #2 GPA Increase:
•Roadtrip Nation students ended the academic year with a
higher average GPA than comparison students, and they
improved their average GPA by twice the rate of their
peers.
•The average GPA of Roadtrip Nation students increased
from 2.35 to 2.75, compared to a 2.4 to 2.6 increase in
non-participating students.
•This increase in average GPA is interesting, because the
program itself does not focus on academic achievement.
The program’s focus revolves around behaviors,
attitudes, and strategies —“noncognitive” factors that
hold a direct positive relationship to students’ concurrent
and future outcomes.

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