Empower your Trusted Adults

Activate your school’s trusted adults to drive more meaningful conversations with kids around taking advanced courses.

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Why identifying trusted adults matters

  • Know which staff have built strong rapport

  • Understand student community better

  • Identify positive role models

  • Learn barriers students are navigating

  • Identify high potential student advocates

  • Develop better student outreach plans

  • Improve engagement & trust at school  

  • Train and support other staff

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“"The phrase trusted adult is something that was not part of our vernacular prior to working with EOS. Of course, we would have understood what it means, but it is now a regular part of the conversations that we have for students, and we understand that it's really important for every student to have at least one trusted adult when they walk into our school in order for them to feel successful. "

Sean Byrne
Asst. Principal, Glenbard South HS
Glenbard Township High School District 87

Identifying Trusted Adults is a game-changer

A trusted adult is a staff member that students feel comfortable engaging with on a range of topics. That includes discussing their future, the barriers they’re facing and where they need support.

  • Understand Rapport: Knowing which of your staff have built strong rapport with students can be a game changer for schools that are working to increase access for students to advanced coursework.
  • Identify trends: Use data from EOS Student Insight Cards to identify critical trends across your district. Filter results by criteria including age, trusted adults, courses and more to understand your community better.

Use individual or aggregate data to identify opportunities and build action plans to increase participation in advanced courses.

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Enhance outreach to support advanced course enrollment

Use your insight into trusted adults in the school community to support your goals to boost college and career readiness for all students.

  • Data-informed outreach: Help trusted adults become even more effective student advocates by providing data that helps them tailor their conversations to individual students’ context when engaging students around advanced courses.
  • Professional learning for staff: EOS helps districts with professional learning for staff in the community that helps them learn mechanisms to become trusted adults for more students so that they can further support outreach efforts.

Increase student access to
rigorous college and career-prep
courses with EOS

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See how districts and schools use EOS to deliver results

Prince William County

Chicago Public Schools

Gwinnett County

I think with EOS, what it really did for our staff and students was changed how they took the approach to enrolling in advanced courses; removing just looking at prerequisites or what your grades are, what your GPA is, but really looking at your passion and your drive and what your plans are post secondary.

And I think that that's so important -- looking at the entire student way past your previous GPA, or behavior history, but really what are your goals as an individual? Where do you see yourself once you leave high school? And what can we do here to set the tone for you so that you can accomplish that; whether it's a four year university, two year, or trade school, we want to set you up on the best trajectory for that.

I think the EOS program pushes your thinking and challenges you to be a bit more creative in your approach to how you work with students, and how you get them to a level academically that they didn't feel that they could achieve. And it's great, because I've always been told you can use the same recipe, however, the way you change the outcome is the amount of energy, the love and the time you put into something, and I think EOS brings us to that energy, that time and love we put into educating our students."

Dr. Charmelle Ackins, Prince William County School VA

9% Increase

Expected participation rate change for students in advanced courses in Fall 2023

+1095 Students

Change in the number of students expected to participate in advanced courses in fall 2023

49% Conversion Rate

2,987 identified students expected to participate in advanced courses in Fall 2023

Equal Opportunity Schools began our partnership with the city of Chicago District 299 in the fall of 2017 with six public schools. We have since grown to 45 schools and a total of five cohorts.

Despite a global pandemic, remote learning, and racial tensions throughout the nation, schools have persevered in the work of breaking down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for underserved and under represented students.

51% AP participation

51% AP participation rate in Cohort 1 had an increase of 29% after partnering with EOS. 

53% of Cohort 2 passed

53% of Cohort 2 passed at least one AP class. A 10% increase compared to the year prior. 

56% of students

56% of students within this cohort had passed at least one advanced course. A 7% increase from years prior. 
EOS began our partnership with Gwinnett County Public Schools during the 2022-2023 school year by serving South Gwinnett and Shiloh high Schools. We were able to identify over 2,000 10th and 11th grade students who currently possess the academic ability, mindsets and skills to gain access to and be successful in advanced courses. 

80% of students

in GCPS aspire to go to college

but GPCS staff Estmate 62%

only want to do so

a gap of 18%

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