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Pathways to Prosperity Network BUT BEFORE THE OBSERVATIONS WHY WE ARE HERE 1 Pathways to Prosperity Network SUPPORTING YOUNG PEOPLE IN TRANSITIONING TO CAREERS: A BRIEF HISTORY Comprehensive Employment and Training Act 1970s Job

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Pathways to Prosperity Network

BUT BEFORE THE OBSERVATIONS…

WHY WE ARE HERE…

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Pathways to Prosperity Network SUPPORTING YOUNG PEOPLE IN TRANSITIONING TO CAREERS: A BRIEF HISTORY Comprehensive Employment and Training Act 1970s Job Training Partnership Act and Perkins Act Authorized 1980s School-to Work Opportunity Act 1990s Standards Movement to Common Core

  • National Academy Foundation
  • High Schools that Work, Project Lead the Way
  • Small career-themed high schools or CTE academies
  • Cristo Rey, Big Picture, and Year Up
  • Linked Learning
  • Early college 9-14 schools

2000s Pathways to Prosperity, JFF, OVAE initiatives NOW

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Pathways to Prosperity Network

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Pathways to Prosperity Network

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WE CAN AND MUST DO MUCH BETTER…..

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Pathways to Prosperity Network WHO IS IN THE ROOM TO CARRY ON THE WORK? (PATHWAYS STATES IL, MA, ME, MO, NC, TN and ** CA)

  • Nonprofit leaders (focus on

education with WBL as goal)

  • Nonprofit leaders (focus on

employment with education linkage)

  • Experts
  • Funders
  • Legislators (education committee

chair etc.)

  • State government officials
  • State Education Board members
  • International guests
  • CTE directors—both K-12 and

higher education

  • Community college leaders
  • Higher education faculty and

graduate students

  • Superintendents
  • K-12 district leaders
  • Principals
  • Large employers
  • Employer associations
  • Employer coalitions
  • Labor leaders

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Pathways to Prosperity Network PATHWAYS INITIATED VARIOUSLY ACROSS THE NETWORK

  • Illinois: Governor, Illinois Pathways Interagency Committee
  • Maine: Governor, Employer community
  • Massachusetts: Secretaries of Education, Housing and Economic

Development, and Labor and Workforce Development

  • Missouri: Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of Education
  • North Carolina: State Superintendent, state CTE director, North

Carolina New Schools Project

  • Tennessee: Commissioner of Education, state CTE director
  • **California: James Irvine Foundation (state membership under

consideration)

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Pathways to Prosperity Network WHERE DID THE JFF/HGSE TEAMS DO ASSET MAPPING? REGIONAL SPECTRUM from URBAN to SUBURBAN to RURAL

  • Metro region with anchor city:
  • IL: Chicago
  • MA: Boston and Metro West; Springfield and Hampden County
  • CA: Sacramento &San Bernardino/Riverside Counties
  • MO: St. Louis and surrounding counties
  • Smaller cities:
  • CA: Long Beach
  • IL: Aurora
  • ME: Portland/Lewiston
  • NC: Southwest Region
  • Rural with multiple counties:
  • TN: Upper Cumberland
  • NC: Northeast Region
  • Regions are a starting place for demonstrating success, with a

focus on scaling Pathways statewide

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Pathways to Prosperity Network

Teams spoke to over 700 stakeholders and carried out

  • ver 300 interviews in 14 regions

across the network. Interviews: Aurora, IL Sample

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Pathways to Prosperity Network REGIONAL INDUSTRY FOCUS AREAS

  • Aurora, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis

Healthcare and Health Science

  • Aurora, Chicago, Metro West, Portland/Lewiston, St.

Louis

IT

  • Aurora, Chattanooga (STEM), Hampden County,

Portland/Lewiston, St. Louis

Advanced Manufacturing

  • Under consideration in some regions

Transportation, Distribution, Logistics

  • Under consideration in some regions

Agriculture, Biotech

  • Under consideration in some regions

Sustainable Technologies

  • Under consideration in some regions

Financial Services

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Pathways to Prosperity Network MOST PREVALENT CAREER AREAS OF FOCUS AND GREATEST PIPELINE DEVELOPMENT NEED

Advanced Manufacturing

Few know the

  • pportunities and

salaries, stigma attached

Health Careers

Growing field, career paths must be carefully chosen

Information Technology

Cross-cutting and key to all 21st century careers, not just in IT fields

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Pathways to Prosperity Network THE NINE THROUGH FOURTEEN SOLUTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 9-14 Pathways linked to careers Engaged employers

  • ffering WBL and

internships Intermediary links between education and employers Early, sustained career counseling Committed state leaders and favorable policy environment

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Pathways to Prosperity Network BENEFITS TO EMPLOYERS AND THE HEALTH OF THE ECONOMY Employers hire well- prepared professionals Intermediary links between education and employers Early and sustained career advising 9-14 Pathways linked to careers Committed state leaders and favorable policy environment

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Pathways to Prosperity Network OBSERVATIONS: EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT

  • Good news: high interest and willingness to engage
  • **Greater interest in engagement when building pipeline to specific

career areas, not general “please engage with schools”

  • Opportunities for and experience with young people and their

teachers in many companies, but not systemic

  • Understandable sentiment: “School reform is not our job;” motivation

must be “self interest” and a grain of altruism

  • Enthusiastic response to the need to establish intermediary “driver”

and lead staff person

  • Concerns about student skill deficits and attitudes

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Pathways to Prosperity Network OBSERVATIONS: INTERMEDIARIES

  • Regions recognize the need for intermediary functions
  • Some candidate organizations exist, but few currently have capacity
  • r aligned core mission
  • Leaders lack clear idea of what capacities are needed or how they

should be developed

  • **All recognize that high schools, community colleges and employers

cannot develop WBL opportunities one by one, and that coherent, systematized, sequenced WBL is key

  • Current organizations manage many programs, but from student/user

perspective, opportunities don’t equal a system

  • Candidate intermediaries include chambers, WIBs, built-for-purpose

alliances, school development nonprofits, CBOs, community college workforce development or outreach offices…

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Pathways to Prosperity Network OBSERVATIONS: CAREER ADVISING

  • All adults agree that young people, teachers, and families need to

understand the educational requirements associated with careers of the future, especially those requiring technical knowledge

  • Regions lack:

§ Systemic strategy to introduce young people to the world of careers

beginning in the middle grades (or earlier)

§ **Strong and consistent connections:

  • between career advising software programs, live human

advisors, and the curriculum

  • between career advising and a consistently available sequence
  • f opportunities to learn about and experience workplaces

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Pathways to Prosperity Network OBSERVATIONS: 9-14 PATHWAYS

  • Some high school and community college curriculum is in place—

health academies most prevalent, little in manufacturing

  • ** Community colleges’ “high demand” career programs are often not

easily accessible to young entrants

  • Few high schools or community colleges know how many and which

young people get into and through “high demand” career programs

  • ** Few 9-14 pathways align and integrate high school with community

college (exception: early colleges in NC and a few in other states)

  • Few pathways provide an accompanying sequence of advising linked

to WBL experiences

  • Educators need better understanding of and commitment to

integrated 9-14 pathways

  • Publicly funded dual enrollment/dual credit programs do not always

pay for tuition for courses outside of core academic areas

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Pathways to Prosperity Network OBSERVATIONS: STATE LEADERSHIP & POLICY

  • Apprehension about the adverse consequences for young

generation of unemployment and underemployment

  • Acknowledge public will-building needed to combat stigma and

garner regional support for technical career pathways

  • ** Willing to work with and beyond CTE to reach the 50% who

arrive in mid-20s without credentials

  • Disconnect in several states between state goals and regional

resources and commitment

  • ** Employers at table with education, labor, workforce

development, commerce departments, but need single “driver”

  • Dual enrollment policy and financing in place but may need

expansion and consistent application

  • Other policy sets re structured pathways may be needed

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Pathways to Prosperity Network EXEMPLARY STATE POLICIES, RESOURCES, AND INITIATIVES:

  • New model legislation in some states, such as:
  • Career and College Promise, NC
  • AB 790 and SB 1070, CA (support Linked Learning approaches

and expansion of career pathways)

  • New resources at state level, such as:
  • Learning Exchanges, IL
  • Innovation Campuses, MO
  • Performance Incentive Funds to Community Colleges, MA
  • Employers driving interest in advanced manufacturing

pathways and STEM fields, such as:

  • Volkswagen and Wacker in Chattanooga
  • Maine Manufacturing Association—100 jobs promise

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Pathways to Prosperity Network WHERE JFF CURRENTLY WORKS

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Pathways to Prosperity Network

NANCY HOFFMAN

nhoffman@jff.org TEL 617.728.4446 FAX 617.728.4857 info@jff.org 88 Broad Street, 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02110 122 C Street, NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC 20001 WWW.JFF.ORG TEL 617.496.6303 Appian Way Cambridge, MA 02148 www.gse.harvard.edu

BOB SCHWARTZ

Robert_Schwartz@gse.harvard.edu