In order to create a greater abundance of effective and affordable pathways for low-income learners, the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) created Minds That Move Us (MTMU). MTMU challenges the bright minds of communities around the country to design innovative education and training models that create social equity and economic mobility…

The purpose of the Career Achievement Skills Training Program (CAST) is to equip students with the skills they need to make decisions and career plans. The author maintains that skills are observable, measurable and repeatable behaviors. He teaches these skills in three phases. First, students learn how to expand knowledge about themselves and a…

This handbook was prepared to assist those coordinating the VITAL program in participating schools and agencies. It is designed primarily for use by counselors or other coordinators as an instrument for presenting VITAL occupational information to students who are interested in gainful employment after leaving school. The information provided in…

Two one-week Life/Career Guidance, Counseling, and Placement Planning Seminars were held for South Dakota school counselors. These seminars were sponsored by SDCE and planned in conjunction with SDSU, Pupil Personnel, and the Division of Vocational-Technical Education. The major thrust of the workshops involved the planning of well-rounded…

The primary purpose of this monograph is to describe how to develop and implement a career resource center, from conception to evaluation. Six brief vignettes are presented which focus on bringing career education into different types of schools. The purpose, goals, and functions of the career resource center are identified and related to the…

This lengthy document describes a Career Achievement Skills Training (CAST) program, implemented in Pontiac, Michigan, a highly industrialized city of 120,000 located approximately 30 miles from Detroit. The purpose of the program was to deliver career achievement skills to selected K-12 students. Through the skill processes presented in the CAST…

Presented is a program manual for the Adult Developmental Activity Program (ADAP), a structured work oriented service for substantially retarded and/or severely physically handicapped adults. Program information is organized into four sections: ADAP minimum standards, initial program planning and development factors, information on the ADAP…

The major programs sponsored by the Division of Vocational Education assisting career development in New Jersey are identified and briefly described. The stated objectives of career development are: identification of a variety of occupational opportunities, development of a number of career alternatives, demonstration of job responsibility,…

The Computerized Vocational Guidance System (VOCGUYD) is designed primarily to foster career maturity and to assist individuals in their career planning. To foster career maturity a wide variety of search and screening criteria that are critical to job success are introduced, and which serve as the basis for career guidance purposes. The Career…

This manual presents a planning and implementation process for counselors' use in career guidance, counseling and placement programming. The Kansas Action Model for Career Guidance, Counseling, and Placement illustrates a process for effective programming which includes Needs Identification, Plan Development, and Implenentation and Follow Through.…

This career education handbook for elementary and secondary education teachers in Dayton, Ohio, was developed to provide them with career development and career exploration program information. Following a brief overview of career education and its components, the content is presented in five sections. The first one on curriculum presents a…

The handbook, prepared by counselor practitioners from experiences based upon involvement in guidance-oriented career education programs, is intended to help the counselor who wants to start or fit within a program of career education. Using narrative and numerous illustrations, the book first presents a definition of career guidance in terms of…

New Hampshire Supervisory School Union 58--Experimental Schools project (Groveton, New Hampshire) has developed a rural schools oriented career education program for grades K-12, which incorporates the total community. The program focuses on three major themes: (1) Self Awareness--Who Am I? (kindergarten and grade 1), (2) Awareness of Community…

While the Louisiana State Department of Education does not mandate the total scope of career education programs offered at the local levels, it is essential that a common core of ideas be promoted in order to assess the statewide progress of the programs. The bulletin presents goals and objectives for career and occupational development for ages…

One of several products developed for a comprehensive program of career development (kindergarten through university) for vocational education in Florida, this resource manual, divided into two parts, presents a model for facilitating the life career development of students in the community college setting and provides guidelines for its…