A Superintendent's Guide for Planning Multiple Pathways to Graduation

This guide is designed to help districts get started on planning a comprehensive process to increase graduation rates. Your district will need to shape the process and strategies that make sense for you. Yet, with the lessons learned from other districts, you can jump-start your process and start getting results more quickly.

The guide includes several useful features, including:

• Narrative descriptions of key ideas and strategies
• Tools to help superintendents and district staff begin planning
• Case studies from lead districts
• Resources for further information

The materials are designed to be useful in engaging district leadership and principals, as well as community
leaders. Feel free to adapt the materials so that they are suitable for your community.

Download Closing the Graduation Gap

PDF format, 444KB, 44Pages.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Executive Summary
2 Introduction
4 Revisiting Our Understanding of the Graduation Crisis
A Deeper Look: Framing the Problem with a Multiple Pathways Team
9 Talking about the Graduation Crisis
A Deeper Look: Graduation Gap Myths and Realities
1 5 Designing Data-Driven Strategies to Close the Graduation Gap
Case Study: Data-Driven Solutions for New York City | A Deeper Look: Segmenting Your Customers
23 Expanding Graduation Pathways Through Increased Responsivenes
Case Study: Philadelphia’s Citywide Collaborative | A Deeper Look: Designing a Portfolio of Schools
3 4 Leading Towards Balanced Reform
35 Resources
38 Special Thanks
39 Endnotes

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