Components of the PAS Framework

Student Success Systems These are the next generation, post-pandemic iteration of earlier work on early warning and on-track systems, where many PAS partners played foundational roles.  Student Success Systems combine a focus on supportive relationships between all members of an educational community, with progress monitoring all students on key predictive indicators of success, including both of the ABCs—attendance, behavior, course performance and agency, belonging, and connectedness. Teams of adults then work with students and families to understand what is behind students indicating they need additional supports or more effective learning experiences and how best to respond. One of the key developments PAS members have worked together on and continue to do so, is how student success systems can not only help keep all students on-track to high school graduation but ready for postsecondary success.  Learn More

Postsecondary Navigation Supports The pace of change in the nature of work, has accelerated rapidly in the 21st century. As a result, students and families may not be fully aware of which careers are most likely to flourish in the coming years.  Thus, more than ever middle, high school, and college students need a thoughtful series of career exposures, applications, experiences, preparations and the access to guidance informed by local and national job market information to make informed choices about the type of postsecondary schooling and/or training they will partake.  Learn More

Cross-Sector Collaborations K-12, Higher Education, Workforce collaboration at the local level. Today, high schools are no longer an endpoint of formal education. It is essential the local K-12 systems, the institutions of higher education to which the majority of their students flow, and leading local employers collaborate closely to create strong and supported pathways from K-12 schooling into and through postsecondary schooling into a career with family supporting wages.  Local high school principals, undergraduates Deans, and local employer hiring managers collectively shape the pathways available to a community’s youth, but all too often they are strangers to each other.  To create pathways to adult success for all students local communities need to create seamless transitions from K-12, to higher education, to the workplace.  Learn More

Data and Continuous Improvement. In order to create pathways to adult success, communities need to know where and why students are falling off-track to high school graduation prepared for adult success.  They need to know how many high school graduates have access to strong pathways into and through postsecondary schooling and training. They also need to know how many more types need to be created for those who do not.  In addition, they need to know which and how many students are and are not succeeding in postsecondary schooling and training, and the reasons why for those that are not.  Finally, the need to know how many young adults are successfully making the transition from postsecondary schooling and training to careers with family supporting wages.  Currently this data, if collected at all, is done so by and limited to the institutions at the point in time when they collected.  What is needed is for communities and all the institutions involved K-12, higher education, and workplace is to pool all this information into easily accessible data by all, which tracks cohorts of students as they progress through all of these institutions.  Learn More