News From the Field
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Mt. Whitney High School Linked Learning students score gold
Visalia Unified School District was recognized with a prestigious Gold Certification by the Linked Learning Alliance. Every VUSD high schools has Linked Learning pathways in different disciplines: architecture and engineering, business finance, computer science, first responders, health sciences, law and justice, media arts, and sports medicine.
Across California, Data Gaps Related to Career Education May Contribute To Local Workforce Shortages
Coordination is in progress, but no one knows yet how well the money being poured into career education statewide is helping to fill labor needs for high priority fields, region by region.
Career Pathways And Opportunity Pluralism For Young People
For young people to participate successfully in the workforce and flourish generally, they need to develop knowledge, relationships, networks, and personal agency.
Oakland’s Fremont High Media Academy Gets a Special Honor in Sacramento
The California Department of Education named Fremont High School’s Media Academy a Distinguished California Partnership Academy. This acknowledgment is a product of the academy’s low attrition rates, high graduation rates and industry partnerships that produce career pathways.
Students deserve to learn with a sense of purpose
Commentary from Roman Stearns, executive director of Scaling Student Success, writes about how a vast majority of young people go through school with a sense of purpose. He highlights examples throughout California where innovative teachers, schools, and districts are fostering student purpose exceptionally well, including Linked Learning partner Porterville Unified School District.
High School Isn't What You Remember: OUSD and the Linked Learning Model
This episode dives deep into the district's embrace of Linked Learning. Rebecca Lacoque, Director of Linked Learning at Oakland Unified School District, describes how the high school landscape has shifted, with career themed learning, universal college prep, internships, dual enrollment in community college, and much more.
Opinion: How California can give unhoused students a helping hand
Amid efforts to restructure educational systems in support of Linked Learning and community schools, Y-PLAN’s success shows what is possible when we entrust young people to lead: We can bring applied learning into the classroom, expand career pathways for youth, and dramatically improve conditions for our most vulnerable, writes Deborah McKoy and Lucetricia M. Anderson.
Friendships between rich and poor promote upward mobility: School career pathways program help do this
Recent studies by Harvard economist and Opportunity Insights Director Raj Chetty and his colleagues show that friendships that cut across class lines, including those we experience in school, especially high school, play a key role in boosting upward mobility and expanding opportunity in America.
Dinuba HS academy awarded 'Linked Learning Gold Certification', the first in the valley
Construction Management Academy at Dinuba High School in Dinuba Unified School District was awarded Linked Learning Gold Certification this week, the first high school to receive this award in the Central Valley, and first Construction & Building Trades pathway to receive Gold in the nation.