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DOE's initiatives for middle school career exploration
3:10:03
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Melanie Mac outlines three key initiatives the DOE is implementing to enhance college and career exploration for middle school students.
- Testing digital advising tools with over 5,000 middle school students
- Incorporating career exploration into the Dream Specialized High School Institute program
- Developing a middle school extension of the Career Navigation Roadmap
Melanie Mac
3:10:03
And so there's there's three things that we're doing next year in in the middle school space.
3:10:09
One is we're testing out digital advising tools with over 5,000 middle school students.
3:10:14
So when we think about a tool like Zello, when we think about other college and career advising tools that are now available that families can utilize, that school counselors can utilize, providers can utilize with students, really tap into interests, explore careers, explore college options, and take those digital portfolios into high school with them as they're looking at the myriad options they have for high schools.
3:10:38
So that's one thing is we're investing in that as a more scalable way of expanding college and career exploration in middle school.
3:10:45
Two, in our dream specialized high school institute program that's serving thousands of our seventh and rising eighth graders each year, We are incorporating career exploration into that curriculum alongside the academic readiness.
3:11:00
We want our students to see as we know we've done a lot of really good work in the high school space with future ready, building on the CTE legacy, really making the college and career opportunities explicit in high school.
3:11:12
And so we want our middle schoolers to understand what are those options and how can they be grounded in what students are interested in, where they might themselves because we know we have many of those pathways to offer them in the high schools.
3:11:27
And then there's one more thing that I'm catching myself on that we're doing in the middle school space next year which is why I have my handy dandy notes.
Daniel Weisberg
3:11:36
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Melanie Mac
3:11:38
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3:11:39
And then the third area is over the past couple of years we've developed a career navigation roadmap for our high schools.
3:11:46
This delineates grade by grade what are the key milestones our students should have access to as they're exploring their careers, as they're building towards their post secondary plan.
3:11:57
We had not yet done the same work in middle school and so what we'll have next year is the middle school extension of the career navigation roadmap which is a citywide blueprint for what are the key experiences in college and career exploration that every sixth, seventh, and eighth graders should have that we are training our providers and our school counselors, school leaders, and our teachers into.
3:12:18
So those are the three areas of investment that we think are important in broadening college and career exploration at the middle middle school level.