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Los Angeles Small Schools Center Linked Learning in LA: Powerful Schools with Equity, Access and Choice

Los Angeles Small Schools Center Our mission is to ensure that every student is prepared for college, career, and life by building the capacity of educators to create, implement, and sustain powerful public schools .

Los Angeles Small Schools Center Questions We Are Asking and Answering • Practice • How can we shift belief systems so that every educator demonstrates their belief that all children can learn? • How can we provide robust support to improve learning and teaching ? • How can we create a through-line for students to transition from secondary to post-secondary to career? • Policy and Public Will • How do we build systemic improvement in impermanent systems? • How do schools have more decision-making power ? • How do we ensure all young people earn a living wage ?

Los Angeles Small Schools Center We are the first regional Linked Learning Center in California and work with Southern California districts and schools. • Since 2009 the Center has supported L.A. Unified School District and currently also supports… • Antelope Valley • Centinela Valley Union High School Districts • Norwalk/La Mirada Unified • L.A. County Office of Education 32 Linked Learning Pathways

Los Angeles Small Schools Center VISION - Prepare all high school students for college and career and increase high school retention and graduation rates by:  Establishing quality certified Linked Learning Pathways  Creating small, safe, inclusive and caring school environments  Ensuring access to Linked Learning for all learners  Developing school and district communities of practice  Integrating academic and technical coursework  Bringing the world to the school & school to the world  Developing the Linked Learning field

Los Angeles Small Schools Center Regional Linked Learning Center – Levels of Work • Develop systemic implementation structures District • Support leadership and broad-based coalition • Build leadership and teacher capacity & effectiveness School • Ensure quality pathway certification • Innovate to build Linked Learning field Initiatives • Establish partnerships to deepen implementation

Los Angeles Small Schools Center Students Served in Los Angeles – 12,500 LL Cohort 2 : 1,000 students LL Cohort 1 : 1,900 students  School for the Visual Arts & Humanities  Hollywood New Media – Certified  School of History & Dramatic Arts  L.A. School of Global Studies - Certified  Hollywood Teaching Careers Academy  L.A. High School of the Arts – Certified  STEM Academy – Certified LL Cohort 3.5: 1,200 students  School of Business & Tourism – 2014  Fremont School of Global Media & Arts  Manual Arts School of Med., Arts & Tech LL Cohort 3: 3,500 students  Van Nuys Technical Arts  Dorsey Arts & Humanities  Dorsey Business & Entrepreneurship LL Cohort 4 : 4,900 students  Dorsey School of Legal Studies  Carson Environmental Studies  Hawkins Community Health Advocates  Carson Finance & Business  Hawkins Critical Design & Gaming  Chatsworth Health Sciences  Hawkins Responsible Indigenous Social  East L.A. Performing Arts  Humanitas Academy of Arts & Technology Entrepreneurship  Hilda Solis Digital Media  Huntington Park Inst. of Applied Medicine  Jack London Continuation School  L.A. River School  Westchester Environmental & Natural  Roosevelt Environment & Social Policy  Roosevelt Law Academy Sciences  Westchester Health & Sports Medicine  Sylmar Biotech Academy 1  Westchester Aviation & Aerospace

Los Angeles Small Schools Center Los Angeles Unified - % of students living at or below the poverty line Cohort 1: 89% Cohort 2: 92% Cohort 3: 75% Cohort 4: 80% By 2020 – LASSC aims to serve 25% of all LAUSD students – focusing on those most in need.

Los Angeles Small Schools Center Linked Learning Data Snapshot

Los Angeles Small Schools Center Current Initiatives to Build the Linked Learning Field  Linked Learning Middle School  Linked Learning Summer Bridge Programs  Linked Learning Competency-Based Credits  Linked Learning Continuation Schools

Los Angeles Small Schools Center Linked Learning Field Development: Middle School  Establishing an “on-ramp” for high school success  Linked Learning advisory programs that introduce career choices  Integrated academic and career-based courses and projects  Work-based learning experiences including field trips and speakers  High school choice and articulation  Parent engagement

Los Angeles Small Schools Center Linked Learning Field Development: Summer Bridge  Connects incoming 9 th graders to their new high school  Three-four week industry theme-based program  Students present an integrated career-focused project to family, teachers and industry professionals  English and Mathematics enrichment/remediation  Friday field trips to colleges, surrounding community, businesses  Project-Based Learning teacher training component

Los Angeles Small Schools Center Linked Learning Field Development: Stackable Competency-Based Credits  Establishing an “off-ramp” for post-secondary success  Joint project with L.A. Trade Tech Community College  Student demonstrations of competency generate credits that count for high school, AA degree and/or industry certification  Collaboration between high school teachers, college professors and industry experts  Pilot being developed for the high-growth biotech industry

Los Angeles Small Schools Center Linked Learning Field Development: Continuation Schools  At-risk students who lack credits to graduate high school  Working with LACOE and LAUSD continuation schools to develop and sustain teacher’s capacity to support student learning & socio-emotional development  Designing four teaching units based on Brain Science/Neurobiology research focused on how traumatic experiences impact learning  Apply the Linked Learning Framework to develop and implement a program of study that prepares continuation school students for college and career.

• We work in historically underserved communities in Los Angeles where 80% of students live at or below the poverty line. • We advocate for site-based decision making, where the people closest to students have decision-making power over budget, curriculum and assessment, governance, staffing and schedule. • Our aim is to shift school districts from compliance- based bureaucracies to service-based organizations. • We build capacity at the schools and districts by providing technical assistance, coaching & professional development.