School-to-Career Presentations and Resources
- A Changing World Helping Students Prepare for Life in a World that We Know Little About (PowerPoint 9.3 MB)
- Getting and Using Current Career Data (PowerPoint 15.2 MB)
Emerging Careers
- Emerging Careers video (QuickTime 37.6 MB)
- Emerging Careers video (MPEG-4 62 MB)
- List of Emerging Careers (Word 32 KB)
Green Careers and Terms
Career-Focused Volunteerism
- Capitalizing on Career-Focused Volunteerism How to Design, Recruit, and Sustain Business and Education Partnerships (PowerPoint 37.4 MB)
- Business Alliances Improve Career Awareness magazine article about Wake County's Business Alliance program in Techniques, a publication of the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE).
Career Academies
Publications referenced:
- WCPSS Career Academy web page.
- Career Academies: Long-Term Impacts on Labor Market Outcomes, Educational Attainment, and Transitions to Adulthood. Fifteen-year study on career academies by MDRC.
- Career Clusters handout. (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Top careers based on annual openings. (PDF 44 KB)
- Top three career choices for 13,177 WCPSS students, graduating in 2010 to 2015. (PDF 40 KB)
- Crafting A New Vision for High School: How States Can Join Academic and Technical Studies to Promote More Powerful Learning (March 2008). from the Southern Regional Education Board.
- Lost in Transition: Building a Better Path from School to College and Careers (January 2008). from the Southern Regional Education Board.
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