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A strong communications and outreach strategy helps to ensure that students are taking full advantage of all the opportunities that are available to them. This outreach should focus first and foremost on building awareness and buy-in of the benefits of EPSOs, as well as on how to enroll, how courses will transfer, potential costs, and what type of support is available to ensure students will be successful.
Promising Practices
Promising Practices
Develop targeted communication strategies that meet students and families where they are (e.g., social media, parent nights, community events, newsletters).
Provide comprehensive information about early postsecondary programs early and often to all students and families, including information on course offerings, course requirements, credit transfer or articulation, the benefits and responsibilities of taking courses, fee waivers, and the process used to assign students to courses.
Ensure all communications are offered in multiple forms and languages to guarantee everyone has equal access to the information.
Build relationships among students, families, and staff at local middle schools, high schools and/or postsecondary institutions to share knowledge early and often about the value of early postsecondary opportunities and how to enroll.
Engage local community leaders, such as coaches and civic/religious leaders, to promote awareness and understanding of early postsecondary opportunities.
Bright Spots – Communications and Outreach
Bright Spots – Communications and Outreach
Learn about innovative communications and outreach strategies that schools and programs are implementing to inform students and families about early postsecondary opportunities.
Shelby County Public Schools has created a College and Career Education Magazine that showcases all the district has to offer in regards to early postsecondary opportunities. All SCPS students are expected to meet the postsecondary readiness requirements and be academically or career ready by graduation. By creating a comprehensive tool on available CTE, Work-Based Learning, and Dual Credit opportunities, students and families can easily and conveniently navigate all that is available.
EKU Dual Credit is a dual-enrollment program for eligible high school juniors and seniors that offers the opportunity to take college level courses for dual credit, high school credit and college credit, at a reduced tuition rate. EKU offers this program to public school, private school, and home school students in Kentucky. They partner with many schools and school districts to offer a variety of general education courses, career pathways, and student's future major required courses. Students may take these courses in their high school (if offered), online, and at EKU's main campus in Richmond, Ky or at one of EKU's regional campuses in Corbin and Manchester, Ky.
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Communication Resources
Communication Resources
Customizable resources to help make communication easier. Check back often for new additions.
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Dual Credit - Getting Started & Transcripts
College Transcript Reminder
Dual Credit Student University Check Email Reminder
Scheduling
Which EPSO is right for me?
Have you completed your dual credit application?
Which dual credit course is right for me?
Avoid random acts of dual credit
Dual Credit Scholarship
Don't forget to complete your dual credit scholarship
Outreach Programs
Outreach Programs
Ideas for Bridge & Orientation Programs
Orientation Websites
Collegeboard has created a set of materials to help you communicate with your community about your school's AP program. Use these materials to build awareness of AP, announce new AP courses, and welcome students and parents to AP. Resources include supports for students, parents and school leaders.
The documents on this page include critical information about the process of becoming an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School. These are sample documents only, for schools that wish to review their contents before completing them online. Schools work with the appropriate IB regional office to receive access to the online applications when they are ready to complete them.
Cambridge International has produced a series of resources to support the teaching and learning in your school. They explore different aspects of educational practice, from designing a curriculum to improving the quality of classroom activity.
These pages bring together a collection of these resources. They examine important educational themes and show how they are relevant to Cambridge schools.
Resources for Practitioners
Resources for Practitioners
Identify strategies to better engage students and families through this transformational family-school-community engagement model.
Resources for Students and Families
Resources for Students and Families
Get additional Dual Credit information from CPE. They provide the latest reports, policy updates, and more.
Explore this factsheet compiled by NACEP. NACEP has combed through decades of state and federal education data and years of rigorous research to build this fact sheet for use by programs, practitioners, policymakers, communities, students and their families.
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