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Resources on preparing students for what comes after high school graduation. Includes Redefining Ready! college- career- and life readiness tools.

November 01, 2020
Case Study: The Cherry Creek Innovation Campus

Type: Case Study

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness, Curriculum & Assessment

A unique district facility housing an array of career pathway programs closely aligned with the employment and priority needs of local, state, and national businesses and corporations.
November 01, 2020
Case Study: Tech Ready Apprenticeships for Careers in Kentucky (TRACK)

Type: Case Study

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness, Curriculum & Assessment

TRACK provides secondary students with career pathway opportunities into Registered Apprenticeship programs.
November 01, 2020
Case Study: Olympic High School - Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering

Type: Case Study

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness, Curriculum & Assessment

An award-winning career pathway academy designed to teach students about manufacturing processes, product design, robotics, and automation.
November 01, 2020
Youth Apprenticeships Toolkit

Type: Toolkit

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness, Curriculum & Assessment, District & School Operations

This kit provides resources for secondary school and community college administrators to advocate for and build apprenticeship programs of their own.
September 01, 2020
A Model for Promoting Student Voting

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness

A school district in North Carolina launched a comprehensive voter education program
August 28, 2020
K-8 Framework Readiness Indicators

Type: Fact Sheet

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness, Curriculum & Assessment

This fact sheet highlights key factors of AASA’s K-8 Framework Readiness Indicators.
January 01, 2020
Blurring the Lines for Student Benefit

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness

Community college and school system leaders no longer line up on opposite sides.
August 01, 2016
Counseling Leadership in College Readiness

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness

The author studied how a school district's socioeconomic profile affects the way counseling leadership addresses college admissions work with students and families.
November 01, 2019
Paving New Avenues for Career Training

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness

Taking alternate schooling paths to awaiting skilled jobs.
October 01, 2019
The Making of a Networked School

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness

As personal connections influence post-graduation life, school districts are exposing students to wider career options
June 01, 2019
Helping Students Find a Purpose

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness

A purpose creates a desire to learn as soon as the student realizes that certain knowledge and skills are necessary
June 01, 2019
Economic Reconsideration of the College Track

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness

Promoting alternate post-secondary pathways for the 60 percent of high school grads unlikely to complete a four-year degree.
January 01, 2019
Global Diplomas

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness

Academic programs that develop skills for work and productive lives in an interconnected world
November 01, 2018
Converging With Community Colleges Expands Horizons

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness, Curriculum & Assessment, District & School Operations

Creative, cooperative arrangements ease the path for students who want to pursue college degrees with less debt.
September 10, 2018
Achieving the Unthinkable

Type: Case Study

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness, District & School Operations

Case Study: How a high school steadfastly and robustly supports all students as they earn both a traditional and vocational degree—in four years.
September 10, 2018
Reaching Beyond Limits to Reach Disengaged Students

Type: Case Study

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness, District & School Operations

Case Study: How a BOCES and its component districts joined forces to beat resource constraints and build a customized early college high school experience for students
August 01, 2018
Filling in Skill Gaps With Youth Apprenticeships

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness

AASA’s executive director has seen up close the merits of vocational programs for school-agers.
December 01, 2017
Not Your Daddy's Vocational Education

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness

Career and technical education built on the foundation of demanding academics, not as an alternative to them.
November 01, 2017
Measures of Effectiveness

Type: Infographic

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness, Curriculum & Assessment, District & School Operations

Superintendents rank the factors that best gauge school quality.
May 01, 2017
Thinking Like a Scientist Is an Adventure

Type: Article

Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness, Curriculum & Assessment

The CEO of JASON Learning describes the need for stimulating STEM content.

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