Joseph asks how DOE will build on career-connected learning investments

Thank you.

And as New York City implement the portrait of a graduate, how can the city build on sustained investments in existing models like Future Ready, Career Readiness, Modern Youth Apprentice, and what students that give students opportunities to develop, demonstrate these

through career connected learning, paid experience and apprenticeship?

I mean, I'm going to turn that over to Jane.

This is her topic and passion.

Yes.

Thank you.

Higher Education Chair Joseph.

Thank you.

You have to do the flip back and forth.

Happens all the time.

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So as you know, we've already built a lot of the infrastructure needed to scale our work through a work-based learning through Future Ready, CTE, Learning to Work, which is helpful to the population that you were speaking to,

our industry commissions, intermediary partners, and as you all know, we have a really strong collaboration with DYCD, DCAS, and then the Office of Talent and Workforce Development.

If work-based learning becomes a primary demonstration of proficiency, there are going to be three things that are critical.

One is that we have clear standards and assessment rubrics, so schools, employers, and students have a shared definition of what proficiency looks like and how it's going to be measured.

Second is that we have to build capacity for schools through training, tools, and implementation support to ensure consistent high-quality assessment of student learning.

And really important to that, schools also have to have employer support.

Teachers, workplace learning coordinators, and workplace supervisors need clear tools, examples, training.

And proof points, right, to make sure that students are receiving a strong experience.

and are evaluated fairly.

And then the third thing, again, which you spoke to, is just making sure that there's equity, innovation, and sustained investment to ensure that all the students have access to high-quality work-based learning opportunities,

including students in every borough, students with learning differences, multilingual learners,

and immigrant students.

This includes funding for paid work-based learning experiences because we really believe that our students really deserve to be paid for the time that they're investing and for innovative models to help schools and employers expand

access while maintaining quality at scale.

We do have a really strong foundation to build from with Career Ready, SYEP, Work and Learn and Grow, Future Ready NYC, and CTE, which already connect thousands of students to career-connected experience.

We have about 90,000 students who are already receiving work-based learning experiences to provide a platform for future scale.