Collaboration is key

Arizona K12 Center is part of the NAU College of Education. the Center creates and facilitates professional development for Arizona educators to improve teaching and leadership. For Arizona GEAR UP middle schools, the Center teaches educators how to enhance math instruction and student learning through collaborative and reflective means. Based on student-centered research, content provides academic standards, best practices, and program evaluation.

ABEC supports collaboration between business and education leaders to increase measurable outcomes for every student. Also, ABEC inspires middle school students to become their own best advocates through the Middle School Exploration Careers project. Students explore career options through hands-on activities and real-world experience with professional experts. ABEC provides a vital link between school success and the workforce as it nurtures students’ career goals.

BALF increases postsecondary success for underrepresented students through mentorship and leadership development. For Arizona GEAR UP, the Foundation helps ease the transition from high school to college by capacity building with school counselors. By employing a case management approach, students receive individualized support with the college and financial-aid application process to increase postsecondary enrollment.

CFA leads Arizona Pathways to Prosperity to create meaningful change in Arizona’s workforce and educational systems. Through career literacy and work-based learning opportunities, it provides career exploration in high-demand fields. Additionally, CFA helps close the student-achievement gap with its Beat the Odds Leadership Academy, which creates a culture of high expectations to close achievement gaps and increase academic performance.

Education Forward Arizona advocates for and acts on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all Arizonans. Through partnership and collaboration, Education Forward Arizona champions educational opportunity for Arizona students as it advances solutions to meet Arizona Education Progress meter goals, helps close achievement gaps, and advocates for students who most need additional resources.

Helios Education Foundation enriches the lives of students and creates opportunities to succeed in postsecondary education. Through strategic partnerships, it helps ensure academic preparation for students at every stage of education. Because of Helios Education Foundation, every senior in Arizona GEAR UP 5E schools and A60 schools receive a Senior Launch Guide, a tool that facilitates postsecondary career exploration.

NCCEP’s College and Career Clubs curriculum helps underserved students, grades 7 through 12, plan for postsecondary options. The program available to GEAR UP 5E middle-grade schools, 5E high schools, and A60 schools, seeks to increase the number of students who enroll and complete postsecondary education. The peer-led curriculum identifies knowledge, skills, and actions students must master to be college- and career-ready upon graduation from high school.

SSA empowers students to realize their dreams with a robust digital mentoring program. Mentoring services include social/emotional development, financial aid support, and college advising to increase high school graduation and postsecondary understanding, enrollment, and success.