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Board previews new counseling and early‑warning tool to track on‑track status for high‑school students
Summary
District staff demonstrated a college-and-career readiness template and an early‑warning analytics tool that shows on‑track/off‑track status, links required classes to graduation progress, and will be available to parents via the portal; board members supported rollout and requested final materials.
District counseling leaders on March 18 walked the Salt Lake County School Board through a new college‑and‑career readiness (CCR) template and an early‑warning analytics system intended to help counselors, teachers and families monitor students’ progress toward graduation and credential goals.
Dr. Grant described the CCR template as a family‑facing planning tool: "This is a template, but the idea is to be able to walk students and their parents through the whole plan," he said, noting the document shows on‑track/off‑track indicators, career interests, CTE/CE progress and FAFSA status to support conversations with counselors.
Dr. Hall demonstrated how the dashboard will visualize progress on required credits: "As they finish them, it will turn green and if you're enrolled in it, then you get the little stripes on it," she said, describing how the system signals completion, enrollment and gaps so counselors and parents can intervene earlier than prior practice when problems were sometimes discovered too late.
Staff said the tool will be accessible through the parent portal, updated when grades post and intended for rollout after final feedback from parent focus groups and counselors. The dashboard will also show CTE concentrator/completer progress and suggested next steps based on interest profiles, with guidance for middle‑school adoption to build an early academic identity. Staff offered to circulate the near‑final template to board members within days and recommended piloting communications and counselor scripts before a broad rollout.
Board members praised the tool as a way to help parents and counselors identify near‑miss students earlier, and linked adoption of the tool to any decision about raising credit requirements: several members said they wanted to see counseling staffing and scripting plans along with any proposed credit‑floor change.
Next steps: staff will send board members the most recent rendition of the CCR template and return with a formal plan on counseling, scheduling and communications as part of the May discussion agenda.
