Career pathways are a way to organize classes and career information on a school campus.
Research shows that students learn best when content is clustered by theme and is relevant to students' interests. Career pathways organize student learning and reinforce high academic standards for reading, writing and mathematics. Designed well, career pathways expand student opportunities for learning and career preparation. At the kindergarten through middle school level, career pathways consists mostly of awareness of careers and learning about the pathway clustering. At the high school level and above, students can actually select a career pathway of interest to give meaning to their learning.