edLeader Panel | From College and Career Readiness Silos to Connected Student Experiences: Sparking Enrollment and Excitement
Today’s students cannot afford a college and career readiness system that starts too late, remains siloed for core academics, or treats tangible postsecondary success planning as an add-on. Too often, districts are asking students to navigate a future that schools have not fully prepared them to enter. The challenge is not whether students should be college ready or career ready; it is whether K–12 systems are giving every learner the academic foundation, durable skills, and real-world exposure they need to build a future that fits.
In this edLeader Panel, explore what it takes to move from fragmented initiatives to a comprehensive college and career readiness strategy that works across K–12. Panelists share practical examples from a district perspective and discuss how to connect core curricula, CTE, and durable skills into a coherent student experience. In addition, they examine how reading, math, and other foundational skills can be embedded into career-connected learning, so students are not just informed about their options, but prepared to pursue them.
This conversation also tackles the policy and funding realities shaping the work. State and district leaders are under growing pressure to align programs with evolving accountability systems, workforce priorities, and college access expectations. Viewers learn how to build local programs that advance state objectives, how to design implementation that is both scalable and durable, and how to enroll and excite learners.
District and school leaders who watch the session will become better able to:
- Understand the essential elements of a comprehensive college and career readiness program across K–12
- Learn how to integrate core academics, CTE, and durable skills into a connected and relevant student pathway
- Identify strategies to influence key stakeholders and align local implementation with state policy, funding, and accountability goals
Presenters:
- Nina Walls, Career and Technical Education (CTE) Director at Rockingham County Schools
- Tim Taylor, Co-founder and President at America Succeeds
- Chris Minnich, CEO at MetaMetrics
- Brad Baumgartner, Chief Growth Officer at Edmentum
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- Listen to the audio podcast of this panel discussion
- See how schools are expanding college and career readiness and delivering career exploration to students with MajorClarity.