Postsecondary Success
What We Do
We work alongside school leaders, counselors and staff, and their community-based partners to build stronger postsecondary planning systems from the inside out. Insight is a strategic partner focused on helping school teams do this work better, together.
How We Work
We partner with schools over four years (plus a fifth support year, as needed) to help them build clarity around their strengths and weaknesses in postsecondary planning; gain reliable insights through data-gathering and regular team communication; and develop a clear, well-aligned process to ensure every student can create a plan for life after high school.
Rather than layering on more programs, Insight helps schools align the people, partnerships, and practices they already have in place to create an organized approach to students’ postsecondary success that everyone can own.
7 PPSP Fellows
Educators from colleges and high schools with a special interest in aligning teaching and learning at the secondary and postsecondary levels
75% of seniors
across PPSP District schools applied to at least one college and at least one scholarship in the ’18-’19 year
9th Grade
Identified through PPSP’s postsecondary asset mapping as critical grade where early college awareness activities increase high school retention and college enrollment
Who We Serve
Philadelphia public high school principals, educators, and counselors who commit to join forces to optimize their students’ college readiness
Get in Touch
For questions and inquiries, please email Isabella Bowker, Senior Program Manager for Insight, at ibowker@philaedfund.org.
“In 2013, the school I proudly lead was slated for closure. Four years later, we were lauded as one of the School District of Philadelphia’s most successful high school turnarounds. The key to our success was a sense of urgency, a collective fire to prove that we deserved to remain open, a dedicated staff organized around a common goal, and our long-standing and committed partnership with the Philadelphia Education Fund.”
Richard Gordon, Principal
Paul Robeson High School for Human Services
