News

  • Completion
  • Financial Aid
  • Other
  • Resources

Members of the PSCCN team sat down with Erica Rollosson - College and Career Guidance Specialist, and Bethany Hartfield - College and Career Coordinator from the University Place School District (UPSD) to discuss the noticeable increase in this school year's financial aid completion rates

Lessons in Continuous Improvement
  • Careers
  • Resources
  • Spotlight
  • Training

PSCCN is pleased to announce that we were recently highlighted in a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation publication called Lessons in Continuous Improvement: Insights, Resources & Tools from Education Organizations. This report highlights common emerging themes, promising practices, and tools that PSCCN and other Model Design Initiation (MDI) grantees utilized to implement a continuous improvement approach within their K-12 and postsecondary work. 

  • Other
  • Readiness
  • Resources
  • Spotlight

We spoke with College and Career Specialist, Christiann Thomas, from Fife High School to learn about their current financial aid work. Please read below for strategies that could apply to your district's work:

  • Financial Aid
  • Readiness
  • Spotlight
  • Transition

The pandemic has disrupted many things, including the path for students to higher education. There has been a decline in college enrollment for students straight from high school, which has also inadvertently affected Financial aid application numbers. Some school districts are exploring/trying new strategies to reach more students and provide the needed support to help them transition from high school to college. One such district is the Auburn school district, which has implemented a new summer initiative to increase financial aid application completion rates.