Implementation Strategy
High Value High Schools will be the result of a long-term commitment to improving education in Louisiana. The three-phased approach will immediately address the most basic areas of concern, creating a foundation that will allow for the success of more innovative, long-term strategies.
Short-Term Strategies
- Expand Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG)
- Create the Career Readiness Certification and GED Program
- Literacy strategies
- Algebra application strategies
- Eliminate truancy
- Alternatives to out-of-school suspensions
- Dropout early warning systems – DEWS
- Work-study and paid internship programs
- Develop an approach to International Benchmarking
Intermediate Strategies
- Ninth-grade academies
- Credit recovery
- Grade recovery in high-failure courses
Long Term Strategies
- Expansion of Model Schools
- New Technology High School – A model that focuses on project-based learning, team teaching, interactive learning settings, technology-based teaching/learning/record keeping.
- High Schools that Work – A whole school model that focuses on ten key practices that promote relevance, relationship and rigor as well as 21st Century Skills, literacy and numeracy across content areas, and project-based learning.
- Early College High School– Dual enrollment that allows students to earn a high school diploma and college credit simultaneously.
- Project Lead the Way® – Thehands-on, project- and problem-based Project Lead The Way approach adds rigor to traditional technical programs and relevance to traditional academics.
- Implementation of International Benchmarking
