Building with Our Core Network
Pursuing the RISE by 5 Focus Areas
Through our core network, we partner with nine public high schools across eight school districts in Connecticut. RISE high schools serve over 13,000 students and represent over 1,200 educators. Together, RISE partners work together across schools and districts to pinpoint needs, pursue new innovations, and scale promising practices. When we first launched RISE, each partner school experimented with different researchbased and data-informed programs and practices, which helped us learn more about what worked under specific conditions. This led RISE partners to formally adopt five network-wide focus areas in 2017 — the RISE by 5 framework — to increase on-track achievement and postsecondary readiness. RISE by 5 was informed by national research, local data, student voice, and educator expertise.
Over time, the RISE by 5 strategies have evolved. For example, our initial set of strategies focused heavily on freshman success and Grade 9 interventions. As RISE has grown, our work together as a network has taken on a schoolwide approach with increasing emphasis around college and career readiness, access, and success. We launched the network five years ago, and as we look ahead to the next five years, we are excited to update the RISE by 5 framework to better reflect what we do, what we’re learning, and where we’re headed.
Together, RISE partners work together across schools and districts to pinpoint needs, pursue new innovations, and scale promising practices.
Collaborating for Statewide Impact Our core network partners include:
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RISE high schools work across five focus areas to promote high school and postsecondary success. The RISE by 5 focus areas support innovation and improvement at the network, school, educator team, individual educator, and student levels. Importantly, each RISE high school pursues the RISE by 5 framework in unique ways to reflect local context and priorities, and variation across schools supports continued learning as a network community.
ON-TR ACK AND POSTSECONDARY CULTURE
TARGETED TR ANSITION SUPPORTS
DATA-DRIVEN EDUCATOR COLLABOR ATION
School communities share a singular focus on results. Educators, students, and families work together to keep freshman success, on-track achievement, and college and career readiness at the forefront.
Students benefit from targeted transition supports in Grade 9 and in preparation for postsecondary pathways. These supports invest in critical moments, key staff, and focused student subgroups.
Teams engage in studentscentered team meetings, leveraging data tools, protocols, and educator expertise to take a holistic approach to meet individual needs of all students.
Brien McMahon High School, Norwalk Public Schools East Hartford High School, East Hartford Public Schools Francis T. Maloney High School, Meriden Public Schools Hartford Public High School, Hartford Public Schools Manchester High School, Manchester Public Schools Middletown High School, Middletown Public Schools Naugatuck High School, Naugatuck Public Schools Orville H. Platt High School, Meriden Public Schools
EQUITABLE EDUCATOR PR ACTICE
CROSS-SCHOOL LEARNING
Educators receive coaching, resources, and support to invest in educators as professionals, pursuing evidence-based ideas to create more rigorous, engaging, and inclusive classroom and school environments.
Network partners come together across schools to learn, grow, and improve. Teachers, counselors, and administrators share successes, challenges, and ideas to advance our shared goals and collective impact.
Westhill High School, Stamford Public Schools
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