Career Exploration Strategic Planning
In this section, you’ll find resources to guide districts and schools through a 7-step process for designing effective career exploration programs, setting goals, and building strong employer partnerships. Tools include sample agendas, planning templates, a design lab activity, frameworks for work-based learning, and resources aligned to Arizona’s career literacy standards. This collection also offers an implementation planning guide, resource documentation templates, and a sample kickoff meeting agenda to support a successful program launch.
Planning Session
This sample agenda supports the district Career Exploration Strategic Alignment Process.
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This resource outlines key resources to support the development of high-quality career exploration experiences for students.
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This overview outlines the 7-step Strategic Alignment Process schools can follow to create effective career exploration programs for students.
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This document offers an overview of the 7-step process and includes links to the sample agenda, supporting resources, and presentations.
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Partner Overview
This Career Exploration Strategic Planning agenda is designed to guide school teams in understanding career exploration resources and building strong employer engagement practices.
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This resource outlines key resources to support the development of high-quality career exploration experiences for students.
This resource is free to use, adapt, and share for non-commercial purposes with credit to Center for the Future of Arizona. Please review and follow our full Terms of Use.
This overview outlines the 7-step Strategic Alignment Process schools can follow to create effective career exploration programs for students.
This resource is free to use, adapt, and share for non-commercial purposes with credit to Center for the Future of Arizona. Please review and follow our full Terms of Use.
This framework outlines various employer engagement strategies including descriptions of work-based learning activities and estimated times to complete.
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This worksheet helps schools identify partners and document contacts for work-based learning activities.
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Design Lab
This process agenda guides schools in setting middle school career exploration goals, aligning initiatives with stakeholder needs, and identifying resources to strengthen career exploration programs.
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This overview outlines the 7-step Strategic Alignment Process schools can follow to create effective career exploration programs for students.
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This Design Lab Activity helps schools identify desired career exploration outcomes, selecting effective strategies and activities, and recognizing assets to link and leverage for stronger program development.
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This template helps schools document the identified career exploration strategies, activities, and assets.
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This excerpt from Advance CTE's report "Broadening the Path" outlines a theory of action for quality career exploration
Grades 5-8 Career Literacy Standards from the Arizona Department of Education
This framework outlines various employer engagement strategies including descriptions of work-based learning activities and estimated times to complete.
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This visual from the Arizona Department of Education depicts Grade 5-8 career literacy outcomes and recommended activities.
This sample District Career Exploration Implementation Plan outlines strategies organized by individual schools.
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Resource Demo
This resource outlines the process in Career Exploration Strategic Planning that familiarizes schools with resources available for career exploration from several sources.
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This presentation demonstrates available resources for career exploration.
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This template allows schools to document the various resources they would like to use for career exploration.
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Implementation Planning
This resource outlines the process schools will use to determine their career expiration goals and document an implementation plan.
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This Implementation Planning Guide engages schools to identify career exploration goals and draft an implementation plan.
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This resource provides a format to document your Career Exploration Implantation Plan.
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This template helps schools document their implementation timeline.
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This resource provides a format to capture feedback on the strategies for implementation and the desirability, feasibility, and viability of those strategies.
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Professional Development
TBD by site Implementation Plans
Celebration
This sample agenda outlines a celebratory meeting to kick-off implementation.
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