Catalyze Insights: Uncovering Trends and Innovations in Career-Connected Learning

Since 2021, Catalyze has awarded more than $14 million to more than 60 organizations through national and regional challenges. Its growing community of practice, composed of Catalyze grantee practitioners, is actively impacting over 65,000 students through career-connected learning innovations. Over the past four years, the Catalyze community has grown through the Catalyze Challenge, which surfaces solutions from across the United States that plan, pilot, and scale career-connected learning opportunities for learners aged 11-22. 

Earlier this year, Catalyze conducted a comprehensive analysis of its Round One and Round Two grantee portfolio and 850 Round Three applications. Our goal was to surface trends and insights about what is working in career-connected learning and where additional opportunities exist to accelerate innovation and learning.

Over the next few months, we will share these insights with the broader career-connected learning field in a detailed blog series, taking a deep dive into industry partnerships and K-12 career-connected learning. We will supplement our internal analysis and insights with grantee experiences and third-party data highlighting what is recommended to foster a robust system of career-connected learning. 

Stay tuned for more in-depth coverage on these insights coming soon!