Congress Loves CTE, Revisited
Every school choice, every age, and, every community need to be on board for this to work.
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Congress Loves CTE
We’ve got an advantage to impact Congress this autumn. Let’s join forces to stunt HR5587 and S3271.
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Achieving States
The latest news on the Career Tech Education alignment for America. If you don’t know this part of the ESSA/Common Core, you should!
Continue ReadingCompetency Pathway Update
An updated look at the co-joined movement to unite Career Tech Education, CTE, the adult arm of ‘Common Core State Standards’ (CCSS) to CCR (College and Career Readiness) via the Competency Pathways (CP). If you haven’t heard of the CPs, you will know it after reading this. First, A Look Back: I first shared the […]
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: Career Pathways Meet Competency Based Pathways
Just released a day or so ago, an article describing how Achieve, Inc (a huge part of the CCSS Machine) and the NASDCTEc (National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium) joined forces to complete their look at how the progress between Career and Technical Education and Competency Based Pathways was coming along. […]
Continue ReadingTech Thursday: Difference Between Careers
In our fight against Common Core, we’ve learned that it’s a lie to think CC is only for K-12. We’ve learned it’s before K and after 12th. So, what IS the difference between a Career Cluster and a Career Pathway? They are both Common Core aligned. I often thought they were the same thing, just […]
Continue ReadingWYBI Wednesday: ICAPs, Common Core and More!
Recently, one of my fellow anti-Common Core Warrior friends in Colorado shared with me (along with others on Facebook) about ICAPs and Colorado. Individual Career and Academic Plans combine not only Common Core Standards, but Workforce, College Career Readiness, Career Tech Education AND IEPs (for those with learning disabilities)! So, being who I am, I […]
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