Cradle to College Pipeline - Des Moines, Iowa to College...Cradle to College Pipeline ... culture of...
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How we go from the Schoolto Prison Pipeline to the Cradle to College Pipeline
Jonathan R. Douglas, PhD
▪Breakdown of Cradle to Prison Pipeline▪ School to Prison Pipeline
▪Best practices in reducing the effects of pipeline
▪Breakdown of Cradle to Prison Pipeline▪ School to Prison Pipeline
▪Best practices in reducing the effects of pipeline
▪Moving from a deficit to strengths based approach
▪Breakdown of Cradle to Prison Pipeline▪ School to Prison Pipeline
▪Best practices in reducing the effects of pipeline
▪Moving from a deficit to strengths based approach
▪Steps for Cradle to College
▪Best practices in increasing effects of this pipeline
▪ Equality - treating everyone the same ▪ aims to promote fairness, but it can only work if
everyone starts from the same place and needs the same help
▪ Equity - giving everyone what they need to be successful
▪ Implicit Bias – judgment and/or behavior that results from subtle cognitive processes that often operate at a level below conscious awareness
▪ There is not a single reason behind this, it has been generations in the making within a young nation with a short term memory
▪ The intersection and culmination of poverty, racial disparities and a culture of punishment rather than prevention and early intervention working in tandem to drive intergenerational transmission and pushing individuals and families down the pipeline.
▪ The entry points to the cradle to prison pipeline are many and every further step into its realm magnifies its impact upon the life of a youth.
▪ School-based and out of school suspension
▪Concentrated poverty
▪Expulsion
▪Alternative education program placement
▪Court Charging
▪ 3,480 - Number of total days of out of school suspension K-12 was ▪ African Americans – 1,377▪ Special Education – 1,337
▪ 26.6% of students in out of school suspension were African American Males▪ They comprise only 9.4% of total enrollment
▪ Percentage of students that have 0-1 office referrals is 83% when calculated within all race-ethnicities▪ African Americans – 67.8%▪ Special Education students – 66.3%
▪69% of male students reach the FAST Assessment Benchmark in Kindergarten▪ 65% for AA and 57% for Latino males
▪By 1st grade this gap widens to 11% for AA and 12% for Latino
▪By 9th grade the gap between all male students and those of color is 61%▪ 41% for AA and 47% for Latino males
▪ In Iowa among all children, 15 percent or 109,000 live in poverty.▪ For Latino children, 3 in 10 (30.5 percent or 13,988) are poor.
▪ For Black children, 4 in 9 (44.5 percent or 10,683) are poor.
▪22% of children live in homes where their parents do not have secure employment
▪20 teen births per 1,000
▪$34,025: annual cost to house an inmate
▪Meanwhile, the state annually spends $10,313 to educate each K-12 student
▪How do those numbers compare to you?
▪ Reduce detention and incarceration by increasing preventive supports and services children need:
▪ Access to quality early childhood development and education services
▪ Prohibiting suspensions and expulsion across early childhood settings
▪ Comprehensive health and mental health coverage
▪ Improving teacher preparation and education with an eye toward cultural responsiveness and racial equity
▪ Engaging and educating parents, especially first time parents
▪ Using child development specialists alongside consistent doctor appointments to work with parents in assuring that milestones are met
▪ Expanding preschool to EVERYONE
▪ Taking down barriers and keeping supports strong
▪ Continue and increase work with non profits and community initiatives
▪ Starting the higher education conversation early
▪ Promote and increase the mentoring opportunities and availabilities
▪ School is about both academic and social knowledge and growth
▪ Promoting the importance and benefits of community service and school involvement
▪ Business involvement
▪ Thinking ahead for a career is not something that should start as an adult
▪ Properly preparing our students for college is more than simply graduating
▪ Teaching life skills (i.e. adulting)
▪ How to find campus services
▪ Adjustment to living away from home
▪ Maintaining school-life balance
▪ Establishing relationships
▪ Working with staff and faculty to increase retention and graduation rates
▪ Business relationships with higher education institutes
▪ According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation Iowa rates:
▪ # 4 in Economic Well Being
▪ # 3 in Health
▪ # 5 in Family and Community
▪ Yet, where we were previously one of the strongest we are now # 11 in education
▪ Do not accept complacency
▪Ten years of data on incarceration and crime trends show that higher youth incarcerated did not decrease crime
▪The most effective programs at reducing recidivism rates and promoting positive life outcomes for youth are administered in the community, outside of the criminal or juvenile justice systems.
▪Research shows that the brain does not fully develop to look like an adult brain until the individuals reaches their early 20s
▪ This is ever updating in our technological world and we can use this
▪ Availability and connectivity to higher education
▪ Trade schools, apprenticeships, comm. college and 4 year colleges
▪ Promoting meaningful family engagement strategies
▪ Investigate parent’s attitudes and expectations regarding educational attainment▪ Make sure they know their opinions matter
▪ Increase funding and expand access to in-school behavioral and emotional support services, including early childhood mental health consultation, or ECMHC
▪ Increasing funding for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, or MIECHV
▪ Require co-parenting classes after divorce
▪ It may seem small but can have big impacts
▪ Increase Restorative Justice programming
▪ Giving children and families a second chance
▪ K-16 funding
▪ State return to funding levels according to economic and inflationary standards