State Policy & Strategy Director
Illinois Education and Career Success Network Director
Statewide
The Illinois Education and Career Success Network Cradle to Career Community Dashboard allows users to assess progress towards the goal of 60% of Illinois adults having a high-quality postsecondary credential by the year 2025. A resource offered to the Success Network’s Leadership Communities, the dashboard serves as a single stop for cradle-to-career data and information describing Illinois broadly and Community-identified geographies specifically. Dashboard users can analyze regional information on education and workforce system characteristics, track postsecondary education attainment and education-to-career objectives, and benchmark community efforts against state averages.
EdSystems manages the dashboard in partnership with NIU’s Illinois Interactive Report Cards team. We are in the process of restructuring and enhancing the data resources, including the dashboard, offered to Leadership Communities, with an eye towards incorporating qualitative data. We continue to strive to ensure that, where possible, dashboard and other data can be disaggregated to inform equity-related goal setting and action.
Education leaders from Fayette and Marion Counties share how they’ve expanded education pathways in the region in the last three years, and call for statewide transferability of core education courses through the Illinois Articulation Initiative. Learn more about how you can support this effort.
Please join our next community of practice on Monday, July 18 from 10:30–11:30 a.m. We will focus on experiences along the work-based learning continuum in the business sector. Learn how District 214, along with their industry and school partners, support and design opportunities in their business pathway.
At the I-WIN convening on June 27, 2022, leaders from California-based Climate Action Pathways for Schools shared their model for inspiring and implementing climate education programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while saving money for school districts.
To support the development of high-quality Career Exploration and Career Development Experiences in middle and high schools, ISBE tapped EdSystems to help support of a one-year pilot program. Check out the pilot’s models, resources, best practices, lessons learned, and recommendations for policy and supports to help better inform the field.
The redesigned site features key resources, guidance and implementation supports, and exemplars for the PWR Act’s four aligned strategies: the Postsecondary and Career Expectations (PaCE) Framework, College and Career Pathway Endorsements, Transitional Instruction, and Competency-Based Education Pilot.
An brief on HB3296/Public Act 102-0917, signed into law on May 27, 2022, that advances the Postsecondary and Career Expectations (PaCE) Framework and the College and Career Pathway Endorsements.
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