Hidalgo Early College District Toolkit
Hidalgo Early College District Toolkit
Expanding Early College Districtwide
Jobs for the Future presents the Hidalgo Early College District Toolkit, a resource for practitioners seeking to prepare all students for postsecondary success. Nationally recognized for its innovative approaches and strong results, Hidalgo is a small, rural school district in South Texas where every student earns college credits before graduating from high school. After two years of collaboration with Hidalgo, Jobs for the Future is sharing the district's knowledge, in its own words, about what it takes to create college opportunity for all.
HOW TO USE THE TOOLKIT
The strategies and lessons in this toolkit, described from the voice of the Hidalgo Independent School District, were compiled by Jobs for the Future through visits and interviews over a period of two years. JFF created this collection of materials to help practitioners in other school districts, as they begin planning how to introduce early college opportunities or expand them to many more students, see how they might adapt Hidalgo's approaches for their own communities.
Each section of the toolkit describes how Hidalgo approached a specific aspect of planning and implementing early college for all. Read the pages describing key strategies, then consult the resources at the right for example documents from Hidalgo, such as college partnership agreements, course syllabi, and informational packets about college for parents. And explore the special reports, which take a closer look at important aspects of Hidalgo's program.
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