Eastern CTE Pathways

Career Pathways are systemic frameworks for transforming our educational institutions by proactively addressing the needs of students and employers across the learning continuum. Career Pathways are developed, implemented and maintained in partnership among secondary and postsecondary institutions, business and employers. Transitions from secondary to post-secondary studies have received much attention in the past few years.  In Kentucky, we are working hard to create more seamless paths for students to facilitate their achievement of a post-secondary credential. 

High School of BusinessTM brings college-inspired business administration courses to high schools across the U.S. An accelerated series of six courses challenges students with hands-on marketing, management, finance, and economics courses. Each course is built around industry validated curriculum standards. The courses are positioned for local and national college credit opportunities as well as weighted scoring. Teachers receive high-quality professional development and ongoing support. At each participating school, a cross-functional steering team of local business leaders, college faculty, and school personnel manage the program. 

This pathway prepares individuals to manage and coordinate all supply chains in an enterprise, ranging from acquisitions to receiving and handling, through internal allocation of resources to operations units to the handling and delivery of output. Includes instruction in acquisitions and purchasing, inventory control, storage and handling, just-in-time manufacturing, logistics planning, shipping and delivery management, transportation, quality control, resource estimation and allocation, and budgeting.

The Interactive Media pathway prepares students to use computer applications and related visual and sound imaging techniques to manipulate images and information originating as video, still photographs, digital copy, soundtracks, and physical objects in order to communicate messages simulating real-world content. 

The pathway includes instruction in specialized camera work and equipment operation and maintenance, image capture, computer applications, dubbing, and applications to specific commercial, industrial, and entertainment needs. Topics of study in this pathway include aesthetic meaning, appreciation and analysis; construction, development, processing, modeling, simulation, and programming of interactive experiences; transmission, distribution and marketing; contextual, cultural and historical aspects and considerations. 

The Network Security pathway will help students be able to properly design and install and wired LAN, including all network devices, physically connect servers and desktop computers, properly design and install a wireless LAN including all network devices, and make physical LAN connections for servers and desktop computers, integrate the Wireless LAN with wired LAN and work within the ethical and professional parameters in the Computer Networking profession. Students will be a team member, learn new network administration support skills and upgrade existing computer information system skills. 

Army JROTC is a four-year sequence of courses in the Army Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) high school program. This pathway’s design focuses on the development of better citizens by building skills in leadership, personal growth and behaviors, citizenship, decision making, health and fitness, first aid, team building, service learning, and geography; all within a student-centered learning environment. It prepares high school students for responsible leadership roles while making them aware of their rights, responsibilities, and privileges as American citizens. The program is a stimulus for promoting college and career readiness and it provides instruction and rewarding opportunities that will benefit the student, community, and nation. 

The Early Childhood Education pathway will address a skill set necessary for success in early childhood education so that individuals can teach students from infancy through eight years (grade three), depending on the school system or state regulations. This pathway is targeted at individuals preparing for careers related to early  childhood education, such as those associated with childcare, teaching, community-based children’s programs, social services or counseling for children, and after-school programs.