School-to-Work Resources for Systems Builders
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All Means All Brochure
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This brochure folds out into a 8.5x14" poster and provides a general overview of school-to-work, emphasizing the inclusion of students with disabilities.
All Means All School-to-Work Checklist Poster
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This checklist provides ideas, strategies, and guidelines to think about including as states and local partnerships develop their school-to-work systems so that school-to-work opportunities include and benefit all learners.
Career Connection Magazine
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning
This magazine is designed to provide students with information about careers and employability skills at the grade level most appropriate. Three publications are available: Elementary School Level, Middle/High School Level, and High School/Adult Level.
Career Folder
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This manual can be used with students throughout their high school years. Resumes, cover letters, occupational information, interest inventories essays on careers, and career brochures may also be housed in this folder, as well as any information helpful to the student.
Effective College Planning (1996)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This brochure is for use with students and families. It outlines legal rights and responsibilities, a process to evaluate oneself, college services available, and defines services and terms.
Individual Career Portfolio (1997)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This portfolio was developed to be used and adapted for all students as a tool for both planning and process. It can be used to record information for career exploration and to set goals.
Lakeshore Basics and Beyond (1997-98)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This catalog consists of materials needed to make the transition from school to the workplace. It has an enormous range of accessible hands-on material that covers subjects in depth and keep interest level high.
Learning Site Analysis Form (1996)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Student-Focused Planning and Development
These resource materials provide easy-to-use instruments that help identify the knowledge and skills a student can learn in the community. In order to make community-based learning happen, school staff and supervisors need to know what can be learned at participating sites.
Marketing Series: Maneuvering the Accommodation Process (1997)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This brochure series provides marketing strategies for job developers when they are creating supportive work-based learning environments for students, to ensure successful accommodation. The series is accompanied by a job developers guide. The brochures were produced for the New York State (NYS) School-to-Work Advisory Council with sponsorship from the NYS Education Department, Office of Workforce Preparation and Continuing Education under the School-to-Work Opportunities Act.
National Transition Alliance Newsletter
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This quarterly newsletter provides information and resources on topics related to school-to-work, transition, and youth with disabilties.
Pathways to Satisfaction (1996)
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This model outlines a transition framework showing step-by-step strategies to help students prepare for post-high school. The model was awarded exemplary status by the School-to-Work Outreach Project in 1996.
PEAK (Practical Exercise in Applying Knowledge) Science and Math (1995)
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning
This binder contains materials that can help students relate the courses they are taking to specific career opportunities. Each activity allows the student to apply a key topic in science or mathematics to a practical task in the work world.
Planning for the Future
Content Areas: Family Involvement
This brochure outlines high school graduation requirements and college entrance requirements, lists careers with hottest job growth, and provides a sample schedule showing how students can prepare for college and still enroll in vo-tech programs.
Plans of Study
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This folder is designed around 13 different plans of study for different career clusters. The plans of study show the student how to meet state graduation requirements and college entrance requirements, and provide the student with a solid vocational base.
Real Life (1996)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This student newspaper and curriculum package is a color, single sheet, tabloid that focuses on workplace ethics and employability skills. A powerful and creative teaching tool, Real Life connects school-to-work through an evolving story of five teenaged friends who are employed part-time. The five friends encounter situations involving issues such as respect, honesty, attitude, listening, punctuality, pride in work, and responsibility. Each story ends in a dilemma that students are asked to resolve. The newspaper's special feature, The Boss's Point of View, describes what a boss might think of each particular situation. This newspaper is easily adaptable to many subject areas.
School-to-Work Competency Profile (1996)
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This portfolio was developed to assist in organizing and monitoring students on the job. It includes a SCANS competency checklist and school- and work-based learning competencies. It can be used as a career portfolio, if educational transcripts and best works are included.
School-to-Work Reporter
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Structures and Policies
This monthly newsletter consists of eight to twelve pages covering the field of career-based education, with a special focus on school-to-work and tech prep. The STW Reporter provides information and analysis with a strong emphasis on model programs, research reviews, grant notices, and resource data (name, fax, phone numbers and e-mail addresses where you can get more information).
School-to-Work Technical Assistance (1996)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This flyer outlines the American Vocational Association's Technical Assistance Program which works to equip all students with the necessary skills for tomorrow's jobs.
Techniques: Making Education and Career Connections
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This magazine features articles and regular departments that focus on education to prepare students for career and life success. The topics apply to individuals interested in education, such as teachers, school administrators, and school-to-work partners.
Transition Needs Assessment: Secondary Education Evaluation Program
Content Areas: Student-Focused Planning and Development
This assessment instrument allows teachers and administrators to identify areas of need in their existing transition programs and to prioritize these needs according to importance.
Triangulating Transition (1997)
Content Areas: Family Involvement
This model describes a triangulated methodology which shows schools how to invite and include parents into the transition process.
The Works
Content Areas: Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This quarterly newsletter addresses the issues and challenges in supporting people with disabilities in the workforce. There are many easy to use tools, strategies, and current news available in the newsletter.