CAREER PATHWAYS

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CAREER PATHWAYS

• Why do we need them?
• How are they different from what were already
  doing?
• How do we get there?
• Dan Hull, Pres. CORD, hull_at_cord.org

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What type of workers willAmerica need to
becompetitive in the future?

• How will CTE respond to these needs?
• What tools do we have to help
• make these changes?

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Who Is Most Likely to Succeed?
A Survey of 428 Employers
The Center for the Development of Leadership
Skills Rider University
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World-Class WorkersTechnicians

• Not just narrow skills
• Preparation for a careernot just a job
• Ability to learn new skills
• High achievement in useful academics
• Problem solvingopen-ended problems not
  from rote learning or teaching the task

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Rebuilding the CTE System

• Not equipment basedknowledge and technology
  based
• Most workers will require education beyond high
  school
• All workers will need high levels of useful
  academics
• Accommodate for changes

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Key Elements for Change

• Standards-Based Curriculum
• Connect Head Skills with Hand Skills
• All Students Select a Career Area of Study
• Connect Secondary and Postsecondary Components
• Restructure the Curriculum Framework
• Infuse New Workplace Knowledge/Skills

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How the Reauthorization of Perkins is Shaping Up

• All CTE will build upon good Tech Prep practices
• Focus on Secondary/Postsecondary partnerships
• Improves high school experience for neglected
  majority
• More CTE students will transition to colleges
  without remediation with PS Credits
• Tech Prep ? Career Pathways

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Isnt this what were already doing in Tech Prep?

• Take a look at where you are with the Career
  Pathways Evaluation Instrument.

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Whats Unique About Career Pathways?

• Rather than try to connect existing sec ps
  curriculum elements, Career Pathways require that
  new curriculum frameworks be created as single
  sec/ps systems for all students.
• What are the implications of this for curriculum
  structures, dual credit, employer partnerships,
  career guidance, student achievement
  accountability?

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The Key Element in Career Pathways

• The Curriculum

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Curriculum Elements

• Content What do we teach?
• -Resource Career Clusters Databanks for all 16
  OVAE Clusters
• www.careerclusters.org
• Delivery How and When do we teach?
• -Resource Articulated 42(2) Curriculum
  Framework (Tech Prep) and Contextual Teaching

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Curriculum Frameworks Drive

• Courses
• Assessment
• Alignment
• Guidance
• Dual Credit
• Work Site learning
• Contextual Teaching

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The High School Role

• Provide context for academic achievement
• Provide motivation (and desire) to remain in
  school
• Provide a level playing field for students with
  diversified learning styles
• Provide guidance for career selection and a
  foundation for career pursuit
• Use career preparation to provide
  interdisciplinary problem-solving and critical
  thinking
• Provide a basis for lifelong learningand
  lifelong earning

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This Workshop Will Be a Success if You Leave With

• Understanding/Commitment to Career Pathways in
  your Partnership
• Identification of 3-4 Career Pathway Criteria for
  Improvement
• A Plan Containing Improvement Strategies for
  Selected Criteria

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The Challenge for the Future

• Standards-based curricula
• High School graduation requirements matched to
  postsecondary entrance requirements
• All students successful in rigorous academics
• Seamless transitions Dual Enrollment
• All students in clusters and pathways
• CAREER PATHWAYS

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Recent Legislative Happenings

• House Bill
• Senate Bill

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Career Cluster

• A Grouping of Occupations According to Common
  Knowledge and Skills for the Purpose of
  Organizing Educational Programs and Curricula
• One of Sixteen Clusters defined by OVAE in 1999
• A student interest area

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USEDs 16 Career Clusters

• Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Arts, Audio/Video Tech Communications
• Business Admin. Services
• Construction
• Education Training Services
• Financial Services
• Health Science
• Hospitality Tourism
• Human Services

• Information Technology Services
• Legal Protective Services
• Manufacturing
• Public Admin/Government
• Retail/Wholesale Sales Services
• Scientific Research, Engineering Technical
  Services
• Transportation, Distribution Logistics

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A Career Pathway is a coherent, articulated
sequence of rigorous academic and
career/technical courses, commencing in the ninth
grade and leading to an associate degree,
baccalaureate degree and beyond, an industry
recognized certificate, and/or licensure. The
Career Pathway is developed, implemented, and
maintained in partnership among secondary and
postsecondary education, business, and employers.
Career Pathways are available to all students,
including adult learners, and may lead to
rewarding careers.
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Career Pathway

• A 42(2) program of study leading to employment
  in an occupational field and/or continued
  education/training
• Not a Track to narrow student choice
• The high school portion of a Career Pathway is
  sufficiently broad to support postsecondary
  education/training for other occupations within
  the cluster

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The essential characteristics of an Ideal Career
Pathway include the following1. The Secondary
Pathway Component

• Meets state academic standards and grade-level
  expectations
• Meets high school testing and exit requirements
• Meets postsecondary (college) entry/placement
  requirements
• Provides foundation knowledge and skills in a
  chosen career cluster
• Provides opportunities for students to earn
  college credit through dual/concurrent enrollment
  or articulation agreements

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• The Postsecondary Pathway Component provides

• Opportunities for students to earn college credit
  through dual/concurrent enrollment or
  articulation agreements
• Alignment and articulation with baccalaureate
  programs
• Industry-recognized skills and knowledge in each
  cluster area
• Opportunities for placement in the chosen career
  clusters at multiple exit points

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• Pathway partners ensure a culture of empirical
  evidence is maintained by

• Regularly collecting qualitative and quantitative
  data
• Using data for planning and decision-making for
  continuous pathway improvement
• On-going dialog among secondary, post-secondary,
  and business partners

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Purpose of CPSIC

• Make the Benefits of Career Pathways available to
  students across the country by helping secondary
  and postsecondary Career Pathways partnerships
  develop and implement strategies for improvement.
• Set benchmarks to measure success and improvement
  efforts
• Engage in a continuous improvement process and
  identify useful improvement strategies
• Provide Technical Assistance
• Showcase example partnerships and improvement
  strategies

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Tech Prep vs. Career Pathways
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Compare and ContrastTech Prep and Career
PathwaysHow are they alike?

• They both provide opportunities for the
  Neglected Majority
• They both have ties to Business/Industry
• They both help students focus on a career
• They both are involved in total school reform
  focusing on high achievement, persistence
• They both include a sequence of courses

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New Tech Prep focusesbeyond two
yearpostsecondary
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How are they different?

• Career Pathways are not optional
• All students become members of
• a Career Pathway
• The difference is in how their
• Pathway progresses
• All students prepare for the
• next level in their pathway

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The emphasis in Career Pathways is Rigorous
Academics for ALL
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Five key elements of difference

• Reduce remediation rates at all levels
• Increase enrollment and persistence in PS
  programs
• Increase rigor in all academics for ALL students

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• Improved entry into employment and further
  education
• Improved graduation rates

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Tech Prep partners include

• Secondary and Postsecondary Education
• Business Partners
• Career Pathway Partners include
• Secondary and Postsecondary education
• Business Partnerships
• College and university Partners
• All teachersacademic CTE,
• from grades 9 - 16

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Tech Prep transition strategies include

• Articulation Agreements
• Duel Enrollment
• Duel Credit
• HS to PS
• Career Pathway transition strategies include
• Duel Enrollment
• Dual Credit
• HS to PS to University