Career Pathway banners hanging in our school's lobby and around the district that signify our commitment to this work will be seen in buildings this fall.

Each comprehensive high school will offer four Career Fields with at least one Career Pathway for each field. Career Fields allow students to gain foundational career knowledge and skills. [Name of school] is focused on offering courses in the following Career Pathways: Medical, Engineering, Community Justice, and Business. The offerings in pathways will have beginner to advanced offerings (e.g. AP, IB, Concurrent, PLTW types of courses). 

Career Pathways are in high wage and in-demand areas in St. Paul. Courses will be added and changed pending the needs of our students and community. 

Students will have the opportunity to declare a pathway to explore at the end of English 9 and plan their courses with this in mind.

Students may find out that the career pathway is not for them and switch pathways and we celebrate that discovery just as much as a student finding out they want to continue with the same pathway.

Courses, starting with 9^th grade level, will begin to have relevant career units built in that relates to the standards they are learning. This is called Career Curriculum Integration. Students will be directed back to their own Personal Learning Plans to document and research these experiences to help them better discover themselves and build their post-secondary plans. Building Career Pathways along with Personal Learning Plans and Career Curriculum Integration will allow our teachers and staff to:

• Build deeper connections with students
• Document Social and Emotional Learning
• Validate students’ experiences
• Connect concepts and standards to students’ interests
• Find relevance for students

Questions can be directed to Anna.Morawiecki@spps.org