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Get Focused...Stay Focused!® Program Evaluation

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A school adopting the Get Focused...Stay Focused!® (GFSF) program can apply to become a certified Get Focused...Stay Focused!® school which provides the opportunity to participate in a rigorous evaluation of the impact of the GFSF program in your school.  The federal government through its What Works Clearinghouse and some prominent policy organizations, such as the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy and the Brookings Institute, have long promoted the idea that education programs need rigorous evaluations to determine their effectiveness much like medical treatments.  Such information will facilitate participating schools to secure additional funding because they will be able to demonstrate the causal impact of their GFSF program on their students!

The evaluation is being conducted in two phases.  Phase I started in the Fall 2015 and Phase II will start in Fall of 2016.  Below is an overview of Phase II evaluation with additional information provided to the left.

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	Partners or collaborators Foundation for California Community Colleges George Washington University’s Freshman Transition Initiative California Community College Chancellor's Task Force on Student Success Academic Innovations LLC UCSB Graduate School of Education California Dropout Research Project UC Educational Evaluation Center, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education	Eastern Oregon University’s College of Education California SB1070 Coordinators from select regions Santa Barbara Foundation Santa Barbara City College Dual Enrollment Department Carpinteria and Santa Barbara Unified School Districts Santa Barbara County Office of Education’s Partners in Education