Highline board hears secondary redesign plans tied to postsecondary credentials and enrollment

Summary

District leaders told the board that redesign pilots at the district’s four comprehensive high schools aim to increase students’ industry-recognized credentials and direct college enrollment; staff shared baseline and recent outcome data and described school-level plans such as a four-period day, a health-care pathway and expanded IB access.

At a special Highline Public Schools board work session, district staff outlined the district’s secondary school redesign work and how it connects to postsecondary outcomes such as industry-recognized credentials and direct college enrollment.

The board was asked to consider redesign as part of the district strategic plan’s “future ready” goal and measures. Andrew Benitez, executive director in Student Learning, described the work as community driven and said each comprehensive high school has developed a “Case for Change” and a Journey Plan to guide pilots and implementation.

Benitez said the redesign effort is not top-down: “Our secondary redesign work is designed not to be top down, but really driven by the voices of our community, including our students, including our educators, and including our families,” he said. He tied the redesign to strategic-plan measures labeled in the presentation as Key Result 3 (measures 3A and 3B) and Key…

Highline board hears secondary redesign plans tied to postsecondary credentials and enrollment

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