Regional & statewide best practices are highlighted here. Example documents that can inform your practice are shared. If you have resources you would like to share submit them here.
Best Practices in Dual Enrollment
Student & parent orientation helps create a culture that includes dual enrollment. It makes it less scary for students and it helps to set shared expectations.
- Imperial Valley College Student Orientation: This orientation sets student expectations about college classes and review processes.
- Milpitas Unified School District (MUSD) Orientation: MUSD hosts a mandatory in person orientation at the beginning of every semester.
- Castro Valley High School (CVHS) Orientation: Here are the orientation slides used by CVHS for this semester for high school students. Community college outreach staff joined high school and shared information as well. Zoom for all dual enrollment: students (mandatory) and parents (optional).
- San Francisco Unified High School District Orientation (Video): The orientation video reviews how to register for classes, the impact of grades for high school students, systems and supports.
Handbooks are a way to institutionalize policy and process so that there is consistency, particularly with staff change. They are critical resources, particularly in times of staff and leadership change. Student & Parent handbooks should be offered in the languages that are spoken in students homes to create access.
Student & Parent Handbooks
Student & Parent Handbooks (Other States)
Instructor Handbooks
Regional & Administrator Handbooks
- Bay Region Dual Enrollment Administrators Guidebook v. 3: This guidebook provides insight into the practices and challenges of Bay Region dual enrollment programs.
- Orange County Dual Enrollment Handbook – Building and Scaling Effective Practices for Leadership and Implementation Teams
- Cabrillo Dual Enrollment Administrators Handbook
- Monroe Community College Administrators Handbook
Helping students and parents to understand available early college credit options is critical to access. Marketing can be in the form of events, printed materials, or word of mouth (so important to high school students).
- Early College Credit Flyers: These customizable flyers support marketing of early college credit opportunities (dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, articulation credit by exam). Available in English, Spanish, & Arabic. Add your school logo.
Student Voices: Dual Enrollment (CLP) Video highlighting student experiences in dual enrollment.
Dual Enrollment at City College of San Francisco (November 2019) Dual enrollment marketing video from City College of San Francisco.
Dual Enrollment High School Profile (Example) This template, shared by University of Maine Middle College, provides key dual enrollment demographics by high school for dual enrollment programs. Important information to highlight! (Completed Example, Editable Template)
- Dual Enrollment: Moving to an Electronic Form (CLP) Provides context and ed code for colleges considering implementing electronic dual enrollment forms.
- Title 5 Regulation Regarding Electronic Signatures Ed Code that permits use of electronic signatures on forms.
- Dual Enrollment Electronic Form Matrix (Career Ladders Project Dual Enrollment Basecamp) A crowd sourced matrix by practitioners to help compare various electronic forms – Add your organizations information!
Each of these systems has been used to support dual enrollment. Inclusion here is to allow you to evaluate them to see if they meet your needs: