🎧New EdUnplugged Episode
How can schools help students turn their passions into meaningful careers?
In our latest episode, we explore how schools and businesses in Oakland, California, are partnering to create career pathways that connect students to real-world opportunities after high school.
From hands-on learning experiences to entrepreneurship and career readiness, this conversation highlights innovative approaches that help students prepare for their futures while building stronger connections between education and industry.
What role do you think schools and employers should play in preparing students for life after graduation?
Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/uYgAq15htTs
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What does it take to help students turn their passions into future careers and even entrepreneurship?
🎙️ In the latest episode of EdUnplugged, we explore how schools and businesses in Oakland, California, are partnering to create career pathways that connect students to real-world opportunities after high school.
From hands-on learning experiences to workforce-ready skills, this conversation highlights how educators and community partners can help students build brighter futures.
What role do you think schools and employers should play in preparing students for life after graduation?
🎧 Watch the full episode at the link in our bio.
06/01/2026
🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month!
At EdTrust, we believe every student deserves the opportunity to learn in an environment where they feel welcomed, respected, and valued.
This month, we celebrate LGBTQ+ students and the communities that support them. We also recognize the importance of creating schools where every young person can show up as their authentic self and have the resources they need to succeed.
Together, we can continue building a future where all students have the opportunity to thrive.
Drop a ❤️ if you stand with LGBTQ+ students and want to work to build more inclusive schools and a just future.
EdTrust’s VP of P-12 policy, Allison Socol, was featured on discussing why Black and Latino students are less likely to have access to advanced coursework like Algebra I — and why that matters for students’ long-term success.
She also shares what schools can do to help close these opportunity gaps. 📚✨
Take a listen to learn more!
05/29/2026
This Feel Good Friday, we are closing out Mental Health Awareness Month by highlighting this powerful reminder from tennis star turned fashion queen & mental health advocate, Naomi Osaka:
“If you are a young woman — or anyone still figuring out what you’re allowed to want — I think it’s important to know that you can have both ambition and limits at the same time. You can go after something fully and still have a say in what it costs you.”
Success and well-being should never be mutually exclusive.
Wishing Naomi Osaka the best of luck at the French Open!
05/29/2026
Students shouldn’t have to “opt in” to opportunity.
Automatic enrollment policies help schools connect qualified students with advanced courses based on demonstrated readiness, opening doors to greater academic and career success.
Want to understand how these policies work and why states are adopting them?
Read more: https://edtru.st/4nTxsYw
“Wait… There’s a FASHION career pathway?!”
In the latest episode of EdUnplugged, we learn how students can turn creativity and style into a thriving career in fashion — and that’s just one of the eye-opening moments in this conversation.
This episode dives into how career pathways help students in Oakland, California, connect their passions to real opportunities after high school. From hands-on learning to future-ready careers, we talk about how this particular pathways model works, and how educators can help shape their students’ futures.
🎧 Click the link in our bio to watch the full episode now.
05/28/2026
When students take rigorous coursework in high school, they have greater opportunities in college and career.
But what if they can’t get access?
EdTrust-Midwest’s new report, Ready for Rigor: Expanding Access to Rigorous Coursework in Michigan, finds that too many students still face barriers to opportunities like AP, IB, dual enrollment, and career & technical education.
The report also offers practical recommendations for policymakers to expand opportunity and strengthen college and career readiness statewide.
📘 Read the full report: https://edtru.st/4wVTs9e
05/28/2026
What happens when students are given the space to be heard? They lead.
The first-ever Youth Civic Leadership Summit was a powerful reminder of that.
More than 100 DC students in grades 8-12, representing 18+ public and public charter schools, gathered to engage directly with city leaders on the issues shaping their educational experiences and futures.
Students led conversations on literacy, mental health, safe spaces, student voice in decision-making, school relationships, and police-community relationships — bringing honesty, insight, and solutions to the table.
Young people are not just the future of education policy conversations. They are essential voices in them right now.
Thank you to every student, educator, partner, and leader who helped make this inaugural summit possible.
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