Resources
Youth Apprenticeship Quality Assessment Tool
The Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship (PAYA) has developed this Youth Apprenticeship Quality Assessment Tool as a piece of a four-step protocol aimed at assisting education providers, employer and industry partners, intermediary organizations, and other youth apprenticeship leaders in collaboratively identifying ways to improve policies, procedures, and practices in support of learner success.
Youth Apprenticeship Data Framework
The Youth Apprenticeship Data Framework is intended to be a practical and adaptable guide to support youth apprenticeship partnerships’ efforts to build data systems that monitor the effectiveness of youth apprenticeship programs and inform continuous improvement activities. The framework can be used as a foundation that supports the data capacity of leaders and organizers working together to identify, develop, and scale up effective, equitable youth apprenticeship programs around the country.
Improving Communications to Develop Work-Based Learning Programs in the Skilled Trades
This brief synthesizes key points from the Work Group on Youth Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning in the Skilled Trades (STWG) and introduces the STWG’s first collaboratively developed resource, Employers’ Guide to Work-Based Learning Opportunities in the Skilled Trades, a customizable resource to support communication between educators, program leaders, and employers as they develop work-based learning programs in the skilled trades.
Unlocking Potential: A State Policy Roadmap for Equity and Quality in College in High School Programs for Students With Disabilities
This resource from the College in High School Alliance builds upon its state policy roadmap to illustrate how state leaders can expand access to college in high school programs for learners with disabilities. The report is organized around six key policy area: Equity goal and public reporting; program integrity and credit transfers; finance; course access and availability; instructor capacity; and navigational supports.
Intentional Acts of Dual Enrollment: State Strategies for Scaling Early Postsecondary Opportunities in Career Pathways
When states build more cohesive systems where early postsecondary opportunities (EPSOs) such as dual enrollment are fully counted, valued and portable, learners have more equitable paths to college and career success. This brief provides four key strategies to achieve this goal and highlights effective programs in Ohio, Tennessee and Utah
Key Acceleration Considerations: Policy
This one page document outlines how accelerated pathways to credential models create additional challenges beyond those present with dual credit and may require revisions to state accountability and graduation requirements policies, postsecondary credit transfer and articulation policies, and course mapping and career pathways.
Key Acceleration Considerations: Data
The one page document outlines the core elements of a data driven process and the key indicators to prioritize and collect.
Lessons Learned from Communities Accelerating Pathways to Credentials
This report details the lessons from the Accelerate ED regional accelerator — as well as other leading states and communities — on strategies for successfully scaling accelerated pathway programs. This includes developing equity-driven programs with intentionally sequenced coursework, work-based learning opportunities, and targeted advising and student supports; identifying a set of key enabling conditions around policy, funding, and data that are necessary for scaling these programs; and building the capacity of intermediary organizations and partner organizations to foster alignment across systems.
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