Here is What You Can Expect During the Pathways Incubator Series

We are offering a 5-part live virtual series that will walk you through each step. Leave with plans, top 3-5 workforce needs based on your community and national data, work-based learning framework, staffing plan, marketing outline, and more.

Here is what you can expect:

1. 1. Identify Needs of Workforce and Students.
      • Use state and national data to identify top 3-5 workforce needs
      • PoP sessions: resources for determining student interest
      • Create Action Plan to determine priority pathways before next session
   2. High Quality Pathways: Students, Curriculum & Credentials
      • Identify target students and grades
      • Explore and talk with curriculum providers for related coursework
      • Research acceptable industry credentials for the pathway/state
   3. High Quality Pathways: Work-Based Learning
      • Use our WBL Framework to identify WBL scope and sequence
      • WBL in Action Examples from other schools
      • Create Action Plan to determine key WBL experiences before next session
   4. High Quality Pathways: Partnerships, and Critical Friend Review Prep
      • Understanding Power vs Influence
      • Strategies to engage WBL partners
      • Partnership in Action, Examples from other schools
   5. Critical Friend Review and Planning for Implementation
      • Create Action Plan for staffing, marketing, recruitment and training for implementation

What’s even better is that your team will walk away with high-quality resources, connections, plans, and more! Here are just a few of the benefits of our pathways incubator series.

• Data points identifying the needs of your community and state workforce as well as your students interests and needs.
• Connections and conversations with curriculum and resource providers
• Our work-based learning framework to identify the scope and sequence of the pathway
• Examples and ideas from other schools
• Strategies and plans for engaging work-based learning partners and employers ready to work with you.
• Your own custom action plans for; marketing, student recruitment, and training for implementation.