The America Achieves Educator Networks works to increase the number of students who have access to and complete a quality education pathway that leads to career and life success.
Cross-Sector Competencies
Cross-sector competencies are cross-sector, employability knowledge, skills, and dispositions. These are a set of competencies - along with academic and career-specific skills - that make up career readiness.
While states, districts, and schools continue to voice a commitment to “college and career readiness,” they are increasingly critiqued for seeming to treat “career readiness” as an afterthought. They are now being called on to move beyond the rhetoric and improve on their career readiness efforts, and many educators are reacting in fast order. But are we doing so with any greater clarity about our expectations for what a career-ready graduate might look like?
Whatever approach one takes to responding to our fast-changing economy and world of work, it needs to be driven by very clear and measurable definitions for what students need to know and be able to do to be successful in 21st century careers and life.
Resources for Cross-Sector Competencies
White Paper: Getting Real About Career Readiness: A Focus on Cross-Sector Competencies
Videos on Skills: panel discussions, Fellowship experiences, classroom case studies, and more
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