Must read career and workforce education column by Bishop

I wanted to share an excellent column by Gloria Bishop the Director for Withlacoochee Technical College, ‘Preparing today for tomorrow’s workforce’ that was published Sunday, September 8, 2019 in the Citrus Chronicle.

Bishop wrote in her column that while Citrus 2020 Vision Check did not address career and technical education the Citrus 2030 Vision Check will. She shares, “The mere emergence of the topic as part of Citrus 2030 Vision Check is indicative of how things have changed in regard to options available to students (the theme Destiny by Choice being apropos, there being more choice in post-secondary education now).

Bishop a former middle school principal talks about the role of career education in our schools, she says, “Middle school should be more exploratory for students to learn about career options. High school should then take a more applied approach to exploration. The next step becomes the high schools working closely with post-secondary educators for seamless transition”. We are seeing this in Citrus County Schools where we have 140 separate CTE courses, covering approx. 75 industry certifications, that connect to 28 different Program of Study Pathways are available to our high school students.

Bishop believes we have great opportunities in career and workforce and that we can accomplish so much by, “expanding partnerships between business and education”.

I encourage you all to read the entire column at https://www.chronicleonline.com/opinion/columnists/preparing-today-for-tomorrow-s-workforce/article_4afe76d0-d0ea-11e9-b691-2bc58e45a19f.html.

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