This paper highlights:

• The three elements of the OTCS framework that have guided collaborations with school partners:

1. Milestones: evidence-based academic, social-emotional, college and career milestones for students in grades 9-12
2. Student Success Systems: to monitor and respond to keep all students on the path to career success.
3. Pathways to Career Success: providing all students with a series of college and career explorations, experiences, applications, and engagements.

• Case studies that illustrate collaborations with school partners and describe lessons and challenges faced by their school communities.
• The processes and methodologies that guided each school’s individual co-created implementation efforts.
• The resources that are at the heart of the project’s efforts to co-design with students and the educators, families, and communities who support them.

This paper will be of value to educators, funders interested in systemic educational reform, workforce providers, researchers, higher education leaders, and other community-based partners.

The OTCS project involves systems change work that usually starts with policy makers, business leaders, and school district administrators. The OTCS is upending this practice by uplifting and valuing the voices of students, families, community members, and school-based educators as co-designers and co-creators of future pathways.

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