Tag: Student Engagement

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Missing bus passes, dual enrollment wins, and fights on Instagram: reporting from Oakland high school students

The Oaklandside

A team of youth reporters in Oakland reported on topics that mattered to them, including student transportation, school safety, equity in advanced placement course access, and other issues.

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Secondary School Redesign Self-Assessment Tool

Learning Policy Institute

This tool can help secondary school teams identify assets, needs, and opportunities and develop strategies for relationship-centered, engaging, culturally responsive school redesign.

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Linked Learning Student Survey

Linked Learning Alliance

A survey of 4,301 California students in Linked Learning Pathways highlights perspectives on motivation, supportive relationships, real-world learning, skill development, college and career preparation, and aspirations after high school.

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Creating Equitable Opportunities for Career-Connected Learning for MLLs

Internationals Network for Public Schools

This learning brief exploring the nuts and bolts of how schools implement successful career-connected learning designed for immigrant youth.

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Shared Leadership and Collective Decision-Making in Community Schools

California Partnership for the Future of Learning

In this video, students, parents, organizers, district leaders, and advocates highlight shared decisionmaking as a critical component of community schools.

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Community Schools in Los Angeles Unified: Transforming Teaching and Learning

Learning Policy Institute

This report examines how Los Angeles Unified built system-level supports for community schools while advancing inclusive environments, project-based learning, and career-connected high school pathways.

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National study of school cellphone bans shows benefits are not immediate

Stanford University School of Humanities & Sciences

A national study of school cellphone bans finds reduced phone use but mixed short-term effects on discipline and wellbeing and little impact on attendance or test scores.

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Renewing Public Education’s Purpose

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Co-sponsored by the Stuart Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, this essay series examines the purpose of public education and how schools might evolve amid a changing world.

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Oakland High School Redesign: How a Community-Centered Campus Created Pathways for Student Success

Learning Policy Institute

This brief profiles Oakland High School’s integration of community schools, Linked Learning pathways, dual enrollment, wellness supports, and authentic learning to improve student success.

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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Education Approaches: Rethinking California’s Alternative Education System

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

This report examines California’s alternative education system, including student demographics, school climate, academic outcomes, systemic barriers, and recommendations for more responsive supports.

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Why Career-Connected Learning Matters for Newcomer Adolescents

Internationals Network for Public Schools

This learning brief examines career-connected learning for newcomer and multilingual adolescents, including barriers to access and design considerations for equitable college and career pathways.

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Often Overlooked but Not Unseen: An Overview of Highly Mobile Youth in the U.S.

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

This brief provides a close look at the needs of highly mobile youth, identifies the systematic barriers these students face, and proposes targeted interventions to address their needs.

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Learner-Centered Ecosystem

Learner-Centered Collaborative

This resource outlines a new framework for education systems and learning experiences to create a learner-centered paradigm that brings out the best in each and every learner.

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Understanding Belongingness, Support, and Perseverance: An Exploratory Study of the Educational Experiences of Foster Youth in California

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

A study that explores how youth in foster care experience the foster care system, high school, and college, offering recommendations for these systems to better support these young people.

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Cultivating Relationships in Secondary Schools: Structures That Matter

Learning Policy Institute

This brief highlights structures that can foster relationship-building among students, teachers, and families in secondary schools.

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STEPS for Youth

UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent

An online tool that provides resources on adolescent brain and social development to help policymakers and other youth-focused professionals create more effective policies to support young people.

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Youth Civic Empowerment

YouthTruth

A report offering insight into the current state of youth civic empowerment, revealing troubling patterns of inequity in civic readiness.

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California’s Future is Clocked In: The Experiences of Young Workers

University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

A report focused on the conditions of young workers aged 16 to 24 in the state of California.

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How Bay Area Youth Distributed 2.4M

Northern California Grantmakers

A video about the Generational Recovery Fund (GRF), a youth-led, time-limited Bay Area regional pooled fund that invested in helping Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) youth to successfully navigate their recovery from the harms of COVID-19.

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Expanding Horizons

Partnership for Children & Youth

A report that makes the case for investing in expaned learning for older youth, offers compelling evidence of their benefits, provides examples of what these programs look like in action, and charts a path forward for public policy advocates and education leaders.

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