

Employability Skills
Career Stories Foster Skill & Competency Growth Critical skills and competencies can impact a person’s ability to obtain employment and to move along their pathway
Career Stories Foster Skill & Competency Growth Critical skills and competencies can impact a person’s ability to obtain employment and to move along their pathway
Promoting Career Exploration for Students Career stories promote career exploration by connecting learners to the interview narratives of workers with real-world experience and advice. Interviewees
Plumbing and mechanical systems inspector Jothum Stallings recounts as a high school student being “on the verge of dropping out.” His career story interview illustrates the
Guiding Principle: Effective Partnerships Designated programs should be a partnership between at least one institution of higher education and one public secondary school and district,
Designated programs should expose students to a variety of career opportunitiesincluding greater depth in careers relevant to their selected pathway, for example, by providing opportunities
Designated programs should incorporate sufficient wraparound services to promote academic success and completion, taking into consideration the needs of diverse populations of students. Early college
Designated programs should be structured around clear and detailed student academic pathways from secondary and post-secondary education with regard to coursework, sequencing, and experiences beyond
Designated programs should prioritize students underrepresented in higher education enrollment and completion. To facilitate this, programs should be structured to eliminate barriers to student participation.
Equity in the workplace starts with equitable education that leads to occupations that offer fair treatment in access, opportunity, and advancement for everyone. This includes
When equity is introduced into career-focused learning, dreams can take shape. Every student can now begin to envision their ideal job, begin considering the new
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