New Skills ready network

Boston, Massachusetts is one of the six sites selected to participate in the New Skills ready network. This five-year initiative, launched by JPMorgan Chase. in 2020, aims to improve student completion of high-quality career pathways. In the third year of the initiative, the Boston, Massachusetts, New Skills ready network team continued to leverage their collaborative partnerships to ensure that data collection supports the operationalization of the work.

Nashville, Tennessee is one of the six sites selected to participate in the New Skills ready network. This five-year initiative, launched by JPMorgan Chase. in 2020, aims to improve student completion of high-quality career pathways. In the third year of the initiative, the Nashville, Tennessee, New Skills ready network team focused their efforts on implementation through pilot projects to maximize the potential of the learner experience in work-based learning (WBL) and postsecondary persistence.

Indianapolis, Indiana is one of the six sites selected to participate in the New Skills ready network. This five-year initiative, launched by JPMorgan Chase. in 2020, aims to improve student completion of high-quality career pathways. In the third year of the initiative, the Indianapolis, Indiana, New Skills ready network team built on work conducted in the first two years of the initiative, focusing heavily on developing a new career pathway and building advising tools.

Denver, Colorado is one of the six sites selected to participate in the New Skills ready network. This five-year initiative, launched by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2020, aims to improve student completion of high-quality career pathways. In the third year of the initiative, the Denver, Colorado, New Skills ready network team, known as NSRI, continued to improve their existing data sharing, collection and analysis processes to support the learner experience within NSRI career pathways.

Dallas, Texas is one of the six sites selected to participate in the New Skills ready network. This five-year initiative, launched by JPMorgan Chase. in 2020, aims to improve student completion of high-quality career pathways. In the third year of the initiative, the Dallas, Texas, New Skills ready network team focused their efforts on building cohesion among the leadership team and implementers, which has deepened the relationship across partners and increased learner opportunities aligned with workforce development.

Columbus, Ohio is one of the six sites selected to participate in the New Skills ready network. This five-year initiative, launched by JPMorgan Chase in 2020, aims to improve student completion of high-quality career pathways. In the third year of the initiative, the Columbus, Ohio, New Skills ready network team developed career maps and increased advising efforts among education institutions.

Report that provides an overview of the New Skills ready network initiative; highlights key steps forward for sites across the four project priorities; and identifies lessons learned from year two.

This brief builds the case and provides actionable recommendations for state-led support in the intentional alignment of summer youth employment programs (SYEP) with career pathways and the work-based learning continuum.

This toolkit provides effective messages targeted to key audiences and strategies for dissemination to increase participation in Credit for Prior Learning among adult learners who are pursuing career pathways and CTE programs of study that lead to jobs in in-demand fields.

Fully inclusive Career Technical Education (CTE) programs should not just reflect current program representation, but rather the communities where learners will work and build their lives. The Achieving Inclusive CTE Goal-Setting Tool strives to equip state and local CTE and career pathways leaders to approach program participation and outcomes data and goal setting with an inclusive and representative lens.