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Pathways Maps and Resources
Career Pathways Maps
This site includes Information on California high school and community college courses, career options, and financial assistance. It will help you make decisions about the right courses to take in high school and community college so that you have the opportunity to turn that passion of yours into a great job and a great future.
CASN – The Career Academy Support Network
casn.berkeley.edu
The Career Academy Support Network (CASN), begun in 1998, is a center based at the University of California, Berkeley. Housed in the Graduate School of Education, the center focuses on high school reform, and in particular supports the growth and improvement of Small Learning Communities (SLCs) and Career Academies (CAs), which many high schools are using to prepare students for college and careers. CASN has been funded by several foundations, including the Stuart Foundation, the Walter S. Johnson Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Wallace Readers Digest Fund.
Founded by the James Irvine Foundation in 2006, ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career is dedicated to advancing practice, policy, and research aimed at helping young people prepare for both college and career through multiple pathways—a high school improvement approach. ConnectEd's mission is to support the development of multiple pathways by which California's young people can complete high school, enroll in postsecondary education, attain a formal credential, and embark on lasting success in the world of work, civic affairs, and family life.
The Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies (Ford PAS) is an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary curriculum and program that provides students with content knowledge and skills necessary for future success—in such areas as business, economics, engineering, and technology. The inquiry- and project-based program offers a series of modules that links learning in traditional academic subjects with the challenges students will face in post-secondary education and with the expectations of the workplace they will face as adults. These links are forged through community-wide, cooperative efforts and innovative partnerships that join local high schools, colleges and universities, and businesses. Through coordinated, real-world learning opportunities, Ford PAS provides experiences to help students make decisions about their future education and careers.
Ford PAS was developed by Ford Motor Company Fund, as part of its efforts to encourage high school students to pursue their education—and build successful careers—in business, engineering, and technology, in partnership with Education Development Center Inc. (EDC).
Ford Next Generation Learning Communities
www.fordnglc.org
Next Generation Learning Communities (NGLCs) are regional alliances of K–12 schools, businesspeople, postsecondary educators, and community leaders, mobilized to reform education and stimulate local economic development. Ford Motor Company Fund, the philanthropic arm of the Ford Motor Company, identifies and supports communities that want to transform the high school experience around relevance while transforming teaching and learning in the process.
NGLCs are guided and supported by the Ford Motor Company Fund, which also sponsors the implementation of the innovative, hands-on Ford PAS Learning curriculum in schools across the country.
Often employing innovations such as career academies, small learning communities, and use of the Ford PAS Learning curriculum, NGLCs show students the connection between education and their future success in the world of work.
Pending CA Legislation
Assembly Bill 2648 – Multiple Pathways
Assembly Bill 2648 (Bass) requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, in conjunction with specified stakeholders, a report that explores the feasibility of establishing and expanding additional career multiple pathway programs in California. The Web site for the AB 2648 Multiple Pathways Report will be used to post background information, to keep stakeholders and the public apprised of the status of developing the report, and to post draft reports for public/stakeholder review and feedback. View the report progress at www.webdialogues.net/cs/multiplepathways-report/view/di/185?x-t=about.view
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