Program areas at Connected the National Center for College and Career
Design and implement high quality College and Career pathways: we support district and site leaders through coaching and digital tools to help pathway teacher teams establish the structures and conditions for equitable student success, through rigorous college-ready academics integrated with sequenced Career and technical education, work-based learning, integrated supports in middle and high school and into post-secondary.
Digital learning and media: Connected studios is a digital work and collaboration space that is specifically designed, with input from district and site leaders as well as teachers, to support system-wide implementation of linked learning pathways. It contains a suite of cloud-based software programs that allows administrators, educators, students and employers to collaborate and learn together as they build high quality pathways that result in improved student learning outcomes.
Strenghthen capacity for effective learning, teaching and leading: we partner with site and district leadership teams to design, support, and sustain impactful professional learning through communities of practice that use evidence-based cycles of inquiry, analyses of student and adult work, protocols for effective collaboration, and a variety of online tools, resources, and exemplars. We help leadership teams to examine current conditions, develop and implement equitable policies, systems, and structures that support sustaining, expanding, and continuously improving pathways in middle and high school and into post-secondary.