Breakouts

While schools are filled with curriculum, content, and academic standards, these do not ensure that schools are promoting college for all students.  Similarly, many schools hang college pendants on their walls, do college assemblies, and do college classroom adoptions, but lack a powerful college going culture.  Successful college readiness means that students understand what college is, why college is valuable to them, and how to navigate the college application and admission process. Being truly college ready requires explicitly teaching students lessons on college concepts, the investment of college, character, goal setting, college acceptance, making choices, academic behaviors facing challenges, college commitment, and developing gifts. This session introduces participants to developmentally appropriate college conversations with students from Pre-K – 12th grade that can be immediately implemented into the classroom.  Use these conversations to build a college going culture in your school and ensure that all students, Pre K-12, are college and career ready.