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Work-based learning—like job shadows, guest speaking engagements, internships, and more—play a powerful role in boosting student success in the classroom and as part of the future workforce. By design, work-based learning experiences take shape along a continuum—offering students the
opportunity to progress in their learning and skills, and employers a range of opportunities to engage at the level of commitment and interest right for them.

Communications, Curriculum & Instruction, Work-Based Learning

The Linked Learning Alliance offers this guide to help pathway leads, work-based learning coordinators, and school district administrators develop comprehensive work-based learning programs that serve their students well.

Communications, Curriculum & Instruction, Work-Based Learning

Productive, rewarding internships have much in common with work experiences that attract, retain, and engage people in careers to the benefit of employers and entire industries. This framework builds on insights from hundreds of Linked Learning pathways that feature work-based learning in partnership with local employers.

Curriculum & Instruction, Work-Based Learning

LEAs participating in the Golden State Pathways Program can use this framework as guidance to develop sustainable new pathways or expand current pathways.

Curriculum & Instruction, Policy

Curriculum & Instruction, Career-Technical Education, College & Career Readiness, Work-Based Learning

This pre-apprenticeship framework outlines strategies and promising practices for developing high-quality programs that serve opportunity youth participants.

Curriculum & Instruction, Career-Technical Education, College & Career Readiness, Partnerships, Student Supports, Workforce Development, Work-Based Learning, Getting Started, Steps to Silver, Going for Gold, Continuous Improvement

This playbook was developed by the Clayton Christensen Institute to help K–12 and postsecondary leadership and nonprofits that work with those institutions implement and adapt strategies, tools, and metrics that build and strengthen their students’ networks. Students’ networks help support their well-being and can expand their postsecondary and career options.

Curriculum & Instruction, General, Student Supports, Getting Started, Continuous Improvement

A guide for teachers and staff on how to effectively prepare students for high quality work-based learning experiences and tips on how to provide relevant student outcomes experience from Fresno Unified School District.

Curriculum & Instruction, College & Career Readiness, Work-Based Learning

This brief provides an overview of these two approaches and describe a framework for bringing the Linked Learning and community schools together at the high school level so that all students, particularly those in communities that have been historically marginalized, are on a path to postsecondary success.

Curriculum & Instruction, Research, Equity, General, Partnerships, Rigorous Academics, Student Supports, Getting Started

This guidebook recognizes the unique expertise and experience of faculty and educational master candidates who have committed to the hard work of transforming the high school experience for students using the Linked Learning approach. The chapters in this guidebook provide a variety of insights from secondary and post-secondary educators involved in work associated with Linked Learning implementation.

Curriculum & Instruction, Pathway Improvement, Career-Technical Education, College & Career Readiness, Equity, General, Lessons Learned, Postsecondary, Rigorous Academics, Student Supports, Workforce Development, Work-Based Learning, Getting Started