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Career Readiness
Career Readiness Curriculum
Our Career Readiness Curriculum has been recognized as exemplary by the federal Department of Education’s Career Z Challenge in 2024. Learn More – Our Career Readiness Curriculum consists of 6 experiential, student-centered units to prepare young people for post-secondary success. These units represent 125 hours of award-winning exemplary curriculum designed to prepare 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students for the world of work.
Closing the post-pandemic literacy and numeracy gap
Students build literacy and numeracy skills as an intentional by-product of STC's Career Readiness Curriculum. Our hands-on interactive approach helps to overcome post-pandemic gaps that are impacting so many students.
Unit Deliverables & Skills: interwoven with student experiences advancing career readiness
UNIT
Unit 1: Tell Me About Yourself
Unit 2: Defining Your Path
Unit 3: Find In-Demand Jobs
Unit 4: Making Money Work
Unit 5: Getting the Job
Unit 6: Micro-internships
Unit 7: Telling My Story
ACADEMIC SKILLS EMPHASIS
Emphasis on literacy skills related to public speaking, non-verbal communication, summarization, critical thinking, and vocabulary development
Emphasis on literacy skills related to research, critical thinking, writing, analysis, evaluation, vocabulary development, digital literacy, and media literacy.
Emphasis on literacy skills related to reading comprehension, research, public speaking, critical thinking, writing, analysis, evaluation, vocabulary development, digital literacy.
Emphasis on numeracy skills related to basic computation; ratios, proportions, probability, statistics, and fractions; (word) problem solving; data analysis; research, critical thinking, vocabulary development, and digital literacy.
Emphasis on literacy skills related to public speaking, active listening, reading comprehension, writing, critical thinking, vocabulary development, and digital literacy.
Emphasis on combination of literacy and numeracy skills related to aligned product or project determined by micro-internship partner.
Emphasis on literacy skills related to public speaking, non-verbal communication, summarization, critical thinking, and vocabulary development
87%
of students said the program made them better prepared for job interviews.
79%
of students met the mock interview standards for professional communication.
89%
of students learned about jobs or careers they had not thought of previously.