Building Student Engagement and Future Readiness

When school feels disconnected, students check out. This session shows how districts and schools are fixing that: real career pathways, tied to real coursework, built into the plan every student already has. See how career planning and classroom instruction can work as one system, so the IGP stops being paperwork and starts actually moving students toward graduation.

What You'll Learn:

• Make career exploration do the heavy lifting.

Hear how districts are giving students a reason to care about school now, not just at graduation.

• How to stop treating the IGP like a form.

See how schools are turning it into a plan that actually shapes course choices, year after year.

• See how career pathways and curriculum can work together.

Hear how districts are connecting career planning into classroom instruction.

Learn more:

[Success Story] From Awareness to Readiness: Career-Connected Learning Grows with Students in a Large Virginia District

[Research] Digital CTE Courses Helped Over 2,000 Baltimore High School Students Prepare for High-Demand Careers

[Webinar] How This District Used Data to Build the CTE Program Students Want

[Article] Career Readiness Takes Time. Pennsylvania’s Montour School District Is Giving Students Room to Explore