OSSE's 2023-25 Strategic Plan identifies seven areas of focus for targeting state-led investments in recovery and restoration. They are aligned with the District’s Roadmap for Recovery. The Reimagining High School Graduation Requirements initiative is highlighted in OSSE’s Recovery to Restoration: 2023-2025 Strategic Plan as a component of the “Build Futures” strategic priority. This initiative is focused on revising the current Graduation Requirements and the creation of a DC-wide Graduate Profile.
Graduation Requirements
The aim of this initiative is to identify and implement new high school graduation requirements that incorporate outcome measures and support innovative approaches to preparing young people for life after graduation.
DC-wide Graduate Profile
The graduation requirements work is also inclusive of the development of a DC-wide Graduate Profile. The inaugural development of a DC-wide Graduate Profile will have an in-depth focus on establishing comprehensive academic, personal, and interpersonal characteristics/competencies that high school students should master in advance of graduation. Please see the DC-wide Graduate Profile and Graduation Requirements.
Community Engagement
OSSE will partner with stakeholders across the District to identify and implement new high school graduation requirements and develop the DC-wide Graduate Profile. OSSE will use the feedback from listening sessions, interviews, and surveys to develop drafts of the graduation requirements and DC-wide Graduate Profile.
Three Year Phased Approach
For additional information on the Reimagining High School Graduation Requirements initiative please contact Dr. Antoinette Mitchell, Interim State Superintendent, or Dr. Chimere Jones, Director of Policy and Planning, at [email protected].
Resources
- Proposed Revisions to DC Graduation Requirements
- DC-wide Graduate Profile
- Graduation Requirements FAQs
- DC-wide Graduate Profile FAQs