Resources
Conditions For Sustainable and Equitable Pathways Systems
Over the past two years of collaboration, Launch leaders and participants learned a great deal about the conditions that must be in place to advance high-quality and sustainable pathways systems related to a framework of five levers that are critical for driving lasting systems change: policy, funding, partnerships, data, and equity.
Drawing on that experience, as well as evidence from a national literature review and the expertise of the local, state and national leaders involved in Launch, the first collaborative publication from the Launch partners Conditions For Sustainable and Equitable Pathways Systems synthesizes these conditions to provide a framework for college and career pathways system leaders to follow as they pursue accessible, sustainable high- quality pathways systems at scale.
Implementing Individual Career and Academic Plans at Scale
This brief highlights promising practices for ICAP implementation at the state and local levels in Colorado, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wisconsin and provides recommendations for further state and local work to scale ICAPs. It was developed through JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s New Skills ready network, a partnership of Advance CTE and Education Strategy Group.
Contribution to Society: Exploring Purpose-Driven Framing for Career Pathways
Contribution to Society: Exploring Purpose-Driven Framing for Career Pathways builds the case for purpose-driven framing for career advising, shares the results from preliminary research into this type of framing and lays out both implications for different populations and future work needed to validate and implement this framing.
Making the Connection: Aligned Advising
This framework addresses how to align advising, which is essential for opening the doors to postsecondary and career success. Students who receive high-quality advising gain a multitude of academic, navigational, and relational benefits.
Communications Toolkit: Postsecondary Pathways and the Shifting American Economy
This document contains key messages for communicators to use, as well as six important strategy considerations (each with relevant additional resources) to ensure robust, successful communications with families. These ready-to-use resources include key messages, graphics, printable materials, customizable pieces, and more from which communicators can build and execute their own contextualized communications plan.
Visualizing the Pipeline: The Importance of Cross-Sector Data
This brief explores lessons learned from states that have developed high-quality cross-sector data dashboards; questions for policymakers to consider when undertaking a data visualization project, and recommendations for how to effectively build out an early childhood to workforce data dashboard that can drive policy and inform the broader public about the state’s talent pipeline.
Ensuring Equitable Postsecondary Transitions
This resource lays out the highest-leverage actions that states can take to close equity gaps in students’ postsecondary preparation, access, and success. This tool is intended to help state education leaders benchmark their current policies, programs, and initiatives against the recommended strategies and learn what each strategy looks like in action in order to support more equitable postsecondary transitions.
Stackability Guide: Building Credential Connections Within Institutions
This guide is designed to help institutional leaders move stacking credentials from a concept to a reality and to create stackable credentials that position students to move internally seamlessly through credit and noncredit, between and among programs, to adjacent career pathways, and over time as students return to engage with institutions for various educational and skill-building needs. The focus is to examine processes and practices within an institution such that existing institutional credentials, and new ones that get added, are stackable.
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