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Understanding and utilizing Labor Market Information is key to ensuring that CTE pathways will lead to high-demand jobs that are over the living wage.
Understanding and utilizing Labor Market Information is key to ensuring that CTE pathways will lead to high-demand jobs that are over the living wage.
Essential Element of High-Quality CTE:
Essential Element of High-Quality CTE:
Strong Partnerships with Industry and appropriate employers must be developed to inform and improve CTE program design, instruction and work-based learning activities; as well as, ensure that career pathway programs in all grade levels, organizations and apprenticeship programs continue to meet the workforce demands.
Essential Elements: CDE Guiding Policy Principles to Support Student-Centered K-14+ Pathways
To ensure that this element is being met, rubrics and self assessments have been created for the Perkins (pg. 5, 7) and CTEIG (pg. 20-21) grants with the following basic criteria:
Labor market demand has been utilized in the creation the program and documented.
Mechanisms are in place that systematically track labor market demands, maintain the currency of occupational classifications, and ensure that teachers and counselors are informed of new developments in their fields
There is a partnership among local businesses and local workforce development and educational organization to provide consistent and reliable data about the regional economic and labor markets for planning programs.
Labor Market Information Resources/Links
Labor Market Information Resources/Links
Data Resources
Data Resources
Bay Region
Bay Region
Bay Area Center for Excellence provides:
Data on Occupational Demand, Supply of Graduates or occupational wages and demand according to Perkins criteria.
Alignment between K-12 and community college programs or TOP and SOC codes. Of special interest:
Crosswalk of K-12 Pathways to CC Programs: Use this crosswalk to view how K-12 CTE pathways align with Community College CTE programs in the Bay Region.
Data on student outcomes for California community colleges and programs.
California
California
Centers of Excellence for Labor Market Research
Sign up for the Centers of Excellence Labor Market Newsletter to get information about regional labor market trends and reports about the top skills and competencies that industries are seeking.
Self-Sufficiency Standard (University of Washington, Center for Women's Welfare)
Examining the Living Wage: Two presentations on living wage. Also check out the Living Wage Calculator.
California Competes Dashboard: The California Postsecondary to Prosperity Dashboard braids together multiple data sources to provide a single portal with high-quality information on the state of opportunity in higher education, employment, and quality of life across California’s diverse regions.
California Career Zone Industry Sector Information about annual wages, numbers of graduates and numbers of jobs, level of preparation required. Great resource for students and for high schools developing CTE pathways.
CTE Employment Outcomes Survey (CTEOS) A statewide study to assess employment outcomes of students who have participated in career technical education (CTE) coursework at California Community Colleges.
National
National
O*Net Online Detailed descriptions of the world of work. It is a database of hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors on almost 1,000 occupations covering the entire U.S. economy. Offers a crosswalk with other data sets.
WestEd As a national leader in research, development, and service, WestEd is reimagining solutions to a more equitable society by taking on the most demanding and enduring challenges in education and human development.
Population and Demographics
Population and Demographics
2020 Census Dashboard Census data
KidsData Data by demographics and region on topics related to children and youth.
Training Materials
Training Materials
Chancellor's Office
Chancellor's Office
Understanding Labor Market Information Resources: Descriptions, Benefits, and Limitations (WestEd): Provides detailed information on two dozen LMI sources, including strengths, limitations, screenshots, and web links.
K12 SWP Grant Writing Support
K12 SWP Grant Writing Support
Grant Writing Workshop Materials: Recordings of 2024 Grant Writing Support training sessions provided by Linda Wells, Ed.D., who brings over 30 years of educational experience in Career Technical Education, Special Education, course development, and the arts to these informative presentations.
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