Guiding Principles:

• Early College is a powerful, motivational, hope-building, skill-developing mechanism for justice-involved youth and at-promise students.
• Personalized, student interest driven, critical pedagogy, culturally relevant instructional models are particularly effective for re-engaging disconnected youth.
• Mentoring programs delivered by Credible Messengers are particularly effective at “breaking through” where traditional mentoring has not.
• At-promise youths have unique non-academic, psycho-social and pragmatic needs that must be supported to ensure long-term academic success.
• Credit-recovery and acceleration should be individualized, personalized, engaging, seamless and dynamic.