Career and Technical Education (CTE)

Promoting Career Connected Learning

VISION STATEMENT:

EQUITY – OPPORTUNITY – FLEXIBILITY

MISSION STATEMENT:

Connecting learners with careers, while promoting equity, opportunities, and flexibility for students and schools.

The Northeast Service Cooperative is committed to ensuring all students in our 32 District, 8-county region have equitable access to programs connecting learners to career experiences and opportunities with area businesses, industries, labor unions, and post-secondary education.

We are excited to launch new programs which integrate career exploration, allowing students hands-on, career-connected learning. In addition, we are committed to providing support for our Career & Technical Education (CTE) educators through training, professional development, and teacher externships.

We seek to provide coordination and support for schools to implement career pathways and coordination for professional educators to serve as career navigators and work-based learning coordinators for our students.

We are proud to share the recently produced digital video clips promoting our Career & Technical Education (CTE) programs, pathways and academies at our member school districts.

What is CTE?

Future Forward

CTE is partnering with FutureForward, where education meets opportunity. FutureForward facilitates connections, promotes industry-specific events, empowers users to enhance their career-connected learning experiences, and hosts a jobs board with opportunities for job shadowing, internships, and mentorships for high school students.

NESC is excited to partner with Southeast Service Cooperative, South Central Service Cooperative, and Resource Training & Solutions to broaden access to FutureForward for our regional students, educators, parents, and employers.

NESC looks forward to engaging with all of our regional schools and employers for their participation in FutureForward. Visit the FutureForward website or this flyer for more information.

Impact Grants

We are excited to announce two new rounds of Impact and Innovation Grants to support advancing career-connected exploration and learning to students.

Timeline for Grants for the 2024-2025 Academic Year and Suggested Awards:

Round One Award Grants September 30, 2024 – $125,000 to $150,000
Release Grant Opportunities – June 3, 2024
Deadline for Grants – September 16, 2024

Round Two Award Grants December 20, 2024 – $125,000 to $150,000
Release Grant Opportunities – November 4, 2024
Deadline for Round Two Grants – December 20, 2024

Guidelines for 2024-2025 Impact Grants

Agreement for Impact Grants

CTE Impact Grant Application Form

Lyft Pathways

Launch Your Future Today (LYFT) is a rural career and technical education (CTE) pathway initiative that aims to rebuild CTE in southwest and west central Minnesota. The goal of LYFT Pathways is for every secondary student in the region to gain marketable skills through meaningful CTE courses and opportunities which will lead to further education and careers that match our region’s labor market needs.

Launch Your Future Today (LYFT) Pathways funding is available to high schools (and their partners) to develop shared career and technical education (CTE) courses and programs.

We encourage you to utilize the 3Es Roadmap so students can investigate Exploration, Exposure, and Experience to track your interest and potential journey to careers and success after high school.

Empow(HER) Camps

This summer, NESC partnered with Minnesota North Colleges, JET Northeast MN, True North Stars Perkins, and the Forge in Grand Rapids to promote their amazing Empow(HER) Girls in the Trade Summer Camps. To promote Empow(HER), NESC partnered with Captivate Media to create and produce a video that captures the inspired experience of students and instructors during the summer Empow(HER) camps. Here’s a link to the YouTube 2024 Summer Empow(HER) experience.