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The 8th Annual Alternative Accountability Policy Forum

6/17/2019

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Meaningful accountability and strategies for alternative schools. The 8th Annual Alternative Accountability Policy Forum will bring 300 education and community leaders together from across the country to collaborate with each other about ways to support at promise students. 
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Join old friends and new along with academics and advocates focused on reaching the promise in all youth.
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Coronado Island Marriott Resort & Spa
  • Newly Renovated
  • New Restaurant and Bar
  • New Meeting Spaces
  • Enhanced Lawn Areas
And in addition to superior professional development content and value, we have negotiated an outstanding room rate for your time at the event.
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A base rate of $249 for rooms at the San Diego venue. That’s comparable to Chicago without the snow or blizzards.
​REGISTRATION
Register today for the reduced rate of $399 for one of the best Professional Development values in education. The registration rate includes your selection among 24 presentations, 2 hosted receptions with carving stations, 2 breakfasts and the RAPSA Awards Luncheon. 
 
Presenters include practitioners, researchers, advocates and agency representatives from across the country. You’ll learn what’s being done in other states as well have the opportunity to talk with the experts in your state. 
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AAPF19 Call For Presenters

5/20/2019

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Brown v. Board of Education | May 17, 1954
Today we celebrate the 65th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. 
This momentous Supreme Court decision has led to important changes across the Nation. But those of us serving at promise students, particularly African-American and Latino students, continue to see inequities in education. The disproportionate rates of dropouts among students of color is powerful evidence that more needs to be done.

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The education leaders who serve at promise students continue the most important education battles today. RAPSA is here to help you share strategies and policies that reengage students of color. 
 
Our conference focuses on youth who most need personalized learning and wrap around supports. Our attendees come closer to representing the racial and ethnic diversity of our student population than most education conferences. 
 
The collaboration at the Alternative Accountability Policy Forum is palpable. As you take time to reflect on the progress that has been made and all that needs to be done, remember the Brown Court finding that education is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. There’s still much to be done to make this aspiration a reality.

Past Keynote Speakers
  • Terry Roberts - Little Rock Nine
  • Thomas Saenz - MALDEF President
  • Howard Fuller- Activist/Author
 
Our keynotes provide context and encouragement for the work that we do. Our presenters invite change and collaboration by sharing best practices for the reengagement of at promise youth.  
CALL FOR PRESENTERS
If you’d like to be part of RAPSA’s efforts to make sure that education is available to all by presenting at the 2019 Alternative Accountability Policy Forum our call for presenters is now open. The link for submitting presentations is below
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2018 Reaching At-Promise Student Award Winners

10/31/2018

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It's Time to Make Your Voice Heard!

​The 2018 Alternative Accountability Policy Forum is almost sold out. You should register today to hold your seat at the table. Education leaders, researchers and advocates for at-promise youth will come together in San Diego on November 14-16th to discuss policies, practices and strategies for expanding service to Opportunity Youth and other high risk students.
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AWARDS SPONSOR
In addition to networking and learning, attendees will celebrate the Courage, Heart and Vision Award winners. Individuals who highlight the strength of our students, colleagues and policy makers. 
 
Courage Awards
Thanks to the support of the Walton Family Foundation, we will honor five courageous at-promise students. These awards recognize at-promise students who demonstrate courage in overcoming obstacles and pursuing academic excellence. There were many nominations from students across the country that were considered. 
 
Heart Awards
This year we will honor two of our colleagues - Mike Ilic and Priestley Parker. Mike Ilic is Administrative Director of Student Services for the Corona-Norco USD. A former continuation school principal, past president of the California Continuation Education Association (CCEA), and current president of the ACSA Ed Options Council, he is a tireless defender of the at-promise population. Priestley Parker is a school counselor who teaches students to break down the walls that prevent students from being successful and models how to manage anger, resolve conflict, problem solve, and communicate effectively when the world around them seems in chaos.
 
Vision Award
We are also proud to be honoring San Diego's own Assembly Member Shirley Weber as the 2018 Vision Award recipient. Dr. Weber is a member of the California Assembly Education Committee, California Legislative Black Caucus and Select Committee on Boys and Men of Color and as the author of legislation supporting dropout recovery, closing the achievement gap and increasing funding for the lowest performing student subgroups, she understands the importance of the work that we do.
 
Learn more about this year's Reaching At-Promise Student Award Winners
Priestley Parker - Heart Award Winner
​Priestley Parker
Heart Award Recipient
Mike Ilic - Heart Award Winner
​Mike Ilic
Heart Award Recipient
Shirley Weber
​Shirley Weber
Vision Award Recipient

Participating Organizations

In addition, to RAPSA Award winners, you will be surrounded by those who share your passion and mission for transforming the lives of underserved students from at risk to at promise.  Among the research and advocacy organizations in attendance are:
 
  • America's Promise Alliance
  • Big Picture Learning
  • California Collaboration for Education Excellence
  • Career Ladders Project
  • Center For American Progress
  • College of Idaho
  • EdTrust West
  • Education Northwest
  • EdVoice
  • Harvard University, Homies Empowerment
  • Kids in Common
  • National League of Cities
  • National Youth Employment Coalition
  • New Teacher Center
  • Opportunity Youth Partnership
  • Our Piece of the Pie
  • Seattle College
  • Stanford University, Gardner Center
  • University of California, San Diego
Utah State University
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AAPF17 Summary of Proceedings Released

5/30/2018

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Alternative Accountability Policy Forum, Proceedings
The 6th Annual Alternative Accountability Policy Forum (AAPF) convened 285 educators, advocates and policymakers that work with at-promise students. Forum presenters and attendees from 21 states emphasized that despite obstacles, all students can succeed. Participants were presented with 22 concurrent sessions that addressed: effective alternative accountability policies; workforce, community and post-secondary partnerships; relevant teaching and learning strategies; and addressing student trauma. Our Keynote Session was provided by noted Civil Rights activist, education reform advocate and academic, Dr. Howard Fuller. Our closing session was presented by Congressional education staff experts Mandy Schaumburg and Jacque Chevalier.
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AAPF participants are leaders in advocating that the education of at-promise students’ needs to be the focus of attention at the national, state, and local levels. As a group, they called for a rethinking of policies, practices, and partnerships for building instructional and alternative accountability approaches that support excellence and equity in schools as well as account for the difficult circumstances of at promise students. The Summary of Proceedings is a summary of the key points as presented in each session, along with policy and practice recommendations from the 2017 Alternative Accountability Policy Forum.
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Don't miss this year's Alternative Accountability Policy Forum 2018. 
Early bird special ends 06/15/2018 
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Should states use different methods to hold alternative schools accountable?

5/16/2018

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California State Board of Education Alternative Schools
The California State Board of Education has approved a change to its accountability system that would allow alternative schools — such as dropout recovery schools — to report one-year graduation rates instead of the percentage of students who earn a diploma within four years.
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Beginning this fall, the change would apply to the category of alternative schools — known in California as those with Dashboard Alternative School Status (DASS) — that enroll students behind on credits for graduation, but who are expected to complete the requirements within a year.
 
At a meeting last week, the board approved a method for calculating a one-year rate as part of a larger effort to create a set of measurements that better capture what takes place in DASS schools. 
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California Board Of Education Approves One-Year Graduation Rate For Alternative Schools

5/15/2018

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Alternative School Accountability ConferenceJorge Ruiz de Velasco of Stanford University
California’s State Board of Education approved implementation of a one-year graduation rate for alternative schools at its Wednesday, May 9th meeting. The State Board of Education oversees regulations and policy development for California Schools. As part of California’s Accountability Dashboard, the State Board has adopted multiple indicators of school success including high school graduation rates. At it’s May 9th meeting, the Board approved a new metric for measuring graduation success for alternative schools. Until then, all schools were measured by the four year graduation rate.

Recognizing that alternative schools serve high risk students who are frequently highly mobile, credit deficient or out of school for years at a time, the California Department of Education established an Alternative Schools Taskforce to explore alternative ways of meeting the state’s accountability indicators. The one-year graduation rate is one of the first metrics to receive Taskforce support. Among the 24-member Taskforce were RAPSA participants Elisha Arrillaga, Maryann Dewan, Daisy Gonzales, Diana Grotjean, Phil Matero, Elsbeth Prigmore, Roger Rice, Ernie Silva, and Diana Walsh-Ruess.

The Taskforce was coordinated by the Gardiner Foundation’s Jorge Ruiz de Velasco of Stanford University. The Department of Education provided support including detailed modeling of one-year cohort options. Several of the Department’s staff outlined California’s approach at the 2017 Alternative Accountability Policy Forum including Cindy Kazanis and Jenny Singh.

The one-year graduation rate has been a frequent topic of conversation at RAPSA’s Alternative Accountability Policy Forum scoring among the top 3 issues in AAPF polling. The one-year graduation rate was also among the 10 recommended policy needs in the Summaries of Proceedings prepared by WestEd and PACE. In testimony supporting the action, Ernie Silva said, “the Department has brought you an opportunity to be on the leading edge of policy development, but not the bleeding edge. Other agencies that have successfully implemented a one-year rate including Portland Public Schools and Chicago Public Schools.” In addition, to alternative schools, school districts and county offices of education, the initiative was supported by education equity advocates including Public Counsel and EdTrust West.

In recent years, representatives of Portland Public Schools and Chicago Public Schools have participated in the Policy Forum and shared their approaches. Rather than a cohort of every student who graduates four years after entering ninth grade, the one-year rate accounts for all students who graduate by using a cohort of all students expected to graduate within a year based on credits earned. This approach accounts for students who are credit deficient or who have dropped out for a period of time and would otherwise not be credited in the school or districts four-year graduation rate. Information about California’s one-year rate can be found at:
The California Department of Education presented a RAPSA webinar on metrics for alternative schools on April 27th. A recording of that webinar is at: view recording.
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RAPSA Board President, Linda Dawson, expressed her satisfaction of the Board’s action, “I am absolutely delighted that the California State Board of Education has acted on this important alternative accountability measure. It shows the emerging strength of RAPSA’s network to see so many of our members engaged in the state’s Taskforce. I look forward to hearing more about the success of those of you in other states in the coming months. See you at the Policy Forum in November!”

Alternative Accountability Policy Forum 2018
November 14-16 2018

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Education Conference AAPF18

5/8/2018

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Don't miss the top education policy conference in San Diego, California. The Alternative Accountability Policy Forum 2018 is a nation wide education conference that invites educators and policy makers discuss important topics dealing with alternative school accountability, dropout prevention, and other important articles on education.

The education conference is organized by many individuals at SIATech Charter Schools and RAPSA. SIATech is a a nonprofit organization that creates the environments, learning strategies, and teaching strategies that re-engage and motivate students to finish high school and earn their diploma. Learn4Life and Renaissance a few of the past sponsors and attendees of the AAPF educational conference.

We welcome you to join us and share your teaching strategies, learning strategies, and education articles on school accountability.
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Nationally Respected Experts, Locally Revered Practitioners

10/26/2017

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Don't Miss the 2017 Alternative Accountability Policy Forum
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There's still time to register for the November 15-17, 2017, Alternative Accountability Policy Forum in San Diego.
 
Here's a partial list of who will be presenting strategies for success:

 
AAPF17 Presenters 

  • Howard Fuller, Distinguished Professor of Education, Marquette University
  • Elisha Smith Arrillaga - Chief of Staff, Ed Trust-West
  • Jacqueline Chevalier, Director of Education Policy for the Democratic staff, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce
  • Linda Dawson, Superintendent and CEO of SIATech
  • Carinne Deeds, Senior Policy Associate, American Youth Policy Forum
  • Jody Ernst, Vice President of Research and Policy Analytics, Momentum Strategy & Research
  • Terry Grobe, Director of Youth Pathways, Jobs for the Future
  • Amy Lansing, Director of Cognitive and Neurobehavioral Studies, University of California, San Diego
  • Judith Martinez, Director of Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagement, Colorado Department of Education
  • Phil Matero, CEO, YouthBuild Charter School of California
  • Curt Peterson, South Seattle College and Highline Public Schools
  •  Nicole Pyle, Utah State University
  • Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, Stanford University Graduate School of Education
  • Mandy Schaumburg, Deputy Director, House Education and Workforce Committee
  • Thomas Showalter, NYEC
  • Nelson Smith, Senior Advisor, National Association of Charter School Authorizers
  • Vanessa Threatte, Executive Deputy Director for Best Practices and Partnerships,  SUNY Charter Schools Institute
  • Diana Walsh-Reuss, Come Back Kids, Riverside County Office of Education
  • Christina Weeter, Director of the Division of Student Success Kentucky Department of Education
  • Darren Woodruff, Chair, Public Charter School Board, Washington DC

 
See the other 40 acclaimed presenters! 
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Awards and Scholarships Luncheon

Courage Award:
The November 16 RAPSA Awards Luncheon will recognize five Courage Awards for students overcoming obstacles and pursuing academic excellence.
 
Heart Award: 
The Heart Award for the capacity to see beyond the trauma faced by at promise students.
 
Vision Award:
The Vision Award will recognize a policymaker who has demonstrated exceptional understanding of the challenges faced by at promise youth.

 
Closing General Session
The Closing Session will answer your questions of what's really going on at the federal level with answers from key House Education and Workforce Committee staff.  And in between it all are opportunities to collaborate and to build and strengthen your networks with 250 education, workforce, and community leaders who understand your students and share your challenges. We hope you will join us.

 
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Deadline for RAPSA Vision Award Nominations Extended to October 20th

10/11/2017

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​The RAPSA Vision Award honors a legislator or policy maker who demonstrates vision in pursuing creative policies that lead to the reengagement of at promise youth. Nominations are open for policy makers who have demonstrated exceptional understanding of the challenges faced by at promise youth and pursued policies to facilitate their engagement. Nominees may include legislators, governmental officials and other policy makers who develop and implement creative policies or programs to attract and retain students who would otherwise be left out of traditional school programs. It's not too late to show your appreciation for a legislator or other policy maker who supports your students.
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Last Year's Vision Award Winner 

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California Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia was the 2016 Vision Award recipient. Assembly Member Garcia is now the Principal Co-Author of ACR 102, the Opportunity Youth Reengagement Month resolution.  
 
Assembly Member Garcia has a strong vision for the types of education and workforce development policies that make a lasting impact on the reengagement of at promise youth. He has served as Chairman of the Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and Employment Committee, and the Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color.  Recognizing the importance of job training for out of school youth, Assembly Member Garcia introduced legislation to provide employment training funds for individuals who face multiple barriers to self-sufficiency; to support prison reentry strategies including fatherhood involvement, family reunification and family strengthening; to expand funding for culturally relevant parenting, and young male mentorship to decrease the risk of violence, suicide, and other trauma by providing education and early intervention referrals to parents, families, and children at-risk.  His community work and connection with at promise students in his community evidence a core understanding of the challenges faced by at-promise students.  

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Why Travel to San Diego for Professional Development?

10/6/2017

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The 2017 Alternative Accountability Policy Forum is the only national professional development event targeting education leaders who reengage opportunity youth back into high school.  ​
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The policies and practices that work for reengagement 
work for other critically at risk students too.

22 Sessions With 50 Experienced Presenters

The November 15-17 registration fee includes two breakfasts, two hosted receptions with carving stations, an awards luncheon, and 22 concurrent sessions with 50 experienced presenters.
Over 200 colleagues from across the country will be in attendance to share best practices and ideas for policy advocacy to support your students.
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Insights From National Research Organizations

Gain the latest insights from national research organizations including America's Promise Alliance; American Youth Policy Forum; Civic Enterprises; EdTrust West; Education Northwest; Gardner Center, Stanford University; Jobs For the Future; National Association of Charter Schools; National Youth Employment Coalition; and Project Tomorrow as well as six State Departments of Education; ten colleges and universities; and more than 100 school districts, county offices of education and charter schools.
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The Only Conference With Coast to Coast Perspectives

Your state is evaluating relevant metrics for alternative schools this year to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act and the leading experts will be in the room. This is the only conference where perspectives from California to New York and from Connecticut to Arkansas are provided. ​
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November 15 - 17, 2017 
Alternative Accountability Policy Forum 2017
This year's AAPF17 will expand sessions on classroom practice, workforce and college partnerships and more opportunities to network and ideas for how to advocate for your students at the State and Federal levels.  
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