1. Overcoming the Challenges of
Urban Education
Student Engagement and Staff Challenges
Presented by Todd Bloom, Shaun Fanning, Laurie Cordova

2. Student Characteristics
11,000,000 students

3. Student Needs
What unique needs do urban students have?
How should schools respond?

4. Two critical issues for urban
students that aspire to attend college
1. College Knowledge
2. “Non-cognitive” Factors

5. College Knowledge
• What college is like
• What it takes to get there
• How to prepare, select, apply and pay
• What it takes to succeed

6. Non-cognitive factors and college
readiness
“what matters most for college graduation is not which courses students
take, or what their test scores are, but how well students perform in those
courses, as measured by their high school course grades”
“In addition to measuring students’ content knowledge and core academic
skills, grades also reflect the degree to which students have demonstrated
a range of academic behaviors, attitudes, and strategies that are critical
for success in school and in later life”
Teaching Adolescents To Become Learners
The Role of Non-cognitive Factors in Shaping School
Performance: A Critical Literature Review

7. Non-cognitive factors
• Motivation
• Belief
• Grit
• Self-regulation
• Social skills
• Peer and parental support networks

8. Our Goal
Better support urban school systems in
helping students obtain college
knowledge and improve non-cognitive
factors that positively impact college
graduation

9. Student Engagement

10. Implementation of Roadtrip Nation
Interview Archive
• Career Day
• Guidance Offices
• Advisory Periods
• Parents’ Night
• Pair with Assessments
• ELA Writing Assignments

11. Inspiring Students to Take
Ownership of their Learning

12. Data for Schools

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