Empowering student success coaches with the Community Educator Learning Hub

The Community Educator Learning Hub, an award-winning online learning platform developed by Arizona State University’s Next Education Workforce™, received an investment from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation to provide scholarships for organizations training student success coaches. With a goal of supporting up to 2,500 student success coaches by December 2026, the grant provides open access to the Hub, including the 12-nanocourse Student Success Coach collection. 

The nanocourses, which focus on building relationships, supporting student attendance and identifying factors that lead to student academic success, were created in collaboration with City Year, a national service organization that has been a leader in applying evidence-based student success methodologies in communities of opportunity across the U.S. for over three decades. 

“It’s really exciting to provide access to high-quality resources to schools and organizations that are trying to implement student success programs — especially right now,” Korbi Adams, the senior program manager for the Next Education Workforce’s Community Educator Initiatives, says. “It is great to be able to say, if you have a need around training, here is something that could support your organization in the next year or two. There’s support to help your student success coaches receive the training that they need and to add some much-needed capacity to your team.”

Student success coaches play a pivotal role in schools by partnering with educators, families and students to address specific barriers impacting student achievement, Adams says. For example, some schools may mobilize student success coaches to not only track student attendance but also better understand why they may be absent and work at the school and family level to help students get to school. 

“It might take the form of mentoring students, or taking on a different role in the school to support students academically and build relationships. The goal is for young people to have a caring adult at school, in addition to classroom teachers, who checks-in with them, knows what is going on in their lives and is looking forward to seeing them.” Adams adds.

Monique Reveles, a program manager for the Next Education Workforce’s Community Educator Learning Hub, worked in a role similar to a student success coach and saw firsthand the impact this role has in schools. 

“Working with students showed me the importance of consistent presence in a child’s life. I helped students with their school work, but the real impact came from building trust and being someone my students could rely on,” Reveles says. “I also answered a lot of questions about college, supported them through scholarship applications and personal statements, guided career exploration and talked through everyday stress. My role was to offer students a supportive space to figure things out. Especially in under-resourced communities, roles like this can be a bridge between students and the systems they are trying to navigate.”

The Community Educator Learning Hub will host a webinar at 11:30 a.m. Pacific/2:30 p.m. Eastern on July 8 to share more information about the Student Success Coach nanocourse collection. Participants will be able to preview the Hub and learn more about the available resources. 

If you have any questions about the scholarships for Student Success Coaches, please reach out to Monique Reveles, program manager for the Community Educator Learning Hub at monique.reveles@asu.edu.