Dalton / St. John College for Every Student

A Practitioner's Guide to Building College and Career Readiness
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-33412-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten

College for Every Student shares best practices for raising college and career aspirations and increasing educational opportunities for underserved and diverse students in rural and urban districts. Providing guidance for educating your students and organizing communities for expanding educational opportunities, this is a must-read for every school leader and counselor interested in promoting educational uplift. This comprehensive guidebook offers a wealth of resources and tools for educators and professionals to help students build essential college and career readiness skills. College for Every Student gives you the research-based, proven strategies needed for promoting the core student skills essential for college and career readiness: aspiration, grit, perseverance, adaptability, leadership, and teamwork.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dalton, Rick

St. John, Edward P.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 The Skills Gap: College and Career Readiness
Chapter 3 The Change Process: Organizing, Engagement, and Essential Skills
Chapter 4 STEM Pathways
Chapter 5 Urban Schools
Chapter 6 Rural Schools
Chapter 7 Taking Action: The Irish Case, Cliona Hannon and Katriona O’Sullivan

Chapter 8 Creating New Futures

Über Autor(innen)

Ed St. John is the Algo D. Henderson Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, and serves as series co-editor for Readings on Equal Education with AMS Press, Core Issues in Higher Education with Routledge Press, and Engaged Research and Practice in Education for Stylus Press.

Rick Dalton is the founder, and President and CEO of College For Every Student (CFES). Since 1991 CFES has helped more than 75,000 students in 40 states to graduate from high school and attend college. Dalton has written more than 130 articles and op-eds on educational issues.