RAMP to GRADUATION INITIATIVE (RGI)

The Mobile County Public School System, Mobile Area Education Foundation, and Diploma Plus propose to develop a 5-year (2010-15) systemic middle school and high school dropout prevention, intervention, and recovery initiative called the RAMP to Graduation Initiative at Ben Cato Rain High School in Mobile, AL and its feeder, Palmer Pillans Middle School.  B.C. Rain has a school event dropout rate of 3.68% which is over twice the state’s rate of 1.52%.  The goals of the RGI are to: (1) prevent students from dropping out in high school by transforming B.C. Rain into an Early College and Career School, (2) prevent students at Pillans from falling behind by transforming teaching and learning and intervening with at-risk youth through the RAMP-UP Initiative, and (3) provide intensive intervention and recovery to overaged, undercredited and dropout students through the Diploma Plus Academy (DPA).

"WHOLE CHILD" TARGETED INTERVENTIONS: These provisions provide a foundation for success, which ensures that students are: health, safe, engaged, supported and challenged.

• Implemeting the middle school graduation advocate program
• Implementing an Extended Learning Experience (ELE)
• Developing and implementing a RAMP UP Summer Transition Program

RAMP UP: Extended Learning Experience (ELE) help students improve their academic performance and to partner with parents in creating a road map that leads to graduation. Our charge is to elevate students to Excellence, Leadership and Empowerment the ELE way by: 1) supporting rigor in the classroom 2) increasing the relevance of academic content for students and 3) establishing supportive relationships between students and caring adults.

The program is designed to primarily support student achievement using individualized, intensive instruction supported by Compass Learning- electronic diagnosis assessments for delivery of a personalized learning experience. This will be accomplished by expert, highly qualified and supportive retired teachers using one-on-one, small group and computer instruction.

ELE is implemented at Pillans Middle School for students grades 6-8 from October 4, 2011 - May 17, 2012.

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RGI DOCUMENTS

ELE Real World Experience
Speaker Schedule