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Student Supports at Mishawaka High School

Mishawaka High School

◆ School within a school ◆ 1517 total students ◆ Approximately 350 Early College Students ◆ Cohort 1 graduated 2019 ◆ Earned 1450+ STGEC credits ◆ 9 STGEC completers in year 1 ◆ 6 AGS projected year 2

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Student Supports

◆ Advisories ◆ Summer Bridge ◆ My Foundations Lab ◆ Pathway guidance ◆ College Connection Coach/es ◆ College Counseling

Student Supports

Advisories - together for 4 years ◆ Early College Advisories (Chorts 1-3) ◆ Cohort 4 - Advisories built from Honors English 9 ◆ Cohort 5 - Back to blended advisories

Student Supports

Summer Bridge Program ◆ 9th - Honors English prep ◆ 10th - AP World History Prep ◆ 11th - dual-credit Math 136 ◆ 12th - dual-credit Bio 101 (summer 2020=1st time)

Summer Bridge

◆ Uplifts students while breaking down fears, misconceptions, and other

• bstacles

“Everything is not what it seems. Summer school can be--and was--fun. English can be explained like math because it acts like it. Mishawaka High School, although big, is relatively easy to

• navigate. It is possible for me to attend Notre Dame, a college I

wish to attend, even though tuition is so expensive. People are not all going to tease, bully, et cetera, when an intelligent individual gets something wrong or does not understand

• something. The world is so much different than it appears.”
• Joy Thompson, ‘19 (written before 9th grade)

Goal: more

• pportunities

for more students

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Accelerating College and Career Readiness with My Foundations Lab & Accuplacer

3-pronged ELA Supports for EC students

1. Summer Bridge All EC students who were NOT in Honors English in 8th grade must participate in Summer Bridge programs. The program is also open to kids who were in 8th grade honors English and just want to participate. 2. All Early College students are placed into Honors English 9 (Unless the Summer Bridge teacher flags them for 9 general after the Bridge.) 3. EC students are in Ivy Tech Student Success AND MyFoundationsLab support

An online curriculum that couples with an Accuplacer diagnostic. A standardized placement test.

Our Early College High School

Mishawaka HS

• Cohort 1, class of 2019

Started @ 73 students Graduated @ 66

• Entry GPA cutoff → 2.7
• Used MyFoundationsLab
• 99% CCR in Reading and Writing by the end of 9th

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MyFoundations Lab Accelerates Growth

CCR

Early College Daily English

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After two years of EC success with MyFoundations Lab, we piloted it with 22 students in Daily

• English. (2017-2018)

40% grew 10 or more points in Critical Reading and 50% grew 10 or more points in Sentence Skills. At the end of the experiment, one “Daily” student was CCR in Critical Reading and another was CCR in Sentence Skills.

2018-2019 -- 9th grade English

“Traditional” Honors English Students

No intervention No Accuplacer

Early College Students

45 min. Of My Foundations Lab every other day. Participate until pass Accuplacer

Regular English 9 and daily-English students

Plan: 45 min. Of My Foundations Lab every

• ther day.

Reality: Not all teachers followed the plan with fidelity.

2019-2020 -- 9th grade English

Early College Students will all get 45 min. Of My Foundations Lab every other day. 5th year of this approach.

NEW: All 9th grade students will take the Accuplacer in Critical Reading, Sentence Skills, and Math in October and again in May. We will measure growth. We will use scores to better place students in appropriate classes.

Using the lessons of EC to improve all student outcomes

PLACE IDENTIFY TEST

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We intend to identify more students who can earn dual credits earlier and help them enter the STGEC pathway.

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Mishawaka

Jessica Mann

mannj@mishawaka.k12.in.us

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