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Career Pathways/Majors/Clusters: Reorganizing or restructuring schools around School-To-Career Pathways/Majors/Clusters.

Systems Based on High Academic Standards: Using high academic standards, including content standards or performance standards, for implementing school-based or work-based learning.

Integrated Curriculum: Integrating school-based and work-based learning at the elementary, middle, and highschool levels.

Evaluating and Assessing the Student's Education Edge Experience: Applying assessment tools or methods effective in evaluating the student's experiences in STC activities.

Professional Development for Teachers: Training and professional development for teachers to aid them in implementing the components of STC.

Worksite Experiences for Teachers: Providing teacher experiences in the workplace (job shadowing, internships, etc.).

School-Based Enterprises: Operating an enterprise linked to work-based learning at the school site.

Guidance Counselors in Education Edge Systems: Involving guidance counselors in STC activities (developing career planning skills in students, training teachers as career mentors, etc.).

Career Awareness and Career Exploration Activities: Offering career awareness and career exploration activities in STC.

Involving Every Student:Allowing for the inclusion of all student groups within the school including the academically talented, limited English speakers, low-achieving youth, low-income youth, native Americans, youth with disabilities, youth in rural areas, and young women in non-traditional employment opportunities.

Serving Out-of-School Youth: Allowing for the inclusion of out-of school youth in STC activities.

Using Technology and Distance Learning:Employing technology and/or distance learning to enhance or deliver the components of a STC system.

Engaging Organized Labor and Employee Associations: Engaging organized labor and employee associations in a STC system (serving as a local partner, providing workplace mentors, developing skill standards and credentialing techniques, etc.).

Comprehensive Employer Involvement in Education Edge Activities:Engaging employers in a full range of STC activities (serving on advisory committees to develop work-based learning outcomes, providing work-based learning opportunities, etc.).

All Aspects of an Industry: Offering opportunities for exploration of and experiences in all aspects of the industry or sector (planning, management, finances, marketing, technical and production skills, underlying principles of technology, labor and community issues, health and safety issues and environmental issues).

Work-Based Learning Experiences:Offering a comprehensive continuum of work-based learning experiences that include job shadows, structured unpaid work experience, and paid work experience.

Worksite Employee Training: Training for worksite employees (supervisors and mentors) that is designed to assist these employees in providing quality work-based learning experiences for students.

Intermediary/Connecting Activities: Connecting school-based opportunities with work-based opportunities by linking students, schools, employers and other stakeholders (employment specialists in school, involvement of local chambers of commerce, etc.).

Education Edge Activities in Elementary Schools: The best example of linking careers to school-based learning at the elementary school level.

Education Edge Activities in Middle Schools: The best example of linking careers to school-based learning at the middle school level.

Education Edge Activities in High Schools: The best example of linking careers to school-based learning at the high school level.

Postsecondary Involvement: Linking schools or partnerships with 2 year or year colleges in STW activities.

Skill Standards: A school-based or work-based experience that is built on skill standards. Indicate if skill standards are used in the development of curriculum and how, if any, employers are involved.

Liability, Health, and Safety Issues: Incorporating strategies for managing Work-based learning experiences that effectively consider liability, health, and safety issues for students. Strategies to Build Local Partnerships: Building a local partnership inclusive of all key stakeholders.

Strategies to Build Local Partnerships: Building a local partnership inclusive of all key stakeholders.

E-Mail: sandy-cole@utc.edu