Resources

Want to initiate your own Youth Engaged in Leadership and Learning (YELL) program? This free handbook from the Gardner Center will help you launch your own youth research team.

Gardner Center researchers developed a framework for high schools to support students in Linked Learning pathways — and then documented how schools and districts put it into practice.

This series offers guidance to schools and districts about how they can create systems and supports to increase the number of students who graduate from high school ready to succeed in college. 

This set of case studies shares best practices in California's alternative high schools, including strategies to support students who aren’t succeeding in traditional high school settings and professional development for the teachers who work there.

When the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) began its transition to a community school model, it engaged the Gardner Center to study and document the implementation. This series is just one of the products of that partnership.