Ensure each Colorado learner has access to ongoing, meaningful and individualized Career Development.
In order for Colorado to thrive, each Colorado learner should be give the time and resources necessary for meaningful career conversations and aligned scheduling. This will empower each Colorado learner to explore career options and receive guidance in planning for their future careers. Career development and advisement should be a systemic process that starts with a broad understanding of what the world of work is and what is required to be successfull in navigating career pathways. Colorado CTE will not lose sight of the importance of elevating learner voice in this process as learners shall feel empowered.
This is in alignment with CTE Without Limits, PRINCIPLE 1: “each learner engages in a cohesive, flexible and responsive career preparation ecosystem” as well as PRINCPLE 3: “each learner skillfully navigates their own career journey.”
Resources:
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Access to the National Modules for individual training:
- The importance of CTE and School Counselor Relationship
- CTE messaging and communications strategies
- American School Counselor Association (ASCA)
- Colorado School Counselor Association (CSCA)
- Postsecondary Workforce Readiness (PWR)
- “Colorado high school graduates demonstrate the knowledge and skills (competencies) needed to succeed in postsecondary settings and to advance in career pathways as lifelong learners and contributing citizens.” — adopted by the Colorado State Board of Education and Colorado Commission on Higher Education (Winter 2016).
- Individual Career and Academic Planning (ICAP)
- An individualized career and academic plan is both a document and a process that students use – with support from school counselors, teachers, and parents – to define their career goals and post-secondary plans in order to inform the student’s decisions about their courses and activities throughout school.
- The Learning that Works Resource Center is a repository of high-quality CTE and career readiness research and promising policies, and is designed to connect state leaders, policymakers, academics and practitioners with a vetted bank of resources across 12 categories.
- Advance CTE Reports: Resources created by Advance CTE across topic areas related to Career Technical Education (CTE) include reports, guide/tools, case studies, briefs and snapshots.