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- When the college and career readiness stuff
started becoming more prevalent,
we were kind of like, "Yeah, we're doing fine."
We started looking at our A through G rates.
We started looking at our graduation rates.
We started looking at CTE completers.
And we started to hear things from our students,
like, "Hey, I'm not ready for college."
That stuff's really hard to hear,
especially when you think you're doing right by kids.
- Ensuring students have a post-secondary plan
for the future is ensuring that they will be
successful in life after they're out of school.
- The saddest thing, I think, would be
for a child to be discouraged because they don't think
they can meet their goal when they don't
really know how to accomplish that goal.
- So CaliforniaColleges.edu can be used as a bridge to say,
"This is what you need to be looking at
"and exploring while you're in high school,
"so that when you get to the next phase of your life,
"you know where you're going."
Californiacolleges.edu is our primary tool
for students to discover, explore,
see where they want to go in terms of a career path.
- It made us see things that we didn't
even realize that were missing
in what we were doing because we were so focused
on the academic piece and not the whole student.
- I really like the career planning tools
because it offers the students
real-life examples of what's available to them.
- One year, I invited every single sophomore parent
and student in and we went over California Colleges.
The magic that happened when these parents saw
that these kids had interest, these kids had passion,
the conversation that took place to say,
"Oh, do you know that your uncle does that?"
- I found the lessons especially helpful
because we are advocating that every student has college
and career curriculum, and it's already set.
- One of the pieces that I love
about California Colleges is when you're directing them
through the lessons, they see that there's a place for them.
These kids, they're our future.
They're amazing.
- Financial aid on California Colleges is awesome.
The reason it's awesome is that by the time they get
to their senior year, they either have
researched or they know where to go.
And all the links that you need to the Cal Grants,
and FAFSA and Dream Act are right there on that one link.
- So CCGI is a program that not only supports
students' success academically,
but it's a tool for people that are in the trenches.
That's your teachers, that's your counselors,
that's your administrators, to be able to support
the initiatives that you have in your district
to ensure your students are college and career ready.
- On a students' screen, there are categories
across the top which makes it very easy
to explain to students where to navigate.
There's My Plan, where they can click
and get all of their personal information, their saves,
their favorites, and all that for college and career.
But there's also a career tab, and there's
a college tab and there's a financial aid tab.
- With the click of a button, you're able to see a graphic.
You're able to see the numbers
of students who complete lessons,
of students who do the interest profile,
students who apply for the FASFA,
students who apply for community college.
- The support that we received
from the California College Guidance Initiative was
instrumental in the successful implementation
of the program.
- There's a lot of collaboration there
I like being a part of the data team 'cause I learn
a lot about how different pieces
of our Student Information System might aid in that process.
It's fun because I like figuring out those puzzles,
and it's rewarding because I know that it's
supporting this system that I think is a godsend.
- A through G is important because it's an identifier
for college and career, but it also says,
"I'm ready for an apprenticeship,"
or, "I'm ready to go into the workforce because I was
"able to keep my grades at a certain level."
- We work with a lot of students
near the end of their junior or senior year,
and sometimes it's too late for them
to make up some of these requirements,
even though they have that hope of going to that four-year.
And so we have to have that conversation with them
of the reality that they're not qualified,
but that's not the end of the road.
It's not an easy conversation, but it's one that,
based on the requirements, we have to have.
- Students get into their portal
and they're able to see their A-through-G progress.
They're able to see green
if they've completed, red if they haven't.
- it helped me as an administrator because I was looking
at it from my student's side and I'm like, "Wait a minute.
"He took AP World History and it's
"showing that it's not an A-through-G class."
I'm like, "That's an A-through-G class."
And I was like, "Well, what are we doing wrong?"
And so then I got to go back in on the backside
and say, "Oh, the titles were wrong.
"The titles were just not right."
So it helped me look at it really quickly and easily, too,
to say that, "Oh, I need to fix this
"so it doesn't show up this way for other kids."
- Just thinking about my own job,
working with the student on asking the question,
"Are you A-through-G eligible?"
Being able to pull up their information
and visually walk through that with them,
I think is only gonna help students transition.
- We are experiencing a sea change in education,
particularly in the community college system,
but also in the CSU system.
We went from using tests to identify students
who were highly likely and highly prepared
to be successful in college-level work
to using high school performance data
to more or less do the same thing.
And it turns out that using high school performance data
to predict success, we're able to determine
that students are almost universally better off
being placed directly into transfer-level work.
- The CSUs eliminated the remediation model
and eliminated placement tests, and for many faculty,
that was a positive move because they felt
that some of those test scores weren't necessarily
indicative of success when they got here.
- The ability to get the most current data
is really attractive, so that's
why we would place CCGI kind of at the top
of the data pyramid in terms of desirability.
- The reason why our school district is wholeheartedly
into making sure that the work that we do with CCGI
is a success is because, number one,
it's what's best for students.
Number two, everything that CCGI is all about aligns
to our district-wide student learning objectives, outcomes.
- Any time technology can come in
to create a more seamless transition for the student,
I think that's only gonna benefit them.
And I feel like that's actually possible with this system.
- If everybody were using CCGI, we would see
a better ability to evaluate student's
current course-taking in high school,
and to use that information in a timely manner
to maximize their placement in math and English
and increase their probability of being successful
in those important gateway classes.
- In the past, students have fallen through the cracks.
With this program, if you're actually utilizing
all the tools that you should be on an ongoing basis,
you shouldn't have any student falling through the cracks.
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