A-B-Cs
New A-B-Cs For SuccessAttendance, behavior, and course performance are all strongly influenced by students and teachers experiences of school agency, belonging, and connectedness.
AGENCY
Agency is about acting rather than being acted upon – fully participating as an equal and contributing member of a community that shares a common goal or purpose. Agency is the capability to make choices and take an active role in one’s own life path.
BELONGING
Belonging means having a meaningful voice and the opportunity to participate in the design of political, social, and cultural structures that shape one’s life — the right to both contribute and make demands upon society and political institutions. Our schools have often functioned as though belonging is conditional and achievement is the evidence one is worthy of belonging. This has not served anyone well.
CONNECTEDNESS
We connect naturally. We are hard wired to connect. We are all connected. What intentional environments craft is the meaning and purpose to seed a connected community. Authentic connections happen when we are curious and open to relating without an agenda about the outcome. Connections vary in intensity and length. The antidote to controlling others is connectedness, openness, and curiosity are the catalysts.
We offer a wide-variety of videos illustrating how how schools nationwide are integrating Agency in their student success systems.
We offer a selection of online resources including, reports, blogs, and other resources from out nation’s educators.
You can explore all the resources curated by Pathways to Adult Success including: reports, publications, toolkits, videos, podcasts & more!
We offer a wide-variety of videos illustrating how how schools nationwide are integrating Belonging in their student success systems.
We offer a selection of online resources including, reports, blogs, and other resources from out nation’s educators.
You can explore all the resources curated by Pathways to Adult Success including: reports, publications, toolkits, videos, podcasts & more!
We offer a wide-variety of videos illustrating how how schools nationwide are integrating Connectedness in their student success systems.
We offer a selection of online resources including, reports, blogs, and other resources from out nation’s educators.
You can explore all the resources curated by Pathways to Adult Success including: reports, publications, toolkits, videos, podcasts & more!
Designing Education
A podcast hosted by Robert Balfanz, director of the Everyone Graduates Center.
Conversations with leaders in education from around the country on bold new ideas and research-based strategies for redesigning American education to more effectively engage all students and equip them for the challenges of today’s workplace and world.
