A Tool Kit for California High Schools

Looking for college enrollment information?

For information on application and enrollment requirements for specific colleges and career programs in California, please visit their websites. Our Enrollment page offers some good starting points.

College Tools for parents

Resources for parents who want to help their children prepare for college, beginning with an answer to a basic question: why college?

Para Padres y Familiares

Estos recursos también están disponibles aquí en español.

Website design by Nick Despota, Lumina Media Production.
Photography copyright Peg Skorpinski unless otherwise noted.

College Tools for Schools is for California high schools eager to prepare more students for college and careers.

For background on this website and the goals of the College Tools project, see the About page. Challenge for Schools explains why schools should give top priority to making college an option for all students.

    Contents:
  • Advancing College-Going Culture
    How to show students the importance of college, barriers to college attendance, and steps to overcome them. How teachers and counselors build college-going culture.
  • Increasing Access to "a-g" Curriculum
    Requirements for UC and CSU, and how to fulfill them over 4 years of high school. How schools develop and expand "a-g" courses.
  • Transcript Evaluation
    How to analyze transcripts to see whether students are on a path to meeting college requirements. How to access the Transcript Evaluation Service, which electronically analyzes transcripts in relation to college-preparation benchmarks at each grade level.

  • SLCs and Career Academies
    Small learning communities (SLCs) and career academies can strengthen college-going culture and increase college readiness. Examples of promising practices in SLCs organized by theme or by grade level.
  • More Resources
    • User's Guide
    • Glossary of terms used in this website
    • Index of resources in this website
    • Links to other resources
    • College Tools for parents (in both English and Spanish)
      Workshop Materials (agendas, resources, articles and more)

If you know about other resources for teachers and counselors to advance college and career readiness, please contact us with the name and location of the resource.

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