Resources by Role
Students and Families
- Flexible Pathways to Graduation: Six Vermont High School Students – A video that explores the experiences of six Vermont students with different types of flexible pathways.
- Extended Learning Opportunities – A resource from Reaching Higher NH that describes extended learning opportunities and includes a video of students describing their learning experiences outside of classrooms.
- Big Picture Learning – Videos of students describing their experiences with personalized learning.
Teachers
- 10 Expectations – A video and links to the ten core expectations in Big Picture Learning schools.
- One Student at a Time – A resource from the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence, Rhode Island, that describes the process for personalizing learning with students.
- Nexus – A personalized learning program at Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg, Vermont.
Administrators
- Extended Learning Opportunities Program: Winnacunnet High School – The landing page for Winnacunnet High School’s Extended Learning Opportunities program in Hampton, New Hampshire.
- Learning Outside the Classroom: Launching, Improving, and Sustaining High School Internship Programs – A presentation from the Aurora Institute related to internship programs at the high school level.
- Nokomis Regional High School Internship Handbook – A process for selecting, participating in, and sharing learning from Nokomis Regional High School in Newport, Maine.
- What Are Flexible Pathways for Learning? – A resource from the Connecticut Department of Education that describes flexible pathways, including a design guide.
- VT Flexible Pathways Tool – Considerations for Student Participation in a Flexible Pathway – A complete toolkit for facilitating student participation in flexible pathways.
Partners
- Boston Private Industry Council – A nonprofit organization that brings together employers, educators, and workforce organizations to help guide students toward careers and reconnect disconnected youth to education.
- Prepare Rhode Island – A initiative between the Rhode Island government, private industry leaders, the public education system, universities, and nonprofits across Rhode Island to prepare students for in-demand careers.
- The Dual Enrollment Playbook – A Guide to Equitable Acceleration for Students – A resource that provides guidance and spotlights programs across the country that have made progress in using dual-enrollment strategies to improve equitable outcomes for students.
Policymakers
- 50 State Comparison: Education and Workforce Development Connections – A comparison of state workforce development models by the Education Commission of the States, including links to metrics and policy recommendations.
- A Promise for Equitable Futures: Enabling Systems Change to Scale Educational and Economic Mobility Pathways – A call to action from the Aurora Institute that “every learner will have access and support to pursue a certified pathway with system-wide opportunities that guarantee entry into a meaningful, chosen career that will build social and economic capital over the course of their lives.”
- Apprenticeship and Educational Pathways Map – A flowchart developed by the Connecticut Department of Labor that shows pathways to a degree.
- Career Readiness and Workforce Development – A brief from the Aspen Institute that describes important considerations for state policymakers who wish to improve students’ workforce readiness. It includes guiding questions for state leaders, promising practices, supporting research, and a glossary of terms.
- Vermont Agency of Education: Flexible Pathways – The landing page for Vermont’s flexible pathways resources, including a toolkit for establishing pathways and links to specific types of pathways, such as work-based and personalized learning.
