Webinar - Moving Beyond Isolated Efforts and Incremental Change: How Multiple Pathways to Graduation Programs Can Boost High School Reform Efforts

  • 23 Sep 2010
  • 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
  • Webinar
WEB SEMINAR EXCLUSIVELY FOR GRANTMAKERS!

Moving Beyond Isolated Efforts and Incremental Change:
How Multiple Pathways to Graduation Programs Can Boost High School Reform Efforts

Thursday, September 23, 2010
3:00 - 4:15 pm ET

Grantmakers should register here by Thursday, September 16.

YTFG is partnering with Grantmakers for Education to present a series of events demonstrating how funders can ensure Multiple Pathways to Graduation (MPG) programs are thoughtfully incorporated into system-reform turnaround strategies.

The first web seminar, Moving Beyond Isolated Efforts and Incremental Change, includes presentations by Bob Balfanz (Center for Social Organizations of Schools at John Hopkins University), Carole Smith (Portland Public Schools), and Candace Bell (William Penn Foundation).

Register by Thursday, September 16, 2010, 5:00 pm Eastern. The series continues with site visits to successful MPG programs in Philadelphia in mid-November and in Portland in spring of 2011.

Here's what you can expect as take-aways from the web seminar:
  • Gain insight on why we should move from isolated school-based turnaround strategies to a more intentional system-reform approach that addresses the drop-out crisis.

  • Understand why districts need to look closely at who the disengaged students are (e.g., through segmentation analysis) to determine effective models/approaches/pathways.

  • Clarify why turnaround planning needs to address both prevention and recuperation, underscoring the importance of an integrated Multiple Pathways to Graduation approach.

  • Identify how districts can create MPG within one building or multiple sites, providing examples of places implementing these strategies.

  • Discuss what partners will need to be included in the planning and execution (e.g., CBOs and intermediaries that can broker relationships and money from other systems like foster care, juvenile justice, behavioral health, etc.)

  • Explore what opportunities exist in the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, and other agencies to support this work.

  • Understand the role for private funders in supporting this type of system reform work, particularly where private dollars can leverage public investment.
For more information, please contact:
Lisa McGill
Youth Transition Funders Group

Contact memberservices@ytfg.org for additional information.

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