School-to-Work Resources for Systems Builders
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Arranged alphabetically by Title
(bold type).
See the Foreward for
more information on Content Areas
Titles are hotlinks directly to the referring site
Academy for Educational Development (AED)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This site provides information on education and human resource development. It also provides information on projects, both in the U.S. and internationally, publications, and employment opportunities.
http://www.aed.org
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This site provides information and useful resources to help communities develop school-to-work systems which include and benefit all learners. The site includes the following pages: project overview, the award, students only, parent connection, local partnership network, links, school-to-work wizards questions and answers, and more.
http://ici.umn.edu/all
American Vocational Association (AVA)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Structures and Policies
This site provides information on the use of educational leadership in developing a competitive workforce. It also provides information on legislation and publications, such as Techniques, School-to-Work Reporter, and Vocational Education Weekly.
http://www.acteonline.org/
Center on Education and Work, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement
This site provides information on the work the Center has done in identifying and responding to issues affecting the connection between education, work, community, and the family. The site has information about solutions and capacity building technical assistance.
http://www.cew.wisc.edu
Institute on Community Integration (ICI)
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
The Institute is a University Affiliated Program (UAP) dedicated to improving community services and social support for persons with disabilities and their families. The site includes an overview of the Institute, publications catalog, reports and resource guides, projects on-line, and other disability related servers.
http://ici.umn.edu/default.html
National Career Development Association (NCDA)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This site is sponsored by the National Career Development Association in collaboration with The ERIC Clearinghouse for counseling and student services. It provides information to the public and professionals involved with and or interested in career development, including professional development activities, publications, research, public information, professional standards, advocacy, and more.
http://www.ncda.org
National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
The nation's largest center for research and development in work-related education. It includes full length reports, newsletters and digests, descriptions of programs and projects, services and information, as well as links to other vocational education resources.
http://ncrve.berkeley.edu
National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology, Media, and Materials
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies
A national resource center to improve practices in special education through technology media, and materials. The links include technology and disability, disability resources, specific sites, special education, family and parent support, government resources, funding, universities with special education resources, and more.
http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This site provides information on disability and disability-related issues for families, educators and other professionals.
http://www.nichcy.org
National School-to-Work Office, School-to-Work Gateway
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This site has information on research, evaluation, technical assistance providers, events calendar, hot topics, discussion groups, school-to-work links, and more.
http://www.stw.ed.gov
National Transition Alliance for Youth with Disabilities (NTA)
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
A partnership uniting the expertise of people within public institutions and private organizations to create bright futures for all youth transitioning from school to employment, post-secondary experiences and independent living. It includes an overview of NTA, partners, products, databases, and resources.
http://www.dssc.org/nta
National Transition Network (NTN)
Structures and Policies
This site provides technical assistance and evaluation services to states with grants for Transition Systems Change and School-to-Work Implementation and Development. It includes an overview of school-to-work, teleconferences, transition information, publications, and state contacts on school-to-work.
http://ici2.umn.edu/ntn
School-to-Work Outreach Project
Content Areas: Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Student-Focused Planning and Development
A nationwide 3-year project to improve school-to-work opportunities for students with disabilities. It includes an overview of school-to-work, a school-to-work factsheet, links to other sites, profiles of exemplary school-to-work models, practices, and strategies.
http://www.ici.umn.edu/schooltowork/
Transition Research Institute - Illinois
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning, Family Involvement, Structures and Policies, Student-Focused Planning and Development
This site provides information on the evaluation, technical assistance, and research activities of the Transition Research Institute. Transition planning resources and contact information for federally funded model transtion projects are featured with links to a myriad of project webs. This site provides a good overview of national transition efforts and experts.
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/sped/tri/institute.html
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This site is sponsored by the National Library of Education. This site provides information about offices and programs of the U.S. Department of Education initiatives of the President and the Secretary, full text of education reports, FAQs and factsheets, grant and financial aid information, and links to other organizations.
http://www.ed.gov
U.S. Department of Educations's Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE)
Content Areas: Business and Community Resources, Career Pathways and Contextual Learning
This site provides information about the office of vocational and adult education. It discusses their programs, grants, what is happening and working in the field, and how it can be of service to people so that states and localities will be successful in meeting the National Education Goals by the year 2000.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE
Content Areas: Structures and Policies
This site provides information about the department, its agencies and programs, the laws and regulations it administers widely, media releases, labor-related data, contract and grant information, and other links related to labor issues. This site also allows for searches of topics using their search engine.
http://www.dol.gov