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Interested in finding and managing partners, managing your
work-based learning initiatives, running your advisory boards,
and having access to real-time reporting on work-based
learning? This is your SOLUTION!

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Learn About CareerSmart Classrooms

Your staff can access an exciting set of new resources designed to help all teachers embrace career readiness while still effectively delivering their core content.

All the resources in CareerSmart Classrooms are customized for three types of users – teachers with students from middle school and high school; faculty working with postsecondary students; and Adult education instructors working with adult learners.

NEW ONLINE COURSE:
Pathways Leadership Essentials Live Online Course

Beginning the week of September 20, 2021, this course will run for eight consecutive weekly sessions on Tuesdays from 1 – 3 pm ET. During this exciting and interactive course with Hans Meeder, you will develop your knowledge and skills in all the essentials of leading the development and improvement of a true Pathways System.

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Create or Revamp your Pathways Program
NC3T offers:

  • Publications like The Power & Promise of Pathways, The Pathways System Decision Guide, The Pathway Program Design Guide, and the Pathways System Resource Kit – visit our bookstore
  • Staff development through our keynote and workshop offerings either in-person or virtually – visit our webpage
  • Coaching and Technical Assistance

Our Services

local_libraryCareer Connected Learning Planning and Consulting

Through its consulting and coaching services, NC3T helps school districts, communities, regions, and states design and build high quality Pathway Programs and Comprehensive Pathway Systems. We can help you develop your vision, build needed community relationships, and implement your plans.Learn Morenavigate_next

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NC3T expert speakers and professional development consultants are available to keynote events or lead workshops on several topics related to pathways and partnerships.Learn Morenavigate_next

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Seamless WBL is a web-based program that helps you find partners, create and manage your work-based learning activities, run your advisory board, and report on all activities by educator, school, or partner.Learn Morenavigate_next

Every Learner with a Dream and a Plan

The National Center for College and Career Transitions, or NC3T, has a twofold mission:

format_quoteEvery Learner with a Dream and a Plan, and Every Community with a Capable, Ready Workforce.

The organization works to connect schools, postsecondary institutions, and employers in order to introduce students to the array of options available to them and to help them prepare for the types of opportunities for which they are best suited.

NC3T provides planning, coaching, technical assistance and tools to help community-based leadership teams plan and implement their college-career pathway systems, as well as a range of tools and other services to help schools and colleges provide every student with an opportunity to participate in Career Connected Learning.

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Latest Posts from CCL In.Sight., the NC3T Blog

Our blog is meant to support local education, business and community leaders in their work by exploring what’s happening in communities and schools across the United States related to Career Connected Learning.

  • Take a step back
    on October 20, 2021

    Most of these blog posts focus on the professional aspects of CTE, pathways and employer engagement: Effective […]

  • Introducing young people to CTE
    on October 13, 2021

    What is happening to CTE? Today, we are a nation that no longer works with its hands the way it did in the past. People […]

  • ENCORE POST: The Value of Advisory Board Bylaws
    on October 1, 2021

    ORIGINALLY POSTED OCTOBER 2019 As I talk to educators across the country, I’m surprised by how few have bylaws for […]

  • Never the same again
    on September 15, 2021

    Our economy is at a turning point – and things are never going to be the same again. The past several decades have […]

16DecENCORE POST: The Partnership Practices RubricORIGINALLY POSTED SEPTEMBER 2018 From time to time, both through our…