Start-up Strategies for Launching your Freshman Transition Course
For Freshmen Course Instructors & Administrators
Six years ago, a team from Indio High School in CA attended a Freshman Transition Institute conducted by Dr. Rebecca Demond. They were systematically researching freshmen programs to increase student engagement for their population that is predominantly Hispanic and 75 percent qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.
In these seven one-hour sessions you’ll learn from Principal Rudy Ramirez about the strategies and curriculum Indio High School uses in its Success 101 course, which is required of all freshmen. Indio High School was ranked last year by U.S. News and World Report among the top 10% of high schools in the country. Through their experiences you’ll come away with the information and tools to launch a successful Freshman Transition Course next fall.
Participants will explore and develop plans for:
- Generating school, district and community buy in
- Identifying a lead teacher and ensuring leadership continuity
- Determining the freshman course structure
- Innovative classroom teaching strategies that create involved learners
- Successfully teaching the Career Choices curriculum and My10yearPlan.com®
- A whole-school effort that encourages all instructors to use students’ 10-year plans as a common advisory tool.
- Principals and Superintendents
- Instructors/Administrator of Freshman Academies
- Administrators responsible for high school graduation and college completion rates
- Instructors of freshman courses (high school or college)