District/School Resources PK-16 Program Support
Office for Career/Vocational Technical Education

Key Practices of High Schools That Work:

High expectations - Motivate more students to meet high expectations by integrating high expectations into classroom practices and giving students frequent feedback.

Program of study - Require each student to complete an upgraded academic core and a concentration.

Academic studies - Teach more students the essential concepts of the college

Career/technical studies - Provide more students access to intellectually challenging career/vocational technical education studies in high

Work-based learning - Enable students and their parents/guardians to choose from programs that integrate challenging high school studies and work-based learning and are planned by educators, employers, and students.

Teachers working together - Provide teams of teachers from several disciplines the time and support to work together to help students succeed in challenging academic and career/vocational technical education studies. Integrate reading, writing, and speaking as strategies for learning into all parts of the curriculum and integrate mathematics into science and career/vocational technical education classrooms.

Students actively engaged - Engage students in academic and career/vocational technical education classrooms in rigorous and challenging proficient

Guidance - Involve students and their parents/guardians in a guidance and advisement system that develops positive relationships and ensures completion of an accelerated program of study with an academic or career/vocational technical education concentration. Provide each student with the same mentor throughout high school to assist with setting goals, selecting courses, reviewing the student's progress and suggesting appropriate interventions as necessary.

Extra help - Provide a structured system of extra help to assist students in completing accelerated programs of study with high

Culture of continuous improvement - Use student assessment and program evaluation data to continuously improve school culture, organization, management, curriculum, and instruction to advance student learning.