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We Must End the Stigma Associated with CTE Schools must move away from the old paradigm that some students will enter the college prep track and others a less rigorous career prep track. MYTH: CTE students aren’t ready for rigorous, college preparatory academics. MYTH: CTE students lack ambition and aren’t high-achieving.
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The Future of
CTE February 18,
2016
Career Readiness• Career Ready is
Postsecondary Ready!• 2/3 of all jobs will soon
require postsecondary education or training beyond high school.
• Pathways cannot be terminal in high school.
Current 20200%
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Credentials GapAssociates Bachelors
We Must End the Stigma Associated with CTE
• Schools must move away from the old paradigm that some students will enter the college prep track and others a less rigorous career prep track.• MYTH: CTE students aren’t ready for
rigorous, college preparatory academics.• MYTH: CTE students lack ambition and
aren’t high-achieving.
Stigma: Career Readiness Challenge
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74%43% 48%
26% 18% 10%
Nearly 3 in 4 identified the negative public perceptions of policy-makers, parents, and students as one of CTE’s greatest challenges
Source: NASDCTEc’s 2015 survey of opinion leaders
Career Readiness Initiative• Career readiness must be a priority for ALL
students. • CTE is a key lever for states but career
readiness can’t be the exclusive responsibility of CTE.• Business, workforce development, and
higher education must be equal partners.
Career Readiness Initiative
K-14 Business and Industry
Workforce Development
Postsecondary Education
Career Readiness
CCSSO Task Force Recommendation #1
Align career pathways with the demands of the labor
market; recruit business as a core partner
Identify high-demand, high-skill industry sectors most
important to the state’s economy and prioritize
pathways within those sectors
Ask business to define skills and
use those to design courses and pathways
Establish structured process for engaging
employers; this won’t happen
organically
CCSSO Task Force Recommendation #2
Set a higher bar for the quality and rigor of career preparation programs
Require that all career pathways culminate with a
meaningful postsecondary degree or credential
Dramatically expand work-based learning
opportunities and strengthen career
counseling for students
Build the capacity of educators by recruiting
industry professionals into schools and “up-skilling”
existing teachers
Use state funding and program approval processes to scale up
the pathways in greatest demand and phase our programs that do not lead to credentials of
value
Raise the level of rigor by including both
a college-ready academic core and a
technical core
CCSSO Task Force Recommendation #3
Make career readiness matter to schools and students by prioritizing it
in accountability systems
Make it matter to schools: Measure career readiness and make it count in school rating and accountability systems
Make it matter to students:Adapt graduation requirements and scholarship criteria to give students credit for meeting rigorous career
readiness indicators
Career Readiness VisionThrough deep and sustained cross-sector engagement, we will align K-14 career pathways and programs with
the high-skill, high-demand needs of business and industry to better prepare students for success in
college and the 21st century world of work
Employer Engagemen
t
Quality Career
PathwaysAccountability Systems
Career Readiness Vision
All students, especially those in underserved communities, access high-quality, rigorous career-focused programs, including career pathways, that span secondary and postsecondary levels and results in attainment of credentials with labor market value.
Pathways are demand driven, fully integrated in the K-12 system, include a strong academic core with high-quality technical instruction, provide robust career guidance and advisement to help students understand their career opportunities, and engage students in real world problem solving and experiences.
Transformed system ensures that the state’s complete delivery system – schools, technology colleges, postsecondary institutions, business and industry, and workforce and economic development authorities – functions synergistically to fully support access, quality, and integration of services to all students.
It aligns state and federal funding streams to support integrated delivery of services to students to and through high school.
Transformed System of Career
Preparation
