The PAS Framework outlines foundational shifts in beliefs, practices, and structures required to improve postsecondary outcomes and perspectives so all young people can embark on a meaningful career and achieve a family-sustaining wage.

Unlike past generations, students today must complete education or career training beyond high school to have similar odds of adult success.

This shift profoundly changes PreK-12 schools’ responsibility in preparing students for their future and calls on high schools to be launching pads for more tailored schooling and training for all. It also requires substantial and widespread changes in practices and structures at many levels and in several  different ways, including:

• Ways PreK-12 public schools use early warning indicator and tiered support systems to recognize and address the challenges students face on the pathway to adult success, based on the identified needs and available resources.
• The systematic experiences, exposure, and assistance that PreK-12 schools provide to help all students navigate postsecondary planning and preparation.
• • How PreK-12 school systems, higher education, employers, nonprofits, and community organizations work together to help strengthen young people’s pathways to adult success.
• The role of data to support, orient, monitor and adapt initiatives to improve young people’s postsecondary outcomes.

Together, these shifts provide a framework that can help a community significantly improve opportunities for its young people to achieve adult success.