In great news for students and schools, the Biden-Harris Administration recently announced its Improving Student Achievement Agenda for 2024. The four core components of student success systems offer a robust roadmap for the initiative’s goal of increasing attendance.
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…
Strong, supportive relationships, including those between “school adults” and parents/guardians, are one of the four key components of student success systems. Students benefit greatly from parental involvement, including parents’ relationships with principals, teachers, counselors, and IEP team members. When school and home adults trust each other as equal partners in supporting a child’s education, the solutions they develop to support a child can be informed by a holistic picture of the student – one that includes context from both in and outside the classroom.
Recently, the Rural Schools Collaborative Team and GRAD Partnership Intermediaries from the University of West Alabama (UWA) and North State Together (NST) had the opportunity to visit with students and faculty at Pickens County High School in Reform, AL to learn more about their work promoting student success.
Redding School of the Arts (RSA), a charter school located in Far Northern California, believes that when it comes to young minds, art enriches, expands, and prepares them for a full life in useful and unexpected ways. RSA opened its state-of-the-art campus in 2012 and became the first in the world certified Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) school. Every aspect of the campus is purpose-built as a visual and performing arts school, with a focus on green architecture and sustainable use.
Johnson Central High School was chosen as GRAD Partnership’s fourth spotlight school for its efforts to improve student outcomes by implementing a student success system centered on relationships and school connectedness. A rural high school in eastern Kentucky, Johnson Central struggled with…
September 28, 2023 - In 2021, more than 40% of high school students reported feeling so sad or hopeless that they could not engage in their regular activities for at least two weeks during the previous year. Over 20% of teens reported having had serious suicidal thoughts. (CDC, 2023a)...
September 19, 2023. It is that time of year again. The beginning of a new school year. You are likely experiencing a myriad of emotions. Some excitement, some fear, some comfort in returning to a routine, and even some trauma from the way things have been going at work lately. Whatever you may be feeling, you are not alone. We are hearing from teachers all around the country and...
Dr. Annah Rogers, GRAD Partnership Coordinator for the Black Belt Region, had the opportunity to visit with students and faculty at the Hale County College and Career Academy (HCCCA) to learn more about their work promoting student success through their JAG (Jobs for Alabama’s Graduates) program
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