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Class overview

The Career-Based Intervention (CBI) program is a Career-Technical Education Program designed to help students improve academic competence, graduate from high school, develop employability skills, implement a career plan and participate in a career pathway in preparation for post secondary education and/or careers.

The CBI program provides opportunities for student success!


7 key principles used as a guide for THE program are:

Higher Expectations

Partnering with administrators, teachers, counselors, parents and community to support a belief system that all learners will achieve academic success, establish a career pathway and become contributing members of society.

Common Curriculum

Engaging learners in the common curriculum of the school that provides opportunities for graduation and links with school district and state curriculum and performance expectations.

Authentic Learning

Providing appropriate and effective instruction by meeting student needs through active learner engagement and relating subject matter to life and work.

Supportive Structures

Achieving optimum conditions for learning through a student-teacher ratio that promotes effective interaction and instruction, physical location to develop psychological and social identity and instructional resources and technology to meet individual learner needs.

Sense of Belonging

Providing activities and a classroom/community environment that lead to increased positive social interaction, citizenship practices and leadership development.

Continuous Improvement

Monitoring and improving classroom achievement by using student assessment and program data in relation to the district’s continuous improvement plan.

Student Identification

In partnership with administrators, counselors, teachers and parents, selecting students who have barriers to career and academic success.


6 pillars of our program:


Integrity - A person with integrity demonstrates sound moral and ethical principles and does the right thing, no matter who's watching. Integrity is the foundation on which coworkers build relationships and trust, and it is one of the fundamental values that employers seek in the employees that they hire. Right is right and will always be right.

      • To have integrity means that a person is self-aware, accountable, responsible, and truthful and that their actions are internally consistent.


Accountability - Accountability is all about setting and holding people to a common expectation by clearly defining the mission, values, and goals. ... Fostering this culture of accountability helps yield a high-performing organization.


Effort - Minimal effort will lead to minimal results. Through the effort, we can get the real value of our work. Effort is something one can personally judge and giving energy all the time does not mean it will result in the desired outcomes. Effort is whatever an individual put into a task to complete and succeed to achieve the goal.

      • Employee Effort is an earnest, diligent and strenuous working attempt: a workplace episode when some results are achieved by an employee through exertion or hard work. ... When a person applies poor efforts to complete a job, he or she may reach just mediocre results, even though his or her perfect knowledge and skills.


Attitude - Attitude is a mindset or a tendency to respond positively or negatively towards a certain idea, object, person or situation. Attitude influences an individual’s choice of action and responses to challenges, incentives and rewards (together called stimuli).

      • Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response and our response determines how we will be perceived (our attitude) in the workplace.


Organization - Genuine organization is taking control of disorder, getting a grip on the chaos and the mess and doing something about it. Arranging disorder into something coherent and logical is what it means to organize. Whether this means sitting down to schedule out your busy life or employing a method to tidy up your space into defined sections, organization is an admirable skill that you want to strive towards having.


Leadership - A leader is somebody who people follow. A leader has authority. For people to accept a leader, his or her leadership must therefore be legitimate. Because people follow a leader, the leader can make people do things. A leader can therefore make people work together towards a common goal.

      • Five Qualities of Effective Leaders

  • They are self-aware and prioritize personal development. …

  • They focus on developing others. ...

  • They encourage strategic thinking, innovation, and action. ...

  • They are ethical and civic-minded. ...

  • They practice effective cross-cultural communication.