Career Academies: Effective Structures to Promote College and Career Readiness

Hackmann, Donald G.; Malin, Joel R.; Gilley, Donna

doi:10.1080/00098655.2018.1480196

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“…Meanwhile, cross-sector collaboration is becoming a larger part of the principal’s role, especially in the context of P–20 alignment reform (Eyal & Yarm, 2018; Malin & Hackmann, 2019; Watkins et al, 2021). In college and career partnerships, two key contributions of principals include relationship building and optimization of resources across sectors (Bush, 2017; Hackmann et al, 2018). Principals serve as key liaisons between internal and external stakeholders in the implementation of career academies (Malin et al, 2020).…”

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Exploring the Principal’s Role in Cross-Sector Partnerships: Sensemaking and Politics in a High-Performing Early College High School

Duncheon,

DeMatthews

2023

AERA Open

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Secondary–postsecondary partnership reforms have grown in scale and importance throughout the past few decades as part of the national agenda to increase college access, equity, and completion. However, little research has examined the role of the principal in cross-sector partnerships. This qualitative case study explores how one nationally acclaimed principal at an award-winning early college high school made sense of the cross-sector context and negotiated with K–12 and higher education stakeholders to maximize college opportunity for low-income, Latinx, and first-generation students. Our analysis integrates sensemaking and micropolitical theory to identify leadership practices that facilitate effective cross-sector collaboration, with implications for K–12 leadership and cross-sector partnership reform.

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Exploring the Principal’s Role in Cross-Sector Partnerships: Sensemaking and Politics in a High-Performing Early College High School

Duncheon,

DeMatthews

2023

AERA Open

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Can Career Academies Work as a School Turnaround Strategy?

Kistler,

Childs,

Dougherty

2024

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, college and career readiness became the central focus of education policy in the United States. Career academies (CAs) are a popular way to support students in their postsecondary transitions, but little causal evidence exists about whether this model of schooling is effective in promoting learning and transition outcomes. We capitalize on the adoption of the CA model in a large school district that was under the threat of school turnaround and employ a generalized difference-in-differences approach to test whether adopting this model improved student outcomes. We find suggestive evidence that CA adoption improved graduation rates and that these effects were most likely concentrated among schools that had the lowest graduation rates at baseline.

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Career Academies: Effective Structures to Promote College and Career Readiness

Cited by 2 publications

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Exploring the Principal’s Role in Cross-Sector Partnerships: Sensemaking and Politics in a High-Performing Early College High School

Exploring the Principal’s Role in Cross-Sector Partnerships: Sensemaking and Politics in a High-Performing Early College High School

Can Career Academies Work as a School Turnaround Strategy?

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