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September 2022
Welcome back to school! We sincerely hope that you have had a chance to relax and unwind over the summer and are excited to begin the upcoming school year. We also hope that the challenges of the past few years melt away and allow you to find yourself rejuvenated and energized to support your students.
This newsletter is designed to provide you with the most current information related to Career Connected Learning (CCL). You’ll find a wealth of information and strategies here each month to help your students develop awareness of and skills related to their future careers. You’ll also find links to research, professional development, and resources to help you support your students. We invite you to add your name to our CCL listserv to ensure that you will receive this valuable information each month.
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 Oregon defines the stages of career development through a system of Career Connected Learning, which serves as a framework for career awareness, exploration, preparation and training that is both learner-relevant and directly linked to professional and industry-based expectations. Simply put…Career Connected Learning is about connecting the interests, aptitudes, and goals of every Oregon youth to their education and future career.
As your school year begins and conversations with our young learners start to take place, we hope to create shared understanding and language that uplifts:
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Career Awareness as Learning About Work
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Career Exploration as Learning For Work
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Career Preparation as Learning Through Work
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Career Training as Learning At Work
Consider how you might incorporate the Learning About, For, Through and At Work language into classroom settings through conversation, posters, bulletin boards, warm-up and exit activities and learning experiences that begin to connect a student’s career goals and visioning to their classroom learning. The Career Connected Learning Framework poster in English and Spanish provides learners with student-friendly definitions and examples of types of activities that they may experience within each domain.
Are your students ready for work-based learning?
The best indicator of your student’s preparedness for work-based learning is your student. As you begin the school year getting to know your students through icebreakers, community building activities, challenges, surveys, inventories, or other creative ways of building culture, take note of your students’ path toward career development.
- Keep in mind the jobs and industries they have chosen to learn about through career awareness activities, as this may reveal their ambitions.
- Pay attention to the career exploration activities they have undertaken to research career paths, as this may align to their academic plans and career goals.
- Determine the academic, technical, and employability skills each student has developed along the way.
- Observe your students’ motivations and strengths as they engage with your course curriculum through classroom activities, projects, or homework assignments
Turn this knowledge of your students into action by encouraging them to engage in work-based learning experiences that further develop their skills in their chosen career field. Involve your students in decisions around work-based learning to ensure each student engages in positive career preparation and training activities that align to their interests, backgrounds, abilities, and future plans. Using your connections with students to deliver content relevant to their lives will help each student relate their learning to future success and feel their needs matter. Your students are ready for work-based learning, are you?
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For more information on CTE Work-Based Learning, please visit the ODE Career Preparation and Training page. The October CCL Newsletter, will highlight the updates to the 2022 WBL Handbook which should be posted to the website soon. Click here for a sneak peak.
ODE CCL Office Hours
Register now to join the ODE Career Connected Learning Office Hours 2022-23 held every Thursday from 3:45-5:00pm. We will cover a variety of themes and topics of interest each week, as well as provide discussion opportunities, professional development and technical support. Pick a weekly session you’d like to join monthly or feel free to register for them all.
Upcoming Office Hour Sessions - October and Career Awareness!
Special Office Hour YouScience September Supports – September 22, 3:45-5:00pm
This will be an Open Office Hour to support new and existing users of YouScience as implementation begins for 2022-23. Participants may enter this open-format, Question & Answer session at any time. Please forward the invitation to those engaged in using YouScience with your school, district and region.
October 6th - Career Advising and Guidance
How do you incorporate career awareness into lessons, activities and conversations with your student? What does it look like at different grade levels? How can we do to foster a passion for discovery in our students when it comes to learning and thinking about career possibilities?
Join us for this discussion and more at our first CCL Office Hour where we will also hear from Scoir…an online college and career guidance resource focused on helping students find their right fit. Designed to expand college access and improve collegiate outcomes, Scoir supports students and parents through the college search, planning, and application process while providing counseling staff with the information and tools they need to advise, communicate, and support a students’ application through the platform. Scoir’s partnership and integration with YouScience provides a comprehensive career and aptitude assessment for students, helping them match their innate attributes to career pathways. Follow these links to learn more for high schools and students/families.
October 13th - Work Based Learning Kick-Off
Let’s connect, reconnect, share, ask questions, listen, and prepare for the new school year. We will create a space to learn together while we work to ensure that all students are prepared for, and engaged in meaningful Work-Based Learning (WBL) experiences.
October 20th - Oregon CIS Kick Off
Join us to learn what’s available through current Oregon CIS offerings and what’s coming with new supports and access as Oregon CIS, Willamette ESD and ODE partner to support you and your students. Career Awareness has been a core component of the Oregon CIS experience and we will highlight ways for your students to become more career aware. We also want to hear from you on best methods for engaging students in their career awareness & exploration and personal academic & career planning based on how you incorporate Oregon CIS into your career connected learning system.
October 27th - YouScience Getting Started Tips, Tricks and Q&A
Our Fourth Thursday Office Hour will focus on supporting current and new users of the YouScience platform. Join us to learn and share how to get students, staff and community prepared to fully engage in the discovery of skills, aptitudes and interests by taking and exploring the results of the YouScience Brain Games. Attention will be given specifically to the elements most connected to career awareness as students move through their Results. Come hear the success stories of our partners and gain access to additional resources and tools to support your local and our statewide efforts.
Association For Career & Technical Education (ACTE) WBL Professional Development Webinars
September 22, 12-1 pm - Building and Maintaining WBL Business Partnerships
October 27, 12-1 pm - WBL Marketing 101
National Career Development Month 2022 (#NCDM2022) is coming soon, don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate! National Career Development Month, sponsored by the National Career Development Association, is recognized every November and focuses attention on the tremendous impact that practitioners and educators have with inspiring and empowering individuals to achieve their career and life goals.
Important Dates:
- November 2022 is National Career Development Month
- November 14-18 is National Career Development Week
- November 16 is National Career Development Day
Check out our October newsletter to find a variety of information and resources to help you bring awareness and excitement for career development.
If you have available funds and are looking for ready-to-post information to help students learn about a multitude of career areas, consider the following two resources. The Career Cluster Poster Package (CTE Career Clusters Focused) and Careers Poster Package (Core Content Classroom Focused) can be used in your classrooms, offices, hallways, Career & College Center and Counseling Offices to inspire student’s awareness and exploration of various career paths.
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The Career Connected Learning Team at the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) has heard from statewide educational partners the need for financial literacy content for middle school and high schools and is partnering with Money Vehicle to provide pilot access to a new resource to address this need. This financial literacy program can be delivered as a stand-alone curriculum or as a supplemental resource within your current scope and sequence.
If you are interested in pursuing the use of Money Vehicle in your classroom or school with middle and/or high school students, please complete the Money Vehicle Pilot - Interest Form. There will be six (6) pilot schools in this first phase of engagement. Please contact Theresa Seller at theresa@yourmoneyvehicle.com for more information. Follow this link to learn more about Money Vehicle and hear from educators and students on their experience.
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We want to hear from you!
We welcome your submissions to the ODE CCL Listserv! If you have announcements, want to share best or promising practices, or have other information to share, you can submit them to ODE.CareerConnectedLearning@ode.orergon.gov
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