Grantee Resources

Topic: High School Transformation

Webinar / Video / Podcast

College and Career Readiness Promising Practice – Meaningful External Partnerships

Education Trust, Inc.

A peek into schools and districts across California that have taken intentional steps to build powerful external partnerships in order to increase opportunities and supports for underrepresented students of color, low-income students, and English learner students to graduate high school prepared for college and career.

Story / Case Study / Commentary

Promising Practice in Action: Create and Foster Learning Experiences that Honor Students’ Humanity

Education Trust, Inc.

A brief profile describing how Vintage High School, part of Napa Valley Unified School District, helps students build college-going identities by deliberately taking steps to understand and value the cultures of the students, families, and communities that they serve.

Research/Report

Compassionate Systems: Monterey Program Progress Report

National Center for Youth Law

A report sharing the National Center for Youth Law's program model for supporting students experiencing homelessness in Monterey County, California to graduate from high school with the widest array of possibilities for their future.

Research/Report

FosterEd, Antelope Valley Progress Report Year One

National Center for Youth Law

An analysis of the educational data from the 2018-2019 school year of the Center for Youth Law's work in Los Angeles County in partnership with Palmdale School District to support the individual needs of children in foster care and systems change at a district level.

Research/Report

Giving Learning and Graduation New Meaning: One Student at a Time

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

A case study summarizing how California's school funding law, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), is being implemented in San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD).

Research/Report

Aligning Systems for Equity

University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education

A report about the April 2019 Aligning College and Career Pathway Systems for Equity symposium, in which participants identified the high priority problems of system alignment affecting equitable pathway development, and the specific research questions that need to be answered in order to guide policy and practice.

Research/Report

Leadership and Capacity Building in College and Career Pathways

University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education

A report about the November 2018 Leadership and Capacity Building in College and Career Pathways symposium, which focused on leadership and capacity-building and the research questions required to address problems of practice faced by pathway administrators, teachers, counselors, and other student support specialists.