The See More Opportunity Summer Program is a free program this summer in cooperation with DPS's Career and College Success department. The program is for rising 10th-12th graders, as well as students who will graduate this spring, and delivers:
In addition, parents and siblings will be invited to take the courses at no charge, also being provided a personal coach.
Make sure at your school that students and families are aware of this opportunity. Information for students and parents is at:
Make sure that staff at your school are aware that SeeMore would like to hire DPS staff to serve as part-time coaches during the summer. More information on the position and an application is provided below.
The CSM Course is not just for high school students -- the same course is taken by frontline workers and corporate managers with advanced degrees. The logic is that while different people need different skills, CSM's High Performance competencies are of universal value.
Students will commit to spend 50 hours this summer on CSM. Depending on the participants, many/most will complete CSM. All students, however, will have access to their CSM accounts forever, and will have permanent access to a CSM personal coach, so if need be, they can complete CSM after the end of the summer program.
CSM and Career Strategies are not just for summer programs, and if you're interested in exploring implementation during the school year at your school, please use the contact form below and/or visit the CSM for High Schools page.
"Remarkably, the majority of students made substantial progress on CSM – including many who started at very basic math and literacy levels. The consistent feedback from the teachers has been that CSM makes the students work hard – it doesn’t let them off, and it doesn’t let them guess. Yet instead of frustrating the students, they appear to enjoy working with it.
...the unanimous feelings of the math teachers involved in the program is that students are learning in ways they haven’t before. CSM is extremely exciting to me in its potential role in building not only the math skills of students, but also their general interest in academic work, and their ability to learn.
CSM is very different from the other computer-based systems that I have seen – it is not narrowly competency-based, and it addresses the deficits that many struggling students have both in their feelings about learning as well as the learning strategies that they use.
This will also be of particular benefit for those teachers who need professional development with intervention or more generally in dealing with struggling students."
An evaluation by Stanford Research Institute, comparing CSM to ALEKS from McGraw-Hill and MyFoundationsLab from Pearson, showed that CSM had the highest math and literacy gains relative to classroom learning, as well as the highest student engagement.
In an program for opportunity youth, Cuyahoga Community College was surprised to find that:
Pepco (the energy utility in Washington, DC) uses CSM in their program preparing high school graduates for high paying lineman positions. After completing CSM, passing rates on the industry-standard CAST test (which has a challenging math component) rose from 20% to 67%.
Please use the contact form below to:
The teacher's role in the CSM Course is different from most instruction: it's the student's task to learn the skills on their own, and the teacher's role to help them learn how to do this -- we call CSM instructors' "coaches".
We are looking for DPS teachers, counselors, administrators and staff who would like to become part-time CSM coaches this summer. As CSM coaches, you will:
More general information about CSM Coaching is available here.
You will be partners with SeeMore Impact Labs in improving the Summer Opportunity Program, and if this is successful, we hope to expand the program significantly in future years. The "Labs" in our name is part of who we are -- we are always experimenting and working on improvements. For you, this is a chance to think differently about college and career readiness and how to interact with students, and this will hopefully give you a platform to try some of your ideas out.
We hope that this will be a fun and interesting experience for the coaches.