Use this Community of Practice presentation to connect with career readiness resources your district can use with administrators and school boards.

Use this Community of Practice presentation to explore best practices in engaging with your community and higher education partners through the ACP process.

Career and technical education (CTE) programs are increasingly engaging a broad range of stakeholders, including parents and community organizations, to improve CTE programs, better serve students and help communities in need. This resource will focus on ways that CTE educators can communicate with, collaborate with and support current and prospective learners’ families and communities, particularly for learners and communities who have been historically underserved. This publication describes general strategies for engaging these stakeholders, more specific strategies aimed at breaking down barriers to engagement for particular special and underserved population groups, and examples of CTE and career development programs doing promising work in this area.

Use this Community of Practice presentation to explore resources and powerful practices to engage your students in the Career Readiness initiative and in Xello activities.

Students will choose an engineering sub-discipline of their choice and present information about it to their peers in a presentation style of their choice. The presentation must include some type of multimedia format (Powerpoint, Prezi, Slides, Keynote, etc.)

All careers rely on English-related skills like reading, writing, speaking and listening. Specifically English-related careers can also be found in the following Career Cluster Chart.

These two Quick Listens are from Episode 22 in Season 2 of the Lessons in Adolescence podcast. Listen to more where ever you get your podcast or online at: https://education.virginia.edu/faculty-research/centers-labs-projects/youth-nex/remaking-middle-school/youth-nex-rms-podcast-page

This episode features a conversation with three authors of “Career Exploration in the Middle Grades: A Playbook for Educators,” which was developed in partnership between the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) and American Student Assistance (ASA). Stephanie Simpson is CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based AMLE, which represents tens of thousands of middle level educators across the country and offers a variety of resources, training and convenings for the field. Ashley Hemmy is manager of program engagement at Boston-based ASA, a 60 year-old national nonprofit and student loan guarantor organization which has expanded its mission to develop and invest in resources and tools to help students as early as middle school to explore their long-term career and educational goals. Julie DiPilato is a seventh grade science teacher in Barnstable, Massachusetts, where she developed an array of career exploration programming in her school.

Stephanie, Ashley, Julie and Jason talk about the career exploration playbook, how it came about, why career exploration is a perfect match for young adolescents and where it fits within schools. They then paint a picture of what career exploration looks like in the middle grades, how educators can use it to enhance their teaching, the ways AMLE and ASA are promoting the larger scale adoption of this practice, and the opportunities for career exploration in the field of education long-term.

This document addresses the CLNA and extends the detailed guidance previously provided by NAPE and our partners at Advance CTE and ACTE. The needs assessment process is the primary lever within Perkins V for educators to highlight factors limiting the success of marginalized communities and underrepresented student groups in CTE. The law requires that the results of the CLNA be included in the four-year Perkins V local application submitted to the state.

This resource builds on the success and impact of the Nontraditional Career Preparation Root Causes & Strategies, which focused on identifying evidence- and research-based practices to address equity gaps in nontraditional occupational pathways, especially for women in CTE programs of study leading to STEM jobs. The original “Root Causes” Resource is the backbone for NAPE’s Program Improvement Process for Equity™ (PIPE™). The new Equity in CTE & STEM Root Causes and Strategies is an in-depth analysis of the root causes of inequity and exclusion in CTE and STEM education through an intersectional lens.

Featuring post-secondary career information from Christine Clemetson with the Vet Tech Program at FVTC

Family & Consumer Science careers can be found in more than just the Food career cluster! FACS-related careers can also be found in the following Career Cluster Chart.

Join Danny Rubin, founder of Rubin, and guests Liza Goetz and Chris Brosch to explore the agricultural industry. Liza Goetz is the founder and chief flower grower at Wildly Native Flower Farm in Chestertown, Maryland. Chris Brosch is the nutrient management program administrator at the Delaware Department of Agriculture. Students and teachers should also make use of the webinar worksheet at https://rubineducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Rubin-Webinar-Worksheet-Q-and-A-about-Agriculture-October-2021.docx

Click on this resource to find lesson plans and web resources aligned to the Finance Career Cluster. Be sure to think outside the box--many careers can be found in multiple career clusters and many career clusters can be taught as part of the curricula in multiple middle and high school classes! 

Join Danny Rubin, founder of Rubin, and Jennifer Strout, founder of fitness app MotivateU, for a discussion on all the "tough stuff" to create a startup -- how to find early customers, obtain a patent, secure investment, juggle life with kids and more.

Students and teachers should also make use of the webinar worksheet at https://rubineducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Rubin-Webinar-Worksheet-Q-and-A-about-Entrepreneurship-March-23.docx

Featuring career information from Nathan Wachtendonk, Fleet Manager for the City of Green Bay.

How will the global pandemic of 2020 affect how we prepare students to become career ready by 2025?  This webinar will include information on:How  COVID will affect the world of workVirtual job shadows--What worked? What did we learn?What did we learn  about engaging  employers, students, families virtually?How can project-based learning lead to, or even become, work-based learning?New state-wide professional development and other support to help your district become future ready!

Learn about the world of Gaming & eSports from Steven Shaw (Verizon), Brandon Tschacher (MKE Esports Alliance), Erica Davis (Experis Game Solutions), and Dr. Krista-Lee Malone (UW-Madison). The following videos will give you a look into the variety of tech jobs and careers available to you and how you can prepare for them. Watch one - or all - and hear from experts who are doing these jobs today. As you watch the videos, download our workbook at https://bit.ly/MKEWorksheet to help you reflect on each career path and if that might be the right one for you some day!

Check out  these links to various Government & Public Administration resources that you can use as part of your classroom curriculum today.

Healthcare careers can be found in more than just the Health career cluster! Health-related careers can be found in the following Career Cluster Chart.