Partners

Career Academy Support Network (CASN), UC Berkeley
The Career Academy Support Network (CASN) offers comprehensive support and staff development for Small Learning Communities and Career Academies at which students can fulfill requirements for college entrance while learning to relate their academic courses to the world outside of high school. The principal members of CASN have played an important role in the launch, support, and evaluation of the California Partnership Academies, and continue to work closely with the California Department of Education in this regard. CASN also maintains one of the largest websites in support of Career Academies in the country (http://casn.berkeley.edu), with a national directory of academies, a series of free guides, a curriculum database, videos of successful academies, and an electronic forum." CASN is helping to build capacity for pathway leadership teams by co-developing and co-facilitating the Experiential Site Visits and sessions for the Pathway Leadership Development Series. CASN also has been a valued partner in developing and piloting the pathway quality review and certification process.

For more information, visit: http://casn.berkeley.edu

The National Academy Foundation (NAF)
The National Academy Foundation (NAF) is an acclaimed national network of high school career academies predominately based in urban districts—schools within schools—with rigorous, career-themed curricula created with current industry and educational expertise. Each year, NAF serves more than 50,000 students in over 500 Academies in 40 states and the District of Columbia through the Academy of Finance, the Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Hospitality & Tourism, and the Academy of Information Technology. NAF was founded by Sanford I. Weill, Chairman Emeritus of Citigroup Inc., as a partnership between business leaders and educators. Employees of more than 2,500 businesses support NAF students by securing paid internships, volunteering in classrooms, acting as mentors, and serving on local Advisory Boards. NAF's record of success with 90% graduation rates and more than 80% of these graduates going on to college, has garnered the support of corporations, public policy makers, and foundations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. NAF has partnered with ConnectEd to create math support curriculum for students entering the Academy of Engineering and has actively participated in many aspects of the California Linked Learning District Initiative, including serving as a valued partner in developing and piloting the pathway quality review and certification process.

For more information visit: http://naf.org

School Redesign Network/Leadership, Equity & Accountability in Districts & Schools (SRN LEADS), Stanford University
The School Redesign Network (SRN) at Stanford University was created in 2000 with a mission to help create, support, and sustain equitable schools that are intellectually rigorous and high performing and that provide all students with access to college and the skills needed to meet the workforce demands of the 21st century. SRN is providing various tools and services to support districts in the California Linked Learning District Initiative. It serves as ConnectEd's primary partner to design and deliver the sessions of the District Leadership Development Series for superintendents and their executive teams in implementing district-wide systems of pathways. SRN is also developing case studies of central office reforms and writing policy briefs on topics relevant to Linked Learning to help inform the field.

For more information, visit: http://www.srnleads.org

UC Berkeley Principal Leadership Institute and Center for Urban School Leadership
UC Berkeley Leadership Connection for Justice in Education UC Berkeley's Leadership Connection for Justice in Education (LCJE) supports the preparation and ongoing development of strong leaders for today's schools. The center's programs—the Principal Leadership Institute (PLI), Leadership Support Program, and Coaching Initiative—aim to improve educational equity, student achievement, and school performance in our communities. The Principal Leadership Institute was established in 2000 to prepare leaders for San Francisco Bay Area urban schools. PLI and LCJE supported the California Linked Learning District Initiative by co-developing and delivering sessions for administrators at the 2009 Summer Institute and follow-up Pathway Leadership Development Series sessions. With a grant from the James Irvine Foundation, PLI and LCJE are also writing articles and reports detailing the leadership demands in high schools that are implementing Linked Learning.

For more information, visit: http://gse.berkeley.edu/admin/extrel/cusl.html and http://gse.berkeley.edu/program/Principals/pli.html

Alliance for Regional Collaboration to Heighten Educational Success (ARCHES)
ARCHES was launched in 2005 as an initiative of the California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP)—a collaborative program administered by the California State University on behalf of all the state's educational sectors—and the California Education Round Table—the voluntary association of the chief executive officers of all educational sectors in the and its programmatic arm, the Intersegmental Coordinating Committee (ICC). ARCHES is a voluntary confederation of over 21 collaboratives linked by both their goals and the shared strategies by which they intend to reach those goals that supports a growing number of regions meet timely and important missions. The objective is to improve student achievement in the public schools in order to ensure California's future social, political, and economic vitality through the education of a generation of Golden State students who will have the skills and knowledge to compete in the global workplace of the future. With a grant from the James Irvine Foundation, six of the ARCHES collaboratives have selected Linked Learning as a strategy for raising student achievement. ARCHES and ConnectEd partner on professional development for pathway teams, sharing of resources and program evaluation data, among other areas.

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