College Secures James Irvine Foundation grant for Linked Learning

Models of Clinical Teacher Preparation and Induction

The College of Education at CSULB has recently been awarded a grant from the James Irvine Foundation to implement transformational, partnership models of clinical teacher preparation and induction that prepare new California secondary teachers for Linked Learning environments in high schools and result in significant benefits to secondary school students’ learning and development.  This grant was written in collaboration with our partners in the Long Beach Unified School District and with the support of the Chancellor’s office.  The College will receive $234,260 over the next two years.  The principal investigator is Dean Grenot-Scheyer and the project coordinator is Interim Associate Dean Hakim-Butt.

The expected outcomes of the project are:

• Establishment and documentation of a model of clinical preparation at CSU Long Beach to prepare future secondary school teachers that embeds the principles and practices of Linked Learning throughout the curriculum, pedagogy, and field experiences of high school teacher preparation
• Expansion, through the California Alliance for Clinical Preparation and across the 23 CSU teacher preparation programs, of clinical preparation for high school teachers that incorporates Linked Learning, supported by a Handbook for Linked Learning Clinical Teacher Preparation