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Destination Graduation*
Family and Community Involvement Activities for Postsecondary Planning
In addition to improving student achievement, many elementary, middle, and high schools are working to increase students’ career awareness, ensure completion of requirements for grade promotion and high school graduation, and improve planning for postsecondary education and training.
This set of 15 activities comes from schools in the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) at Johns Hopkins University. The schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships shared their best practices – from the primary grades through high school – that helped students and their parents increase career awareness and take steps on postsecondary pathways.
Motion Commotion
Second Grade Job Share
After-School Program for Higher Education
Bes Goes to Work
Family College Conferences
Going On To College (GOT College)
College and Career Guide
Financial Aid Workshop for Parents and Students
Career Academy Pathways
Telling It Like It Is
Business Partnership Breakfast
Citibank Banking and Finance Summer Internship
Life After High School: College and Career Fair
Summer Expo 2008
Vocational/Work Experience Program-WINGS Grant
See these and many other activities to engage parents and other family and community partners in the annual collections of Promising Partnership Practices at www.partnershipschools.org in Success Stories. Click on Promising Partnership Practices and follow the links to College and Careers. Or search on the student outcome or school level of interest.
All elementary, middle, and high schools can develop goal-linked programs of family and community involvement that help students improve reading, math, attendance, behavior, and postsecondary planning. Click on Join NNPS to obtain guidelines, materials, and training for strengthening and sustaining programs of partnership.
* Destination Graduation! is the title of a goal and project in the Pasco Public Schools in Washington, a member of NNPS.
