This lesson plan is designed to enhance understanding and awareness of essential soft skills and employability skills for success in the workplace.

Even when you are doing a job which you don’t intend to stay in forever, you’re building your employability skills. Employability skills are those skills which are transferable to other careers and which may help you to advance in your career. These could be academic skills like communication and basic math skills, or they may be personal characteristics such as critical thinking skills, promptness, and adaptability. In this 8th grade Job Skills lesson, students will investigate the skills and personal characteristics which are transferable from one occupation to another.

This is the newly-revised Energy RCP template. Districts interested in adopting and customizing this template for district use should contact their regional career pathway coordinator for more information.

Students will be using real-life energy use data to learn how to use spreadsheets and create graphs to better organize and view data. Discussions can then follow to analyze the data and explain the usage. Real rates are then provided, and students can use the electricity consumed data to create a utility bill for the consumer and compare the standard Residential Service charges to if the member were instead billed by the “Time of Use” rate.

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.)

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.

What do you think of when you hear the phrase "access and equity?" Use this Community of Practice presentation to learn more about equity and how it impacts ACP in your district.

Addressing equity in the Academic and Career Planning (ACP) process goes beyond offering a
scope and sequence of ACP activities that are available to all students. It’s important that you
meet the needs of each learner. Every child will approach the ACP process differently and will
require an individualized level of support to be successful.

Therefore, it’s essential that school leaders responsible for implementing ACP explore equity
issues. The following are short activities that can help ACP or career readiness teams and leaders
encourage their own stakeholders to learn more about what equity means, how to explore who
they are, what beliefs and assumptions they hold, identify their values, and consider how all of this
can impact the learners and families they serve. The goal of each activity is to help educators learn
a little more about their students and themselves and to leave with one simple action step to
improve equity within their district.

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.

This 7th grade Biases and Career Choices lesson leads students through a comparison of two careers in the Xello platform.

This 7th grade Jobs and Employers lesson leads students through an exploration of a company in the Inspire portion of the Xello platform.

Featuring an interview with Peter Van Zeeland, 2018 NEWMA AllStar from FOX VALLEY WOOD in Kaukauna (3:07 minutes)

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