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EGC Hosts 2nd Career Focus Task Group
On October 28, 2025 the Everyone Graduates Center hosted the second virtual gathering of national educators to examine nonprofit, business, and community engagement. The discussions were guided by three questions: Presenters Download the Event Presentation (PDF) Download Lighthouse Community Public Schools Presentation (PDF) Community Engaging Families Around CTE https://careertech.org/what-we-do/case-making-communications/engage-families-learners/ Community Schools https://communityschools.futureforlearning.org/ Employer Engagement https://careertech.org/resource-center/topics/employer-engagement/ […]
Introducing Skills for Secondary School Success
Skills for Secondary School Success is a free, evidence-based, classroom-ready program designed to help young people strengthen the skills they need to meet academic and social challenges in school and beyond. Developed by Johns Hopkins University education researchers with federal support and years of input from classroom teachers, Skills for Secondary School Success helps students build […]
OTCS Participation Feedback Results
On Track to Career Success has prepared The On Track to Career Success Participation Feedback Results. It reports the key insights on how the OTCS partnership impacted students in New Mexico. The objective is to understand the experiences and the impact of participation, providing insights that will guide the evolution of the framework and its […]
EGC Hosts Career Focus Task Group
On September 18, 2025 the Everyone Graduates Center hosted a virtual gathering of national educators to examine how can schools and school systems promote young people’s career exposure and readiness. The discussions were guided by three questions: Download the Event Presentation (PDF) All4Ed: Raise the Bar Unlocking Career Success Advance CTE: Career Wheel & Guidebook […]
Report Release
Schools Implementing Student Success Systems Outperform the Nation in Reducing Chronic Absenteeism During 2022–23, the GRAD Partnership began working with schools across the country to implement student success systems in order to meet persistent challenges like record high chronic absenteeism and widening disconnections between families and schools. Student success systems were developed in partnership with over 300 […]
Chronic Absenteeism Map
Chronic Absenteeism Rates Interactive Map Chronic absence, defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, is a proven early warning sign of academic risk for students from preschool through high school. A school’s chronic absence rate is the percentage of students who have missed that much school. Chronic absence data should […]
Designing Education S3, E3 Diving Deep into the Four Components of a Student Success System
In the third episode of season three, Tara Madden, Chief Program Officer of Talent Development Secondary, joins Dr. Robert Balfanz to discuss the four essential components of a student success system: a focus on building relationships; holistic data and predictive indicators; a response system informed by students, teachers, and families; and a shared set of […]
Designing Education Podcast: Season 3, Episode 2 Providing Students the Support They Need in Postpandemic Times
The GRAD Partnership and Student Success Systems In the second episode of season three, Patricia Balana, Managing Director of the GRAD Partnership, joins Dr. Robert Balfanz to discuss how and why nine organizations came together to form the GRAD Partnership. The coalition is a national initiative that partners with communities to implement high-quality student success systems […]
Meeting the Chronic Absenteeism Challenge What Do We Know?
What does a doubling of the number of students who are missing a month or more of schooling in the school year mean? What do the numbers tell us about the challenges our schools and communities face, and what does the evidence base say about the types of solutions and responses that are needed to […]
Designing Education Podcast, S2, Ep 8: A Place Where Everyone Wants to Be
In Season 2, Episode 8, Sofia Russo, Principal of High School for Media and Communications located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City joins Robert Balfanz for a conversation about what is possible when school leaders, teachers, students, families and community members are given opportunities to engage in school redesign. With just a little support […]
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