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Empower schools to improve and enable the educational success of all students.
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Districts and Schools
Student success systems provide schools with a unified system that integrates, extends, and increases the capacity of existing student support efforts, including early warning, on-track, and multi-tiered support systems.
Partner with us to plan, implement, and sustain high-quality student success systems so that middle and high schools are empowered to graduate all students ready for the future.
Our technical assistance providers partner with schools and districts to design and deliver customized training, which can include:
- Fostering a school culture that centers students and leverages student agency
- Establishing and/or streamlining student support teams
- Enhancing access to and use of holistic, real-time data
- Developing strategies for responding to student needs at the individual, classroom, grade, and/or school level
FAQs
Why are student success systems so important?
There are a small number of indicators that are highly predictive of school success including grade promotion, high school graduation and postsecondary readiness.
Evidence and experience in a wide range of schools shows that when schools constantly monitor progress for all students on these key indicators, and create human systems using insights from teachers, students themselves, and parents to identify the best solutions, schools can be effective in enabling all students to succeed.
What are the most important indicators to track?
Attendance, behavior/social-emotional status, and course performance have been shown time and time again to be the key indicators.
To succeed, students need to be in school, be able to focus in class and engaged with learning, and do their schoolwork. Challenges and success in any one of these areas, can impact the others.
We need to be aware this is happening and understand what’s underneath it and change or support the underlying conditions to lead to better results.
What do GRAD Partnership schools need to do?
With the support of our technical assistance providers, our school partners commit to implementing student success teams and building a student success system that is responsive to their individual contexts. Schools provide grade-level data for tracking implementation and key student outcomes. School support staff are also encouraged to join our learning community and engage in networking opportunities.
"This project allowed us to get creative with the positive incentives that will best serve our students while implementing the GRAD Partnership work."
"Our school community is so small, but with the help of this program, we learned crucial details about our students we might not have heard otherwise - this gives students a space to talk."
