A career pathway integrates academic and vocational learning and thus provides a contextual learning environment that supports all students to achieve high academic standards. A career pathway provides strong postsecondary articulations and support a greater number of high school graduates to enter and succeed at postsecondary education.
Career paths are for all students.
The course of study within a career pathway will be tailored to an individual student's unique career and educational goals. To support informed choices by students, schools are encouraged to offer a freshman orientation course on career investigation and a sophomore course for exploring each of the career pathways they can choose for their junior and senior years. All students within a career pathway, regardless of planned job entry point, will enroll in common courses focused on core skills common across the career pathway. This will prevent tracking. The course of study within a career pathway should integrate academic and vocational learning, have strong horizontal and vertical curriculum alignment across courses, incorporate applied teaching methods, and encourage interdisciplinary teaching teams as faculty for the career pathway.