Get Focused...Stay Focused!® Dual Enrollment Institute
For High School or College/High School Collaborations
Diane Goncalves will share strategies for how colleges can form effective partnerships with their area high schools in an effort to improve completion rates. She will discuss the Get Focused...Stay Focused!® model developed by Santa Barbara City College, where over 3000 high school students earn dual enrollment credit each year. All Santa Barbara area high school freshmen complete a dual enrollment freshman transition course and continue with 10th, 11th, and 12th grade follow-up modules that address Common Core Standards in English. Learn how the Get Focused...Stay Focused!® program, with its backward mapping design, delivers the necessary knowledge and skills required for post-secondary success.
You’ll come away with:
- The Get Focused…Stay Focused!® Program and Instructional Manual to launch this cost-efficient, proven program at your high school and/or college.
- Strategies for developing community college and high school partnerships
- A proven model ensuring every student enters college with an online 10-year education and career plan and at least 3 units of college credit
- Resource materials to facilitate the development and/or expansion of a dual enrollment program
- High School Principals or Superintendents
- Deans charged with Concurrent Enrollment
- Guidance Department Chairs of Community Colleges
- Administrators responsible for high school and college completion rates