Association for Career and Technical Education: The website features several publication on emerging careers and employment trends, promising practices, state CTE profiles, and more.
ASVAB Career Exploration Program Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, the ASVAB is a nationally-normed, multi-aptitude test battery that has been provided to high schools and post-secondary schools since 1968. The site also features information on career clusters and newsletters for parents, students and counselors.
Breaking Through: Helping Low Skilled Adults Enter and Succeed in College and Careers
California Apprenticeship programs
California's Green Economy: Innovating the Green Economy. January 2010. Bonnie Graybill, Deputy Division Chief, California Labor Market Information Division. This document includes business survey results for employees in green jobs, green employment by category, top occupations, and wage information.
California's Joint Special Populations Advisory Committee (JSPAC) is an appointed group of secondary, adult and postsecondary educators as well as business representatives that advises the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges and the California Department of Education on special population students.
Computer Learning Pods This learner centered example has students participate in an interactive and hands on approach.
Destination Success Curriculum and Resources An instructional resource company, MAVCC has developed contents tied to measurable and observable learning outcomes that align to nationally recognized skills standards. The company offers pre fabricated curricula for use in a bias free, relevant and inclusive classroom and instructional experience. Modules include: Basic Wiring Fundamentals of Welding Fundamentals of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Orientation to Graphic Communications Diesel Technology: Drive Trains
Divided We Fail: Improving Completion and Closing Racial Gaps in California's Community Colleges. October 2010. Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy.
Girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Recommendations to the Administrations "Educate to Innovate Campaign." National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education (NCWGE). July 2010.
Gender Equity Item Bank Gender Equity Item Bank, available from the Midwest Equity Assistance Center, has developed a manual to identify a variety of equity related assessment statements. Schools can use the assessments to develop questionnaires for teachers, parents, students, and/or support staff.
Instructional Resource to Insure Bias Free Classroom School and Classroom climate is an element that is an effective assistance in recruitment and retention in nontraditional occupational training programs. Destination Success provides the Checking Your School for Sexism checklist, among others, for a self-study method of evaluating school climate
National Resource, Civil Rights Self-Assessment Tool (All SPS)
This tool, developed in Illinois, is designed to assist your community college in better understanding the requirements of the legislation to provide an equitable learning environment,
and/or in preparing for an on-site review.
This self-assessment tool guides your community college through a review of the five major civil rights laws:
Project H Design Project H uses the power of the design process to catalyze communities and public education from within. The focus is on re-thinking environments, products, experiences, and curricula for K-12 education institutions in the US.
The National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) is a consortium of state and local agencies, corporations, and national organizations that collaborate to create equitable and diverse classrooms and workplaces where there are no barriers to opportunities.
Veteran Success JAM: Ensuring Success For Returning Veterans March 2010.