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Leading the Way: Career Clustersâ„¢

Leading the Way: Career Clusters™. CAREER CLUSTERS™: HELPING TO MEET TODAY ’ S CHALLENGES. The Changing U.S. Workforce. Professional 20%. Professional 20%. Source: Pathways to Prosperity, Harvard, February 2011. National Initiatives. Continuing Effects of Globalization of Economy.

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Leading the Way: Career Clustersâ„¢

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  1. Leading the Way: Career Clusters™

  2. CAREER CLUSTERS™: HELPING TO MEET TODAY’S CHALLENGES

  3. The Changing U.S. Workforce Professional 20% Professional 20% Source: Pathways to Prosperity, Harvard, February 2011

  4. National Initiatives

  5. Continuing Effects of Globalization of Economy

  6. Challenges Our Students Face • Engagement • Achievement • Transition

  7. Engagement

  8. Why Do They Leave? Source: “The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts” Civic Enterprises, 2006

  9. Challenges Our Students Face • Engagement • Achievement • Transition

  10. High School Achievement

  11. Challenges Our Students Face • Engagement • Achievement • Transition

  12. Transitions from High School

  13. THEN NOW

  14. CAREER CLUSTERS™: A BIT OF HISTORY

  15. Career Clusters™ • Began in the late 1990s with grants from the U.S. Department of Education • Career Clusters™ were identified by looking at a variety of other ‘groupings’ • Organized by common knowledge and skills

  16. How Were Career Clusters™ Developed? • Grants to states • National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium • National Advisory Committees • Business and Industry • Labor • Government • Education (secondary and postsecondary)

  17. Career Clusters™ are 16 groupings of occupations and industries based on commonalities. What are Career Clusters™?

  18. Organize academic and technical knowledge and skills into a coherent sequence andIdentify pathways from secondary to postsecondary education What do Career Clusters™ do?

  19. CAREER CLUSTERS™:THE MODEL

  20. “Hierarchy of Model” • Occupational specific h • Career Pathway h • Career Cluster™ h • Career Ready Practices

  21. WHAT’S NEXT?

  22. Common CTE Standards • Vision called for the development of world-class CTE program standards

  23. Why do we need common state standards for CTE? • Consistent, high- quality expectations and rigorous programs of study • College and career readiness • Share best practices and develop new and better resources

  24. What is the Common Career Technical Core? • State-led initiative to establish a shared set of high-quality Career Technical Education (CTE) standards • Includes a set of standards for each of the 16 Career ClustersTM, as well as an overarching set of Career Ready Practices

  25. States that have declared support

  26. What criteria were used to develop the standards? • National Career ClustersTM Framework • 2008 Knowledge and Skills Statements • Common Core State Standards Guidelines and Process

  27. What is the scope and use of the CCTC standards? • Address the educational expectations across an entire program of study by setting clear goals and expectations for what students should know and be able to do

  28. Stay updated!

  29. LEADING CHANGETRANSFORMING EXPECTATIONSMAKING THE DIFFERENCE

  30. Kimberly Green kgreen@careertech.org www.careertech.org

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