College Summit works with teachers and counselors in their schools to ensure that every student creates a postsecondary plan and can apply to college.
We know from more than 10 years of experience that when you put smart tools and training in the hands of committed teachers and counselors, dramatically more students from their schools go to college.
We are proud to partner with career educators who bring their teaching skills, their hard-won credibility with students, and their own experience of having successfully transitioned to, and graduated from, college. With College Summit tools, teachers and counselors make a life-changing difference for thousands of students each year.
Postsecondary defines the purpose of school: preparing students for life beyond high school. It is critical for building a college-going culture and for keeping students on the margins engaged. Because postsecondary has disproportionate impact on school culture, high performing schools insist on integrating efforts into the school system and the school day. Once postsecondary planning becomes part of a schools's curriculum and goals, the school's college-going culture begins to change for the better. Add-on programs cannot address the need for a whole-school system. Plus, add-on programs frequently disappear--leaving significant capacity gaps in the system.