Educator and Community Voice

Fostering Meaningful Data Conversations to Support Student Success

Student success systems are a way of organizing a school community to better support the academic progress, college and career transitions, and academic well-being of all students. Holistic, real-time, actionable data is one of the four core components of such systems, yet school leaders and teachers can find data access difficult, data manipulation for visualization cumbersome, and facilitating data-based conversations daunting. 
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Indiana’s Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning (CELL) is the GRAD Partnership’s Newest Intermediary

The GRAD Partnership is proud to announce Indiana’s Center for Excellence in Leadership of Learning (CELL) as its newest Intermediary. CELL, which was founded in 2001, is affiliated with the University of Indianapolis, and it joins a growing coalition of organizational partners engaged in advancing student success systems throughout the nation.
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Which communities? Using intentional parent engagement to ensure student success

Reflecting on another Black History Month, I am reminded of the many missed opportunities we’ve had to truly align our actions with our ideals. This includes the ideal of ensuring all students have the supports they need to succeed in school and graduate prepared for the future of their dreams. Yet it is clear that, at too many schools across the country, our usual actions fall short. What might it look like to do something different? 
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Building Trust: A Critical Element of Student Success Teams – Experiences of Three High School Principals in Chicago

A recent CoP session focused on the importance of trust building as teams use data to collaborate and improve experiences and outcomes for students. The event featured a trio of successful Chicago public high school principals, who were each asked, “What recommendations do you have for other principals on how to foster trust within student success teams?”
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Statement from GRAD Partnership on Biden-Harris Administration’s Improving Student Achievement Agenda for 2024 

The GRAD Partnership for student success is pleased to see a renewed commitment to improving attendance included in the Biden-Harris Administration’s Improving Student Achievement Agenda for 2024. The agenda specifically calls out “targeted parent and family engagement – such as home visits, the…

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