Expanding Education Options for
Struggling Students and Disconnected Youth
A Learning Exchange for Local and State Leaders
July 7-9, 2010
Washington, DC
Learning Exchange Goals:
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Expose participants to effective programs, policies, and collaborations from which they take away concrete, practical lessons about expanding options for secondary education
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Provide participants time to learn about successful strategies to re-engage disconnected youth and discuss with their peers and national experts various approaches to complex and difficult obstacles
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Encourage local and state leaders to plan new strategies for their own communities and states, share lessons learned, and build a network of information, resources, and contacts
Participants
| Thursday, July 8th |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 am | Welcome and Framing the Agenda |
| 9:00 - 10:00 am | Introductions |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Using Data to Understand Where Your Community is Losing Young People Dr. Robert Balfanz, Research Scientist, Center for Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University |
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Networking Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:15 pm | Cross System Collaboration for Expanding Options Andrew O. Moore and Marjorie D. Cohen, National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education, and Families |
| 2:15 - 3:30 pm | State Policies that Facilitate (or Inhibit) Expanding Education Options for Struggling Students and Out-of-School Youth |
| 3:30 - 3:45 pm | Break |
| 3:30 - 5:00 pm | Transition to Postsecondary Education Pathways |
| Friday, July 9th | |
| 8:30 - 8:45 am | Highlights from Wednesday and Overview of Thursday |
| 8:45 - 10:15 am | |
| 10:15 - 11:45 am | Federal Policy, National Efforts, and What's Next Cassius Johnson, Director, Education Policy, Jobs for the Future |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Next Steps |
| 12:00 pm | Adjourn |
