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The National Association of State Workforce Board Chairs August 25, 2003 New York City

Connecting Workforce Development, Education and Economic Development Through Cluster-Based and Career Mapping Strategies. The National Association of State Workforce Board Chairs August 25, 2003 New York City. Presentation Objectives. Provide an Overview of Career Clusters .

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The National Association of State Workforce Board Chairs August 25, 2003 New York City

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  1. Connecting Workforce Development, Education and Economic Development Through Cluster-Based and Career Mapping Strategies The National Association of State Workforce Board Chairs August 25, 2003 New York City

  2. Presentation Objectives • Provide an Overview of Career Clusters. • Provide an Overview of Economic Clusters. • Discuss how we can strengthen the connection between Career Clusters and Economic Clusters

  3. Overview: Career Clusters

  4. Career Technical Education Connects to … • Education Reform • Workforce Development • Economic Development

  5. Career Clusters: Definition • Career Clusters represent a grouping of occupations and broad industries based on commonalities.

  6. Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources Architecture & Construction Arts, Audio/Video Technology & Communications Business, Management & Administration Education & Training Finance Government & Public Administration Health Science Hospitality & Tourism Human Services Information Technology Law, Public Safety & Security Manufacturing Marketing, Sales & Service Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics Transportation, Distribution & Logistics Career Clusters: Titles

  7. Career Clusters: Model Organizes the occupations, within each cluster, into pathways that group the cluster occupations based on commonalities.

  8. Career Clusters: Purposes The 16 Career Clusters are an organizing tool for schools to offer a broader, more durable preparation for the world of work.

  9. Career Clusters: Purposes • Establishes a common language – a common framework for conversation between education, employers and government • Provides better information about careers for parents and students, thus better alignment between the jobs we have and the workers we have

  10. Career Clusters: Purposes • Vehicle for improving CTE • Alignment to the needs of the workforce • Improved and expanded program areas • Identifies academic, technical & employability skills for a well-prepared, qualified workforce for employers • Cross-training, re-tooling and retraining the workforce • Preparation of the emerging workforce

  11. Career Clusters: Advisory Committee • Membership includes more than 300 members on the 11 advisory committees. • Membership includes business and industry, associations, government agencies, labor and secondary and postsecondary educators. • Membership is broad-based in terms of geographic location. • Membership reflects occupations within each of the pathways. • Membership is responsible for material development.

  12. Status of Implementation • Broad awareness • Alignment of state clusters to 16 clusters • Statewide implementation • Local implementation • Use in program approval • Use in broader high school efforts

  13. Overview: Economic Clusters

  14. Defining Clusters • Geographically bounded concentration of similar, related or complementary businesses, with active channels for business transactions, communications and dialogue • Share specialized infrastructure, labor markets and services • Faced with common opportunities and threats Source: NGA: Governor’s Guide to Cluster-based Economic Development

  15. Why Economic Clusters? • States should build sustainable competitive advantages for economic development. • Concentration, or clustering, gives businesses an advantage over more isolated competitors: • Access to more suppliers and customized support services • Access to experienced and skilled labor pools • Access to innovation, knowledge and know-how

  16. Types of Economic Clusters • Sector-Centered • Healthcare • Information Technology • Advanced Manufacturing • Transportation, Distribution and Logistics • Science/Technology-Centered • Biotechnology • Product-Centered • Wine cluster • Furniture cluster

  17. Career Clusters and Economic Clusters: Making the Connections

  18. Why Make Connections? • Economic cluster growth and development depends on a globally competitive, specialized, and highly agile labor force at all levels in 21st century workplaces (See Figure 1): • Skill breadth and depth • Economic cluster “systems” knowledge to work effectively in extended enterprises and customer-supplier networks • Entrepreneurial and agile • Vertical and horizontal career mobility

  19. Figure 1: Work and Careers in 21st Century Workplaces From: To: Management Centralized Decentralized Functions Separated Shared Professional/Technical Centralized Decentralized Knowledge Specialized Integrated Some Workers All Workers Work Design Jobs Functional/ Cross-functional Teams Organizational Structure Vertical Customer-Supplier Hierarchies Networks Employee Job Task Work Unit Performance Responsibility Performance Business Process Management Career Progression Vertical Vertical and Horizontal Limited Range Full Range Source: Adapted from Schray and Sheets (2002)

  20. Why Make Connections? (cont.) • Provides a broader, more durable foundation for building public-private partnerships and engaging business and industry: • Engage business and industry leadership • Manage curriculum integration and change • Provides a better context for addressing: • All aspects of industry • Career development • High-level academic integration • Secondary/postsecondary alignment • Coordination with workforce development (e.g., career advancement projects)

  21. How Do We Make Connections? • Coordinate Economic/Career Cluster Initiatives • Business and industry leadership • Interagency teams • Statewide and regional coordination • Build career cluster curriculum frameworks to support economic clusters • Foundation—“Systems” addresses all aspects • Pathways—Focus on managing critical business functions and end-to-end processes (Figures 2 and 3) • Specialties—Focus on occupations most critical to competitiveness of cluster

  22. Application Level Occupation Functional Cross-Functional Design Improve Trouble-shoot Operate/ Maintain Figure 2: Level and Scope of Cluster Foundation and Pathway Curriculum Content Scope of Application

  23. Processes (Tasks and results) Occupational Cluster1 Occupational Cluster 2 Occupational Cluster 3 Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4 Figure 3: Addressing Complete Functions and End-to-End Processes (e.g., product realization, software development life cycle) Occupational Roles

  24. Connections: Recommendations • Address the missing link in states--Align economic and career clusters • Coordinate cluster initiatives • Economic development • Workforce development • Career and technical education • Build career cluster curriculum frameworks to support economic clusters and provide broad-based career opportunities

  25. Career Clusters www.careerclusters.org Kimberly Green 202.737.0303 kgreen@careertech.org Pam Stacey 405.743.6850 pstac@okcareertech.org Economic Clusters A Governor’s Guide to Cluster-Based Economic Development: http://www.nga.org/center/divisions/1,1188,C_ISSUE_BRIEF%5ED_4063,00.html Bob Sheets 630.505.4100 ext.229 rsheets@niu.edu Contact Information

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