Strategic Data Project Convening 2019

The To & Through Advising Challenge engages 20 school districts, charter organizations, and community-based organizations across the country to change the way they do business around postsecondary advising. Grantees develop a plan that addresses postsecondary fit and match, increasing FAFSA completion, and reducing the effects of summer melt and then begin to implement that plan the following year. Second, the National College Access Network seeks qualitative insights about obstacles in the way of accomplishing this work.
This session will examine the challenges and roadblocks and how data coaches attempted to mitigate them. Presenters come from three project constituencies: two members of the leadership team, a postsecondary data coach (and SDP Fellow), and two grantee representatives (one from a school district, one from a community-based organization supporting a district). The panel will share lessons and resources but also seek feedback from the audience.