Career Pathways
Career clusters link what students learn in school with the skills they need for success in college and throughout their careers. Career clusters identify pathways from secondary school to two- and four-year colleges, graduate school, and the workplace, so students can learn in school about what they can do in the future. This connection to future goals motivates students to work harder and enroll in more rigorous courses.
The Career Pathways program provides middle- and high-school students a chance to get a head start on career plans. Career Pathways is funded through the MATC Tech Prep program, which is a federally funded initiative that builds connections between high schools and colleges and includes:
- Articulation agreements
- Coherent sequence of courses
- Joint secondary/post-secondary programming
- Joing in-service training for teachers and counselors
- Equal access for special populations, racial and ethnic minorities and nontraditional traning and employment.
At MATC, we have developed a PK-16 Partnership Council, which includes 40 K-12 school districts, CESA 2 and CESA 5, the Dane County School and Jefferson County School-to-Work Consortia, the University of Wisconsin, and business and industry partners. This mission is to build linkages between our partners and includes:
- Assisting school districts in building their comprehensive K-12 career development programs through training and technical assistance to districts, and
- Building connections between secondary and post-secondary curricula in order to help students transition to MATC.
Summary of 2007-08 Tech Prep Project Grant (PDF, 23KB)
Full 2007-2008 Tech Prep Grant documentation (PDF, 358KB)
Tech Prep Work Team Meeting Minutes for March 12, 2008 (PDF, 24KB)
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