Mission
The GRAD Partnership’s mission is to advance student success systems so that all students graduate ready for their future.
About the Partnership
The GRAD Partnership brings together nine organizations, including NCS, to partner with schools, districts, and community organizations to create the conditions for shifting the use of evidence-based student success systems from a new practice to an integral part of a school’s work.
It is a national campaign, bringing together organizations with deep knowledge, practical know-how, decades of experience, and a wide range of diverse perspectives to develop and support the wide-scale creation of evidence-based student success systems to meet the challenges of pandemic-impacted times and enable schools to graduate all their students ready for their future.
Student success systems build on what already exists in schools, help educators, families, and community organizations identify patterns in wellbeing and learning needs, prioritize the supports and strategies that will have the greatest impact, and continually improve until success is achieved.
GRAD Partnership efforts include:
Developing a set of tools and resources to help schools, districts, communities, and intermediaries better understand their current student support systems and how they can be built upon to become student success systems;
Providing customized technical assistance to schools and districts and working to build the capacity of local intermediaries to support student success systems; and
Creating an infrastructure for long-term sustainability, including a Community of Practice and Network Improvement Community.
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Longtime NCS partner school, Thomas Kelly College Preparatory High School, was also selected as a spotlight school by The GRAD Partnership for its exceptional commitment to student success. Click here to learn more.
