This "Building Capacity for Change" "playbook" highlights practices and strategies that proved to be effective in supporting the rollout and implementation of certain programs under the New York State Department of Health's First 1,000 Days on Medicaid Initiative, a series of evidence-based reforms aimed at improving health and…

The Expanded Success Initiative (ESI) evaluation was designed with two overlapping and interacting components: (1) a study of the initiative's implementation in the participating high schools; and (2) a study of its impact on student experiences and other outcomes. As the document of record evaluating an important, large-scale initiative, this…

This manual is a guide to local partnership councils as they plan and design work-based learning experiences for credit. Chapter 1 provides an overview of work-based learning as part of vocational education. Chapter 2 describes a variety of work-based learning experiences, including established secondary vocational program work-based learning…

This guidebook was developed to help businesses provide high-quality worksite learning experiences for students. It combines experiential knowledge from experts with that of mentoring programs across the country to reduce the task of planning and implementing quality worksite learning experiences to a logical process. The book offers guidance for…

This guide identifies the key steps that any work/education partnership program should take to achieve success and patterns of critical issues that such collaborations must address if they are to survive. It is rooted in the experiences of "The Partnership Projects," a network of 21 work/education partnership programs in cities around the country.…

The Central Educational Center (CEC) is a unique educational experience worth replicating in Georgia and nationally. It is a bold experiment--offering required academic courses and state-of-the-art technical and occupational courses to high-school students with the opportunity for dual-enrollment college credit while still in high school. Open to…

This manual was written to assist communities, especially in Arkansas, in developing an educators-in-industry program, a graduate credit course that gives educators firsthand knowledge of the nature and range of employment in their regions. The guide contains 17 sections that give advice on how to set up and conduct the program. The guidelines…

This guide is a tool to assist educators in the development of high-quality work-based learning sites and other school-employer connections in New Hampshire as part of the state's school-to-work program. The guide provides implementation ideas for seven strategies for work-based learning experiences (industry tours, job shadowing, service…

This document, which is intended for Iowa employers and elementary and secondary educators, outlines 11 activities through which employers can participate in school-to-work (STW) programs in Iowa's elementary and secondary schools. The document begins with a definition of work-based learning and a brief overview of information and other resources…