Lindsay

Lindsay

  • Joined: May 2, 2023
  • Articles: 163

Building & Sustaining Success: The GRAD Partnership Year Three Impact Results

Six years after the pandemic, chronic absenteeism remains a pressing concern. National rates are falling, but the pace of improvement has slowed in each of the last three years, with the slowest progress in schools that started with the highest rates. A recent GRAD Partnership report points to a strategy helping schools make progress, particularly those facing the greatest absenteeism and course performance challenges.

Student Perspectives on Belonging

When students feel that they belong, they are more likely to participate in class, stay engaged in learning, and develop positive attitudes about school. LIA recently held a listening session with some of their students, to better understand the student perspective on belonging and other factors that influence their success.

Leadership in Action: Empowering Latino Youth Through Voice, Vision, and Partnerships

As new partners in The GRAD Partnership, Latinos in Action (LIA) are excited to have the opportunity to align our work with the GRAD Partnership’s student success framework. LIA’s Leadership Boot Camps are a strong starting point of this collaboration, as they offer example of how we can foster student voice and agency that the student success system framework promotes.

Making Student-Centered Care Systematic in East Oakland

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. 

District-Led Technology Innovation to Support Student Success Systems

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 invest in developing their own tools, features five examples of custom-built tools, and summarizes some of the cross-cutting lessons from districts that have gone this route. 

Fulfilling Institutional Aspirations at a Service-focused University

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 Carolina. Notably, we’re talking here about more than simple alignment (i.e., the idea that the structure and content of the GRAD Partnership matches up with the purpose and mission of REI). Our experience suggests that the partnership has elevated our work’s relevance and impact.

Community Conversations: Elevating Local Perspectives on Student Success Systems

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.

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