Resource Library

Check in on your pathway development progress using our Linked Learning Pathway Self-Study Tool. Your answers will help you visualize what you've accomplished, note areas you're making strides, and create an action plan to continue strengthening your program. This tool is intended to help you understand how you’re doing in relation to several important Linked Learning concepts. It is not a formal evaluation of your program’s certification progress.

Curriculum & Instruction, Pathway Improvement, Career-Technical Education, Certification, College & Career Readiness, Equity, Outcomes, Rigorous Academics, Student Supports, Work-Based Learning, Getting Started, Steps to Silver, Going for Gold, Continuous Improvement

Recording of the June 24th Linked Learning to Life Through Integrated Project Design webinar

Webinars, College & Career Readiness, Partnerships, Student Supports, Work-Based Learning, Getting Started, Going for Gold, Continuous Improvement

Slide deck from the June 24th Bringing Linked Learning to Life Through Integrated Project Design webinar

Webinars, Career-Technical Education, College & Career Readiness, Rigorous Academics, Work-Based Learning

Recording of the April 29th, 2020 Work-Based Learning Amid COVID-19 webinar

Webinars, Work-Based Learning

A collection of work-based learning resources shared during Linked Learning's 3rd Virtual Conversation on April 29th.

Curriculum & Instruction, Webinars, COVID19, Work-Based Learning, Getting Started, Steps to Silver, Going for Gold, Continuous Improvement

How can educators provide students with an experience where they can interact with industry professions—even amid the COVID-19 pandemic? In this webinar, ConnectED explores several strategies and resources for providing students work-based learning opportunities through online and other creative outlets. Practitioners in the field also share promising practices as well as ongoing challenges.

Webinars, College & Career Readiness, Work-Based Learning

ConnectED’s video collection helps students virtually explore interesting jobs and gain insights into the skills and competencies needed to thrive in those jobs. With over 10 million views and counting, the collection is one of their most widely accessed resources.

Webinars, Work-Based Learning, Getting Started, Steps to Silver

This webinar from ConnectED shows how students do career research using their Day at Work video library and lesson plans from the Exploring College, Career, and Community Options (ECCCO) curriculum. These free resources help students explore their interests as well as potential jobs and careers, and require a relatively small lift for educators and parents in terms of access to technology.

Webinars, College & Career Readiness, Work-Based Learning

This brief presents findings from the Oakland Health Pathways Project (OHPP), a joint initiative of Oakland Unified School District, Alameda Health System, and Alameda County Health Care Services Agency. The initiative is designed to improve educational and long-term employment outcomes for youth of color in Oakland (Alameda County), California, while expanding and diversifying the local health care workforce. It applies Linked Learning, an approach to college and career preparation that combines classroom learning with real-world work experiences. This brief draws on interviews with key personnel from the three partner organizations to distill lessons learned on effective cross-sector partnerships and delivery of authentic work-based learning. These lessons are timely as the health care industry is projected to account for about a third of total U.S. job growth through 2026, and includes 20 of the 30 fastest growing occupations nationally. Findings from this Oakland initiative can help other communities better align K-12 education and student experiences with projected local labor needs.

Research, Lessons Learned, Partnerships, Work-Based Learning, Continuous Improvement

All Linked Learning pathway teachers need to understand the specific knowledge and skills students will need to perform industry-sector jobs. However, not all pathway teachers have this knowledge, nor do they always know how particular discipline content is used within an industry.

In the brief, "The District Office as a Site for Work-Based Learning," Ann Jaquith and Jamie Johnston describe an approach to teachers’ professional learning that can develop and/or enrich the distinctive aspects of Linked Learning pathways. Drawing from ongoing work in California’s Montebello Unified School District (MUSD), the authors show how district and school leaders can help core teachers better understand career-relevant knowledge and skills, and encourage CTE teachers to collaborate with their colleagues.

Research, Career-Technical Education, Lessons Learned, Work-Based Learning