School-to-Career Program:
For Today's Youth and Tomorrow's Economy
Already most decent paying jobs — and those growing most rapidly — require skills and knowledge beyond the teachings of high school. School-to-Career provides a system that looks to employers to articulate the skills needed for success and for employers to work with educators to ensure students matriculate with relevant skills and knowledge. The twenty-first century demands occupational as well as academic mastery.
Today, many high school students end their educational years without mastering the thinking, teamwork, and problem-solving skills needed to succeed in a workplace setting.
Working closely with the changes brought on by education reform in Massachusetts, teachers are teaching the content of the state's learning standards in the context of careers, and entire schools are restructuring around career majors to address the challenges of education reform.
Class activity that reflects the realities of today's hi-tech workplace, teachers informed of current industry practice and skill-needs, students aware of the careers available and the education necessary to succeed in those careers — School-to-Career can assure the Commonwealth a highly educated and skilled workforce.
Other School-to-Career Resources:
Employer Leadership
For years, schools have welcomed businesses to their doors — typically, only with check in hand. Rarely have they been included in substantive educational issues and often rebuffed as self-serving when relating to career goals.
School-to-Career moves business from patrons to partners. Now the business community, through its roles in mentoring, training and goal setting, is a cornerstone of the system.
Students Gain:
- Job experience
- Employable skills
- The ability to make informed choices regarding careers and college
Employers Gain:
- A larger, skilled pool of workers
- Reduced training efforts
- A role in shaping the future workforce
The shortage of skilled and educated workers is a crisis — now and for the future. School-to-Career seeks to construct a universal system that substantially improves educational attainment, occupational mastery, and access to careers and college.
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Career Source is a member of the Massachusetts One-Stop Career Center System and is chartered by the