Resources

• Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce
• Business & Education Council: May 2009 Update (123 KB) features information about internships, shadowing, technology innovation classes, Tuesday Tours of businesses, and more!
• GIS Lessons
  Colorado State University (CSU) and Poudre School District (PSD)
  Spatial Information Technologies and Geographic Education Partnership
  Fort Collins, CO USA
• Hewlett Packard
  • HP K12 Lessons

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• CollegeInColorado.org - College in Colorado is a free, comprehensive Website dedicated to providing students with everything they need to know about career exploration and planning, selecting high school courses, choosing and applying to colleges, obtaining financial aid and getting ready to take the SAT, ACT or GRE tests.
• Colorado Succeeds- Focusing on the alignment of the educational system and the needs of the workforce and the economy.

• Colorado State Plan--Solving the Colorado paradox & ensuring the Colorado promise for all students.

• Colorado Workforce Development Council

• State of Colorado’s Talent Development- Competing in the 21st Century

• LMI Gateway- Colorado Department of Labor & Employment

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• National Alliance Standards for Secondary Education and Transition
• NETS-  National Education Technolory Standards
• International Technology Education Association (ITEA)- ITEA is the largest professional educational association, principal voice, and information clearinghouse devoted to enhancing technology education.
• US Department of Education

• CTE National Research Center- The mission of the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education is to improve the engagement, achievement and transition of high school and postsecondary CTE students through technical assistance to states, professional development for CTE practitioners and dissemination of knowledge derived from scientifically based research.

• Career Clusters- This website serves as a clearinghouse for Career Clusters research, products, services and technical assistance for implementation of the States' Career Clusters Framework for lifelong learning.

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills-The report is based on a detailed survey of 431 human resource officials that was conducted in April and May 2006 by the Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management.   Its objective was to examine employers’ views on the readiness of new entrants to the U.S. workforce — recently hired graduates from high schools, two-year colleges or technical schools, and four-year colleges.
• The Career Key-Career Development- This web site lists the 17 Foundation Skills required of all workers in the high-performance workplace of the 21st century.
• BNET – Business Journal
• CareerBuilder.com- "Soft Skills can be as Important as Hard Skills"
• Business & Education Council

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• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  Job information compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• BLS Career Information - Jobs for Kids Who Like...
  • Music/Arts Science
  • P.E./Outdoors
  • Social Studies
  • Reading
• Bridges
  Check out this web site to help your students explore career and education options, then track their progress as they create successful plans.
• Career Planning Information - Career planning information
• Fastest Growing Occupations in Colorado -Fastest Growing Occupations in Colorado with links to America's Career Bank and America's Job Bank.

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• Keirsey Personality: Character and Temperament - Keirsey Temperament Sorter / on-line Meyers-Briggs
• Preferences - Take A Test: Meyers-Briggs and Others

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• America's Career InfoNet
• Career Magazine
• Career Mosaic
• CareerNet
• Career Path

• Web U.S. Community Colleges (Alphabetic)
• Interview Process - Interview Information
• Cover letters - Cover Letter Resources

• Colorado Community College System-The Colorado Community College System comprises the state's largest system of higher education.  Its career and academic programs in the 13 state community colleges serve more than 107,000 students annually.  In addition, CCCS oversees 1200 secondary and 800 postsecondary career and technical programs in more than 150 school districts and seven other post-secondary institutions across the state.
  • Career Clusters & Plans of Study
  • Credentialing
    
• International Center for Leadership in Education
  Dr. Willard R. Daggett
  The International Center believes that all students must have the benefit of a rigorous and relevant curriculum so that they can function capably in our technological/information-based society. We have found that changing how and what schools teach is possible as long as schools focus on what students need to know and be able to do; organize education based on how students learn; and obtain broad-based support for change.
• Classroom Connect's Connected Teacher
• Colorado School-to-Career Web site
  Information for educators, students and employers. STC, contextual learning, relevance, bringing the classroom to life! These are all ways of saying that students are motivated to higher levels of academic achievement when they know the classroom is linked to the real world of the community and work force beyond.
• Interdisciplinary Career Lessons
  Dynamic web site that connects with what is new in digital teaching. Topics include Assessment, Project-Based-Learning and much more.

• U.S. Department of Education - Grant opportunities. Visit often!
• Career Resource Homepage - Labor market information

• Career Exploration Center (diversity, women, students with special needs)
• Hispanics and Higher Education
• Gender Equity in Education
  In trying to raise awareness of the issue of gender equity in education, the Department of Education met with many experts who made recommendations regarding appropriate resources.
• Education World: Diversity in Education
  

  The Education World Diversity Center aggregates the latest content, articles, and resources to help educators understand diversity issues in their schools.

• Busy Teachers' Website K-12: Cultural Diversity

• Careers Online
  

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