College & Career Pathways

Through the College & Career Pathways portfolio:

  • We define and implement quality pathway models and competencies that prepare students for promising credentials and careers.
  • We scale and strengthen College and Career Pathway Endorsements, aligned programs of study, and work-based learning systems.

Accelerated Model Pathways for Information Technology (AMP-IT)

The AMP-IT initiative is engaging school districts and their community college and employer partners to design and launch an accelerated IT pathway.
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  • Project Status: Current

Career Development Experience Toolkit

The Career Development Experience Toolkit, aligned to the PWR Act, supports scaling high-quality career pathways and work-based learning.
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  • Project Status: Complete

Chicago Equity-Centered Innovation Forum

The Chicago Equity-Centered Innovation Forum promotes models of personalized instruction, competency-based approaches, performance assessments, project-based learning, and other emerging innovations that provide promising education frameworks.
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  • Project Status: Current

Chicago Public Schools: Preparing Students for College and Career Success

With the support of Crown Family Philanthropies, CPS brought in EdSystems to provide strategic counsel and support of the OCCS pathways vision framework and Student Success Roadmap.
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  • Project Status: Current

College and Career Pathway Endorsements

Education Systems Center worked with public and private stakeholders to define key competencies for the College and Career Pathway Endorsements and is now working with community networks to support implementation of endorsement systems in line with the PWR Act.
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  • Project Status: Current

Community College CBE Pilot Project

Together with the Illinois Community College Board, we are supporting a cohort of community colleges to develop competency-based education programs in both welding and industrial maintenance.
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  • Project Status: Current

East St. Louis: Support for Career Pathways

EdSystems is working with the East St. Louis community to engage community, school district, and higher education stakeholders in deep racial equity work in the context of college and career pathways
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  • Project Status: Current

Elgin: Expanding College and Career Pathways

Elgin's Alliance for College Readiness engaged EdSystems to support alignment to the new College and Career Pathway Endorsement system and the State’s new Perkins V plan.
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  • Project Status: Complete

Future of Learning Coalition

The Future of Learning Coalition is an alliance working to advance an innovation ecosystem for equitable, student-centered education in Illinois to better prepare future-ready young people and empower them to realize their greatest potential.
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  • Project Status: Current

Great Lakes College and Career Pathways Partnership

Since 2016, EdSystems has provided the Great Lakes College and Career Pathways Partnership with strategic expertise and technical assistance.
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  • Project Status: Complete

Health Sciences Career Exploration and Career Development Experience Pilot

The Health Sciences Career Exploration and Career Development Experience Pilot  project is designed to support healthcare workforce development in the State of Illinois.
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  • Project Status: Complete

Illinois Advanced Apprenticeship Consortium

EdSystems' role with the Illinois Advanced Apprenticeship Consortium is implementing a Manufacturing Pathway aligned to the College and Career Pathway Endorsement system for students that meets the expectations and requirements of the PWR Act.
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  • Project Status: Complete

Illinois Education and Career Success Network

Illinois Education and Career Success Network supports communities to increase meaningful and equitable postsecondary attainment and civic engagement.
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  • Project Status: Current

Illinois Work-Based Learning Innovation Network (I-WIN)

I-WIN supports employers, educators, and students to leverage innovative and equitable models for scaling high-quality work-based learning, virtually or in person, in school districts and community colleges across the State.
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  • Project Status: Current

Liberia Career Pathways

EdSystems worked with Liberian partners to launch the Liberian nongovernmental organization and the U.S. based nonprofit organization.
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  • Project Status: Current

Middle-Skills Pathways in Chicago

Beginning in 2020, EdSystems is conducting a deep landscape analysis of middle-skills pathways in Chicago that lead to priority occupations.
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  • Project Status: Complete

Model Programs of Study Guides

The Model Programs of Study Guides were developed in consultation and collaboration with the Illinois State Board of Education through a process led and facilitated by Education Systems Center.
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  • Project Status: Current

Plainfield: Support for Career Pathways

EdSystems supports the Plainfield community to engage community, school district, and higher education stakeholders in college and career pathways design.
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  • Project Status: Current

Postsecondary Leadership Series

In support of the OneGoal team and their Postsecondary Leadership Series, the EdSystems team is providing two primary services: capacity-building for OneGoal staff and advising for partner-facing content relating to college and career pathways, early college credit, transitional instruction, work-based learning, and data.
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  • Project Status: Current

PWR Act

EdSystems staff and their partners led a multi-year process to develop and enact the PWR Act in close collaboration with a broad range of education and workforce stakeholders.
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  • Project Status: Current

Rockford Region: Support for Career Pathways

Since 2015, EdSystems has provided strategic counsel and technical assistance to RPS 205 and RVC and their partners as they build and expand their college and career pathway systems.
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  • Project Status: Current

Scaling Education Pathways in Illinois (SEPI)

Scaling Education Pathways in Illinois (SEPI) guides communities in creating streamlined teacher career pathways.
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  • Project Status: Current

Scaling Transformative Advanced Manufacturing Pathways (STAMP)

Through a community of practice and technical assistance to regional teams, STAMP serves secondary students enrolled in manufacturing pathways that articulate to community college programs and employment opportunities, with a particular focus on under-represented students with one or more barriers to education, training, and employment.
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  • Project Status: Current

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