Topic: Youth Thriving Through Learning

Tool / Toolkit

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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Innovation Summit Report

National Association for College Admission Counseling

NACAC's innovation summit convened leaders to discuss redesigning college admission, assessing student merit and readiness, and developing the admissions counseling workforce.

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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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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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Story / Case Study / Commentary

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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Community Schools in Lynwood Unified: Building Capacity for Districtwide Implementation

Learning Policy Institute

This report examines how Lynwood Unified rapidly scaled community schools districtwide by defining and developing the capacity of coordinators and aligning services around student and family needs.

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Story / Case Study / Commentary

Community Schools in Rural California: Leveraging Shared Resources in West Kern County

Learning Policy Institute

This case study examines how a cross-district collaborative in Kern County leveraged shared resources to implement the community schools strategy in support of student success and well-being in a rural context.

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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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District Supports for Community Schools: How Systems Can Enable High-Quality Implementation

Learning Policy Institute

This brief synthesizes findings from case studies of three LEAs that support urban and rural community school networks, highlighting how they have supported and scaled effective community schools implementation in their unique settings.

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A Snapshot of Postsecondary Access and Opportunity in California

Institute for Higher Education Policy

This brief offers a snapshot of the strategies California has employed to expand postsecondary access without race-conscious policies or practices.

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A New Vision for Adolescent Learning and Well-Being

In this study, Sarah Fine, Santiago Rincón-Gallardo, and Michael Fullan examine the pioneering work of six California education systems—Lindsay Unified, Oakland Unified, Fresno Unified, Shasta County Office of Education, Monterey Peninsula Unified, and Anaheim Union High School District—that leveraged an influx of state funding to drive systemic transformations in secondary education.

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Story / Case Study / Commentary

Community-Connected Redesign at Fremont High School

Learning Policy Institute

This brief tells the story of Fremont High School's redesign journey from an isolated campus with severe underenrollment to a vibrant community school where students have access to authentic, community-connected learning and families hold power on campus.

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Framework/Guide

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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Tool / Toolkit

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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Graphic/Infographic

Growth Interrupted: An Update on Dual Enrollment Participation Among Public High School Graduates

Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)

This series of charts highlights trends in dual enrollment in public high schools since 2016, finding that growth in participation was disrupted by the pandemic and that equity gaps persist.

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Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

All4Ed

A report describing four types of school credit transfer policies that policymakers should consider to ensure that students and taxpayers reap the full benefit of dual enrollment.

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Webinar / Video / Podcast

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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Story / Case Study / Commentary

Districts must empower teachers to lead the way for whole-child education

University of South Carolina, College of Education

An op-ed arguing for and offering creative suggestions for schools to adopt whole-child approaches.

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