Recommended Strategies

• Engage state, district, school, community, youth, and municipal leaders in articulating a shared vision for all high-school-age youth and in defining accountability at each level
• Allocate resources necessary to support both short- and long-term implementation of policies and practice
• Use data to monitor and communicate progress to all stakeholders
• Assess the impact of any reform policy or practice on equitable distribution of resources, particularly the allocation of high-quality teachers
• Assess the impact of any reform or policy practice on all populations of students, particularly those traditionally marginalized such as English-language learners and students with disabilities
• Develop strategic, systemic approaches for addressing both dropout prevention and dropout recovery for vulnerable student populations
• Enact policy to support the retention of school and district leaders and teachers who will sustain the shared reform strategy and vision for all high-school-age youth
• Provide structures and supports to foster distributed leadership and communities of practice among educators, which leads toward continual improvement of instruction
• Enact policies for the recruitment, preparation, and development of leaders in education to ensure accountability in the preparation of all youth for college, careers, and active civic participation