Providing access to pathways will do little to improve student outcomes if students do not have access to the information they need to make choices about their education and career options.
NETWORK MEMBER RESOURCES
Texas Regional Pathways Network Advising one sheet
This document provides key components of college and career information and advising within the Texas Regional Pathways Network.
CareerReady NYC Career Readiness Framework
The NYC Center for Youth Employment worked with city administrators, educators, employers, funders, and service providers to develop a framework that outlines key milestones for young people from ages 10 to 22+ in attaining career success. (see pages 16-21)
Illinois PaCE Postsecondary and Career Expectations framework
This framework demonstrates a pathway for 8th-12th grade students to explore financial aid literacy, postsecondary education and exploration, and career exploration and development.
Co-Advising Framework: Arizona Career Connected Pathways
The Center for the Future of Arizona is working with secondary and postsecondary partners to enable effective career advising across systems. Their Co-Advising Framework supports collaboration among secondary and postsecondary educators, advisors, and staff as they create computer science and cybersecurity pathways, with the goal of supporting seamless transitions from high school to college to career.
JFF RESOURCES
When Is a Job Just a Job—and When Can It Launch a Career?
This report analyzes nearly 4 million resumes and highlights the types of occupations that offer the strongest opportunities for financial stability and true economic advancement.
This new, digital version of the curriculum enables both synchronous and asynchronous engagement and helps learners in grades 6 through 10 develop essential employability skills, explore STEM occupations, and better understand themselves and the world of work.
2020 Career Navigation Technology
The Career Navigation Technology 2020 report delves into the dynamics shaping the career navigation technology market, identifying innovations, trends, and areas of opportunity. For the first time, advances in technology can offer all workers meaningful, robust, and personalized supports—and we celebrate the companies that are leading the way.
Putting Vocation at the Center of the Curriculum report
Students in CUNY Guttman's Ethnographies of Work course become researchers, observing and analyzing workplace culture, expectations, racial norms, and other dynamics. In this report, student and employer participants share their perspectives on this unique learning experience.
Teaching Students About the World of Work book
Teaching Students About the World of Work argues that educational institutions—especially two-year and four-year public institutions serving low-income students—need to make the topic of employment a central element in their educational offerings. The book demonstrates that a far greater emphasis on teaching students about the work world will be necessary if colleges are to give disadvantaged students a realistic chance for professional and economic success.