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.
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This webpage provides students and their families with information on the Credit Flexibility Plan. This education option gives students a way to be in charge of their learning. For some students, they see more value in school (“Why do I have to learn this?”) when they can connect learning with real world situations and future jobs. Credit flexibility is one way to increase a student’s interest in school and motivation to learn.
Aimed at educators, this SEL curriculum helps students to imagine difficult situations and talk about strategies for making responsible, ethical, and healthy choices.
This guide was meant to support schools and districts that are implementing an early warning system. Through detailing 7 steps, it walks districts and schools through the implementation process from establishing roles and responsibilities to evaluation.
This brief lists key lessons from the science of learning and development and posits implications of these lessons for schools to holistically support students.
This resource provides a list of supports in understanding career technical education, how to integtate career-based education
This site provides great information about energy, careers in energy, and fun games and activities, such as science fair experiments, for students to see and learn from. A teacher's guide is provided for guiding students on this site.
This is a career activity book for elementary students. It provides 22 activities on career exploration, seven activities on student development, two activities on critical thinking/logic, and one activity on financial literacy.
This brief helps students to learn how to better engage the local community to support student success.
This site is designed for students to learn more about the FBI through age-appropriate games, tips, stories, and interactives. They also introduce students to their working dogs and show how FBI special agents and analysts investigate cases.
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This toolkit focuses on the role of family engagement in school improvement and student success. In particular, the toolkit focuses on increasing the engagement of underrepresented families and helping teachers and administrators become more skilled and comfortable working with families.
This flyer designed by the NDE Nebraska Career and Technical Education Is a guide for parents on preparting their child for career success after high school.
Future Forward Ohio encompasses the state’s strategic priorities for using federal funds to help students recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on students who experienced the greatest disruptions to learning.
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This webpage gives high school students sources to help them learn about and prepare for college.
30 years of research culminates in this report on supporting at-risk students, which encourages school action in 6 areas: 1) making innovative changes to classroom instruction, 2) supporting children through transitions, 3) connecting families to schools and school activities, 4) maximizing use of community resources, 5) reorganizing crisis assistance and prevention, and 6) improving links to external mental health and behavioral services.
This activity asks students to identify the positive character traits that they currently have or that they would like to have and then provides them with tips on improving their character.
Aimed at educators, this SEL currriculum helps students to maintain focus and attention toward teachers and other students.