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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 Training Partnership Act and Perkins Act Authorized 1980s School-to Work Opportunity Act 1990s Standards Movement to Common Core 2000s • 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 Pathways to Prosperity, JFF, OVAE initiatives NOW 2

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Pathways to Prosperity Network WE CAN AND MUST DO MUCH BETTER….. 4

Pathways to Prosperity Network WHO IS IN THE ROOM TO CARRY ON THE WORK? (PATHWAYS STATES IL, MA, ME, MO, NC, TN and ** CA) • CTE directors—both K-12 and • Nonprofit leaders (focus on higher education education with WBL as goal) • Community college leaders • Nonprofit leaders (focus on employment with education • Higher education faculty and linkage) graduate students • Experts • Superintendents • Funders • K-12 district leaders • Legislators (education committee • Principals chair etc.) • Large employers • State government officials • Employer associations • State Education Board members • Employer coalitions • International guests • Labor leaders 5

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) 6

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 7

Pathways to Prosperity Network Interviews: Aurora, IL Sample Teams spoke to over 700 stakeholders and carried out over 300 interviews in 14 regions across the network. 8

Pathways to Prosperity Network REGIONAL INDUSTRY FOCUS AREAS Healthcare and • Aurora, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis Health Science • Aurora, Chicago, Metro West, Portland/Lewiston, St. IT Louis Advanced • Aurora, Chattanooga (STEM), Hampden County, Manufacturing Portland/Lewiston, St. Louis Transportation, • Under consideration in some regions Distribution, Logistics Agriculture, Biotech • Under consideration in some regions Sustainable • Under consideration in some regions Technologies Financial Services • Under consideration in some regions Note: NC is in the process of determining their industry focus areas. 9

Pathways to Prosperity Network MOST PREVALENT CAREER AREAS OF FOCUS AND GREATEST PIPELINE DEVELOPMENT NEED Information Technology Cross-cutting and key to all 21 st century careers, not just in IT fields Health Advanced Careers Manufacturing Growing field, Few know the career paths must opportunities and be carefully chosen salaries, stigma attached 10

Pathways to Prosperity Network THE NINE THROUGH FOURTEEN SOLUTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Intermediary Early, sustained links between career education and counseling employers Engaged Committed state employers leaders and offering WBL and favorable policy internships environment 9-14 Pathways linked to careers 11

Pathways to Prosperity Network BENEFITS TO EMPLOYERS AND THE HEALTH OF THE ECONOMY Early and 9-14 Pathways sustained career linked to careers advising Intermediary Committed state links between leaders and education and favorable policy Employers employers environment hire well- prepared professionals 12

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 13

Pathways to Prosperity Network OBSERVATIONS: INTERMEDIARIES • Regions recognize the need for intermediary functions • Some candidate organizations exist, but few currently have capacity or 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… 14

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 of opportunities to learn about and experience workplaces 15

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 16

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 17

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 18

Pathways to Prosperity Network WHERE JFF CURRENTLY WORKS 19

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