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Ed Morrison · A visual language of skills and careers
January 23rd, 2010
One of the major challenges we face in strengthening a region’s competitive performance comes in defining new career pathways. Competitive regions in the future will have tighter connections between what education systems produce and what employers need.
Tightening these connection is a complex challenge.
It requires developing the new language of skills and career pathways. The language will be more precise and measurable. In addition, the new language will be much more visual. Because of the complexity, we will turn to visual representations to define these pathways.
Last week, we launched a new initiative in Will County, IL to build these pathways. Here’s an example of the types of ideas we are working to develop. We see multiple applications in assessing career options for dislocated workers, charting career options for high school students, evaluating composite curricula for clusters, and strengthening communication links between business managers and educators.
Last 5 posts by Ed Morrison
- Signing off - February 3rd, 2012
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