College and career readiness is a common priority area for districts, and in particular, a focus for leaders at the high school level. Districts strive to set students up for a successful and productive life of learning regardless of whether they choose to go to college. For students enrolling in further education, districts want to prepare them to thrive in and complete their courses.
While many districts offer career pathways and internship programs, they seek to ensure that these learning opportunities support the development of skills needed for success in college—if they choose to attend—and the changing workforce. Because these goals extend beyond K-12, districts find it challenging to measure the success of their existing offerings and improve students’ preparation for college and work. Further, teachers need tools and strategies to embed authentic exposure to work and careers into the curriculum.
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Below we spotlight ways students, families, and school staff recommend enhancing existing college and career programs and services.
Explore the tiles below to learn more about projects and resources that aim to strengthen college and career readiness programming.
This paper examines the Portrait of a Graduate, particularly how to redesign skills-based learning trajectories.
Explore the variety of free and fee-based resources that Digital Promise offers to help CTE educators boost their knowledge and skills around global competence and to encourage students to do the same—from sample project plans that are geared toward integrating global content into courses to self-paced, online training modules for educators and students.
EARCA built a school-to-work pathway for youth in rural Alabama into the lucrative, ever-growing cybersecurity field.
This research-backed framework helps educators and designers use evidence-based factors to supplement job training and college classes designed to help learners find jobs, become successful in their occupation, and live a fulfilling life.
This P-16 community initiative aims to advance community-driven and flexible approaches to STEM pathways that position more than 100,000 historically and systematically excluded learners in San Diego on the trajectory toward high-impact STEM careers.
Curated by Digital Promise, these professional development and free resources to assist CTE educators with incorporating global skills into their courses.
This quick start and discussion guide helps educators learn about and build capacity to engage students in computational thinking.
This resource empowers all levels of educators to learn about and strengthen their capacity to engage students in computational thinking.
This research-backed framework helps educators and designers use evidence-based factors to supplement job training and college classes designed to help learners find jobs, become successful in their occupation, and live a fulfilling life.
This P-16 community initiative aims to advance community-driven and flexible approaches to STEM pathways that position more than 100,000 historically and systematically excluded learners in San Diego on the trajectory toward high-impact STEM careers.
Curated by Digital Promise, these professional development and free resources to assist CTE educators with incorporating global skills into their courses.
This quick start and discussion guide helps educators learn about and build capacity to engage students in computational thinking.
This resource empowers all levels of educators to learn about and strengthen their capacity to engage students in computational thinking.
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