Workshops
Our workshops are designed for high school and community college educators as well as workforce personnel and are tailored to fit local needs. NCPN can deliver workshops at your location.
Below is a sampling of our most-requested workshops and courses. All can be customized for your state or local needs. If you don’t see exactly what you’re looking for, just ask. We can combine topics or create a new workshop or course that will meet your professional development goals. (Download a PDF flyer of this page.)
Learn more about NCPN’s Career Pathways Leadership (CPL) Certification workshops.
Introduction to Career Pathways
This introductory workshop is designed to be the catalyst for the development and implementation of a Career Pathways system. Based on the US Department of Education Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education’s Programs of Study (POS) Design Framework.
Introduction to Contextual Teaching and Learning
Contextual teaching presents academic concepts in the context of careers and real-world experiences. This workshop explores contextual learning, learning styles, multiple intelligences, the five essential forms of learning, and steps for implementing contextual teaching strategies.
Designing Programs of Study
This workshop covers the nuts and bolts of Career Pathways delivery systems (dual enrollment, early college, apprenticeships), implementation, communication, technical skill attainment/evaluation, and capacity analysis.
Building Partnerships
This workshop provides tools for creating the strong community partnerships that Career Pathways systems require. Topics: Partner identification, goal setting, model structures, partner roles, and action plan development.
The Counselor’s Role in a Career Pathways System
This workshop is designed to help counselors take a fresh look at their roles in economic and workforce development. Topics: Global labor market supply and demand; education in economic development; career awareness (K–5), exploration (6–8), and preparation (9–14); and adult learners.
Career Pathways Leadership (CPL) Certification
Career Pathways Leadership Certification – Level 1
This interactive workshop immerses you in best practices and insightful discussions based on the Advancing Credentials through Career Pathways Framework. Workshop segments include:
- Overview of Career Pathways and the Framework
- Understanding and leveraging the Career Pathways ecosystem
- Designing industry-responsive career pathways embedded with stackable credentials
- Championing credit for prior learning and non-credit to credit alignment
- Using pathways maps to align programs and communicate to stakeholders
- Identifying holistic student support for credential completion
Participants will develop an action plan focused on strategic pathway implementation and receive a toolbox of resources to engage with P-20, adult education, community, and employer partners.
Career Pathways Leadership Certification – Level 2
This interactive workshop challenges you to take your pathways development to the next level, based on the Advancing Credentials through Career Pathways Framework. Workshop segments include:
- Deploying the Framework for Career Pathways Alignment
- Assessing achievements and lessons learned in pathway design
- Enhancing employer engagement to support innovation
- Embedding connected work-based learning experiences across the pathway
- Coordinating holistic learner supports to support transition along the pathway
- Applying marketing and sustainability strategies
Participants will develop an action plan focused on strategic pathway implementation and receive a toolbox of resources to engage with P-20, adult education, community, and employer partners.
Employer Engagement
For community college faculty and staff. The need for strategic employer engagement with colleges has become more important than ever. This workshop provides tools to be used at colleges and with employers, leading to increased enrollment, better-prepared graduates, higher job placement rates, increased opportunities for continuing education of incumbent workers, and more!
ADULT CAREER PATHWAYS
Introduction to Career Pathways for Adult Educators
This workshop is designed to help participants find solutions to problems that prevent adults from obtaining the education that today’s workplace demands. Practical strategies and examples are shared. Participants begin to develop their own Career Pathways plans.
Using Career Pathways to Contextualize Instruction for Adult Learners
Are your adult learners having trouble retaining and applying what they learn? This workshop shows how to give academic concepts real-world relevance by teaching them in the contexts in which they are used in the workplace.
Leading Career Pathways: A Certification for Practitioners of Adult Education
1.5 days. This workshop covers the same general topics as our regular CPL workshop but focuses specifically on the roles of adult education practitioners, administrators, CTE directors, workforce and economic development personnel, and others who work with adult learners.
To learn more about NCPN’s professional development workshops contact workshops@cord.org.
