DESE’s Commitment to

Workforce Initiatives

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• Expanding Registered Youth Apprenticeships

• Expanding use of ICAPs and Missouri Connections

• Promoting CTE by developing a marketing strategy

• Providing high quality PD for new CTE teachers through New Teacher Institute

• Providing high quality PD for new counselors through New Counselor Institute

• Growing Career Pathways partnerships in all categories

Career Education in the DESE’s FY20 STRATEGIC PLAN

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• Success-ready students Individual Career and Academic Plans (ICAP) Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs) Industry Recognized Credentials (IRCs) Career and Technical Education Certificate (CTEC) Registered Youth Apprenticeships or department-approved work-connected

experience Confirmed postsecondary employment College application Completion of early college or associates degree Seal of Biliteracy

Career-connected Learning in MSIP 63

• THREE POINTS OF EMPHASIS

Increasing CAREER AWARENESS

Providing opportunities for CAREER EXPLORATION

Providing programming for IMMERSION AND PREPARATION FORCAREERS

Career-connected Learning

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• Activities are designed to make students aware of the range of careers andoccupations in an industry.

• Activities should include options that may or may not be traditional for thegender, race or ethnicity of students.

• Awareness should include students beginning to understand the skillsrequired for specific occupations and expectations of the workplace.

California Work-Based Learning Toolkit

Career Awareness

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• Missouri Connections – Career Trek

• STEAM events

• Online STEM Career Awarenessprogram

• Individual Career and Academic Plan(ICAP)

• Job fairs

• Field Trips / Job site tours

• Guest speakers

• Teacher externships

Career Awareness Activities

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Missouri Connections

Versions

Career TREK (Elementary Grades 3-5)

Junior (Middle School Grades 6-8)

High School (Grades 8-12)

Adult/College

• Comprehensive, online career awareness, exploration, development andplanning program that is provided free of charge to all Missouri citizens.

Integrated Portfolio/Planning Tools

Assessments Occupations

Programs of Study Reality Check

Interest Profiler Resume Creator

Career Cluster Inventory Course Planner

Individual Career and Academic Plan Implementation project (ICAP) (formally known as the Personal Plan of Study)

NEW for 2019-2020

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• Career exploration provides students with the opportunity to explore fields ofinterest related to their career goals and academic learning.

• Students work closely with an adult supervisor and participate in appropriatehands-on worksite experiences.

• Career exploration activities may include job shadowing, career mentoring, orservice learning.

California Work-Based Learning Toolkit

Career Exploration8

• Missouri Connections – Interest inventories - Junior Version for middle schoolstudents

• Career exploration courses

• Field trips

• Work-based/service-learning (recycling events, fundraisers, volunteering, etc.)

• Co-teaching by business experts and teachers

• Individual career guidance

Career Exploration Activities9

• Career preparation activities provide an in-depth discovery of a particular career.

• These activities allow for the development of career and occupational skills.

• Career preparation activities may include paid work experience, internships, orapprenticeships.

California Work-Based Learning Toolkit

Career Preparation/Immersion

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• Work-based learning

• Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs)

• Internships

• Registered Youth Apprenticeships

• CTE Certificate

• ACT Workkeys

• Industry Recognized Credentials/Certificates

Career Preparation/Immersion Activities

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• Technical Skills Assessments

• School-based enterprises

• Cooperative Education programming

• Capstone/Senior Projects

• Dual Credit / Early College

• AP / IB courses

• Career Academies

Career Preparation/Immersion Activities

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• Students who gain exposure to the workplace: Make connections between real work expectations and the classroom

See relevance in what they are learning in school

Have more positive interaction with positive adult role models

Develop new skills and enhanced self-esteem

Expand their horizons and awareness of future work options.

Benefits of Career Preparation/Immersion Experiences

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• 57 area career centers across the state

• 444 comprehensive high schools

• 12 community colleges

• State Technical College of Missouri

• Seven four-year post-secondary institutions

• Department of Corrections and Department of Social Services

Missouri’s Career Education Delivery System

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• 180,600 secondary students took at least one career education course

65% of all secondary students took at least one career education course

88,309 females and 92,291 males in secondary programming

• 60,950 postsecondary students took at least one career education course

34,763 females and 26,187 males

Missouri’s Career Education Participants

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• 75,082 high school students created Missouri Connections Portfolios this year(70,848 last year)

• 53,455 middle school students created Missouri Connections Portfolios this year(50,933 last year)

• 8,765 high school students earned Industry Recognized Credentials

• 5,581 7th and 8th grade students attended STEAM events this year

Career-connected Successes

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• 96 new CTE teachers attended the New Teacher Institute

• 67 new counselors attended the New Counselor Institute

• 114 school district teams participated in Missouri Career Pathways Externships

• 589 educators participated in Missouri Career Pathways Externships

• 74 employers participated in providing teacher externship experiences

CTE Successes

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Career and Technical Student Organizations

• CTE Programs Represented DECA – Marketing (7,548 members) FBLA – Business (14,825 members) FCCLA – Family Consumer Science and Human Services (9,670 members) FFA – Agriculture (25,178 members) HOSA – Health Sciences (3,725 members) SkillsUSA – Skilled Trades (11,530 members) TSA – Engineering (6,179 members)

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National Competition Results & Apprenticeships

DECA – Students who are emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management

50 award winners w/28 finalists; 16 Top 100Blue Springs South - World Champion Team – Virtual Business-Restaurant

FBLA-PBL - Future Business Leaders of America and Phi Beta Lamda (collegiate division)Top 10 Finishes; PBL = 48 Top 10 Finishes

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National Competition Results & Apprenticeships

FCCLA – Family, Career and Community Leaders of America 155 MO competitors; 5 – 1st Place; 86 top Ten Finishes

FCCLA National Administrator of the Year – Jayme Caughron, Director at GRTS

HOSA – Future Health Professionals 323 Participants from 45 Chapters; 22 individuals placed in Top 10; and 86 recognized for Service and Leadership

CTSO’s Success Stories20

National Competition Results & Apprenticeships

SkillsUSA – skilled trades students - 29 Students finished in top 3, 113 placed in the Top 10

TSA – Technology Students Association – engineering 5-1st, 2-3rd, 12 placed in the Top 10; 2 National Officers;

1 – National Outstanding Service Achievement, HS & MS Advisor of the Year

FFA – agriculture - 522 members received American FFA Degree – most of any stateMarshall FFA Chapter – Top Chapter in the Nation (2nd Consecutive Year)

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