Organizing Partners Sparking a Movement The GRAD Partnership is a collaborative effort of twelve national education organizations coming together to advance student success. Our work represents the culmination of more than a decade of research and efforts to develop and validate student success systems. American Institutes for Research BARR Center Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement […]| The GRAD Partnership
For over 90 years, Castlemont High School has been a pillar of its East Oakland community, cultivating a deep culture of care for students through many eras of change. Today, Castlemont stands out within the CORE Districts’ Breakthrough Success Community (BTSC), a 45-school improvement network focused on increasing 9th grade success as a path to greater postsecondary opportunity.| The GRAD Partnership
Partnering with communities to use high-quality student success systems so that schools are empowered to graduate all students ready for the future.| The GRAD Partnership
Holistic, actionable data are essential to realizing the promise of student success systems. While a district or school’s core student information system can often provide the data and visualizations that student success teams use for reflection and tracking, many districts are also developing their own tools for this purpose. A new publication from Digital Promise, Innovating for Student Success: District-Led Innovation Showcase, highlights some common motivations among districts who inves...| The GRAD Partnership
East Carolina University (ECU) aspires to be a national model for student success, public service, and regional transformation. In the ECU College of Education, the Rural Education Institute (REI) pursues that goal with a specific focus on rural schools and communities. As one of the flagship programs in the REI, the GRAD Partnership provides a model and mechanism for meeting our goals and fulfilling our aspirations to the benefit of students, families, and communities in rural eastern North ...| The GRAD Partnership
Transforming the nature of public education so that it maximally serves all students is in everyone’s best interest. Of course, our best opportunity to achieve that transformation occurs when we intentionally center the desires, aspirations, and concerns of parents and community in the instructional and organizational decisions we make as public school leaders. Ultimately, this work is about cultivating key national partners to grow the national movement for student success.| The GRAD Partnership
Southeast Lauderdale was chosen for its efforts to improve attendance and bolster graduation rates by fostering positive relationships between students and school staff and encouraging students to participate in extracurricular activities.| The GRAD Partnership
For students, the first day of school is rarely just another day. It’s the culmination of a summer filled with emotions — anticipation, uncertainty, hope. Students walk through school doors wondering: “Will I succeed here — not just academically, but socially, emotionally, and in preparing for my future?” The post New Year, Fresh Start appeared first on The GRAD Partnership.| The GRAD Partnership
Student engagement is one of the most powerful predictors of academic success. When students are engaged, they show up, think critically, and feel connected to their learning environment. But engagement isn’t just about paying attention in class—it’s a multidimensional concept that includes how students behave, think, and feel.| The GRAD Partnership
I’m understanding what transformation of the education system looks like and see a future where children like my grandsons can thrive in school. Listening to these teachers, I believe transformation happens when it's led by educators who refuse to accept that disengagement is inevitable.| The GRAD Partnership
Creating the conditions for student support systems to flourish requires intentionality not just at individual schools or local school districts but at the state policy level as well. The post State Leaders Can Be Powerful Advocates for Student Success appeared first on The GRAD Partnership.| The GRAD Partnership
Students with disabilities are twice as likely to drop out of high school compared to their non-disabled peers, but it doesn’t have to be this way. This is why the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) proudly represents the disability voice as one of the twelve organizing partners in the GRAD Partnership’s mission to improve high school graduation rates and postsecondary pathways across the nation.| The GRAD Partnership
When we signed on as an Intermediary partner with the GRAD Partnership - an initiative housed in Johns Hopkins University’s Everyone Graduates Center - my professional excitement was matched only by my personal investment in this work. As President and CEO of the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, I've spent years witnessing the power of collective impact to transform systems. As the grandmother and guardian of two teenage boys navigating high school in a post-pandemic world, I've e...| The GRAD Partnership
Last month, over 100 educators came together to learn, collaborate and inspire each other during the GRAD Partnership’s National Student Support Systems Convening. Over the course of two days, participants shared lessons, strategies and goals with the collective aim of building high-quality student success systems across the nation.| The GRAD Partnership
Southeast Lauderdale High School, one of ten GRAD Partnership schools in the UWA Intermediary cohort, recently saw its growth awarded with an ‘A’ rating.| The GRAD Partnership
Student success systems are a way of organizing a school community to better support the academic progress, career and college transitions, and well-being of all students.| The GRAD Partnership
A shift must occur within the education system to ensure all students with disabilities receive adequate academic, behavioral, and emotional support on their path to graduation and beyond. The first step in this process is ensuring a supportive framework is in place to track student progress, use data and student assets to target gaps, and individualize support as needed. A comprehensive supportive framework ensures all students can access quality high-school course content in an enviro...| The GRAD Partnership
Assistant Superintendent Noel Crum shares what led to Johnson Central High School's decision to work with BARR to implement a student success system, and what impact that the work has had on its students.| The GRAD Partnership
