Resources

We are always looking for resources and tools that can help the broader Linked Learning field of educators, employers, policymakers, parents, and students. Collaboration and innovation are essential parts of the success of Linked Learning. If you have tools, lesson plans, curricula, or other materials that can help expand and improve Linked Learning opportunities for students, please email it to info@linkedlearning.org.

To get you started, we have developed numerous materials to help foster the implementation and expansion of the Linked Learning approach. Below are resources that have been created through the collaboration of Linked Learning Alliance members, as well as links to member organizations with extensive resources of their own.

Communications Toolkit: Engaging educators, students, & parents

This toolkit contains resources and tools to help you reach educators, students, and parents. Communicating with these three audiences will be essential to transforming learning in schools through establishing new Linked Learning pathways and expanding existing ones. To help you with your outreach to these audiences, this toolkit contains a variety of information, tips, and template materials.

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Communications Toolkit: Engaging businesses, policymakers, & community partners

The success of Linked Learning will require the efforts of everyone, not just those most closely involved in schools. That is why we have provided this toolkit to help with outreach to external groups, including business leaders, policymakers, and other potential community partners. The materials and resources in this toolkit will help you conduct outreach to these audiences who can support Linked Learning pathways in both policy and practice.

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Communications Toolkit: Engaging Traditional & Social Media

To reach Linked Learning’s audiences effectively, outreach efforts must include earned and social media outlets—newspapers, television, radio, blogs, Facebook and Twitter. This toolkit is specially designed to help you effectively use these media channels to support and expand Linked Learning. It contains step-by-step instructions and template materials that can help you leverage earned and social media to reach target audiences.

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Linked Learning Logo & Style Guide

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Additional Linked Learning Field Resources

Linked Learning: A Guide to Making High School Work
UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access
May 2013

As Linked Learning expands, it is a key moment to identify many of the shared and effective strategies employed by schools and districts implementing the approach. Linked Learning: A Guide to Making High School Work, along with an accompanying DVD, highlights the experiences—both the struggles and successes—of sites that have committed to the hard work of transforming the high school experience for students using the Linked Learning approach. Based on a study of 10 high school sites across California, this guidebook provides educators, policymakers and stakeholders interested in revamping their school communities a solid launching point. The guidebook does not offer hard-set rules or checklists for implementing Linked Learning; rather, it presents six conditions that are strongly associated with successful Linked Learning pathways.

Expanding Access, Creating Options: How Linked Learning Pathways Can Mitigate Barriers to College and Career Access in Schools and Districts
The Education Trust-West
March 2013

The study, conducted over two years, highlights the connection between quality implementation of Linked Learning and equity and college and career access. The key findings in this report reinforce the need for consistency in the non-negotiable elements of Linked Learning as districts strive to take this approach to scale.

Work Based Learning in Linked Learning: Definitions, Outcomes & Quality Criteria
Linked Learning Alliance (Field Review Draft)
November 2012

Developed by the Linked Learning Alliance’s Work-based Learning Subcommittee (part of the Pathway Development Working Group), this document has two aims: (1) to provide clarity for teachers, partners, and others implementing Linked Learning concerning the definition of high-quality, outcomes-driven work-based learning; and (2) to increase alignment among Linked Learning partners and technical assistance providers so that support for Linked Learning practitioners around work-based learning can be more coherent, coordinated, and effective. Although in on-going field review, this document provides a useful resource for practitioners and work-based learning partners to begin to develop and structure outcomes-based work-based learning experiences for students.

Work-Based Learning Strategy- The Career Practicum
Linked Learning Alliance
June 2011

The precursor to the work-based learning definitions document above, the purpose of this document is to define and support the implementation of the ‘Career Practicum’ as a set of work-based learning experiences that play an important role on the continuum of work-based learning.

Resources Available via Member Organizations

The Career Academy Support Network has a collection of resources on career academies, which are a common delivery model for Linked Learning.

ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career has compiled a collection of helpful Linked Learning resources.

NAF Network of Academies A national network of over 500 high school career academies supported by the National Academy Foundation.