# Presentation: 852187

## Archived InformationOpen Meadow STEP UP Programat Roosevelt High SchoolPortland, Oregon

- “Using Supplemental Services
- To Provide Personalized Academic Supports”
- US Department of Education
- 2nd Annual National High School Leadership Summit: Preparing America’s Future
- December 2-3, 2004

## Presentation Outline

_**Objective:**_ Describe implementation of NCLB by Open Meadow (non-profit alternative education and workforce development provider) in partnership with Roosevelt High School (RHS), a “Failing” comprehensive public school.
- Open Meadow organizational overview
- Background for NCLB in Portland, Spring 2003
- STEP UP Program Overview
- STEP UP Program Results
- Next Steps for STEP UP

**Notes:**
STEP-UP is an SES service for RHS, our local, comprehensive public high school, one of two in PPS that is “Failing” AYP status

## Open Meadow Mission Statement:

To educate youth in small, relationship-based programs that emphasize personal responsibility, academics, and service to the community.

- To educate youth in small, relationship-based programs that emphasize **personal responsibility, academics,** and **service to the community.**

## Open Meadow Organizational Overview

- Founded in 1971, one of Portland’s oldest alternative schools
- Private, non-profit, contractor with Portland Public Schools
- Accredited by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools
- Urban setting, located in Portland, Oregon (pop: 3 million)
- District: Portland Public Schools (approx. 49,000 students)
- Ethnically diverse, low-income population (67% free lunch)
- Dropout retrieval, youth apply to participate
- Serve 525 students. ages 10-24, in 6 programs
- Open Meadow Middle School (60 students)
- Open Meadow High School (100 students)
- CRUE—Corps Restoring the Urban Environment (40 students)
- Youth Opportunity (YO) (80 youth)
- Corporate  Connections (20 youth)
- STEP UP (NCLB: Supplemental Education Services) (225 students)

**Notes:**
Low-income: Not tuition-based

## Funding Sources

- Portland Public Schools  (50%)
- Other Contractors (30%)
- City of Portland’s Bureau of Housing and Community Development
- Multnomah County
- Oregon Youth Conservation Corps
- Worksystems, inc
- NCLB
- Private Funding (20%)
- Foundations
- Corporations
- Individuals

- _Open Meadow Organizational Overview_

**Annual Operating Budget 2003-2004: $2.2 million**

**Notes:**
Diverse funding sources supported by flexible, decentralized services.
 PPS funding is ADM
3) WD services are strong and valuable supplemental service for OSY, but not core service

## Core Cultural Elements

- Strong youth-adult relationships
- Small class sizes
- Advocate groups (Teacher/Advocate)
- Student accountability, responsibility, and self-worth
- Participation in the community
- Ownership of supportive learning community
- 100% involvement in service learning
- Project-based academics and workforce development services

- _Open Meadow Organizational Overview_

**Notes:**
These are the program features that we are exporting to RHS to counteract its “Failing” status

## Evidence of Success

- First generation H.S. graduates
- 20% taken college class prior to graduation
- 97% of graduates have participated in internships or work experience
- 100% of graduates provided community service
- 100% of graduates leave with a transition plan

- _Open Meadow Organizational Overview_

## Evidence of Success

- 93% attendance average (40% prior to OM)
- 90% retention (of students who were once disengaged)
- 5.6 average RIT score gain for Math and Reading
- 100% involvement in service learning
- 84% of graduates over past 3 years transitioned to post-secondary education/training or career-track employment

- _Open Meadow Organizational Overview_

## Background for NCLB in Portland

- Poverty Rates 2001-02:
-  National Rate: 12.4%
-  Multnomah County: 15.7%
** ****North Portland: 30%**
- Four-Year Dropout Rates:
-  State Average: 13.9%
-  City Average: 15.7%
** ****Roosevelt High School** **: 31%**
- 	 (RHS—the local comprehensive public high school)

## Federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) funding available through the Portland Public School District (PPS) to assist RHS 

Funding not available to RHS or RHS staff

PPS was in a budget crisis.  Potential teachers’ strike (first ever) and potential budget cuts eliminating as many as 25 days of school from the 2003-04 year.

- Funding not available to RHS or RHS staff
- PPS was in a budget crisis.  Potential teachers’ strike (first ever) and potential budget cuts eliminating as many as 25 days of school from the 2003-04 year.

- _Background for NCLB in Portland, Spring 2003_

## Open Meadow strategic plan included geographic focus on North Portland. Leadership Team decision to emphasize and deepen service locally rather than create a model of service for broader replication.
Open Meadow management met with RHS administration to explore a partnership
Open Meadow applied for, and received, NCLB funding from district, then State of OR

- Open Meadow management met with RHS administration to explore a partnership
- Open Meadow applied for, and received, NCLB funding from district, then State of OR

- _Background for NCLB in Portland, Spring 2003_

## Open Meadow staff met with RHS staff to do joint planning.

Developed program to integrate with, and support, existing RHS services. 

- Developed program to integrate with, and support, existing RHS services.

- _STEP-UP Program Overview, Spring 2003_

**Notes:**
RHS teachers requested homework support—both to supplement existing academics and to promote independent study required for post-secondary success; RHS awards any credit associated with program

## Supplemental Education Service Provider
Served 140 RHS students after school
12 part-time tutors
Academic tutoring: reading, writing, math
Social, emotional, behavioral skill development using Open Meadow core cultural elements 

- Served 140 RHS students after school
- 12 part-time tutors
- Academic tutoring: reading, writing, math
- Social, emotional, behavioral skill development using Open Meadow core cultural elements

- _STEP UP Program Overview, Spring 2003_

**Notes:**
THEN: OM Middle School Counselor, who was running his own youth development consulting and facilitation business presented the idea of doing “Leadership Camps”

## STEP-UP Leadership Camp

- 37 highest-risk middle school youth, identified by their home middle school
- 10 peer mentors
- Operated by Open Meadow staff & RHS counselor
- Attended by:
- Open Meadow tutors
- RHS freshman academy teachers
- RHS administrative team
- Open Meadow administrative team
- Five days of culture-building activities
- Welcome-back event for families

## Leadership Camp Overview

- Relationship to school --academic and personal success
- Positive relationships with peers and teachers
- Attitudes and behaviors for academic success
- Self worth, personal responsibility
- Rope challenge course
- Goals -- academic and personal

- _STEP-UP Program Overview_

## STEP-UP Year-Round Services

- Tutoring 2 days/week, 1-2 hours/day for Leadership Cohort and general RHS student population
- Monthly parent meetings
- Follow-up meetings for Leadership Cohort
- Incentives: snacks, school supplies, attendance gift certificates
- Counseling; information & referral

- _STEP-UP Program Overview_

## 2003-2004

- STEP UP served 91 RHS students
- 37 in STEP UP Leadership Cohort
-               (Leadership Camp AND Tutoring Academy)
- 54 in STEP UP Tutoring Academy

## Who Participated?

- _STEP-UP Program Overview_

**Notes:**
1/3 caucasian, 1/3 African-American, 1/3 mixed: Latino, Native American, African immigrant, SE Asian

## June 2004: 100% of 2003-2004 STEP UP Leadership Cohort participants are still enrolled in school.

## Open Meadow STEP-Up Results

**Notes:**
1) 37 of 37 students enrolled in the Leadership Camp are still enrolled in High School
2)  This graph above shows the reading skills gains from the Degrees of Reading Power Assessment administered by Roosevelt and the beginning and the end of the 2003-04 school year.  Average gain for STEP UP Leadership Academy students was 8.1, or the equivalent of 2 grade levels.  The gain for students in the STEP UP Tutoring Academy was 5.8, and Roosevelt’s all student average was 2.9.  (A four point gain is equivalent to one grade level.)

## Open Meadow STEP-Up Results

**Notes:**
THIS is how we promote AYP and NCLB standards.  OM is not required to meet standards, but we work toward them anyway; alt ed is in negotiations with state about a different time interval for alt ed youth
65% of in-coming freshman were NOT at 8th grade benchmark when they entered high school; Overall state has 69% students at 8th grade benchmark 
State doesn’t do pre/post, but WE did for STEP-UP participants 
4)The STEP UP students who were tutored in math show accelerated skill gain on the Oregon Statewide Mathematics Knowledge and Skills and the C.A.T. Math Survey 6+.  Participants showed an average 7.5 point gain, or close to two grade levels.  The group average was well below the 8th benchmark (231) at the start of the program, and was at benchmark at completion of the first year.

## Direct correlation between  number of hours spent participating in STEP UP Academic Support Services and skill gains.

- _Summer 2004_: Added Leadership Camp for each of the RHS small schools followed by 4 weeks of summer academic support services
- _Late August_: Fall 2-day Orientation for STEP UP participants
- _Fall of 2004_: Children’s Initiative Funding to start services for 8th graders at Roosevelt’s feeder middle schools:Portsmouth, George and OMMS (after school 4 days/week)
- _Fall of 2004_: After-school tutoring and support services for 120 9th graders and 28 10th graders (from 03-04 cohort).

## Professional Development to Promote AYP

- Culture-building for RHS staff
- Diversity training
- CIM/CAM training for Open Meadow staff
- Facilitation training for Open Meadow staff
- School Success curriculum for feeder middle schools
- Culturally-specific services

## North Portland Continuum of School Success Programs

- Summer Leadership Camp (for each small school),
- Summer Tutoring
-  2 day fall freshman orientation                                                                        *(90 students)*

**George**
**Middle School**

**Roosevelt Campus/ **Small Schools

**Portsmouth**
**Middle School**

**Open Meadow**
**Middle School**

**6****th**
**and**
**7****th**
**grade**

**8th**
**Grade**

**9-12****th**
**Grade**

**STEP UP Middle School Academy**
- (Open Meadow School Success Advocates: After school academic support, enrichment and high school prep)

- SEIS

**Two**
**Rivers**
**Community**
**School**

**Open **
**Meadow**
**High ****School**

**Open**
**Meadow**
**CRUE**
**Program**

**POWER**

**ACT**

** ****Open Meadow Campus**

**STEP**** ****UP High School Academy**; After School Academic Support/ Tutoring

**North Portland Continuum of School Success Programs**

**POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION AND TRAINING**** **

## Slide 26

**Notes:**
SES supports youth in the “fallen off track” typology—a not-to-intensive draw back into school success
Other Open Meadow school programs and services designed to serve rest of youth on continuum: schools for “substantially behind youth” and WD (YO) for “substantially off-track and older” youth; program partners provide “premature transition to adulthood” group.