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Equity in Academic and Career Planning

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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.

Material Type: Reference Material

Author: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Brave Dialogues: A Guide to Discussing Racial Equity in CTE

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The purpose of Brave Dialogues: A Guide to Discussing Racial Equity in Career Technical Education is to provide state Career Technical Education (CTE) leaders with tools to engage in discussion around racial equity in CTE and to support state CTE leaders in creating an environment in which all stakeholders have the language and comfort to discuss challenges and opportunities related to racial equity in CTE. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Module

Author: Lynn Aprill

Amazon Class Chats: Career Exploration Videos for the Classroom

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Amazon Future Engineer features live and prerecorded career chats featuring Amazon professionals. Scroll down the page to access videos on the following careers: - Product Sustainability Manager - Studio Director - Software Development Engineer - AWS Startups Account Manager - Sr. Technical Product Manager, DIsaster Relief - Engineer Intern - Sustainability 101 - Tech in the Music Industry - Transportation 101 - Software Engineers - User Experience (UX) Designers - Future Engineers - Transportation for Good - Remarkably Black in Tech

Material Type: Other

Author: Amazon

Engaging Families and Communities to Support Special and Underserved Populations in CTE

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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.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Association for Career and Technical Education

Oregon Program Improvement Process for Equity

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NAPE’s Program Improvement Process for Equity™ (PIPE™) is a research-based, effective professional development program designed for institutional teams to increase the participation and success of under-represented students in Career and Technical Education (CTE) and STEM (especially in nontraditional pathways). The process is built around five modules that help teams to use data to prioritize and act on program improvement to close equity gaps. From 2015 to the Present, three cohorts of secondary, postsecondary, and STEM Hub partners have participated in PIPE in order to identify equity gaps (disproportionality) in CTE and STEM, and identify evidence- and researchbased strategies to close those gaps. This Promising Practices handout outlines the lessons learned, key steps for success, suggestions to avoid pitfalls, and helpful reminders for continuous improvement. Root causes are aligned with strategies that have been effective in increasing participation, retention and/or completion in nontraditional (by gender) and other CTE and STEM programs of study.

Material Type: Reading

Author: National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity

Equity in CTE & STEM: Root Causes and Strategies

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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.

Material Type: Reading

Authors: Ben Williams, Carol Burbank, NAPE, Ricardo Romanillos

Equity and the Perkins V

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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.

Material Type: Reading

Author: National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity

Racial Equity Toolkit

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Centering equity is key to the purpose and mission of any collective impact work, no matter the issue area or focus. It is very difficult to move population or systems change without redressing disparities that exist in almost every community. Part of the challenge is there is not one path to achieve equity, and the work of advancing equity is an ongoing practice, built on work that is very personal, relational, and structural. Though it is a continuing journey without a definitive finish line, structured processes, goals, and metrics can support individuals and collectives to advance the work intentionally and strategically.

Material Type: Other

Author: Lynn Aprill

ACP Career Readiness Goal 10: Improve access and support for students of color and/or from special populations to engage in the ACP/Career Readiness process in our district

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If the ACP goal that your team selected was "Improve access and support for students of color and/or from special populations to engage in the ACP/Career Readiness process in our district", then these five resources will assist with inclusion and engagement of special populations.

Material Type: Other

Authors: Andrea Donegan, Karin Smith, Kayla Correll, Lynn Aprill