For OneGoal’s 10-year anniversary, Co-Founder + CEO Jeff Nelson recorded a video reflecting on the main lessons he’s picked up in leading the organization for the last decade.
The degree divide.
A national injustice.
OneGoal is a coalition of teachers, students, school leaders and education advocates working to close the degree divide and ensure all young people can achieve their postsecondary dreams.
OUR APPROACH
Great teachers
lead our work.
OneGoal is uniquely led by excellent teachers (Program Directors) already working in high schools. We support them
with a trailblazing curriculum, training and coaching, technology, and access to our partner postsecondary institutions.
We prioritize underserved students.
We match each Program Director
with a cohort of 25-30 students
(Fellows) whose talents and strengths
are often overlooked and whose postsecondary
education prospects are limited due to academic and socioeconomic barriers.
Our unique model is
proven to work.
Program Directors work with
same group of Fellows from
their junior year of high school
through their first year of postsecondary education.
Fellows explore their identities and aspirations, build academic skills, and learn to anticipate and overcome roadblocks to ensure they
reach graduation.
THE RESULT
81%
of OneGoal high school graduates
enroll in a postsecondary institution
86%
of those who enroll
persist one year later
OUR STORIES
My biggest lessons
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In celebration of OneGoal’s 10-year anniversary, co-founder and founding Program Director Matt King shares memories of how it all first started and how far we’ve come in a decade.
“Teachers are mentors, we’re support systems, and at times some of us have to be a second set of parents. If you want to see success, you have to go over and beyond the call of duty.”
Zazalleesha Swanson
Program Director, OneGoal – Houston
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“Before OneGoal, I actually had the same goals as a teacher that I do now, just now they are attainable. And now I have access to resources, training and support.”
Sasha Fawaz
Program Director, OneGoal – Chicago
Catalyst Maria High School
