Professional Learning

Customized Options

Customized Learning Experience

NCPN partners with education, workforce, and community organizations to deliver customized professional learning experiences that address state, regional, and local priorities. Grounded in CORD’s Framework for Career Pathways Alignment, we simplify complex workforce challenges into clear, actionable strategies that strengthen career pathways, build sustainable partnerships, and prepare a future-ready workforce.

Challenges We Help You Tackle

We work with communities to break down workforce and education challenges by aligning people, pathways, and partners. Our support helps build strong ecosystems that promote lifelong learning, smooth learner transitions, and sustainable cross-sector collaboration.

Services Tailored to Your Needs

Needs assessments, environmental scans, and asset mapping
Employer engagement and work-based learning design
Industry-informed pathway and credential design
Support for learner progression and success across pathways
Support for STEM and emerging technologies curriculum development
Facilitation and network building

How We Work with You

Align professional learning with your goals, needs, and community context
Collaborate with partners across K–12, postsecondary, workforce, and industry
Build capacity through coaching, applied learning, and actionable tools

Explore Our Professional Learning Topics

The flyer below highlights a range of professional learning experiences that address key components of high-quality career pathways—from career development and learner navigation to employer engagement, work-based learning, and pathway design.

These offerings are starting points. Topics can be combined, adapted, or expanded to support comprehensive professional learning strategies.

Download or view the Professional Learning Opportunities flyer to explore topics and descriptions.

To learn more about NCPN’s professional development workshops contact workshops@cord.org.