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The following websites offer valuable tools and resources for use by practitioners leading career development activities: |
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Future Ready Massachusetts http://futurereadyma.org/
Future Ready Massachusetts is a public campaign to enable communities to promote understanding and use of the various tools that will advance the college-and-career-readiness of the Commonwealth’s students. The Future Ready campaign aims to
- increase the number of students pursuing and succeeding in college and careers, and
- build community and family support for completion of a rigorous course of study and relevant experience, which offers better opportunities after high school.
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Empower Your Future: Career Readiness Curriculum Guide [Commonwealth Corporation]
Commonwealth Corporation's career readiness curriculum, titled "Empower Your Future" is available to schools, job/internship programs and youth programs. Visit the Commonwealth Corporation home page at http://commcorp.org for more information and for a PDF copy of the curriculum. |
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MassCIS
MassCIS -- The Massachusetts Division of Career Services (DCS) offers the Massachusetts Career Information System (MassCIS) free on-line to all Massachusetts residents. MassCIS is designed to provide occupational and educational information to help people make better-informed career and school choices. |
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Career Development Toolkit - The Skills Library
Career Development Toolkit, written by Jennifer Leonard, The Skills Library. This is a 130-page book with activities, readings and job market information, designed for career exploration workshops and classroom study. The PDF is available online at http://skillslibrary.com/careers/careerdevelopment skillslibrary.pdf (or click this link to open or download the PDF). You can read more about this book, including the preface and table of contents, at http://skillslibrary.com/careers/ on the Skills Library website. This is an independent project, not connected with any ESE programs or contracts, based on workshops and projects that I have led with students in middle school, high school and college. |
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Contextual Learning Portal
A link to the Contextual Learning Portal. You can search for projects related to careers or any other topic of interest.
http://resources21.org/cl |
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Resource Page - Transition Planning and Work Experience
A page with links to resources about transition planning, work-based learning and students with special needs. http://resources21.org/transitionworkexp/ |
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"Skills Pages" Articles about Career Development
Articles from skillspages.com/blog with the tag career-development. Articles explore a vision for career development programming and the idea of the new economy, or "mosaic economy." |
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ESE College and Career Readiness website.
Link to the ESE College and Career Readiness website. |
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