Ramp-Up to Readiness

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Ramp-Up to Readiness™

Helping every student

     Choose Rigor

             Gain Access

                     Maintain Motivation and

                 Practice Persistence

                  On the road to higher education and a high-skill career

Ramp-Up to Readiness^TM is a school-wide guidance program that helps middle and high school students master the knowledge, skills and habits for success in a high-quality college program, whether it be at a technical college, a community college or a four-year college or university.

The Ramp-Up Process

At the heart of Ramp-Up to Readiness^TM are the 20 Ramp-Up Standards, a sequence of actions and outcomes that progressively builds students' knowledge and skill in five goal areas: Academic Readiness, Admissions Readiness, Career Readiness, Financial Readiness, and Personal and Social Readiness.

In each of those goal areas, the Ramp-Up Standards guide students through four developmental phases:   

• Understand: The student understands what readiness looks like in each of the five goal areas and his/her level of readiness.
• Believe: The student embraces the challenge of getting ready and believes that he or she will enter and succeed in a postsecondary program that leads to a high-skill career.
• Plan: The student creates, annually reviews and updates a plan for reaching each of the five Ramp-Up to Readiness^TM goals.
• Achieve: The student completes a set of specific steps that are required for a successful transition from high school to higher education.

While Ramp-Up to Readiness^TM students do not move through these developmental phases in a uniform or linear fashion, in general they focus on the Understand, Believe, and Plan phases during their middle and early high school years and on the Achieve phase during their last two years of high school.