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How College-Bound Students of Color Should Prepare for Life in a Predominantly White Campus
Danielle Moss LeeFebruary 2, 2012
Tags College Readiness, Diversity, Mentoring, , Urban Schools, High (9-12)

Let me start out by assuring readers that I'm not suggesting it takes a magical coat of arms to survive life on a predominantly white campus if you're a student of color. Over the decades, tens of thousands of students of color have been effectively and happily educated on predominantly white college campuses across this wonderful country of ours, and most of those students look back fondly on their college experiences.

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College Readiness: Learning Collaboratively
Ben JohnsonJanuary 26, 2012
Tags College Readiness, Student Engagement, Teacher Development, Middle (6-8), High (9-12)

"Good Morning! You are seated in groups because you will be working together to find real solutions to real problems. You will have to collaborate with your group members to arrive at a solution. Are you ready?"

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How to Provide College Planning and Counseling Support to Students of Color
Danielle Moss LeeJanuary 26, 2012
Tags College Readiness, Comprehensive Assessment, Diversity, Professional Learning Network (PLN), Urban Schools, High (9-12)

Naturally, I understand that there's no significant magic or difference in providing college planning and counseling services to students of color per se, but there are important ways to help build upon their college aspirations in the course of doing this work. A while back, several colleagues and I got into a long discussion about the quality of their college advisors during the critical junior and senior years of high school.

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How to Provide Guidance to First Generation College-Bound Students
Danielle Moss LeeJanuary 19, 2012
Tags College Readiness, Diversity, Parental Involvement, , Urban Schools, Middle (6-8), High (9-12)

Middle-class families don't always realize it, but we feed our kids a steady diet of college-bound messages from the time of their infancy. At least that's been the case for my husband and me. Our daughter had her first college t-shirts before she reached six months old. The word shirt is plural because my husband and I went to different colleges, and each of us hoped to pass on some subliminal message about the superiority of our respective institutions.

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College Readiness: How to Help Students Think Abstractly
Ben JohnsonJanuary 13, 2012
Tags College Readiness, Teacher Development, Middle (6-8), High (9-12)

A rolling stone, gathers no moss. Mick Jagger has moss? Don't cry over spilt milk. It's only milk, why cry? Too many cooks spoil the soup. I hate soup. Water under the bridge. Of course there is water under a bridge! A tiger's stripes do not change. Of course they don't! Birds of a feather, flock together. Yeah, those Grackles downtown are so annoying. There must be millions of them.

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Five Steps to Widening the College Pipeline for African American and Latino Students
Danielle Moss LeeJanuary 5, 2012
Tags Achievement Gap, College Readiness, Diversity, , Urban Schools, Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle (6-8), High (9-12)

After decades of educational attainment gains among African-American and Latino students, American educators find themselves in the midst of a major retraction of many of those gains for the students who can least afford it. In an ideal world, we'd just add curriculum to young minds and stir for stellar academic results.

After decades of educational attainment gains among African-American and Latino students, American educators find themselves in the midst of a major retraction of many of those gains for the students who can least afford it. In an ideal world, we'd just add curriculum to young minds and stir for stellar academic results. Read More

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Want Your Students College Ready? Use PBL
Thom MarkhamFebruary 7, 2011
Tags College Readiness, Dropout Prevention, Project-Based Learning, , All Grades

Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Thom Markham, a psychologist, educator, and president of Global Redesigns, an international consulting organization focused on project-based learning, social-emotional learning, youth development, and 21st-century school design. He formerly directed the Buck Institute for Education's national training program in PBL and is the primary author of BIE's Handbook on Project Based Learning.

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Preparing High School Seniors for College, Part Two
Bob LenzJuly 23, 2009
Tags College Readiness, Comprehensive Assessment, Teacher Development, Technology Integration, High (9-12), California

This is the second part of a two-part blog entry. Read part one.

Academic content knowledge is usually measured in a number of ways, from papers, tests, and quizzes to more comprehensive assessment tools like the California Standards Test. At Envision Schools, we rely on a rigorous evaluation system designed to measure not only content mastery through traditional assessment tools but also college readiness.

This is the second part of a two-part blog entry. Read part one.

Academic content knowledge is usually measured in a number of ways, from papers, tests, and quizzes to more comprehensive assessment tools like the California Standards Test. At Envision Schools, we rely on a rigorous evaluation system designed to measure not only content mastery through traditional assessment tools but also college readiness. Read More

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Preparing High School Seniors for College, Part One
Bob LenzJuly 15, 2009
Tags College Readiness, Comprehensive Assessment, Project-Based Learning, Technology Integration, High (9-12), California

Here, in California, another school year has finally dipped into the cool, blue Pacific. I've been reflecting on all that we've accomplished this year, including the fact that more than 90 percent of our graduating seniors will be going to college. I also can't help but think about everything that goes into the rite of passage that is graduation at Envision Schools.

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What Does It Mean to Be College Ready?: Helping All Students Get There
Bob LenzJune 13, 2007
Tags College Readiness, Teacher Development, High (9-12), California

What does it mean to be college ready? How do you design schools, and the systems to support them, to reach the goal of preparing all students to graduate from college?

What does it mean to be college ready? How do you design schools, and the systems to support them, to reach the goal of preparing all students to graduate from college? Read More

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