Why Create Career Pathways Schools?
A Career Pathways school district or building is one that has adopted a Career Pathway structure for organizing teaching and learning. Integrating Career Pathways into the school curriculum improves: • Student retention • Student attendance • Student achievement • Student career decision making • Student career goal attainment Benchmarks • The local board of education or designee has adopted the six Career Pathways or an equivalent alternative that meets the state standard. • Ensures that all school buildings within the district utilize the Career Pathways concept adopted by the district as evidenced by their curriculum plans/guides. • Ensures that all students will have opportunities to learn about careers within all pathways as evidenced by curriculum plans/guides. • Ensures that the Career Pathways are used as a framework for: • organizing career contextual teaching/learning experiences as evidenced in curriculum plans used by staff. • providing systematic career planning and prepar
