Career Ready Platform

Using the Career Ready Platform to Deliver a Career-Ready Culture. It's all about the Conversations! Conversations between all stakeholders - Students, Parents, Staff, Business and Community Leaders, Workforce Officials, and Post-Secondary Education Staff. These Conversations about purpose and scope at all levels become the basis of a Career-Readin... ess Culture delivered and facilitated by the Career Ready Platform. Students enter their Career Pathway goals. This includes Career Choices, Post-Secondary Plans, and CTE Choices. Students also enter email and mobile phone numbers so focused career-related messages can be sent to them. Aggregate Career choices become part of the conversations between school and business leaders. All artifacts uploaded, reflections made, career experiences completed, events attended, courses planned, recommended courses taken, career goals made/changed are recorded by grade year and become a student's CAREER PLAN & PORTFOLIO. A High School student may look back on all the Career-related choices and experiences from elementary school on, in one convenient place. Staff, parents or an auditing state official can also easily see this data. Other tasks and experiences are important but Course Pathways are the main way you currently prepare students for a Career. In the Career Ready Platform, students and staff can quickly track a students progress through a school's defined Course Pathways. These Pathways can be customized based on a school's needs and stakeholder input. Staff can quickly check if all students are progressing towards graduation and intervene if needed. Course Pathways and individual courses can be aligned to careers within the Career Ready Platform. Students can use that alignment along with other data to plan their courses throughout High School. Students are making informed decisions and their choices are readily available for conversations with staff and parents. Your Guidance Counselors will report that students are much more informed when they meet to discuss ...Read More