This 6-week lesson is used to expand vocabulary related to the world of work, including education, professions, job search, interviews, and life milestones related to education and work.  It focuses on communication using the future tense.   It culminates with a Career Fair, in which students practice professional discourse and etiquette  while talking with professionals in different fields to explore careers in which Spanish can be used, followed up with a Professional Thank-You Letter written in Spanish to the Career Fair guest speakers.

In this lesson, students will be able to analyze their career readiness (identifying potential areas of strength and areas of growth) using the DPI Employability Skills criteria. Students will learn about different parts of a resume and how to determine what they should include through instruction, an Indeed video and practice. Students will further explore suggestions regarding the interviewing process. 

This project takes students through Xello to find their future potential careers and guides them through the process of picking out a potential home. This does a great job of showing students a snapshot of their future. 

This formative assessment is designed to help students choose a hypothetical (or real!) career for the purposes of imagining, researching, and writing in real-lfie circumstances. In doing so, it asks for the review, application, and synthesis of some wide-flung skills including:1) Brainstorming relevant criteria through personal reflection, research, or interview.2) Researching on reliable sources. (W.7)3) Collecing and citing sources. (W.8)4) Argumentative/Analytical thesis writing. (W.2)5) Complex sentence strategies. (L.3a) 

This lesson compares different careers.  Students are given cards and move around the classroom comparing their career with the careers of other students according to the directives of the teacher.  The information on the career cards are specific to careers and wages found in Northern Wisconsin.

Students connect their future career choices and decisions with budgeting practice and identifying the type of lifestyle they will be able to live based on their career choices. 

Students can use this tool in any content-area class to reflect on their career readiness. It was created by a group of Arrowhead High School teachers and administrators.

This is a junior conference to help juniors feel ready and prepared for their senior year. The items discussed and prepared include:student transcriptagendastudent credit check (at this place in time)discussion of what is needed to meet graduation requirementsscholarshipscollege applicationstest scoresletters of recommendationcareer clusters/related jobs & vocationsreview of view booksdiscussion of possible categories of transition into post-secondary (work, military, technical college, 4-year university, apprenticeship program) 

The purpose of our Senior Surveys (3); pre-grad, 6 month post-grad & 4 - 5 year post-grad follow-up is to collect data from our students (seniors) prior to their graduation and post-secondary. This data is varied and specific, we believe this information will help us evaluate our programming, curriculum, teaching and assistance provided to students from staff.We hope by keeping in touch with our students for years into their post-secondary goals and transition basead on information received we will provide our students with a current and useful education for academic and career planning. We may also identify areas of needed growth and development in our school staff. 

This activity is completed in two classroom periods to introduce 8th grade students to high school, classes, teachers, schedules, graduation requirements, how to schedule in high school and answer any questions students have about co-curricular activities, high school opportunities, and other items of interest.

Description:  As part of our new ELA curriculum, the students spend about 7 weeks reading and studying human intelligence and how all people are smart in different ways. At the end of the unit, students are to create an informative presentation.  I decided this would be the perfect place to incorporate CTE into my ELA curriculum by having students read, research, write and then present Google slideshows which would connect their possible future careers with their current learning styles and how they each feel they are “smart”.  

This activity was created for an 11th grade Civics class.The goal of this project is for students to use employability skills to work together while experiencing employment opportunities in political science. Students will work to analyze one of the major or minor political parties in the United States. Group’s will attempt to persuade the class that their party’s solutions to the issues, are the best to lead the country. 

This resource is an overview on how to plan a college visit for a high school music class.

This is an activity designed to have students develop soft skills, specifically communication in a computer science setting using python and the repl IDE.  It can be given as a full document, broken up into a jigsaw activity and altered to accomodate different computer languages and IDEs.  The goal is that students develop needed skills for a career that we don't generally practice in class but are still highly valued by future jobs, even outside of IT.  This was created for english readers but can be altered for any language.

Racine Unified School District has utilized the academy model for the last seven years at each of the three comprehensive high schools, Park, Case, & Horlick.  Within the last year, the focus was to increase Project Based Learning (PBL) in the classrooms beyond those that are Pathway or CTE oriented.  As the Academy Coach at Horlick, I oversee the students Ambassadors and bringing in community partners to work alongside our teaching staff and students.  This lesson highlights one part of how teachers utlilize partners in order to implement PBL.

This is a resource to help schools and teachers that want to connect students with local businesses. The general timeline for this would include the following.Making connections with local businessesInviting those businesses to come in to speak with students, or better yet getting students to those businesses.Giving opportunities for students to job shadow, pursue school-to-work opportunities, or a Youth Apprenticeship opportunity.

This resource walks teachers and students through turning the data and results from the xello quizzes into a infographic using Canva. 

This lesson plan can be connected to a career-ready path, as it focuses on important concepts related to biodiversity and the impact of human activities on it. Students who are interested in pursuing careers in biology, environmental science, ecology, conservation, or other related fields would benefit from gaining knowledge and skills related to biodiversity. Additionally, the research skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills that students will develop in this lesson can be applied to a variety of careers. For example, individuals who work in conservation or environmental science may need to evaluate the impact of human activities on biodiversity and design solutions to mitigate negative effects. Overall, this lesson plan can help students gain valuable knowledge and skills that are relevant to a wide range of careers in the STEM fields.

This event occurs every February at Oconomwoc High School. The goal of the event is to raise money for Children's Hospital behavioral and mental health programs, to reduce the stigma around talking about mental health, and to provide students with opportunities to explore careers in the mental health field.