ConnectEd: The National Center for College and Career
For Establishing A Comprehensive College And Career Readiness Framework
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Amount$60,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/13/2012
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Term5.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
ConnectEd is dedicated to advancing practice, policy, and research aimed at helping young people prepare for both college and career through a high school improvement approach called Linked learning. Linked Learning connects strong academics with real–world career-building experience in a wide range of fields—such as engineering, arts and media, and biomedical and health sciences. Working with WestEd—a research, development, and service agency—ConnectEd seeks to complete the establishment of a "college- and career-readiness" framework for California. This Framework, which will have utility in national discussions to define career readiness, will clarify the definition of these terms and galvanize educators, industry, family advocates, and policy makers in supporting related education reform strategies and policies.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.connectedcalifornia.org
Address
2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 1200, Berkeley, CA, 94704-1357, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of organizational diversity, equity and inclusion capacity to advance educational equity
ConnectEd supports the development of Linked Learning path-ways so that Californian students - especially those who are most disadvantaged - can complete middle and high school prepared for lasting success in college, career, and life. This organizational effectiveness grant supports their internal work to deepen awareness, knowledge, skill, and capacity about educational equity. Helping our grantees become more aware, prepared and competent around internal issues of equity will ensure that their field-focused work - and the field of education more broadly - reflects the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
for support of three school districts to build capacity to assess student competencies
ConnectEd prepares students for success in college, career, and life by implementing career-themed high school pathways that deliver learning through authentic, real-world applications. ConnectEd will support three California school districts to build capacity for assessing deeper learning; identify key competencies and metrics for measuring deeper learning; and promote such assessments as a local component within California’s new school accountability system. Creating strong district-wide exemplars of deeper learning measurement will help scale improved systems for assessment and accountability throughout the state.
