# Presentation: 725378

## The Pathways to College Network andThe College Readiness for All Toolbox

***Jackie Burniske, Director, Special Initiatives, Pacific Resources ***
***for Education and Learning (PREL)***
***Dr. Watson Scott Swail, President******, ******Educational Policy Institute (EPI)***

- Archived Information

## The Pathways to College Network andThe College Readiness for All Toolbox

***A Framework for Action  featuring******Tools, Information and Resources for Practitioners***

## The Pathways to College Network

- Alliance of 34 organizationsand funders launched in 2001
**Goal:** to advance college access and success for under-served students
- Emphasis on using **data and research** to improve policy and practice
- Focus on youth(ages 12-25)

## A Shared Agenda:

- Guiding principles for improving college access and success
- Actions for key leaders
- 112 profiles – practices, programs, and policies
- Annotated bibliography of over 650 studies and reports

***A Leadership Challenge to ******Improve College Access and Success***

## Pathways Guiding Principles

- Expect all underserved students are capable of being prepared to enroll and succeed in college.
- Provide a range of high-quality college preparatory tools for under-served students and their families.
- Embrace social, cultural and learning style differences in developing learning.

## Pathways Guiding Principles (cont.)

- Involve leaders at all levels in establishing policies, programs, practices to facilitate student transitions toward postsecondary attainment.
- Maintain sufficient financial and human resources to enable underserved students to prepare for, enroll, and succeed in college.
- Assess policy, program, practice, and institutional effectiveness regularly.

## College Readiness for All: A Toolbox  

- Practitioner friendly andorganized by job role:
*Principal*
*Counselor*
*Outreach Practitioner*
- Provides tools along with information on how, when and why to use the tool
- Provides a framework for a call to action
- Includes extensive resource information

## A Framework for Action 

*A framework for embedding the effort of increasing college readiness into the work of school improvement.*

- Based on a 2002 study to identify the strategies used by high schools to increase college readiness and access
- Understanding of the framework and strategies will improve the number of students ready for college

## The Framework Core

## The Support Mechanisms

## The Context for Increasing College Readiness

## A Framework for Action

## The Critical Step 

- Schools that embed the strategies in the daily life of their school are able to increase college readiness and college going despite ongoing challenges.

## Pathways to College Network

- A Shared Agenda
- Pathways research papers, reports, and bibliographies
- Relevant reports, studies, and links
- College Readiness for All Toolbox
- Visit us at _[www.pathwaystocollege.net](http://www.pathwaystocollege.net/)__ _

***Website Features:***

## Presenters

- Dr. Watson Scott Swail, President
- Educational Policy Institute
- Washington Office
- 25 Ludwell Lane
- Stafford, VA 22554
- 1 (877) e-POLICY
- (540) 288-2322
- _[wswail](mailto:wswail@educationalpolicy.org)__[@](mailto:wswail@educationalpolicy.org)__[educationalpolicy](mailto:wswail@educationalpolicy.org)__[.org](mailto:wswail@educationalpolicy.org)_
- _[www.](http://www.educationalpolicy.org/)__[educationalpolicy](http://www.educationalpolicy.org/)__[.org](http://www.educationalpolicy.org/)_
- WASHINGTON * TORONTO * LOS ANGELES
*"Improving Educational Policy & Practice Through Research"*

## Presenters

- Jackie Burniske
- Director, Special Initiatives
- Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)
- _[http://www.prel.org](http://www.prel.org/)_
- 900 Fort Street Mall
- Suite 1300
- Honolulu, HI  96813
- voice: 808.441.1392
- fax: 808.441.1385
- email: _[burniskj@prel.org](mailto:burniskj@prel.org)_
*Building Capacity Through Education*