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STRENGTHENING THE ALIGNMENT AND RIGOR OF CAREER PATHWAYS

HIGHLIGHTS

Summer Youth Employment Resource

Members of the New Skills Ready Nashville team contributed to a resource developed by AdvanceCTE on summer youth employment programs. The resource spotlights best practices for creating explicit links between career pathways and summer youth employment programs by state agencies, intermediaries, and local school districts. 

Family Engagement Pilots Spotlighted

Advance CTE highlighted the work of New Skills Ready Nashville in a publication on family engagement in career pathways. The publication highlighted two 2022-23 pilot projects:

Students Learn from Healthcare Mentors

An innovative new partnership between Metro Nashville Public Schools and Vanderbilt University Medical Center links high school students with mentors to explore health careers. The partnership with Pearl-Cohn High School is partially supported through the Healthcare Futures pilot project from New Skills Ready in the 2022-2023 school year. 

Five Pathways Certified in 2021-2022

We had five pathways undergo a rigorous, voluntary certification process in the 2021-2022 school year. Each pathway was certified as a Tennessee Pathway, which includes evidence of high-quality advising, alignment to labor market data, and links to postsecondary programs. 

Our certified pathways are:

HIGH-WAGE, HIGH-DEMAND SECTORS FOR NASHVILLE

At the outset of New Skills Ready, our team conducted labor market analysis to identify local high-wage, high-demand sectors. Our pathways work for New Skills Ready is focused on expanding access to and success in pathways in these sectors across our educational partners in K-12 and postsecondary. 

High wage: median salary above $52,320 for the Northern Middle TN workforce region or above $54,840 for Davidson County

 

High-skill: requires some formal training after high school (apprenticeship, certificate, degree, etc.)

 

High-demand: meets one or more of the following criteria

Advanced Manufacturing

Information Technology (IT)

Healthcare