Resources, tools and lessons that support exploration, investigation, planning by students K-12 as they develop career awareness, soft skills needed in careers and make plans for post high-school that could include enrollment in a post-secondary institution, enlistment in the service, employment in a position that provides income and support for a successful future.
This learning material has been reviewed by the Ohio Department of Education's Office of Graduate Success and supports career-connected education for K-12 students. This badge is meant to highlight and group helpful resources together but does not constitute an endorsement by the Ohio Department of Education.
This webpage provides students, parents, educators, and business with information on Work-Based Learning as well as more resources for them to explore in relation to this topic.
This resource provides a collection of diagnostic ASVAB practice exams to give students an idea of how they would perform on these exams today and areas of improvement that they can focus on.
This report summarizes research and gives research-backed recommendations to holistically support students.
The Ready, Set, Go, Review toolkit is designed to guide schools through the process of developing comprehensive screening procedures and providing readily available resources to facilitate the implementation of effective behavioral health screening in schools.
This video designed by the NDE Nebraska Career and Technical Education looks at post-secondary pathways from a skills and aptitude-based approach
This report is a blueprint for integrating social and emotional well-being an dacademic excellence in schools. It outlines implementation for seven dimensions, including equity, responsive relationships, culture and climate, instruction, instructional materials, professional learning, and leadership.
This brief centers the experiences of students of color by focusing on restorative approaches to advance equity. While this brief focuses on research, it gives recommendations for creating safer, more inclusive schooling environments.
This guide offers key action steps for instructional staff to contribute to an improved school climate.
This is a searchable database of free and low-cost assessments of school mental health including academic, climate, and social, emotional, and behavioral focus areas. Search filters allow for narrowing results by focus area, assessment purpose, student age, language, reporter, and cost.
These units are aimed at helping rebuilding students' connections to school and to support students' coping and recovery following a crisis.
Social-emotional learning is the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions. Research demonstrates that students who receive support for social and emotional learning in schools do better academically, socially and behaviorally. Social-emotional learning has also been shown to positively impact economic mobility and mental health outcomes. Developing these skills in our students is an important part of meeting the needs of the whole child.
Learn more about how you can support students social and emotional well-being, which is part of ensuring they are successful in school!
This document provides strategies for educators to communicate and interact with students in need of "turnaround," focusing on using positive language and building trust.
This framework offers a three-phase model to help educators work toward equitable school improvement.
This training for district administrators provides an overview of the concepts of bias and identity and how they show up in the hiring process.
This lesson guides students through web sites that examine Economic and personal finance careers that are typically of interest to 3rd- through 5th-grade students. By completing the steps outlined in the lesson, the students will explore careers and report their findings.
The SDP Toolkit for Effective Data Use is a resource guide for education agency analysts who collect and analyze data on student achievement. Completing the toolkit produces a set of basic, yet essential, human capital and college-going analyses that every education agency should have as a foundation to inform strategic management and policy decisions.
This toolkit is a four-part resource that brings together research, promising practices, and useful tools and resources to guide educators in strengthening partnerships with families and community members to support student learning.
Find ideas and resources for working with families to support student transitions from program to program, school to school, grade to grade, and/or after graduation!
Try Engineering provides a database to students and teachers full of resources, lesson plans, and activities that engage and inspire engineering concepts.