Tools for Implementing
Community-Based and Work-Based Learning

Buck Institute for Education (BIE) and Buck Institute Handbooks for Internship (employer, educator and student handbooks on internships).

California Apprenticeship Programs is a searchable site of union apprenticeship programs offered in California.

California Cooperative Education and Internship Association is a professional association of educators and employers dedicated to supporting college-level internships and cooperative education programs.

California STC Work-Based Learning Toolkit for guidance on creating safe, legal and high quality work-based learning experiences for students.

Career Academy Support Network (CASN) Internship Handbook.

The Connected Learning Communities Toolkit for Reinventing High School provides specific guidance on extending learning beyond the classroom.

Definitions of Work-based Learning Opportunities, from Least to Greatest Level of Commitment by Employers (adapted from materials prepared by the National Employer Leadership Council)

Engaging Employers for Classroom Speakers and Tours , by Julia Janecki.

Job Shadowing Guide

Junior Achievement of the Bay Area piloted a service learning program in Oakland Unified two years ago that used high school volunteers in elementary schools. The feedback from all participants was overwhelmingly positive. Summary of program .

MPR Associates Getting to Work Guide on Work-Based Learning

National Service Leaning Clearinghouse

National Service Learning Partnership

The New Urban High School: A Practitioner's Guide (The Big Picture Company) Excerpts from The New Urban High School: A Practitioner's Guide scanned and posted with permission from The Big Picture Company. Document includes "Workplace Issues", pages 109-120, and "Work-based Learning and Mentoring", pages 121-132.

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