career readiness
5 Keys to Successfully Start Your Career
By: Cary J. Green, PhD. You learn in the classroom and through real world experience, but soft skills will increase your effectiveness as you enter the workforce. Here are five valuable soft skills to know to begin a successful career.
Dropping out of High School? Go to College Instead
By: Emily Froimson. Dual enrollment many times offers low-income students an opportunity to keep pace with their peers and complete college on time.
Take a Risk and Follow Your Own Path in Life
By: Anisha Srivastava. After winning Pearson's Student Coding Competition, Anisha explains combining her newfound passions for entrepreneurship and education.
Blending Hard and Soft Skills to Create a Passion-Driven Career
By: Emily Gover. Throw what you know out the window - blending hard and soft skills is imperative now more then ever for finding a passion-driven career.
Innovative High School Breaks New Ground with Career Education
By: Seth Livingston. Available statewide and tuition-free, Idaho College and Career Readiness Academy provides students exposure to technical and specialty trade skills. They are blazing the path to better career education for virtual high schools, here is the story of one student's’ experience.
Next Generation Career Pathways: A Manufacturing Case Study
In this paper, we assert that new market demands are shaping next generation career and technical education opportunities. The rise of anywhere, anytime learning and competency-based approaches provides the opportunity for Career and Technical Education programs to lead the way in terms of applying blended, competency-based education in practical ways.
Knod: Eliminating the Education to Employment Gap
By: Katie Vander Ark. Knod is a Salt Lake City based talent development company working to eliminate the education-to-employment gap by producing job candidates who are ready for the workforce by focusing first on employer needs, not student needs.
How I Paved my Unique Path with Career Path High
By: Eleanore “Ellie” Northrop. How Ellie's decision to take control of her secondary journey led to a personalized high school experience, two job offers before graduation, and the beginning of her career.
NAFTrack Certification Combines School and Work
NAFTrack Certification is what a high school diploma should be--credible evidence of college and career readiness. The standards behind this program were developed by both business and education.
Graduating Self-Directed Learners Ready to Thrive in College
Summit Public Schools create rich learning experiences that allows every student to realize his or her highest potential by focusing on four key elements of college and career readiness that empowers students to drive their learning and own their success.