As I shared in "Background and Need..." creating a career, college and life readiness culture on any school should be an integral part of the educational experience.
In our school's particular case we have the wonderful challenge of transforming an outdated continuation school model to one that better prepares students for the 21st century given a myriad of academic and social challenges students present to the school’s educators. The challenge and wonderful opportunity to do the aforementioned is so involved and broad that this post and even this blog spot is too limited. I'll leave that up to the dissertation. But in reality the school community with go through the process of redesigning the school program and physical buildings. In doing so many areas will be examined: pedagogical approach, credit recovery opportunities, small learning communities, 21stcentury skills, career pathways, structure of the bell schedule, design of general classrooms, design of specialized classrooms for career pathways, teacher collaboration, support systems for students, etc. For the purpose of this Blog thread I will focus on my thoughts, learning and resources that may help other educators begin to engage in the same conversation to update their alternative school's career, college and life readiness culture. The most common term used today is college and career readiness but I have added the term life, a term I learned through research...it just makes sense. The data speaks for itself so say that some students will carry on with life with no formal education after high school. But the term career, college and life readiness attempts to inclusive to all options post secondary education. Given the achievement data of our own and many other alternative schools the more appropriate term may just be career, college, and life readiness. This encompasses most facets of constructive post-secondary education.
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