Resources

This organized toolkit includes information, resources and videos critical to implementing postsecondary work in high schools.

The Minnesota Career Information System (MCIS) is a comprehensive online career exploration system that offers career, educational and labor market information.

This toolkit outlines information and resources for providing high-quality youth work experiences and services.

This tool uses data from DEED, the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State Career Wheel to show students how educational paths connect to career opportunities.

This step-by-step guide outlines the process of building dual enrollment programs in Texas.

This guide offers a foundation for understanding the impact that words and phrases pertaining to race can have on Black people and efforts to promote racial economic equity.

This guide presents recommendations on how to write and speak about people in reference to race, ethnicity, skills, income, criminal records, disability and gender identity.

This paper explores the unique aspects of building career pathways in rural areas.

This tool breaks down systems change and the varying levels of strategy required to achieve full scale systems change.

This resource guide provides tips for facilitating group meetings, discussions and soliciting input from stakeholders.

This collection of resources includes work-based learning frameworks and guiding questions in a formatted PowerPoint.

This program of study, developed in South Central Minnesota in partnership with Jobs for the Future, focuses on engineering, manufacturing and technology.

This brief explores how afterschool programs can support a variety of "employable" skills through social and emotional learning.

This one-year work plan focuses on both the short-term planning of a career pathway and the long-term implementation and capacity-building.

This simple career pathways checklist provides guidance for jumpstarting a cross-sector partnership and keeping it aligned and moving forward.

This PowerPoint presentation uses graphics to outline the structure for career pathways ecosystems and roles.

This guide is for employers interested in partnering with high schools that have models in which students earn a high school diploma and an associate degree while gaining valuable industry experience.

This case study provides a comprehensive deep dive into a medical career pathway developed in Madison, Wisconsin, including workforce data, coursework and pathway design.

This tool explores participant selection as the first element in a workforce development program, providing an example of the robust role that employers can play in career pathways.

This worksheet can serve as a starting point for identifying major issues in your industry.

This guide provides templates and recommendations for developing an employer advisory or council to support career pathways development.

This toolkit helps workforce development organizations and educational institutions develop relationships with employers.

This one-page employer engagement tool, categorized by level of engagement and activity, identifies ways employers can support students' preparation for potential career paths.

This PowerPoint presentation on design thinking from a career pathways perspective is useful for ideation across sectors and finding people-centered solutions.

This memorandum of understanding (MOU) outlines the responsibilities and shared vision of a cross-sector partnership career pathways program in Boston.