Alliance Blog

The latest post from the Learning Policy Institute’s Transforming Schools series is authored by Linked Learning Alliance President and CEO Anne Stanton. Her guest post, Thriving, Learning, and Leading: What Adolescents Are Teaching Us Post-Pandemic and Why We Should Listen, emphasizes that while some of the hardships of the pandemic have begun to subside, students—particularly adolescents—are still reeling from its traumas during an extremely formative time in their lives.

At the Alliance, we enter 2024 with fresh hope and determination. As always, we’re firmly dedicated to making sure more young people connect their passions to their purpose, their purpose to their power.

The Linked Learning Alliance is excited to open nominations for the 2024 Linked Learning Student of the Year Award, celebrating civic and community excellence in youth.

The Linked Learning Alliance is pleased to share that the California Department of Education is now requesting applications for the second round of Golden State Pathways Program grants. These grants will fuel the work of school districts and other local education agencies as they collaborate across their regions, developing college and career pathways that equitably prepare young people for success in the high-wage, high-growth fields of today and tomorrow.

With significant Golden State Pathways Program (GSP) implementation dollars soon flowing to local education agencies in many California regions, decisionmakers across the state are hungry for insights—specifically on what students really want and need so that these strategic college and career preparation investments in fact deliver equity and economic returns as planned.

Porterville Unified School District partners with leading college and career preparation champions ConnectEd, Linked Learning Alliance and NAF, to launch annual, nationwide recognition of educational pathways that connect students to careers

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