11:10am | The College of Education at California State University Long Beach (CSULB) has been awarded a $234,260 grant from the James Irvine Foundation to implement partnership models of clinical teacher preparation and induction. These partnership models prepare new California secondary teachers for Linked Learning environments in high schools that will result in significant benefits to secondary school students’ learning and development.  

Linked Learning is a reform for secondary education that brings together post-secondary preparation with workplace skills for careers outside of the school, therefore connecting CSULB wall-to-wall with the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD). By placing this innovative induction model within the LBUSD, beginning teachers not only receive more support, but their work becomes documented in order to be dessiminated for adoption by other school districts.