2018 Pipeline Programs

Dr. Crew’s Message “You can fix most things if you understand an approach to it that’s different than the way the problem was created in the first place.”

Dr. Shana Van Ness Director, Pipeline

Dr. Doris McEwen Dean, College Readiness

Medgar Evers College, City University of New York 1650 Bedford Avenue, Room 3005B Brooklyn, New York 11225 718-270-5056 Pipeline@mec.cuny.edu

www.mec.cuny.edu

Dr. Rudolph F. Crew President, Medgar Evers College

Brooklyn Pipeline is Passionately Committed to Protecting the Future of Our Children

SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

THE BROOKLYN PIPELINE

Enrichment programs have been offered to students grades 3-8, since the inception of the Pipeline. They have come in different iterations.

Summer of 2018, about 80 students participated in hands-on activities, including writing, computer science, science, and visual arts. Each of the five weeks of the program, students participated in a field trip to one of the city’s cultural institutions. Medgar Evers College students assisted with the summer enrichment programs, along with certificated teachers from the DOE and MEC faculty. Pipeline will again offer summer enrichment in 2019. A nominal program fee is charged for the summer enrichment program.

The Medgar Evers College Brooklyn Pipeline is an intentional strategy, with a framework that touches four areas (students, parents, teachers, and leaders), believing that interface in all four areas are required to ensure college readiness. We recognize that students’ successful transition into and matriculation through college requires intentional supports throughout the K-16 system. Therefore, the Pipeline offers various programs to students, teachers, parents, and leaders to ensure a seamless flow through their education journey. Schools participating in the Brooklyn Pipeline will receive the following:

PARENT ACADEMY PROGRAM

Priority communications for Medgar Evers College workshops and events

Parents are an integral part of student success. The Pipeline has partnered with the DOE family and parent coordinator leaders to provide professional development to DOE parent coordinators relative to supporting college readiness and student success. Parent coordinators throughout Brooklyn attended two motivational lectures by Dr. Adolph Brown in 2017-2018. Parent Academy Day 2018 will be held October 30, 2018. Guest speaker is Dr. Noel Anderson, New York University -Steinhart School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The theme is Seeding, Nourishing & Strengthening Young People.

CUSTOMIZED PARTNERSHIP

Customized Partnerships include programs with PS 5 - Ron McNair Elementary School, where we offer Soar with STEM, a 16-week class for 4th grade young scholars where students come to Medgar Evers College to receive instruction from MEC faculty in science, computer coding, technology, and mathematics. The program will expand during 2018-2019 to include 4th and 5th grades. Another partnership is developing with both PS 68 - Isaacs Bildersee Middle School and Ebbett Field Middle School, where we will be establishing a tutoring cadre in conjunction with the Black Male Development Center. Tutors will be available to assist students in their academic studies to prepare them for Regents exams.

LEADERS INSTITUTE A series of forums on transformational leadership, co-sponsored with Partners for School Innovations, will be offered to school principals and their leadership teams. The forums are designed to leverage a resultsoriented cycle of inquiry to guide school transformation, collaborate to assess school needs and establish shared priorities, develop a shared imperative and toolkit for creating educational equity, and create a coherent professional learning plan to guide Professional Development at the site level. The forums will begin in February 2019.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Pipeline partners with Moving Mountains to offer “excellence in the arts.” Moving Mountains is an arts program founded by actor Jamie Hector (The Wire) to prepare talented youth for career opportunities in all areas of entertainment, developing skills, talents and abilities.

Moving Mountains offers the classes on Saturdays in the areas of drama, dance, vocals, or film, for ages 11-21. Students choose which area and are grouped by age.

Pipeline also partners with the Harlem Education Activities Fund (HEAF), to help students “develop the intellectual and social skills they need to thrive.” HEAF provides accelerated academic enrichment, test preparation, leadership development, and college advisement. The program is offered to students in grades 6-12.

Special invitation recognition event

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Exposure to world class leaders in innovative teaching practices and system leadership

Recognition banner and certificate as a Brooklyn Pipeline School

BUFFALO PUBLIC SCHOOLS (BPS) Buffalo Public Schools (BPS) Online Courses - Medgar Evers College partners with Buffalo Public Schools to offer two on line courses: Introduction to Criminal Justice (PA 150) and Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101). The program began Fall 2017 and to date about 140 students have participated. Medgar Evers College faculty teach the courses; students are supported by BPS teachers, who have been trained by MEC faculty on both content and accessing online technology (Blackboard). The online course is offered within the school day, in a student’s daily schedule of classes. Students are entered into the CUNY First system and have a transcript of their college credits available to them.

SMART SCHOLARS Smart Scholars - Funded through the New York State Department of Education and in partnership with the DOE, Smart Scholars is designed to offer cohorts of students early college exposure and credits. The focus of Smart Scholars is science technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Medgar Evers College has three Smart Scholar grants: Medgar Evers Preparatory School (Cohort 2), Brooklyn Lab School and Brooklyn School for Social Justice (Cohort 4). Cohort 4 began Fall 2018 and consists of about 40 ninth grade students per school. MEC Prep has about 100 new students participating. Forty-five MEC Prep students graduated in 2018 with associated degrees; they participated in Medgar Evers College Commencement ceremony to receive their degrees.

COMPUTER SCIENCE SATURDAYS Computer Science Saturdays - This introductory coding course in Html and CSS is offered to middle school students (grades 6th, 7th, and 8th) from 10:00am -12:00pm on October 13, 20, 27, and November 3 and 10. The course is offered at Medgar Evers College and is FREE. The course is in high demand and as such, will be repeated in winter and in spring (2019) for five sessions each.

CTLE for workshops and courses

BROOKLYN PIPELINE DUAL CREDIT BPDC - Medgar Evers College is in its third year of providing early college credit to high school students via the Brooklyn Pipeline Dual Credit (BPDC) initiative. BPDC has offered college credits to over 1800 students in more than 30 Brooklyn area high schools. This constitutes a tuition savings of more than $3 million dollars. The early college credits are transferable to any college in the CUNY system, and accepted by other colleges as they decide. The college courses are offered to students in their high school, taught by their high school teachers who have been vetted and trained by Medgar Evers College faculty. The courses available to students for 2018-2019 are the following: BIO 101; ENG 112 & ENG 150; MATH 136, 138, and 151; and SSC 101.

All courses are core classes required for students’ pathway to associate and baccalaureate degrees.