Intersegmental Alignment

With $500 million in funding for Golden State Pathways and $200 million for Dual Enrollment, California is making a once-in-a-lifetime investment in students and our shared future prosperity. But ensuring [...]

The Begining
In 2014, Riverside City College (RCC) used Student Equity funds and a grant from the Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation (AJPFF) to develop the Guardian Scholars [...]

More than 350 people zoomed in to the October 1 COLEGAS webinar, Latinx Workforce: Completing the Promise, to hear a broad range of panelists discuss ideas and actions to reach [...]

Students who participate in high-quality dual enrollment during high school are more likely to graduate, enter college, and persist in college to completion than their peers who don’t. Some studies [...]

Career pathways maps increase career and college access, success, and equity for students.

Maps clarify and align programs and services; they link increasing levels of certification, education, and [...]

Career Ladders Project convened a small group of dual enrollment practitioners in a “think tank” in fall 2019, funded by the College Futures Foundation, focused on improving the paper-based enrollment [...]

An overview of three essential components of transition strategies
Connection
What connection means: K-12 schools and districts, community colleges, four-year institutions, employers, and community organizations connect through collective [...]

More than 300 practitioners from community colleges across California gathered in Bakersfield on Nov. 15 to learn about and explore intentional, supported pathways as a strategy for equity.

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Bakersfield College aims for every high school student in its vast service area to have the opportunity to enroll in college courses while in grades 9 through 12. Hundreds already [...]

Many community college practitioners across California look forward all year to recharging during the Strengthening Student Success Conference. Each year, we return home energized and full of new information and [...]

CLP director Naomi Castro was chosen as a fellow in the 2019 cohort of the California Education Policy Fellowship Program.

The fellowship gives participants the opportunity to develop [...]

Challenges and promising approaches across California
Students who participate in high-quality dual enrollment during high school are more likely to graduate, enter college, and persist in college to completion [...]

ELAC’s leaders are deeply committed to providing supports and dedicated staff to ensure that underserved students can study within structures that lead to their success. ELAC’s large dual enrollment program, [...]

Pathways at Reedley College in the Central Valley take various forms. There’s a Middle College High School on its campus; a longstanding partnership with the local Regional Occupational Program (ROP); [...]

A new CLP brief explores how colleges can use Guided Pathways to bring together innovation, people, and resources across initiatives. It highlights the stories of three California community colleges that [...]

Work-based learning is a key strategy for increasing student success, particularly for historically underserved student groups. But it can be hard for educators and employers to find each other and [...]

A new report from JUST Equations and WestEd, Multiple Paths Forward: Diversifying Mathematics as a Strategy for Student Success, shows that diversified math pathways have the potential to ease the [...]

The California Workforce Development Board (State Board) has released a three-part series, Big Ideas in Workforce Innovation, created by Career Ladders Project.

CLP documented emerging lessons from key State [...]

Lessons from California’s Youth Manufacturing Skills Pilot
In 2013, the California Workforce Development Board (State Board) granted funds to four partnerships of local workforce development boards (Local Boards) and [...]

Quantitative Leap: Webinar 4
Seizing Twelfth Grade to Improve Math Readiness: Senior-Year Transition Courses
Faced with high proportions of students needing remedial math courses in college, education systems [...]

“Through the Youth Manufacturing Skills Pilot (YMSP), the [California Workforce Development Board] proposed to build upon and elevate promising models such as the [Career Advancement Academies]… to a heightened level [...]

“Misalignment and policy incoherence can place needless obstacles in students’ way. Disjointed pathways create barriers to college access and completion, costing students and the state both time and money. The [...]

Oakland, Calif., March 1, 2016. LearningWorks was featured in an article in EdSource about Governor Jerry Brown’s intent to ask California institutions to reform math education.

The governor [...]