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1. Wisconsin Career Pathways Web Site ProjectDPI Fall Workshop
All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality.
Earl Nightingale
Marge Rubin, Project Coordinator
Jennifer Wagner, Project Assistant Coordinator
2. Project Overview Background
2008-09 Grant Goals
Project Team
Mission
Guiding Principles Strategies
Research
Gap Analysis
New Focus
2009-10 Grant Goals
3. National Background National Career Clusters Movement Organized Careers by Clusters and Pathways
4. State Background State Support for Organized, Consistent, User-friendly Career Pathways Web Site
Single Web-based “warehouse” of career clusters (link career, education, and labor market data)
Free and accessible
Consolidate career planning resources, connect partners, and eliminate duplication
5. 2008-09 Grant GoalsFunded through Carl D. Perkins WTCS Reserve Grant
6. Leadership Executive Team
Marge Rubin, FVTC – Project Coordinator
Sue Maresh, WCTC
Lora Schultz, MSTC
Jennifer Wagner, MPTC
Steve Wilkes, GTC
Karen Clarke, Project Assistant
7. Project Team Wisconsin Technical College System
Wisconsin Technical Colleges
University of Wisconsin System
Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
K-12 School Districts
CESAs 1, 3 and 6
Dept of Workforce Development
8. The Mission... To partner with educational organizations, government, and business/industry to develop a feasibility report with recommendations to create a statewide Career Pathways Web Site to be accessed by Wisconsin citizens in the pursuit of career planning and pathway sharing
9. We Agree To... Guiding Principles
Maintain the mission
Work within project authority
Work collaboratively
Reach consensus of all partners Strategies
Start with career clusters
Chunk and prioritize
Implement in stages
Continue to clarify audience
10. Research: The Audience
11. Research: The Content Brainstormed content for a career development/career pathway Web site
Explored WISCareers
Explored CareeringCruising
Gap analysis: Susan Moumblow, NWTC
Determined “we have two impressive career development Web vendors operating in Wisconsin....” Jayson Chung
12. Closing the Gap “What’s unique about us is our stake in promoting development of and commitment to career pathways, whether youth or adult.... A career pathways Web site that is focused on supporting the educators that we’re counting on to develop career pathways could be very helpful to the cause.”
Jayson Chung
WTCS Education Director
Economic and Workforce Development
13. 2009-2010 Focus Developers of Secondary to Postsecondary Programs of Study
14. 2009-2010 Focus Organized by 16 Career Clusters / 79 Pathways
15. The Content Organized by 16 Career Clusters / 79 Pathways
16. The Content Organized by 16 Career Clusters /79 Pathways
17. The Content High School Resources
Recommended high school courses for a career path
Articulation agreements (advanced standing/transcripted credit)
Industry-based certifications
Work-based learning
Youth apprenticeships
18. The Content Postsecondary Resources
All postsecondary programs, majors, and apprenticeships organized by cluster
Links to other Web sites
UW Transfer Information System (TIS)
Educational sectors: UW System, WTCS, WAIC&U
Postsecondary career pathway Web sites
Preparing for college (KnowHow2Go.org)
19. The Content Links to other Web sites
Careerclusters.org
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Other states with career pathways Web sites
Reliable/free Web site resources on: career development, assessment, and descriptions
Career development Web sites, (e.g., WISCareers, CareerCruising, WisconsinMentor)
Labor market information, (e.g., WORKNet) and organizations
20. The Content Oregon CTE Pathways Web Site
http://oregon.ctepathways.org
Click on Tutorial on the upper right
Click on the link to View Examples of Roadmap Drawings
Select 2 Embedded POST Views under the Contents heading
21. 2009-10 Grant Goals Funded through Carl D. Perkins WTCS Reserve Grant
22. Develop Web Site
23. Evaluate, Pilot & Promote
24. Sustainability
25. Wisconsin Career Pathways Web Site Project ?? Questions ??