Career Connected Learning (New: Career Life Plan Workshop Series)

Career Education Framework

Career Education Framework – Cadre d’éducation à la carrière (2022) The Francophone and Anglophone sectors, along with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), came together to develop a career education framework for Early Childhood to Grade 12. This framework complements and supports the existing career education strategy – Career Connected Learning K-12 – including the new Hopeful Transitions model and planning tool. The framework builds on relevant historical approaches in the province and across Canada while drawing on international evidence and practice.

Career Connected Professional Learning

Take this one-hour module focused on career education to support teachers in implementing quality CCL.

 

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Career Life Plan Graduation Requirement

• Career Life Plan – Hopeful Transitions

Career Life Plan Workshop Series

To support schools and educators with the implementation of the new graduation requirement—the Career Life Plan—Career Transition Coaches will be offering a monthly workshop series focusing on one specific requirement of the Career Life Plan. During each session, we will share resources, provide practical implementation options, and answer questions.

Course Selection on myBlueprint

What is the High School Plan feature in myBlueprint?

The High School Planner is a core feature in myBlueprint that helps students map out their courses from Grade 9 to 12 and track progress toward graduation. It provides:

• Visual Planning: Students can build and adjust multiple course plans and instantly see how choices impact graduation requirements.
• Graduation Indicator: A real-time tool that shows whether students are on track to meet all requirements.
• Pathway Eligibility: Automatically calculates post-secondary opportunities across Canada based on the student’s course plan.
• Integrated Guidance: Links course selections to career interests and post-secondary programs, helping students make informed decisions.
• Interactive & Accessible: Students can plan anytime, explore options, and share plans with families and educators for review.

What is Course Selection on myBlueprint and why would I want to learn more?

Course Selection in myBlueprint is when students use their High School Plan feature to choose and submit courses electronically while planning their academic pathway. It offers numerous benefits:

For Students:

• Plan courses anytime, starting as early as Grade 6.
• Visualize progress toward graduation with the Graduation Indicator.
• Create multiple high school plans and see real-time impacts.
• Connect interests (Who Am I? surveys) to course offerings and post-secondary pathways.
• Engage families in IPP reviews and encourage student agency.

For Schools:

• Increase teacher comfort and usage of myBlueprint.
• Easily approve requests and identify issues.
• Pull reports like Course Forecasting and On Track to Graduate.
• Seamlessly transfer course requests to the SIS for timetabling.

Overall Benefit:

Integrating course selection with myBlueprint maximizes the value of the platform, supports informed decision-making, and streamlines planning for students, families, and schools.

Schools can reach out to their District Career Connected Learning Coordinator to begin the process for Course Selection on myBlueprint. The following are recordings of the training sessions and supports.

• Training Session Recording #1
• Training Session Recording #2
• Course selection video tutorials on myBlueprint
• Resources for completing Course Selection on myBlueprint

Career Connected Learning Modules

These professional learning modules are designed to support educators in preparing learners for the future and to help to level the playing field for marginalized groups of learners such as indigenous, newcomers, LGBTQI2S+, low-socioeconomic, and students with disabilities.

Note: Only New Brunswick educators will be able to receive the certificates and/or digital badges for completion of modules.

• Module 1: Series Introduction and myBlueprint
  This module is the starting point for this series. In this module, you will learn why Career Connected Learning is important for all K-12 educators. You will be given an overview of the career connected Learning professional learning series and the tools to document your learning in the digital portfolio, myBlueprint. This module should take approximately 1 hour to complete.
• Module 2: Labour Market information
  In this module, you will learn how to integrate LMI information into career connected classroom practice. This includes what LMI is, why is it useful for all K-12 teachers, and why it is important to understand the current NB labour market information. Further, you will learn the connection between LMI and mental wellness. The module contains links to useful LMI resources for educators and examples of how it could be incorporated in all K-12 classes.  This module should take approximately 1 hour to complete.
• Module 3: Experiential Learning
  In this module, you will learn how to integrate experiential learning into your career connected classroom practice and the importance of experiential learning for learner engagement and mental wellness. You will explore the components of experiential learning and how they may be documented and assessed. Practical examples of different types of experiential learning for K-12 students are provided. This module should take approximately 2 hours to complete.
• Module 4: Financial Wellness
  In this module, you will learn how to integrate financial wellness into career connected classroom practice. An explanation of how financial literacy is significant for young people and their mental wellness is provided, along with resources and examples of what this best practice can look like in K-12 classrooms. This module should take approximately 1 hour to complete.
• Module 5: Social and Emotional Learning and Global Competencies
  In this module, you will learn how to integrate global competencies and SEL into career connected classroom practice. You will examine the New Brunswick Portrait of a Learner and see how the development of global competencies and SEL support its goals. Practical examples of how to intentionally incorporate these strategies in your K-12 classroom are provided. Further, you will learn about how to document and assess this type of learning.  This module should take approximately 2 hours to complete.

Resources and Supports:

 Here you will find resources to support your work in incorporating Career education into your practice:

• Free Book Download – Exploring Possibilities! Journeying Through Career-Related Learning in Grades 4–6: A Teaching Toolkit – CERIC

• Hopeful Transitions – Reimagining transition planning where each learner from grades 6 to 12 participates, and is actively engaged in their career pathway and transition planning.

• EECD Resource Bundles – Tagged as Career Connected Learning (NBED Login required)

Latest Video Sessions:

• Career Pathway Mentorship 120 EECD PL Day 2024 [NBED login]
• GAP Year Presentation with Michelle Dittmer – Join the Centers of Excellence for Health, Tricia Berry and Michelle Dittmer, Canada’s leading gap year expert to learn more about taking a Gap Year, who can take a Gap year, what to do during a Gap year and explore how a Gap year can impact post- secondary pathways.
• Meet Ray Hubble, Dean of Health and Wellness at NBCC – Are you a guidance counselor, Health Care 110, PDCP teacher or an educator that explores Health & Wellness Career Pathways? Do you want to meet Ray Hubble from NBCC and learn more about the programs offered at NBCC? Please join Ray and COE Health as we explore the different health and wellness programs offered at NBCC.

Events

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For more information

• Please visit the Career Connected Learning website.