This resource provides the full listing and definitions of the Career Ready Practices, which form the core of the modernized National Career Clusters Framework. These 12 practices represent the skills needed to succeed in the modern workplace, and were built on a meta-analysis of over 30 different listings of general professional skills developed by industry and educational institutions.
This resource, developed by Advance CTE, is intended to support the adoption and implementation of the National Career Clusters® Framework, the central building block to achieve consistently designed and high-quality Career Technical Education (CTE) programs. First introduced in 2002, a version of the Framework is used by the majority of states with Advance CTE as its steward. A modernized Framework was unveiled in October 2024 after a 2-year development and validation process.
Visit the Career Clusters section of the Advance CTE website for additional information about the full Framework and all associated tools and resources.
