Resources
Reframing the Future of Career Guidance in the Age of AI
The Conversations We Should Be Having Right Now about AI, Advising, and Career Pathways by Jerre Maynor, Senior Director, Solutions Design & Delivery, and Leah Eggers, Director, Jobs for the Future (JFF).
Maryland Leads the Nation with New Career Technical Education Standards Rooted in Rigor, Relevance, and Flexibility
With the Maryland State Board of Education’s (MSBOE) approval of the new Career Technical Education (CTE) course standards, Maryland has set a new benchmark for consistency, rigor, and relevance — not only for its own learners, but for the nation’s CTE landscape. Read more in this blog by Brenna Bartlett, Director of Technical Assistance, Advance CTE.
LAUNCHing the Next Generation of Pathways
Casey Haugner Wrenn, Director at ESG, writes about a two-year technical-assistance deep dive with two states positioned to accelerate their nation-leading pathways work: Tennessee and Colorado. These states are both poised to take their lessons learned from the first phase of Launch into the future we envision for college and career pathways.
Launch States Chart Different Paths to Success
Deep collaboration and a sound strategy are crucial to pathways. Two Launch states, Colorado and North Carolina, have different approaches, but both are paving the path forward.
Launch “Accelerates” Pathways Work in Six States Across the Nation
Lindsey Phillips, Postsecondary Pathways for Youth with New America’s Education Policy Program, shares details on the new Launch Community of Practice and the six Accelerator sites.
Conditions For Sustainable 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 access.
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.
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