Newsletter Highlights- July 2010
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- Graduating America: Meeting the Challenge of Low Graduation-Rate High Schools
"While high schools with low graduation rates exist in every state and many communities across the country, they are concentrated in a subset of 17 states that produce approximately 70 percent of the nation's dropouts. Data from these states are used to develop new analytic tools for examining the characteristics of schools, districts, and states that make certain approaches more likely to succeed in certain places. Immediate federal action would make a significant difference in efforts to help hundreds of thousands more high school students earn a diploma and prepare for postsecondary education. The report's authors make recommendations to the federal government."...
- Innovations in College Readiness: How Early College Schools are Preparing Students Underrepresented in Higher Education for College Success
"Despite the need to increase the educational levels of all Americans, educational inequities persist. National assessments continue to show persistent gaps in K-12 school achievement by race, ethnicity, and income. About 65 percent of low-income students complete high school, compared with 91 percent of middle- and upper-income students. Young people from the middle and upper ends of the socioeconomic scale are almost five times more likely to earn a two-year or four-year college degree than those from low-income families. Innovations in College Readiness describes a young national effort—the Early College High School Initiative—that in seven years has made headway in contesting those trends. The initiative has done so by focusing on the same challenge President Obama enunciated: getting more students prepared for and successfully completing postsecondary education..."
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QUANTUM LEARNING Camp Info
The Suquamish XeZusede
Early College will be
hosting this year's teacher
professional development
from August 23-27 on
the Kitsap Peninsula.
The
training will be conducted
by the Quantum Learning
Network and will cover
state of the art accelerated
learning techniques to
use in the classroom. Two
representatives from each
school are pre-authorized to
attend the training.
Your representative
can be a teacher, principal
or assistant principal. Travel
and lodging expenses need
to be covered by the school
or district.
Reservations can
be made at the Clearwater
Casino Resort or contact
Rebecca for additional
locations. Please contact
Rebecca Reilly to RSVP by
July 15! If you're reading this after July 15th, try contacting Rebecca to see if you can still reserve.
A full list of the objectives
and outcomes for each day
of the camp can be found
here.
Teacher Focus: Danielle Carmesin, Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods
 Danielle Carmesin is currently a teacher/advisor at Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods on the Yurok Reservation in Klamath, California. Danielle is a descendant from the Hupa, Yurok and Karuk peoples. She was born and raised on a ranch just outside the Hoopa reservation.
Danielle attended College of the Redwoods where she received an Associates Degree in General Studies and she later went on to attend Humboldt State University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History along with her Single Subject teaching credential in Social Science.
Klamath River Early College has transformed their Early College school schedule and no longer has traditional classes. The school is divided into cohorts-"a group of warriors" and Danielle is in charge of mentoring the "graduators" cohort, students who are within two years of graduating from high school.
This year Danielle was able to motivate nine students towards graduation from the Early College and one student went on to receive the Gates Millennium scholarship. Daniell has been an inspiration to staff and continues to dedicate her self to transformational education.
Danielle is looking forward to spending her summer researching curriculum and enjoying her family.
The Center Welcomes Rebecca Reilly
Rebecca Reilly has come on board as the new program assistant at the Center for Native Education. She will be working with Dawn and Director Wolf to improve, expand, and streamline the Early College High School program as much as possible.
Becca has just returned from teaching math and science in Lesotho, Africa for two years for the Peace Corps. Prior to that she worked as an educator at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, Oregon.
Becca is very passionate about bringing education and postsecondary opportunities to underserved communities, and is very excited to be involved with the Early College High School Initiative.
She looks forward to meeting (or emailing, or speaking) to all of you!
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