Report to the Field: Leadership and Capacity Building in College and Career Pathways (California State University, Charter College of Education, Los Angeles, California, November 13, 2018). College and Career Pathway Research Symposia Series

College and career pathways represent a significant national educational reform movement supported by federal, state, and philanthropic funding. High school pathways combine career and technical education with rigorous academics, work-based learning, and student supports to provide equitable access to postsecondary opportunities. Strong research evidence supports this specific combination of interventions as a means to address the opportunity gap and the underlying causes of disparate high school outcomes. Four symposia were designed to identify the available research related to equitable implementation of college and career pathways with the aims of prioritizing a research agenda that could impact policy and practice, and promoting collaboration among researchers. This symposium, "Leadership and Capacity Building in College and Career Pathways," was the third in a series of four symposia. It focused on leadership and capacity-building and the research questions required to address problems of practice faced by pathway administrators, teachers, counselors, and other student support specialists. Simultaneously, it was intended to develop capacity among researchers, college and university faculty, and scholar-practitioners to create Research Practice Partnerships (RPPs) that align high priority research questions with key problems of practice in equitable implementation, identified in the previous symposia in this series. Finally, it sought to connect faculty and scholar practitioners responsible for preparing pathway educators with researcher communities of practice (CoPs) examining those priority issues. [Additional support for this symposium was provided by California State University, Charter College of Education, Los Angeles. For the second symposium in this series, see ED590693.]