During their senior year in high school, WIN Academy students will earn high school credits and community college credits while taking the first year of the RN program curriculum for BVCTC. The WIN Academy will offer accommodations and appropriate services to all types of learners.

The goals and the design support the overall mission and vision to create an early-start nursing degree program for students in high school and to increase the available nurses to fill regional and statewide RN positions.

The WIN Academy will provide a framework for completing high school and the first year of BVCTC’s associate-level RN program. A key strategy to make this programming possible is the alignment of high school requirements with BVCTC’s RN requirements.

WIN Academy students will maintain a 3.0 GPA to ensure they are meeting the RN program graduation requirements (for the year after they complete high school). General state high school graduation requirements are listed below.

WIN Academy applicants also will need to take the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS VI) during the summer bootcamp and score a composite score of 60.5 (this test is required for all nursing school students).

Source: West Virginia Board of Education. Graduation Requirements, 2022.

With completion of the full two-year program, WIN Academy graduates will have met all the major and general education requirements to earn an AAS, the opportunity to sit for the NCLEX, and a future career as an RN.

In future years, BVCTC may explore earlier delivery of the RN program; for example, shifting the English 101 and the Anatomy/Physiology courses to earlier grades could make it easier for some students to attend. Also, the academy could explore starting the program with junior-level students.

The Grade 11 program and how they meet junior-level high school requirements are included in the table below.

Note: Asterisked courses also count toward the nursing program and reduce the courses that junior enrollees must take in their senior year of high school.

The chart below shows BVCTC’s full RN curriculum that WIN Academy students will complete in their senior year in high school and then in the year following high school graduation. The year 1 curriculum represents the coursework that WIN Academy students will take during their senior year of high school.

The nursing courses taken during the senior year also will count as completion of high school requirement for taking four courses in one’s concentration area; in the case of WIN Academy students, this would be in their area of healthcare/therapeutic services.

The future three-year curricular program for high school juniors is outlined in the table below. The section shaded in light green represents the coursework that WIN Academy students will take during their senior year of high school. The section shaded in light blue represents the coursework that WIN Academy students will take as high school juniors. Courses appearing in italics count only toward high school requirements.

Students will complete assessments for each class they take throughout their two years, using evaluation methods such as essays, tests, lab reports, clinical assessments, presentations, etc. to show their mastery of content and to meet Institutional Learning Objectives (ILOs). At the end of the nursing program, students will be prepared to take the NCLEX exam for licensure as RNs.

Specific performance standards for each class of WIN Academy students/graduates are as follows:

• Course Performance – grades of A or B for 80 % of courses attempted
• General Education Performance – passage of general education courses or requirements
• Graduation – All students enrolled will graduate with a high school degree
• Future Graduation – 75% of academy graduates will graduate from BVCTC with an AAS
• NCLEX Passage – 80% of graduates will pass the NCLEX exam within one year of graduation
• Employment – 90% of graduates who have passed the NCLEX to be employed in the healthcare industry within six months of graduation

WIN Academy students will be provided with all first-year textbooks, instructional resources and online materials free of charge.

Details about the WIN Academy can be found in the School of Nursing Program Handbook, which can be viewed or downloaded below.

The WIN Academy provides 60 high school students the opportunity to complete their first-year course work in a college-level nursing program at BVCTC while also receiving a high school diploma. BVCTC will implement additional strategies to help ensure academy students’ academic, social and emotional success in the program.

The WIN Academy will be available for high school juniors and seniors. Students from outside BVCTC’s service district are eligible for the WIN Academy through WV’s open enrollment laws.

For students with disabilities, BVCTC offers disability-related services through the college’s Accessibility Services Office and also through individualized tutoring. If necessary, the college will coordinate with the students’ original school districts to ensure that accommodations are in place for potential WIN Academy students who may have existing Individualized Educational Plans (IEPs).

The WIN Academy will improve the achievement of traditionally underperforming students by providing them with a motivation to strive for success in high school: high-wage and rewarding employment upon graduation as well as work-based experience during clinical settings while in school.

BVCTC’s low student-to-faculty ratio will provide students with enhanced attention from faculty members, allowing these younger students to meet all the technical standards for the nursing program. Studies have shown that the greatest determining factor in student retention and success is a sense of connection with the school and its faculty. The WIN Academy’s cohort model of enrollment, similar to a learning community, will maximize these student-faculty connections.

Specifically, the WIN Academy’s instructional strategies and support for students with different needs include:

• Summer Skills-Building Bootcamp
• Tutoring via Student Success Center
• Mentorships
• Individualized Education Plan – Coordinated with Accessibility Services
• Remediation Support
• Family Orientation & Outreach (middle school, early high school)
• Advanced College Programming for Gifted Students

Part I: Participation in State Accountability System

The WIN Academy will participate in the state accountability system and follow guidelines and regulations for administering tests and providing information for its students as appropriate. The WIN Academy has set a goal of all its students (1) staying on track toward graduation and (2) graduating after completing their first year in the RN program, which meets the statewide graduation requirement.

With respect to meeting the state requirements for attendance, the BVCTC School of Nursing requires near-perfect attendance. The student handbook outlines steep academic and probationary penalties for chronic absenteeism. As such, the WIN Academy will seek an attendance rate of at least 95 percent for all courses, which exceeds the statewide standard.

In terms of post-secondary achievement, the WIN Academy has set as a goal that at least 75 percent of WIN Academy graduates will continue and complete their second year of the RN program after high school graduation at BridgeValley CTC (i.e., completion of the AAS) and that the other 25 percent transfer immediately to bachelors degree partners across the state. This measure meets the performance statewide standard. Given that the WIN Academy also serves as a postsecondary program, we strive to have 100 percent continuation beyond the senior year of the program.

Part II: Unique Goals to Measure the Impact of Charter School

As noted elsewhere in the application, the WIN Academy has set specific objectives to achieve and ensure academy students’ success. These objectives are repeated below with a temporal component:

1. By fall 2023, to provide an opportunity for up to 30 juniors and 30 seniors from area high schools to complete (a) their high school requirements and (b) the first year of BVCTC’s nursing program (for seniors);
2. By spring 2024, to have 100 percent of WIN Academy students graduate from high school after their senior year in the WIN Academy;
3. By spring 2025, to have at least 75 percent of WIN Academy graduates continue and complete their second year of the RN program after high school graduation (i.e., completion of the AAS);
4. By spring 2026, to have 80 percent of the WIN Academy-affiliated RN program graduates pass the NCLEX test on the first passage within one year of receiving their AAS; and
5. By December 2026, to have 90 percent of graduates who have passed the NCLEX to be employed in the healthcare industry within six months of graduation.

For each new cohort of WIN Academy students, the proposed dates for these objectives will be adjusted forward by one year.

Because academy students are seniors, there is no way to measure achievement in English, science and mathematics using the statewide testing system.

In place of the statewide system, BVCTC will measure academy student performance based on grades and completion of technical, clinical and lab standards associated with the first-year nursing program.

The WIN Academy has set the following objective related to course performance: grades of A or B for 80% of courses attempted. BVCTC staff will collect information to see program, course and section level performance. Faculty will use these results to improve course delivery over time and to measure growth in performance for future cohorts. Technical proficiencies make up a part of the grade in each course.

Reenrollment can be measured two ways for the WIN Academy. For high school seniors – especially during the academy’s inaugural year – the reenrollment measure for the WIN Academy will be considered as the percentage of students who complete the second year of study after graduating from the academy’s high school program.

Reenrollment for junior students will be considered those high school juniors who continue in the WIN Academy as high school seniors either in further preparatory work or as new RN students.

In the case of a student in the preparatory program, reenrollment would be measured by the student’s ultimate enrollment in the RN program upon completion of high school and remedial college program.

With respect to meeting the state requirements for attendance, the BVCTC School of Nursing requires near-perfect attendance, as does the WIN Academy. The student handbook outlines steep academic and probationary penalties for chronic absenteeism. As such, the WIN Academy will seek an attendance rate of at least 95 percent for all courses, which exceeds the statewide standard.