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Classroom at the Workplace
Workplace Learning as an Alternative Model for Student Engagement
Making the Workplace aLearning Place
Boston Public Schools + Employers
Pair academic learning and MCAS remediation with professional skills development to reinforce the connections between academic and workplace success.
Partnership RolesThe PIC… Recruits, trains, and mediates
relationships among program participants (employers, BPS teachers, BPS students yet to pass MCAS)
Coordinates program logistics and funding
Employers… Hire and supervise students Provide paid release time and
classroom space
Partnership Roles (cont.)Boston Public Schools… BPS teachers teach daily (Mon-Fri) 90-minute
math or English/language arts (ELA) classes at the worksite
Teachers Attend trainings and bi-weekly debriefings
BPS helps identify, enroll, and make students job-ready
BPS students yet to pass MCAS… Work fulltime for an employer for real wages Attend 90-minute class every week day Develop academic competencies and professional
skills simultaneously, connecting academic and workplace success.
Key Components: Model Students earn real wages Comprehensive student support
network 1½ hours per day, 5 days per
week, 7 weeks: 52.5 learning hours.
Mutual reinforcement of professional and academic skills
Exposure and experience
Key Components: Curricula
Age Appropriate Incorporates Technology Sectional pre and post tests Test item analyses
Classroom CurriculaEnglish/Language Arts
Reading is FAME: Mastery of Meaning
Expand vocabulary and comprehension through activities using higher order thinking skills.
Reader’s & Writer’s Workshop
Emphasizes process and ownership of opinions and expression
Individualized student-teacher conferences and open discussion.
Mathematics Summit Educational Group’s
MCAS Mathematics Course Book A
Five MCAS content areas: Number Sense & Operations; Patterns, Relations, and Algebra; Geometry; Measurement; and Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability.
MCAS Test Item Analyses for each student
Assess students’ strengths and weaknesses within these five content areas.
Key Components: Measurement Academic:
Pre and post test scores Track MCAS scores and passing rates Program attendance rates (High school graduation and college-
going rates) Attitudinal and Professional:
Work-based learning plans Survey students, teachers, employers on
Classroom at the Workplace and employment experience.
Preliminary Results: Program Attendance Rates
800 students have participated in Classroom at the Workplace over 5 years
81% average student attendance rate.
Over 73% of students had an 80% attendance rate or higher.
Preliminary Results: Pre and Post Tests
Test Score Increase
20.2
37.347.7
81.1
0.010.020.030.040.050.060.070.080.090.0
Pre Test Post Test Pre Test Post Test
Math ELA
Subject Test
Sc
ore
Pre and Post Tests
Average of 17 percentage point increase from math pre to post tests
Average of 33 percentage point increase from ELA pre to post tests
Preliminary Results: MCAS Passing Rates
MCAS Passing Rates
Over the past 5 years, over 73% of Classroom at the Workplace students passed both MCAS tests, earning their competency requirement