Committee information relating to the Graduate Greater Louisville High School Dropout Solutions Summit is located on this page.
Focus Area Committees:
Life Readiness & Education Beyond High School: This committee was charged with examining approaches to improve preparation for college, work and life, including curriculum alignment, helping students vision and plan for the future, early college and dual credit, work preparatory curriculum and experiences, clear career pathways, business involvement, internships, employment options, etc.
Multiple Pathways/ High School Innovation: This committee was charged with considering innovations in the comprehensive high school model, such as freshman academies and small learning communities plus alternatives and targeted interventions to meet the needs of every type of learner, including “under credit & over age”, dropout recovery, etc.
Policy Barriers to Graduation: This committee was charged with looking at policy frameworks, including state legislation to raise compulsory school age requirements, aligning standards, etc., local policies such as truancy response, and revenue generation for out-of-school youth programs.
Student Supports: This committee was charged with looking at after-school options for struggling students, quality improvements in after-school system, KidTrax partnership, wrap-around services, service learning, etc.
Early Warning Indicator Studies
Other Studies and Profiles
Other Committees:
Youth Voice:
This committee was charged with conveying the important voices of our youth to provide leadership during the conference. These young people came from LUL Urban Youth Empowerment Program, the Youth Opportunities Unlimited (Y.O.U.) Center's participants in GED classes, young people in informal learning environments, and others we needed to hear from: those who are struggling, those who have dropped out and those who are doing well, but are concerned about other students.
First Person documentary: Documentary following at risk students over the course of a year.
The Silent Epidemic: Gates Funded research about why students dropout
Youth Voices from the Iowa Dropout Prevention Summit about why students dropout
Data:
The Data Group looked at a number of items, including post high school tracing, promotion, graduation rates, predictors of dropping out; Neighborhood Place maps showing poverty (highly predictive of dropping out), attendance, and truancy; data on gang activity, drug and juvenile crime, grades when exiting high school (including reading levels), etc.
Please see the Data and Resources and Articles pages for more information.