Family & Community Students & Families Student and Secondary Support
College and Career Readiness

High School Conferences

Upcoming Conferences:
Information will be posted about upcoming conferences once they are confirmed

Past Conferences:
Massachusetts College & Career Readiness Leadership Summit (January 2008)
High Schools of the Future II: Lessons from Reforming Schools (October 2006)
College Knowledge? Standards for College Success (July 2006)
High Schools of the Future I: Lessons from Reforming Schools (January 2006)

Past Conferences:

Massachusetts College & Career Readiness Leadership Summit (January 2008)

January 8, 2008
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Co-Sponsored by:
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, Office of the Governor, Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in MA (AICUM), Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, Jobs for the Future, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Mass Insight, Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, TERI, The Boston Foundation, and the University of Massachusetts

	Agenda
	Conference Program Booklet
	Acting Commissioner's Opening Session PowerPoint Presentation

Additional (Select) Slides & Handouts from the Summit

Session I Workshops- 10:00 a.m.

• Achieving the Dream - Early Efforts to Improve Community College Student Success through Data-based Decision-making

  	presentation
  	national website

  
  

•   College Community Connections as part of a Comprehensive Strategy for College and Career Development

• College Prep. Program - A Highly Motivated, Super Dedicated University/School Partnership

  UMASS Lowell-College Prep Program

  
  
• Communities and Schools for Success (CS2): Creating Partnerships to Re-Engage Massachusetts' Youth and Prepare Them for College, Careers, and Civic Responsibility

  	Creating Partnerships to Re-Engage Youth
  	Communities and Schools for Success

  
  
• Developing Regional Collaborations in STEM Education

  	Massachusetts STEM
  	Northeastern STEM

  
  
• Framing the Next Boston Compact - The Compact Goes to College

  	Boston Compact 2008
  	The Boston Private Industry Council Boston Compact Website

  
  

•   Massachusetts Math & Science Initiative's AP Training and Incentive Program

• Unveiling the School-to-College Report

  	School to College Database Reports (one-pager)
  -	The 2005 State Report will be released in late January 2008 and will be posted on these BHE and ESE websites.

  
  

Lunch Plenary Session - 12:00 p.m.

What Do We Mean by "College and Career Readiness" and How Do We Get Our Students Ready?
Dr. David Conley, Director of the Center for Educational Policy Research (CEPR) at the University of Oregon and Executive Director of the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC)

Toward a Comprehensive View of College Readiness

Session II Workshops - 1:15 p.m.

• Achievement in America -The Numbers and the Stories They Tell

  	Education Trust's college preparation, access, and success resources
  	Achievement in America: The Numbers and the Stories They Tell

  
  
• Implementing Early College Programs as an Alternative Pathway to Prepare Students to be College and Career Ready

  	Mt. Wachusett Community College Gateway to College Program
  	Massasoit Community College Gateway to College Program
  	Early College High School Initiative

  
  

•   MIT OpenCourseWare - Highlights for High School

•   Tools and Strategies for High School and College Alignment

• Making the Case for International Education

  	The Chinese Exchange Program
  	Global Competencies

  
  

Session III Workshops - 2:30 p.m.

• Dual Enrollment - Creating Pathways to College: Model Policies and Practices that Improve Readiness and Access for 'First Generation' Youth

  	Dual Enrollment in Different States
  	Add and Subtract: Dual Enrollment as a State Strategy to Increase Postsecondary Success for Underrpresented Students (2005 by Nancy Hoffman, Jobs for the Future)
  	Designing and Financing an Integrated Program of College Study: Lessons from the California Academy of Liberal Studies (2005 by Susan Goldberger and Leslie Haynes, Jobs for the Future)
  	Teaching Early College High School at LaGuardia Community College (2006 by Marcia Glick)
  -	More resources about dual enrollment and early college: http://ww.earlycolleges.org and http://www.jff.org.

  
  
• Best Practices from TRIO, GEAR UP, and other College Access Programs

  	GEAR UP Massachusetts
  	National TRIO Clearinghouse

  
  
• How Early Assessment Boosts College Readiness - Unwrapping ACCUPLACER

  	Tools for Meeting the Challenges
  	Introduction to Students on ACCUPLACER

  
  
• Instructional Bridges Between High School and College

  	The Connect Math Project
  	The Connect Writing Project & the Transition to College
  	Connect Group: Writing Outcomes and Rubrics

  
  
• Strategies for Success: Examples of Real Change at the High School and College Levels

  	Education Trust's college preparation, access, and success resource
  	Strategies for Success: Real Examples of Real Change at the High School and College Levels

  
  
• Using Course Syllabi to Ratchet Up Expectations

  Burlington High School