Beyond High School: Efforts to Improve Postsecondary Transitions Through Linked Learning

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Panelists 

Diane Friedlaender, Senior Associate, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
Phillip Lovell, Vice President for Policy and Advocacy of Comprehensive High School Reform, Alliance for Excellent Education
Lori Meyer, Consultant
Bob Miller, Interim Superintendent-President, Pasadena City College
Seraiya Wright, Graduate, Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High School (Sacramento, CA)

Linked Learning is a promising educational strategy that integrates rigorous academics with career-based learning and real work experiences.

Evidence suggests that Linked Learning students are more likely than their peers at traditional high schools to graduate and enter postsecondary education. Panelists will describe how Linked Learning strengthens the transition from high school to postsecondary education; highlight findings from studies of Linked Learning implementation sites; and discuss how state and federal policy can support Linked Learning and similar efforts.

SCOPE researcher Diane Friedlaender will discuss findings from SCOPE case studies of Dozier-Libby Medical High School and Oakland's Life Academy High School, two Linked Learning implementation sites in California. Bob Miller will describe the First Year Pathways program at Pasadena City College and discuss the launch of the college’s California Career Pathways Trust program. Seraiya Wright will explain how her Linked Learning experience at Health Professions High School prepared her for college and Phillip Lovell will share state and federal policy recommendations. Lori Meyer will moderate the discussion. Panelists will also address questions submitted by webinar viewers from across the country.

In tandem with this webinar, the Alliance will release an accompanying report, Beyond High School: Efforts to Improve Postsecondary Transitions Through Linked Learning. The report describes how one school district, two high schools in different school districts, and a regional program that are all implementing Linked Learning are strengthening students’ transition from high school to postsecondary education.