New Host Sites Application 15 - 16

Reference #

8657985

Status

Complete

Login Username

shawnpeck

Login Email

shawn.peck@isd197.org

Host Site Name

Henry Sibley High School

Location/s where the Promise Fellow will serve (if Henry Sibley High School
known):
Street Address

1897 Delaware Avenue

City

Mendota Heights

State

Minnesota

Zip Code

55118

Federal Tax Identification Number of Host Site

416007628

US Congressional District

2- John Kline

Number of youth in Grades 6 - 10 served by your 750

organization/school:
Number of Promise Fellows Requested:

Your Cash Match will be:

6900.00

If the Alliance has additional openings for

Promise Fellows, would you be interested in
hosting more Fellows than you requested? If so,
up to how many?

Lead Contact for the status of this application:

Shawn Peck

Email Address

shawn.peck@isd197.org

Lead contact person's signature, authorizing all

information contained in this application
(Required for the paper copy):

Shawn Peck

Authorization

Please note that by checking this box, you

indicate you authorize all the information
contained in this form.

Promise Fellow Supervisor Name/s:

Mr. Ron Monson

Promise Fellow Supervisor Email/s:

ron.monson@isd197.org

Promise Fellow Recruitment Lead Name (if

different than the Fellow supervisor):

Ron Monson

Promise Fellow Recruitment Email:

ron.monson@is197.org

Name:

Ron Monson

Title:

Principal

Email:

ron.monson@isd197.org

Phone:

651-403-7100

Local Partner Information:

Is your school or school partner designated as a No
Focus or Priority School by MDE?
Location: Where do the majority of the youth
served by your school/organization live?

Central MN: Twin Cities Metro Region (ex.

Minneapolis, St. Paul, Burnsville, Woodbury, etc)

1. Executive Summary Paragraph

Provide a brief overview of the primary reasons
for your application:
Brief overview of your school/organization
Number of Promise Fellow/s you request
Anticipated impact the Promise Fellow/s will
make
How the Promise Fellow/s will be an integrated
part of your school/organization

Henry Sibley High School is a 9-12 building

serving the communities of West St. Paul,
Mendota Heights, and north Eagan. We are very
proud of our school and our students and think it
is a great place to work and to learn. With
approximately 1400 students, we feel we are just
the right size. Big enough to offer more than 150
courses (including many college level courses)
but also small enough for students to build
meaningful relationships with their fellow students
and their teachers.

We are requesting 1 Promise Fellow in the hope

that he/she will be able to have a profound
positive impact on our students, their ability to
learn, and to graduate. While there are so many
amazing stories of success in our building, there
are also areas where we need to improve
specifically with our students of color, students
that come from poverty, our non-English
speaking students, and more generally, 9th
graders transitioning from the middle school to
the high school. We see the potential partnership
with the Promise Fellow as a means of further
supporting these students and having them
achieve increased success in and out of school.
2. Youth Success Team: Host Site, School, and
Community Partners
Whether the youth success team is already in
place, or you are in the process of creating it,
please tell us more about what the team looks
like in your school/organization:

We currently have a Student Assistance Team

(SAT) that meets every other week to discuss
students of concern. It has been in place for
many years and is currently made up of a
collection of administrators, counselors, teachers,
our school psychologist, our police liaison, the
school nurse, and a social worker from the
How long has the youth success team been in
Dakota County. To this point, data has not been
place?
consistently utilized at these meetings. Instead,
Who is on the team?
names of students are brought up and a
How often will the team meet?
discussion is held in order to determine how best
How will the team review youth progress and use to support that student. We see the use of data
data to make decisions about interventions?
to be a next step at these meetings.
Describe how data will be shared among
partners.
We are envisioning the Promise Fellow being an
How will school partners share student data with active leader on the Student Assistance Team.
community partners?
We would want to work with him/her to determine
what sources of data should be considered at
these meetings and how they can be put into
action to best serve our students. Currently, the
agenda for the meeting is sent via email the day
prior to it and the hope is that any relevant data
we end up using would be shared among team
members at this time.
Further, we are open to models that have
provided significant impact for schools like ours.
We want to support greater academic success for
our freshmen and special populations. How can
we maximize the Promise Fellow?

3. Youth and Community Needs and

Opportunities:Building a Focus List
Describe the community and youth this proposal
is hoping to impact including the following:

Our demographic data shows that our student

body is 55.7% White, 26.4% Hispanic, 10.7%
African American, 6.2% Asian, and 1.1%
American Indian. Furthermore 41.9% of our
students receive free/reduced lunch and 13% are
Describe the youth in grades 6-10 that you hope receiving ELL services. Like many other schools
to reach through this program, including details
we are seeing significant achievement gaps
regarding school performance data,
between our white and non-white students as
demographics, and any information that will help well as between our F/R lunch and non-F/R lunch
clarify why you need and want Promise Fellow/s students. We also see a significant number of
in your community.
freshmen students having a difficult time
What are the challenges and opportunities facing transiting to the increased demands of the high
the schools, communities, families, and youth you school curriculum and too many of them are
propose to serve?
failing courses their 9th grade year. Our hope is
Please provide the overall High School
that a partnership with Americore and the infusion
Graduation rate for the school or district you will of a Promise Fellow will have a profound positive
be working with in this application.
impact on these specific groups, and ultimately,
In addition, please provide the High School
our entire student body.
Graduation rate for the following groups of youth
(if available):
While we do face challenges, we also have many
opportunities to meet these challenges head on.
African & African American Students
We are a part of a very supportive community.
American Indian & Native American Students
Our community members recently passed a
Asian & Pacific Islander Students
referendum that will serve to make our students
Latino & Hispanic Students
safer and better able to access technology. We
White Students
also have an amazing staff of highly qualified
Free & Reduced Lunch Participants
educators that consistently put student needs
first. In addition, we have a diverse student body
that is unified around the motto of Warrior Pride.
This is just a short list of things that are serving to
improve the educational achievements of all of
our students.
As far as graduation rates are concerned, our
overall rate was 86% in 2013 (this year the state
average was 80%). Within our graduating class
of 2013:
92.4% of White students graduated
72.2% of Hispanic students graduated
72% of African American Students graduated
77.1% of Free/Reduced lunch participants
graduated
81% of male students graduated
91.2% of female students graduated

4. Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) &

Early Warning Indicators
Describe existing school reform efforts, including
the Multi-Tiered System of Supports, if any, in the
school(s) in your partnership. How will this
proposal relate to, partner, or build on those
school reform efforts?

Thankfully, Henry Sibley High School has not had

the need to incorporate behavioral intervention
programs in the recent past. Our referral and
suspension rates are quite low and we have not
felt the need to utilize these initiatives. However,
we have sought to incorporate a number of
reforms in recent years to improve student
academic performance. Among these has been
How will this program add value and support to
an investment in AVID (Advancement Via
existing dropout prevention efforts (ex.
Individual Determination) which seeks to help
Implementing PBIS, using the Youth Program
hard working students achieve their goal of
Quality Assessment, etc.).
attending college. During the 2015-2016 school
How will the Promise Fellow and the Youth
year we will offer the AVID elective class in
Success Team access and use Early Warning
grades 9-12 and the strategies for learning that
Indicators (Attendance, Behavior, and Core
AVID promotes will be seen throughout the
Academics) to identify youth participants in
building. Our school has also attempted to utilize
grades 6-10?
technology at a greater level by offering hybrid
What is the threshold for determining when a
classes and next year gong to a Bring Your Own
youth needs support or should be taken off the
Device model in which all students will have a
Focus List? How will the Team make adjustments computer in each class.
to interventions?
Describe how the Data Coach will support the
The Promise Fellow will play an active role in
Promise Fellow in accessing student data (ex.
supporting our goal of increased academic
providing templates for parent permission slips,
achievement, closing the achievement gap, and
obtaining log-in information for school-wide
boosting our graduation rates. He/She will be
database, etc).
granted access to our online student data system
that documents attendance, behavior, test
scores, and academic marks. The Promise
Fellow will be supported in this data collection
aspect of the job by the other members of the
Student Assistance Team. It will be up to the
Student Assistance Team and the Promise
Fellow to determine what students will receive
additional support, what that support will look like,
whether or not the intervention is proving to be
successful, and when to alter or end the
intervention.

5. Intervention Strategies: The ABCs of Dropout

Prevention
Each Host Site is required to use the following
three strategies to impact youth success: caring
adults, high-quality in and out of school activities,
service-learning. Share details regarding:
How will you use these strategies to engage
youth partipants in dropout prevention? Please
be specific about resources, partnerships,
curricula, staff, etc. that relate to the
interventions.
What specific Attendance, Behavior, and Core
Academic intervention activities will you use to
support youth? How will you decide which
interventions fit best with which youth?
How will the Promise Fellow deliver the required
strategies and interventions for youth on the
Focus List? What will be their ongoing activities?
How will adult volunteers be utilized to deliver the
key interventions and strategies? How will
volunteers be recruited, trained and supported?
How will you ensure that volunteers do not
engage in prohibited activities?

The first strategy of caring adults is well

established already but obviously can be
improved upon. Henry Sibley has a very
dedicated staff comprised of teachers,
administrators, support staff, coaches, bus
drivers, food service workers, and the list goes
on! We currently employ 4 school counselors
that support students social/emotional needs as
well help them on their post-secondary plans.
We have a Chemical Health Counselor that
assists students who have has issues with
drug/alcohol use. We have a dedicated police
liaison officer who strives to keep our students
safe and out of harms way. This is just a short
list of the personnel we currently utilize to best
serve our students and their families. We see the
addition of a Promise Fellow as a way to
strengthen this support.
We believe that building relationships with
students is the best way to get them to come to
school, stay in school, learn, and engage in
appropriate behaviors. Our most utilized
intervention is to have an adult in the building
reach out to the struggling student and attempt to
give them the support they need. Almost always,
the adult that is chosen to fulfill this responsibility
is someone who has a previous relationship with
the child and can speak to how best to have a
positive impact on the students attendance,
behavior, and/or achievement. We see the
addition of a Promise Fellow as another means to
build these relationships with students and help
them see the potential they possess. Every day
will meet with students, communicate with
families, talk with teachers, administrators, and
counselors, and create plans for how to best
support struggling students. It is difficult to say
what strategies will be utilized because we dont
yet know what the strengths of the Promise
Fellow will be or what the needs of the students
will be.

6. Supervision and Support for FellowsThe

Alliance has a goal of 100% enrollment and
100% retention for our AmeriCorps Promise
Fellows. A key element to our success is the
strong support and supervision Promise Fellows
receive at their host site. Promise Fellows serve
40 hours per week (minimum) during their term of
service. Tell us about your plan for supervision
and support for the Promise Fellow/s including:

The Promise Fellow will be seen as an equal

partner with all other staff in our quest to educate
our students. He/She will have an office in the
building and will operate under the direct
supervision of principal Ron Monson and the rest
of the administrative team. The administrative
team will be responsible for orienting and training
the Promise Fellow in data collection and make
clear policies on data privacy. The Promise
Fellow will be expected to maintain a professional
outlook on this endeavor at all times. The
Promise Fellow will be granted a mentor that
How will the Promise Fellow/s be supported?
will serve to show him/her the ropes and make
How will you ensure that Promise Fellow/s are
clear any expectations that exist in terms of
able to meet their hours of service requirement by dress, work times, and adherence to school
the end of his/her term of service?
policies and norms.
What is your plan to orient and train the Promise
Fellow/s to your organization?
The best way to ensure the Promise Fellow
Who will train the Promise Fellow in data
meets their requirement of working a 40 hour
collection, data privacy ad procedures as it
week is to have him/her commit to the teacher
relates to your youth?
schedule that is laid out in their contract. While
What personal and/or professional activities will
flexibility will exist, the Promise Fellow will
be offered to your Fellow/s?
generally be expected to be at Henry Sibley from
7:35-3:35 each school day. She/He will be
expected to attend all staff meetings and will
have access to all on-site professional
development that is offered to the rest of the staff.
7. Cash Match and In-kind Support
The cash match for each Promise Fellow is
$6,900 and must be paid in full by July 15th,
2015. Host Sites are also responsible for in-kind
support such as office space, materials,
computer/phone, and mileage to required
Alliance meetings. Please reference
Requirements of Host Sites to read about the
expectations regarding the Cash Match and inkind contributions.

All funding for this endeavor will be taken from

our site discretionary funds. A portion of these
dollars are allocated toward supporting student
achievement and for impactful interventions with
the students that require more significant
guidance. We see this investment with
AmeriCorps as a tremendous value with great
potential to get significant "bang for our buck".
The Promise Fellow will office in a common staff
office space and be supplied with all common
office supplies necessary to do the job effectively.

Describe the sources that will be used to fund

your cash match contribution ($6,900 per Fellow).
Describe the types of in-kind support that will be
provided, including a budget for the Promise
Fellow and other resources they will need.
Where will the Fellow/s be officed?
8.Plan for Promise Fellow RecruitmentPlease
highlight five recruitment efforts your organization
will commit to making in order to ensure
successful selection of your Promise Fellow/s by
April 17th.

1. Detailed job description will be posted to

school website
2. Link to job posting will be put on school/district
website as well as on district correspondence
with the community
3. Send link and invitation to apply to recent
Henry Sibley Graduates recommended by school
staff
4. Post position description and link to apply on
several job search websites
5. Send job description and invitation to apply to
Minnesota Alliance with Youth

9. Position Description for your Promise Fellow/s Promise_Fellow_Job_Posting.docx (59k)

(limit 2 pages)
Using the template provided, submit a Position
Description for the Promise Fellow. Up to 20% of
the Promise Fellow's time may be spent on
professional development experiences and no
more than 10% may be spent on supporting
fundraising efforts. This Position Description
should include the AmeriCorps logo and be
written so that it can be sent to external
audiences for posting and advertising your
position.
Please upload your Host Site's Position
DescriptionThe maximum document size is 50MB
10. Promise Fellow Applicant Interview
Promise_Fellow_Interview_Questions.docx (43k)
Questions
Using the template provided, submit interview
questionsfor the Promise Fellow applicants.
Please upload your Host Site's Promise Fellow
Interview QuestionsThe maximum document size
is 50MB
Application Checklist:

Completed application online., Upload your

position description., Upload your interview
questions., Mail one signed original hard copy of
your application to:

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