Consider Your Context

In your school community, consider collaboration, communication, and work ethic. Before you can plan to measure these skills, you need a common understanding of what they are. Create a moment for your community - students, teachers, families, and business - to come together and make shared meaning of the Employability Skills. How are they relevant in your local context?

Tools to get started

Co-construct your understanding of the Indiana Employability Skills with your community by using this this tool.

Examples

Milan, IN

The team at Milan High School used input from the local community to create a K-12 map of competencies aligned to the Indiana Employability Skills to provide vertical alignment throughout the system. 

C4, IN

Students and educators made connections between Employability Skills, the Governor's Work Ethic Certificate, and the SWLOs. These were turned into classroom posters to socialize the skills and teachers were encouraged to use this language with students.

Ephrata Area, PA

Ephrata Area School District in Pennsylvania worked with their community to co-construct definitions for their Life Ready Graduate Profile (similar to Employability Skills). They created a one-pager to clarify what the skills look like in action and socialized it in a letter to families.

Resources