Building the “How” Together: A Common Agenda
The Road Map Strategy Work Groups will help in identifying the “priority actions” that must be pursued in order to achieve the dramatic change across the education pipeline needed to reach our goal. To help refine the Road Map’s goal for post-secondary success, the mandate of the Data Work Group is to identify Road Map indicators to measure students who are “on track” to graduate from college or earn a career credential, develop targets for “on-track” indicators for 2014, 2017, and 2020, and develop interim targets for post-secondary completion for 2014 and 2017 (2020 goal for post-secondary completion is to ”double the number” of students graduating from college or earning a career credential.
Concurrent with the Data Work Group’s efforts, additional work groups will be identifying core “priority actions” that must be implemented in order to reach our goal. These groups are tasked with identifying high-impact approaches across the continuum for early learning, K-12, and post-secondary education, and will have regular touch points with the Data Work Group.
Specifically, the P-3 group will work to help our region improve outcomes around Kindergarten Readiness and 3rd Grade Reading. The High School to College group is focused on improving on-time graduation & earning a post-secondary credential by age 26.
Work Group Co-chairs
P-3
Monte Bridges, Superintendent, Puget Sound Educational Services District
Karen Howell-Clark, Director of Early Learning, United Way of King County
High School to College
Jill Wakefield, Chancellor, Seattle Community Colleges
Deborah Wilds, President, College Success Foundation
Data
Pete Bylsma, Director, Assessment and Student Information Services, Renton Public Schools
Brock Grubb, Program Assistant, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation