Oklahoma City Student Success Summit 2008
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., October 15
Cox Convention Center, Second floor

Oklahoma City’s Student Success Summit is a half-day event designed to better understand and find solutions for Oklahoma City’s high school dropout problem.

The event, facilitated by Possibilities, will bring 200 Oklahoma City ninth graders from varying backgrounds together to get their perspective on why their peers drop out of school and what steps can be taken to lower the dropout rate. The students’ input will be used to form a dropout prevention plan.

Student Success Summit Agenda

8:30 a.m.	Registration
9:00 a.m.	Welcome	Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett Chairman of the Board of Education Kirk Humphreys
9:30 a.m.	Session 1	Why do students dropout? (Students break into groups)
10:45 a.m.	Session 2	How can the dropout problem be stopped?
11:30 a.m.	Lunch	Emcee - Tierney Cook, Oklahoma City Public Schools Bob Spinks, Executive Director, United Way of Oklahoma City Keynote speaker, Dr. Pamela McCauley Bush
1:30 p.m.	Adjourn
A bus will pick students up and drop them back off at school.

For more information contact:

Jane Abraham
City of Oklahoma City
405-297-2345
jane.abraham@okc.gov

Dr. Rochelle Converse
Oklahoma City Public Schools
405-587-0407
rdconverse@okcps.org

Bonnie Wood
Western Heights High School
405-350-3439
bonnie.r.wood@westernheights.k12.ok.us

Sponsors:

America’s Promise Alliance, AT&T, Oklahoma Community Service Commission, United Way, ETI, Oklahoma City Public School District, The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce,  Leadership OKC, Western Heights School District and City of Oklahoma City