Engaging Business and Industry: The Pathways to Prosperity Approach

1. Engaging Business and Industry: The Pathways to Prosperity Approach April 19, 2013 John Kirkman, Regional Coordinator

2. Designed as a research-based guide for LEAs to engage key stakeholders in the development of a strategic plan to ensure CTE offerings/activities are aligned with business/ industry and post-secondary education.

3. Developing Pathways to Ensure College and Career Readiness • A high school graduate that has the knowledge and skills necessary to qualify for and succeed in entry-level, credit-bearing, post-secondary coursework without the need for remediation. • A student that effectively navigates pathways that connect education and employment to achieve a fulfilling, financially-secure and successful career.

4. Pathways to Prosperity Process • Asset Mapping • Identify Key Stakeholders (interview, SWOT analysis) • Use Labor Market Data • Determine target industry to focus • Strategic Planning • Define Committee Members and their Roles • Conduct a series of planning meetings that focus on four key areas of work (levers): • Career Pathways • Employer Engagement • Career Information and Advising Systems • Intermediaries

5. Pathways to Prosperity Process • Asset Mapping (pg. 2) • Identify Key Stakeholders (interview, SWOT analysis) • Use Labor Market Data • Determine target industry to focus • Strategic Planning • Define Committee Members and their Roles • Conduct a series of planning meetings that focus on four key areas of work (levers): • Career Pathways • Employer Engagement • Career Information and Advising Systems • Intermediaries

6. Identifying Key Stakeholders • LEA identifies approximately 20 key stakeholders to participate in the information gathering process. • Page 3--Potential Interviewee template for organization purposes. • Determine method of gathering information (1:1 interview, group interview, SWOT analysis) • Page 4--Asset Mapping Invitation Sample

7. Identifying Key Stakeholders • Pages 5-7—Sample interview questions • Protocol for each interview may include only a few of these questions based on the interviewee’s background and time available. • Document responses

8. Pathways to Prosperity Process • Asset Mapping • Identify Key Stakeholders (interview, SWOT analysis) • Use Labor Market Data • Determine target industry to focus • Strategic Planning Meetings • Define Committee Members and their Roles • Conduct a series of planning meetings that focus on four key areas of work (levers): • Career Pathways • Employer Engagement • Career Information and Advising Systems • Intermediaries

9. Labor Market Information (LMI) • Page 7--The North Carolina Department of Commerce Division of Employment Security (https://www.ncesc.com/default.aspx) has a wealth of information to utilize during this process. • The Labor Market Information (LMI) Data includes: • Workforce Information • Information Access Tools • Industry Information • Career Management Tools • Occupational Information • Statistical Links • Publications, Research and Reports

10. Regional Economic DevelopmentTarget Industry Sectors • Piedmont Triad Partnership-http://www.piedmonttriadnc.com, http://www.triadcareerpath.com/ • Charlotte Partnership-http://www.charlotteusa.com/ • Eastern Region-http://www.nceast.org/ • AdvantageWest-http://www.advantagewest.com/ • Research Triangle-http://www.researchtriangle.org/ • Southeast Region-http://www.ncse.org/ • Northeast Region-http://www.ncnortheast.info/

11. Pathways to Prosperity Process • Asset Mapping • Identify Key Stakeholders (interview, SWOT analysis) • Use Labor Market Data • Determine target industry to focus • Strategic Planning • Define Committee Members and their Roles • Conduct a series of planning meetings that focus on four key areas of work (levers): • Career Pathways • Employer Engagement • Career Information and Advising Systems • Intermediaries

12. State Sector Strategies: Coming of Age “Sector strategies are partnerships of employers within one industry that bring government, education, training, economic development, labor, and community organizations together to focus on the workforce needs of an industry within a regional labor market.”

13. “Using findings from the labor market analysis, teams choose industry sectors within which articulated career pathways can be built.”

14. Determine Target Industry (pg. 8) • Asset Mapping results should be documented and utilized to determine the target industry. • The strategic planning process will focus solely on the targeted industry.

15. Pathways to Prosperity Process • Asset Mapping • Identify Key Stakeholders (interview, SWOT analysis) • Use Labor Market Data • Determine target industry to focus • Strategic Planning • Define Committee Members and their Roles • Conduct a series of planning meetings that focus on four key areas of work (levers): • Career Pathways • Employer Engagement • Career Information and Advising Systems • Intermediaries

16. Strategic Planning Committee (pg. 8) • Strategic Planning Committee members may or may not have participated in the interview process • 40% representing target industry • 30% representing education (LEA and post-secondary) • 30% representing intermediaries (Workforce Development Boards, Economic Development, Chamber of Commerce, etc.) • Strategic Planning Committee Invitation Sample Letter (pg. 10) • Strategic Planning Committee Members template for documentation (pg. 11)

17. Pathways to Prosperity Process • Asset Mapping • Identify Key Stakeholders (interview, SWOT analysis) • Use Labor Market Data • Determine target industry to focus • Strategic Planning • Define Committee Members and their Roles • Conduct a series of planning meetings that focus on four key areas of work (levers): • Career Pathways • Employer Engagement • Career Information and Advising Systems • Intermediaries

18. Planning the Meetings (pg. 13) Four, 90 minute lunch meetings suggested: • Meeting 1-Purpose and Objective (provide foundational information from Asset Mapping) • Meeting 2-Committee work (predetermined committee members and chairperson) • Meeting 3-Committee work completed • Meeting 4-Complete strategic plan provided to the group with discussion. Final assessment (pg. 22).

19. Pathways to Prosperity Process • Asset Mapping • Identify Key Stakeholders (interview, SWOT analysis) • Use Labor Market Data • Determine target industry to focus • Strategic Planning • Define Committee Members and their Roles • Conduct a series of planning meetings that focus on four key areas of work (levers): • Career Pathways (pg. 15) • Employer Engagement (pg. 15) • Career Information and Advising Systems (pg. 15) • Intermediaries (pg. 15)

20. Committee Work Activity (pg. 16) Meetings 2 and 3: • Predetermined groups/chairperson • Provide poster size printout of each of the four lever templates (pgs. 17, 18, 19, 21) • Provide detailed instructions to complete the template • Report Out

21. Template here

22. Final Strategic Plan Will include: • Key stakeholder information • Asset Mapping Results • Targeted Industry • Proposal to implement Career Pathway aligned with target industry • Proposal to implement Employer Engagement strategies • Proposal to implement Career Information and Advising strategies • Proposal to implement Intermediary engagement strategies

23. Industry Target Certificate or Degree Post-secondary coursework High School and CCP coursework aligned Work-Based Learning Embedded

24. Pathways to Prosperity Process • The process works to ensure the CTE program (defined by industry target) and activities align with the needs of business/industry and post-secondary education. • The idea is to consider this process annually focusing on another regional industry target for continuous alignment.

25. Resources Career and College Readiness-Career Readiness Partner Council http://www.careerreadynow.org/docs/CRPC_4pager.pdf Overview of Pathways to Prosperity report, the reactions of a panel of education and business leaders, and special remarks from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. (Video)http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news-impact/2011/02/pathways-to-prosperity-meeting-the-challenge-of-preparing-young-americans-for-the-21st-century/ Pathways to Prosperity Report: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news-impact/2011/02/pathways-to-prosperity-meeting-the-challenge-of-preparing-young-americans-for-the-21st-century/ Career Pathways Toolkit: http://www.workforceinfodb.org/PDF/CareerPathwaysToolkit2011.pdf State Sector Strategies-Coming of Age: http://www.nationalskillscoalition.org/assets/reports-/state_sector_strategies_coming_of_age.pdf Work-Based Learning Opportunities for High School Students: http://www.nrccte.org/sites/default/files/publication-files/nrccte_work-based_learning.pdf Career and Technical Education-Five Ways that Pay: http://www.cewd.org/Documents/CTE.FiveWays.FullReport.pdf

26. Diploma Endorsements • May SBOE Meeting – Approved • Item - GCS 1 • Available for students graduating 2014-15 • S14 – Also addresses CTE license issues

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