In my service as our CTE Coordinator I have coordinated with our students, leadership team, CTE departments, and community stakeholders to identify areas of strength and areas of needed growth in our CTE programs. This systems-based approach has supported significant growth in post-secondary readiness the last few school years, with our school earning the highest postsecondary readiness score in its history on recent state accountability measures. This session highlights the key strategies that drove that growth. Our work centered on elevating student voice, restructuring scheduling through advocacy to ensure pathway access and clarity in communication, informational posters that are personalized to our school/district, highlighted communications through our school news program and our local news programs within our community, reflecting on workforce and accountability data to align programs with employability trends and community needs. Through strong PLC collaboration, shared leadership among counselors and pathway teachers, intentional community partnerships, and the implementation of a readiness tracker, we created a unified, outcomes-driven CTE system. Participants of this session have opportunity to gain practical strategies that have been utilized by our team that have supported team alignment, practical and repeatable data reflection, and building pathways and learning opportunities that meet specific student needs. This session would be appropriate to be attended by administrators, counselors, and CTE instructors.
