Remaking High School

Since 1998 CCASN has been working to increase educational opportunities that offer each young person support and guidance, productive engagement in the world outside of school, and preparation for both college and careers. This research-based strategy has been effective for hundreds of thousands of teenagers, including low-income students of color.

CCASN offers professional development, coaching, resource materials, and technical assistance for secondary educators, schools, and districts. CCASN also conducts research to document and improve practice, and advises policy makers at all levels.
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High school teachers eager to increase college-going rates at their schools may want to visit a companion website, College Tools.

Finding your way around this website

Teaching & Learning
A searchable database of curriculum to meet the special needs of academy teachers, links to organizations dedicated to strengthening the instructional programs of career academies, and the CPA a-g program list.

Resources
Gateways to useful resources: a collection of implementation guides and articles; a toolbox of templates and forms you can tailor to your own needs; Video Vignettes that spotlight exemplary CPAs; a list of Career Academy Support Organizations; archives of our web-based news publications, and more.

Academy Directories
Separate directories for California Partnership Academies and Academies Nationwide that can be searched by state, high school, academy theme, and location. Each listing includes contact information.

Services
Professional support for high school reform based on broad experience and in-depth research, ranging from system redesign to curriculum and learning structures—all designed to improve both college-going and career success.

California Partnership Academies (CPA)
Announcements of particular relevance to California Partnership Academy coordinators, and short videos that spotlight selected CPAs.

You may also wish to visit College Tools, a website focused on college-going culture in high schools, and created by CCASN: http://collegetools.berkeley.edu

Academy News Clips

A convenient way to stay informed about opportunities and policies that affect career academies.

Announcements

New Report from CCASN: "System Alignment through Participatory Action Research in a Health Pathway Community of Practice"
Draws lessons both for health pathways and for pathways from any sector using Communities of Practice to align across secondary and postsecondary systems. Click here to view and download.

California Partnership Academy Google Maps – LIVE
Maps with school, industry and contact information for all high schools that are participating in the California Partnership Academy model. Quick reference point to all CPA’s through industry sector, Lighthouse Academies, as well as Special Projects that include our partners from Cal LAW, California Labor Federation, and PG&E. See all maps here.

Policy Brief from the Pathway Teachers Network
Policy initiatives that prioritize innovative approaches to California's College and Career Pathway Teacher shortages should produce a surge in innovative, industry-involved programs incorporating CTE teacher education and professional development for both new and in- service teachers. Click here for more.

New courses added to CPA Program List
New courses have been added to the CPA program list for adoption by CPA funded Academies. Courses on the CPA Program List may be adopted for use by any appropriate California Partnership Academy once they’re added to your district’s a-g list. To view the complete list of CPA Program courses, go here.