2025 Strategic Goals

Initiatives that Helped Us Meet Our Goals

Innovate

Coaching

  • Incorporated “Schedule a Meeting” tool for students to self-schedule time with their coach
  • Developed new Salesforce technology that enables coaches to prioritize student outreach
  • Launched monthly email to students on goal setting, prioritizing, staying on track, etc.
  • Implemented emails to students from Principal of Schools for celebrating milestones and to reengage inactive students
  • Created Academic Coach Welcome Videos
  • Created automated Welcome Email series from coaches

Curriculum

  • Developed a new Career Portfolio Course that incorporates Career Cruising, an online tool for career and postsecondary exploration
  • Launched manufacturing career certificate
  • Added monthly college planning seminars
  • Launched new program for English Language Learners (ELLs)
  • Optimized course content to enable students to translate content to their native language

Enrollment

  • Created new custom self-enrollment portals for libraries, corporate, and workforce partners
  • Created automated onboarding email series
  • Created videos on topics such as how to attend New Student Orientation
  • Increased support for students to help them request transcripts and earn transfer credit

Engage

Diversity

  • Initiated a curriculum review cycle to update assessments based on data analysis
  • Updated course imagery to better reflect our student demographics
  • Incorporated Google Translate into the curriculum
  • Launched hybrid ELL program

Data: Develop processes and strategies for evaluating longitudinal student learning data analysis.

  • Created a reporting dashboard to evaluate student performance by course

Stakeholder Satisfaction

  • Launched survey for “Incomplete” students who do not graduate
  • Migrated to a new survey tool to collect longitudinal alumni data, including Net Promoter Score

Grow

Corporate

  • Partnered with Amazon
  • Partnered with new tuition providers to reach new companies like Tyson, Tesla, and Target
  • Expanded partnerships with health care providers
  • Partnered with EnGen

Public Libraries

  • Developed a partner resource site for library partners
  • Created a YouTube channel with resources such as a detailed student experience demo and videos for students on topics such as staying on pace, attending orientation, requesting transcripts, graduation, and more

Faculty/Staff Development

  • All Team Leads participate in leadership-focused professional development
  • All coaches complete annual professional development initiatives and then train the teams on what they learned