Career & Technical Education
Competency-Based Education
Curating a Portfolio of Student Pathways: Workspace Education
By: Robin Lake. I’ve been thinking about Workspace since I left and wondering what to make of it. It’s definitely different and meeting a need. Some families drive an hour to be there, and I can understand why.
Competency-Based Education
Evidence That Makes it Evident: Improving Assessment by Emulating the Trades
By: Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski. The expanded vision of the graduate has widened the gap between the competencies educators want for all graduates, and the evidence of competence educators are actually collecting. Here's one way we can begin to change that.
Post-Secondary
Ready and Working: Pathway Programs Are Changing What It Means to Be Career Ready
Career Pathways initiatives are gaining momentum in districts and among community coalitions in part because they blur the line between older, traditional “career or college” education tracks. Learn more about what these initiatives look like here.
Project-Based Learning
What Do You Think About CTE?
Career Technical Education has come a long way in the past few decades, preparing high school students of all ages for a wide range of high-wage, high-skill, high-demand careers they can begin quickly after graduating.
Post-Secondary
The Future of Jobs Training: 2 Promising Career Prep Pathways
By: Robyn Bagley. There will likely always be a place for the traditional route of higher education, but the demands of cost and time to the student are being reconsidered as employers are changing what they ultimately value. Here, I look at the shifting tides of career prep.
Personalized Learning
What’s Really Better: Workforce Training or Four-Year College?
By: Stuart Udell. Today's Career Technical Education (CTE) model delivers a vastly different set of pathways for students than in the past, leading to high school graduation and meaningful, skilled 21st-century jobs.
Project-Based Learning
Santa Ana Unified Creating Incredible Pathways for Students K-12
When people think of large urban districts, they often think about all the challenges that they face. And it’s true--large urban districts often have to overcome many hurdles. But these challenges are not insurmountable, and Santa Ana Unified proves it.
Schools Worth Visiting
Enhancing a CTE Program to Boost Student Readiness
By: Tammy Hyatt. Working and learning go hand in hand when a student is on the path to mastering a specific skill set or subject material, and for students in Career and Technical Education programs, this couldn’t be truer.