Alliance Blog

We are excited to announce the 2021-22 cohort of Linked Learning fellows! This group of accomplished education practitioners from across California will support communities across California and nationwide address educational and economic equity through Linked Learning.

Happy November! This week, we took a look at articles covering computer science in high school classrooms, burnout among high schoolers and their counselors, workforce development efforts in community colleges, and more. Thanks for reading with us!

Partnership for Children and Youth’s new report, 2021 Bright Spot: How California educators uplifted summer for re-engagement, reconnection, and reimagining learning, provides the landscape of the state’s 2021 publicly funded summer learning programs, including the trends, best practices, challenges, and innovative ideas.

Join the Linked Learning Alliance, the Center for Innovation in Education, and Envision Learning Partners as we #BurstTheBubble of standardized assessments and explore the value of performance assessments during and beyond COVID-19.

The Linked Learning Alliance is pleased to welcome Emily Passias as vice president of policy.

This week, we take a look at stories covering assessment during COVID-19, new CTE research, student supports, and more. Have a spooktacular Halloween, and thanks for reading with us!

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.

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.

Join the Linked Learning Alliance, Partnership for Children and Youth, and California education leaders on Wednesday, November 3, 3:00-4:00pm PDT for a discussion on practical ways to implement effective summer learning, how to leverage dollars to scale these programs, and how these experiences ensure high school students are seen, engaged, and connected to their purpose.

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!