About
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.
We need new and improved student success systems and structures
to enable all to thrive in pandemic-impacted times.
→ Staffing and substitute shortages result in fewer adults in schools, at the very time that more students need supportive adult relationships.
→ Pandemic impacts continue to be dynamic students who are doing ok at one moment may not be at the next.
→ Students whose prior experiences in school suggest they may not need enhanced or adaptive supports are showing a need for them.
→ Students furthest from opportunities pre-pandemic live in communities hardest hit by pandemics impacts
→ Student supports and systems need to be:
→ adaptive
→ proactive rather than reactive
→ focused on the here and now and the long-term
→ universal and customized (be able to provide all students what they need to succeed)
→ draw on and enable student, teacher, family and community agency
→ focused on improving educational systems so they promote the success of all students
We can do more together, with greater impact, than if we work alone.
Pooling our experiences and learnings, as well as creating a shared definition of high quality and some common tools, builds all our capacities.
Shared aim to move high quality student success (on-track) systems from a relatively new to routine school practice.
A deep commitment to equity and anti-racism and belief in student, educator, family and community agency.
Nine Organizations
coming together for one collective effort
American Institutes for Research
BARR Center
Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching
Everyone Graduates Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Education
National Center for Learning Disabilities
UChicago Network for
College Success
Rural Schools
Collaborative
Schott Foundation
Talent Development Secondary
Communicating Partners
AASA
The School Superintendents Association
Attendance
Works
CIVIC, LLC
Education Strategy
Group
Education Resource
Strategies
Florida Association of School Administrators
National Education Equity Lab
National Rural Education Association
Advisory Board
Edward Anderson
Executive Director, OnTrack Greenville
Catalina Cifuentes
Executive Director, Riverside County Office of Education
Juli Coleman
Chief of Improvement School Networks, CORE Districts
Mark Dunetz
President, New Vision for Public Schools
Zakiya Smith Ellis
Principal, EducationCounsel, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Carla Gay
Executive Director, Innovation and Partnership, Gresham-Barlow School District
Elizabeth Kirby
Superintendent, Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District
Emily Pallin
Executive Director, Connecticut RISE Network
Risa Sackman
Director U.S. Education, FHI 360
Candace Standberry-Robertson
Director of College and Career Strategy, Orleans Parish School Board
Amy Szymanski
Secondary Transition and Workforce Development, Ohio Statewide Specialist, State Support Team #1
