In Brett Helm's post of March 23, 2011 he asked what a college going culture looked like.  Brett went on to detail a framework for determining what aspects go into creating that culture.  Recently, Brett and I had the opportunity to put this framework into practice by surveying school stakeholders and visiting one of our high schools in NYC.  Here is a snapshot of what we found.

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During President Obama’s most recent State of the Union. Obama reinforced the notion that the United States must produce more college graduates in order to compete in a global economy. 
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Here at work we like to plan.  We have project plans, pilot plans, planning meetings, planning documents etc.  We often use the process of back-mapping to create these grand plans.  This means we set an end goal and work backwards to think of all the steps we need to accomplish to reach our goal.  This makes sense and I was wondering where else we could apply this back-mapping strategy.  And because I usually go to bed thinking about work and wake up thinking about work, I got to thinking about the overarching goal of College Summit of getting more kids to and through…

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“A majority of students believes their school emphasizes college readiness, while many teachers, and especially parents, believe that schools could be doing a better job of informing students about the steps to take to be prepared to get into college and to finance their education.”
- The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Preparing Students for College and Careers

Sounds like a clear, simple and straightforward request…

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