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Graduation Guidelines
The PWR of Graduation Guidelines:
Graduation Guidelines are designed to help students and their families plan for success after high school.
Students choose from a Menu of Options - embedded in each school district’s graduation requirements - to demonstrate their readiness for career, college and the military, based on at least one measure in Reading, Writing, and Communicating, and one measure in Mathematics.
Graduation Guidelines give students the chance to experience all kinds of learning - in and out of the classroom - and to achieve education and workplace credentials.
Graduation Guidelines begin with the implementation of: Individual Career and Academic Plans (ICAP), Essential Skills, and Colorado Academic Standards for all content areas.
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Menu of Options
Why Graduation Guidelines?
The guidelines have two purposes, the first is to articulate Colorado’s shared beliefs about the value and meaning of a high school diploma. The second is to outline the minimum components, expectations, and responsibilities of local districts and the state to support students in demonstrating their readiness for the next step after high school.
By experiencing all kinds of learning, and by attaining credentials in high school, students have a better chance of building and articulating in-demand skills that meet business, industry, and higher education standards. 90% of the top jobs in Colorado require education beyond high school (Talent Pipeline Report)
Source: Attainment Network
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Next Steps
These Graduation Guidelines have been a catalyst for excellent conversations – about competencies, postsecondary and workforce readiness (PWR) and local control.
The Colorado Department of Education continues to meet with interested constituents to solicit feedback on the implementation of Graduation Guidelines and has engaged the expertise of more than 500 contributors. If you or your group is interested in being part of the conversation, we would like to hear from you.
Find it Now
- El Menu de opciones en español
- Legislation (PDF)
- Workgroups
- Graduation Guidelines Engagement Toolkit (PDF) 2014
- Students with Exceptions: English learners, gifted students and students with disabilities
- Resources
- Promising Practices: Board policies, district plans, rubrics and implementation strategies for capstone and industry certificates.
Contact
Arlisha Lawson-Watford, Ph.D.
ICAP and Graduation Guidelines Specialist
720-326-3916