Educating the Total Child:Ready By 21®
Ready by 21 - Ensuring All Youth are Ready for College, Work and Life
AASA is proud to be a partner in the Ready by 21® National Partnership, which is led by the Forum for Youth Investment. Ready by 21 is committed to building community partnerships supporting children from birth to adulthood, in-school and out-of-school, so youth are prepared for college, work, and life by the age of 21. Ready by 21 engages schools, businesses, youth-serving agencies and government agencies to work together toward a common goal of improving youth outcomes for education, social development, health, and safety. Ready by 21 thrives on an outcomes-focused approach and the improved use/collection of data to provide education leaders the opportunity for informed data-driven decision making for districts and communities.
Video: Ready by 21 Leader Network – How does Ready by 21 help education leaders?
For more from the Ready by 21 Leader Network, visit www.Readyby21.org
Building Business and Education Partnerships: Common Goals, Unique Strengths Guide
AASA and Corporate Voices for Working Families present -- Building Business and Education Partnerships -- a guide that offers tips, examples, and encouragement to seek out these unique opportunities to benefit schools, students and the business community.
How Can AASA and Ready By 21 Assist School System Leaders?
AASA and the Ready by 21 National Partnership assist school systems leaders in creating sustainable local partnerships to improve youth outcomes across a range of measures. AASA and Ready by 21 have developed tools and resources to aid school districts and communities striving to improve academic achievement, increase attendance and graduation rates, expand parental involvement, and advance overall student engagement and well-being.
National partners include the Forum for Youth Investment, the United Way, Corporate Voices for Working Families, the National Collaboration for Youth, Search Institute, and the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Visit the Ready By 21 website at http://www.forumforyouthinvestment.org/readyby21 for introductory tools and resources
AASA's Ready by 21 Peer Workgroup
AASA convenes a group of like-minded school leaders and invites you to be part of this important effort. The group is facilitated by a superintendent and meets three times a year.
AASA has supported ongoing work in three districts from the Peer Workgroup with $5,000 mini-grants. Bristol-Warren Regional District in Rhode Island, Erlanger-Elsmere School District in Kentuky, and Greendale School District in Wisconsin have all instituted school-community partnerships to increase and leverage out-of-school time supports for students.
Archived Webinar on Education and Business Partnerships
AASA and Corporate Voices for Working Families, through support from Ready by 21, hosted a one-hour webinar in October 2010 Building Business and Education Partnerships: Common Goals, Unique Strengths.
The webinar focused on the importance of, and best practices for, building and sustaining successful school-business partnerships to benefit youth.
Superintendent Jim Scales from Hamilton County Schools (Chattanooga, TN) presented the educator perspective and Alice Campbell from Baxter Healthcare shared the business perspective.
Please follow the link for the archived audio and PowerPoint:
Recording URL: Building Business and Education Partnerships: Common Goals, Unique Strengths
https://www.LiveMeeting.com/cc/eventbuilderpro/view?id=ebc-p95h7f8p-20102708_130801&pw=q1d6e375&cn=
Getting Students Ready by 21
Read a Learning First Alliance Profile of AASA and Ready by 21 - http://www.learningfirst.org/getting-students-ready-21
Gallup Student Poll
The Gallup Student Poll measures the hope, engagement and well-being of students in grades 5–12 through a new, groundbreaking survey administered anonymously in America’s schools. Gallup will conduct the poll twice annually, in March and October. The national results will be used by America’s Promise Alliance, the American Association of School Administrators and others in designing appropriate responses that support youth.
The early administrations of the poll have shown that more than one-third of students surveyed in grades 5 – 12 are struggling or suffering, and half (50 percent) are not hopeful, as quantified by Gallup researchers.
The findings provide local and national leaders with insights into the perspectives of their students. School system administrators and community leaders across the country will use the results to benchmark changes in local attitudes and design tailored interventions to better meet the needs of young people
To learn more about the Gallup Student Poll visit www.gallupstudentpoll.com
Staff Contact:
Bryan Joffe
703-875-0769
bjoffe@aasa.org
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