This practice guide provides community colleges with five specific recommendations for supporting occupational skills training through career pathways.
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Intentionally design and structure career pathways to enable students to further their education, secure a job, and advance in employment.
Offer flexible instructional delivery schedules and models to improve credit accumulation and completion of non-degree credentials along career pathways.
This practice guide was prepared for the WWC by Abt Associates under contract ED-IES-16-C-0024.
The following research staff contributed to the guide:
I-Fang Cheng, Sarah Costelloe, Brian Freeman, Sebastian Lemire, Allan Porowski, and Elizabeth M.B. Yadav.
Hope Cotner (Chair)
Center for Occupational Research and Development
Debra Bragg
University of Washington in Seattle and Bragg and Associates, Inc.
Grant Goold
Futuro Health and Los Rios Community College
Eric Heiser
Central Ohio Technical College
Darlene G. Miller
National Council for Workforce Education
This webinar features practice guide panelist Dr. Grant Goold, Director of Pathway Development at Futuro, and special guest practitioners Robert Cabral and Dr. Lynn Shaw.
This webinar features practice guide panelist Dr. Michelle Van Noy from the State University of New Jersey and special guest practitioners Will Durden, and Danielle Perry.
This webinar features practice guide panelist Dr. Debra Bragg, President of Bragg & Associates, and special guest practitioners Jennifer Foster, Dr. Mike Potter, and Katie Peacock.
This webinar features panelist Dr. Darlene G. Miller, Executive Director of the National Council for Workforce Education, and special guest practitioners Dr. Ken Warden, and Ne’Keisha Stepney.
This protocol guides the review of research that informs the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide on Career and Technical Education at Community Colleges, expected to be released in mid-2021.