As part of our partnership, Elevate Consulting created a final report for the New Skills Ready project. In addition to information about the project as a whole, the report includes details about our outcome harvest in Year 5 and our collaborative health evaluations over the years.
Our very own Beth Wilson, CCR Coach at John Overton High, was featured in the MNPS Voices series in May of 2024 highlighting her transition from industry to education, her drive to help students succeed, and how the New Skills Ready network has supported collaboration across partners.
The team is thrilled to announce that Glencliff High School is officially a part of the New Skills Ready Nashville Network! Principal Clint Wilson, Academy Coach Thommye Kelley, and College and Career Readiness Coach Bailey Tidwell will be key project team members representing Glencliff. We are so glad to have the opportunity to impact more students and broaden the NSRN network.
Our structure for Year 4 focuses on work teams in 5 areas:
1) Pathway Mapping
2) Advising Capacity and Support
3) Summer Melt
4) Employer Engagement
5) Data Gathering
Our project team has accomplished a lot over the first three years of the investment. Learn more about what we've put in place that is student and family-facing, systems change, and backbone and collaborative-facing.
Our team developed a series of collaborative pilots to address our project priorities and implement scalable solutions during the 2022-2023 academic year. Cross-sector teams came together during a two-day design sprint to think about barriers they want to address systemically and devise projects and plans that they proposed for funding from our Guiding Team.
Advance CTE wrote a New Skills Ready blog featuring several of our pilot projects for the 2022-2023 school year.
Our team utilizes the Systemness framework to focus our work on systemic rather than programmatic solutions. Systemness, an approach developed by CivicLab, emphasizes the processes and relationships that make up the system.
As students explore and make choices about their education and career options, we utilize a developmental approach in which experiences build on each other across the education continuum.
Our team uses a set of Momentum Metrics identified by Education Strategy Group as predictors of postsecondary enrollment, retention, and completion, to measure the impact of our work.