SCORE Roadmap to Success | Page 11

• Identify ways for improving the effectiveness of interventions for low-performing schools and districts by enhancing evaluation mechanisms of current support programs (e.g., Exemplary Educators, AGE, and STAT teams), and better segmenting schools by the type of interventions they need. For example, survey principals and teachers in schools receiving interventions as a way to evaluate the effectiveness of those interventions and consider dividing Exemplary Educators into two groups, one who assists schools that missed AYP on only one or two subgroups and a second who assists schools that missed AYP on most subgroups. Create more tools and pathways to transition high school graduates into postsecondary institutions or the workforce. • Launch a task force to identify the best ways to use the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship to most effectively increase access to and completion of postsecondary degrees including funding innovative programs that increase the number of high school students participating in postsecondary coursework (e.g., dual credit, dual enrollment, Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and early college high schools). • Create minimum quality standards for dual credit and dual enrollment courses. • Track postsecondary remediation rates and costs of recent high school graduates back to each high school and district on the Tennessee Department of Education Report Card. • Ensure all high school students have access to and utilize highquality career advising resources (e.g., college counselors, KUDER, www.collegeforTN.org) to help plan their high school elective focus, develop their post high school plans, and navigate the college application and financial aid process. • Develop a network of non-profit, higher education, school district, and Tennessee Department of Education programs that are currently assisting students in applying to postsecondary institutions. This network would provide these programs with opportunities to share best practices, resources, and training opportunities. • Hold charter schools accountable by ensuring all existing charter schools are of a high-quality by supporting existing efforts to create a statewide charter school incubator to support local charter school leaders and by actively recruiting high-quality national charter school providers to the state. • Promote the exchange of successful school improvement strategies among all public schools, including charters, in order to build upon proven best practices for public schools.