When you walk into Backman Elementary School, one of the first things you notice are posters with college and career ready themes. Even their website opens with the theme (http://backman.slcschools.org/).
“This year at Backman Elementary, we are focusing on being college bound. This means practicing behaviors and skills now that will help our students reach their college and career goals.“
“College and Career Ready” is heard everywhere now, nationally and locally. The Utah State Office of Education has a page dedicated to being College and Career Ready that has resources for the community on preparing youth to be college and career ready. (http://www.schools.utah.gov/college-and-career-ready/).
A link to Backman’s “College bound Character book” leads you to an alphabetized booklet of traits that are necessary to preparing for life after graduation. (http://backman.slcschools.org/documents/Collegeboundcharacterbook.pdf)