Alliance Blog

Happy Friday! In this week’s What We’re Reading, we share articles covering how school districts successfully navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, a new fund proposed to support students as they persist through higher education, changes to the College Board CSS Profile, and more.

The Linked Learning Middle School Network brings together middle school educators in Linked Learning districts to expand and deepen college and career learning opportunities for their students. We are excited to launch the 2021-22 network, beginning in October.

Happy October, Linked Learning field! In this week’s What We’re Reading, we share articles covering COVID-19’s impact on high school graduates, computer science course access in California high schools, dual enrollment, and more. Plus, a very special video highlighting a Linked Learning teacher named Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year.

October is shaping up to be a busy month here at the Linked Learning Alliance, and across our districts! We are looking forward to seeing you at upcoming workshops, webinars, and network meetings throughout the month. We're also excited to share a new set of tools and resources designed to support pathways at the school and district level from creation to continuous improvement.

The Linked Learning Alliance is launching a new network, the Linked Learning Certification Support Network!

This week, we share stories about more deeply integrating career-technical education, the impact of COVID-19 on high school graduation rates, getting disconnected youth back on track, and more.

This week, check out stories on the role COVID-19 may be playing in bringing new attention to career-technical education, how we define success in higher education, getting parents invested in project-based learning, and more. Have a wonderful weekend, and thanks for reading with us!

Students are seeking clarity, guidance & relevance at both the high school and college levels. Our education system owes them all three, and it needs to deliver them acting as a united force writes Lumina Foundation's Chauncy Lennon and Linked Learning Alliance's Anne Stanton.

This week, Linked Learning Alliance’s President and CEO Anne Stanton was featured in The 74 Million, where she wrote alongside the Lumina Foundation’s Chauncy Lennon that K-12 and higher education systems must work together to support young people as they transition to postsecondary education. We also share articles on the importance of civic education, a new handbook on social-emotional learning from the US Department of Education, and more.