Explore career
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an introduction to kansas career education
KANSAS CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Explore Career
and Technical
Education
Table of Contents
Kansas Career and Technical Education, or Kansas CTE,
has faithfully offered students the chance to develop as students, employees, and as people
for generations. The foundations of Kansas CTE lie in the existing programs that many people
have utilized over the years to prepare themselves for life after high school. These high school
courses, student organizations and work-based learning opportunities for students interested
in a particular career have long been used to better prepare students for the “real world”.
The choices available to students are now so
This guide will show you the
vast and the methods of learning so broad, it has
various ways in which Kansas CTE
become difficult for students to identify what they
educates, enables and empowers
want to do with their lives, much less create an
students to explore for themselves
actionable plan for achieving their career goals.
the career development opportunities
Each person thinks differently, learns differently,
available to them.
and has different interests. Kansas CTE provides
students with the means to explore their own unique abilities and interests, choose a career field
that motivates them, seek out the education, and relevant experience they need and ultimately,
find a job that is satisfying.
Students who use Kansas CTE benefit from the power of linking their academic studies to
their career interests outside of school. They benefit even more when they apply what they are
learning in real world situations. Student organizations and extended learning opportunities help
students build character by providing venues to demonstrate leadership in competitive situations.
In a marketplace that demands skills but values integrity, experiences that build character are
often the difference between an average job and a career that contributes to a rewarding life.
Explore Career Clusters
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When Does Career and Technical Education Begin?
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Strong School Counselors Lead to Student Success
7
Student Organizations
8
Extended Learning Opportunities
10
Clusters in Action: Junction City High School
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Junction City Plan of Study
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Postsecondary Education
13
Workforce Development
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Online Resources
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Kansas Student Enrollment*
Number of Students in Public High Schools..............................147,000
Number of Secondary Students Enrolled in CTE........................19,000
Number of Public Community Colleges..............................................30
Number of Students at Public Community Colleges..................84,000
Number of Postsecondary Students Enrolled in CTE..................19,000
Perkins Funds Received.............................................$12,850,000
* Approximate numbers
KANSAS CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION
KANSAS CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
Marketing, Sales, and Service
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Law, Public Safety, and Security
Correction Services
Emergency and Fire Management Services
Law Enforcement Services
Legal Services
Security and Protective Services
Government and Public
Administration
Revenue and Taxation
Foreign Service
Governance
National Security
Planning
Public Management and
Administration
Regulation
Education and Training
Administration and Administrative Support
Professional Support Services
Teaching/Training
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Teamwork Career Development
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Health Informatics
Therapeutic Services
Recently Kansas Career and Technical Education
benefited from a US Department of Education initiative
known as “Career Clusters.” This national program is
designed to align student education, skill development,
and leadership opportunities with eventual employment
opportunities. Career Clusters allow students to
explore for themselves exactly what they need from
an educational, skill, and aptitude standpoint to get
started in a career they find interesting.
As the “Career Clusters Model” on page 7 illustrates,
the ability to plan your career begins with the most
basic elements of success. Core knowledge, skills,
and intangibles such as social skills combine to form
the foundation considered vital for every student.
Once the foundation is in place, students can explore
6 basic career fields by using assessments designed
Arts, A/V Technology, and
Communications
Audio/Video Techniques
Journalism and Broadcasting
Performing Arts
Printing Techniques
Telecommunications Techniques
Visual Arts
Foundation
Knowledge and Skills
Human Services
Consumer Services
Counseling and Mental Health
Services
Early Childhood Development
and Services
Family and Community
Services
Personal Care Services
Information Support and Services
Interactive Media
Network Systems
Programming and Software Development
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Banking and Related
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Business Financial
Management
Financial and
Investment Planning
Insurance Services
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Environmental Service Systems
Food Products and Processing Systems
Natural Resources Systems
Plant Systems
Power, Structural and Technical Systems
Manufacturing
Production
Manufacturing Production Process
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Maintenance, Installation and Repai r
Quality Assurance
Logistics and Inventory Control
Health, Safety, and Environmental
Assurance
Architecture and
Construction
Construction
Design and Pre-construction
Maintenance and Operations
to provide insight into what interests and motivates
them. These assessments range from standardized
testing to aptitude surveys, and are a valuable tool
for evaluating potential careers.
Within the 6 career fields, there are 16 career
clusters. Each cluster contains a set of career
pathways. These pathways are exactly what they
sound like; pathways that link students from grade
school to over 600 specific careers. The pathways
identify each step, skill, education requirement, and
aptitude needed to be successful within any specific
career. You can learn more about career clusters at
www.careerclusters.org.
Kansas, like many other states, is embracing
the career cluster model and applying it within
schools across the state. Kansas CTE has been
Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics
Facility and Mobile Equipment Maintenance
Health, Safety and Environmental Management
Logistics Planning and Management Services
Sales and Services
Transportation Operations
Transportation/Systems Infrastructure Planning,
Management, and Regulation
Warehousing and Distribution Center Operations
Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics
Engineering and Technology
Science and Math (Investigative, Informational,
and Educational)
charged with creating the career pathways as
they relate to the curriculum and needs of Kansas
students, educators, and employers. Once the
model is fully integrated, each student will be able
to explore every opportunity and chart their own
path to a rewarding career.
“Our 16 broad career clusters will help
students enhance the link between the
knowledge they acquire in school and
the skills they need to pursue their dreams.
Without limiting students, career clusters
help them focus on an area of interest
or a possible career path.”
– Richard W. Riley, Former U.S.
Secretary of Education
When does Kansas Career and
Technical Education begin?
Advanced academic and technical education
Career-specific training
Employer-recognized certification and licensure
Apprenticeships
Cooperative education
Internships
Mentorships
Part-time work
Service learning
Matriculation from secondary to
post-secondary programs
Career student organizations
Postsecondary
Career Preparation & Applications
Lifelong Learning
Career
Successful work life
Economic viability and contribution to the life
of the community
Ongoing career evaluation and changes
facilitated by lifelong learning skills
strong school counselors
lead to student success
Career Preparation & Applications
Workbased learning
Workplace readiness classes
High school “senior experiences”
Articulation linking secondary and
post-secondary study
Mentorships
Part-time work
Service learning
4 Basic Steps of Career Development:
1. Career Awareness
2. Career Exploration
3. Career Preparation
4. Career Application
School counselors are becoming a more
important factor in their students’ academic,
extra-curricular, career, and life planning.
Counselors use ICEPs to help students better
manage how they explore their career options.
They include courses, co- and extra-curricular
activities as a well as options after high school.
Throughout the process, school counselors will
be on the front line guiding students through
all of their choices.
eventual goal of a successful adult life. As the
students advance, specializations in academic
curricula, personal assessments, and opportunities
for personal and professional growth geared toward
a specific career goal take shape.
The cluster model demonstrates the steps in
charting a career path, as well as the need to
view career development as a life-long process,
not a destination. After all, career planning is
not something that ends with a first job, even
for astronauts.
Counselors and students will focus less on simply
graduating from high school and more on learning
career decision-making skills. Although both parents
and teachers will play active roles in developing
those skills, it is the counselors that will have
the most influence. Counselors must be able to
communicate how important it is for students to be
accountable for their career and education planning.
Within this new counseling process the ICEP
(Individual Career and Education Plan) will be
the main tool for both counselors and students.
The ICEP maps out courses and extracurricular
activities that will help students learn important
skills for their chosen career. ICEPs focus less
on merely graduating from high school and more
on laying the foundations for career success.
Elementary School
Career Awareness
Introduction to career clusters and career fields
Career fairs
Career days
Classroom guest speakers
Field trips
The chart above demonstrates how and when
Career and Technical Education is integrated into
the overall education of students. Each phase of
school, from kindergarten through postsecondary,
reveals another layer of progress toward the
As Kansas implements its career cluster model,
Kansas CTE, school counselors will play a major
role. In the past, counselors primarily met with
students to make sure graduation requirements
were being fulfilled. Under Kansas CTE, counselors
will become more involved in helping students
identify career goals and mapping out a pathway
to meet those goals.
Middle School
Career Exploration
Career courses
Career research
Job shadowing
Individual Career and Education Plans (ICEPs)
...At the beginning, of course. How many
people did you know in kindergarten who said they
wanted to be an astronaut when they grew up?
Chances are a few actually became astronauts.
In adopting the career cluster model, Kansas CTE is
sending a clear message that it is never too early to
start thinking about a career. As part of the cluster
initiative, schools begin emphasizing awareness
of the various career fields in kindergarten. Because
a critical component of career selection is related
to personal assessments that begin at this age,
these early years can reveal tendencies and abilities
that may lead to a career.
Secondary
Advanced academic and technical education
Career-specific training
Employer-recognized certification
and licensure
Career program of study
Career academies
Individual Career and Education Plans (ICEPs)
revised annually
School counselors have always been a strong
resource for students. In the career cluster model
counselors will become even more important. They
will take on an even larger role in guiding students
to lifelong career success.
School counselors will become the leaders of
group efforts to prepare students for their careers
and for life after high school. Parents, guardians,
and teachers will also play larger roles in helping
students make smart and informed career and
academic decisions. School counselors will design
a guidance plan for each student that involves both
parents or guardians and teachers.
Each year a student fills out his or her ICEP
with the help of his or her counselor and parents
or guardians. Throughout the year, the student
continues to revise the ICEP with the help of
his or her counselor. ICEPs are not set in stone;
rather they change as the student develops new
career goals and interests. After all, the ICEP
is a vehicle for career discovery intended to
demonstrate that career development is a lifelong
process that must be embraced. Flexibility is a key
component in this process.
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Student Organizations
Building the Case for Relevancy in Education
Why do a third of American high school students leave school without a diploma?
What might help keep them in school, engaged, and learning?
A recent survey put these and related questions to a group that isn’t usually asked for opinions on
American education—high school dropouts. Nearly 500 former students who had attended schools in
25 locations were polled. Researchers found that although some dropouts had faced academic problems,
the overwhelming majority possessed the potential to graduate. Further, the students had strong and
thoughtful opinions on what might have kept them in school.
Among the survey’s major findings, as reported in The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives on High School Dropouts:
• 88 percent had passing grades, and 70 percent said they could have graduated if they had tried
• 81 percent said they now believe graduating from high school is important to success in life
• 81 percent called for more “real-world” learning opportunities
• 71 percent favored better communication between parents and schools, with more involvement from
parents
Source: Civic Enterprises and Peter D. Hart Research Associates, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation.
FFA
DECA: an
Association of
Marketing Students
Kansas FFA facilitates Kansas
Agriculture Education and FFA
programs that empower future
leaders, foster their passions, and develop skills
and character. Throughout the year, Kansas FFA
sponsors various career development events.
Nationally each year FFA awards more than
$2 million dollars in scholarship money to
student participants.
Kansas was a charter member of DECA in 1948.
Today the organization has grown to over 5,000
chapters across the nation. DECA works to develop
leadership and business skills in students as well
as give them an opportunity to explore career fields
within the marketing industry.
• Over 7,000 members in over 150 chapters
n website:
n website:
w ww.ksffa.org
Business
Professionals
of America
BPA is a national co-curricular career organization
offering opportunities for middle school, high
school, and postsecondary students. Through
training in leadership, academics, citizenship, and
technology skills BPA strives to prepare students
to be members of a world-class workforce.
n website:
www.bpa.org/KS.htm
www.deca.org/states/1.php3?state=Kansas
Future Business Leaders
of America
Bringing business and education
together in a positive working relationship, FBLA
provides students with the skills needed to
successfully compete in the job market, pursue
further education, or manage personal skills.
• Nearly 250,000 members nationally
n website:
www.ksfbla.org
Family, Career and
Community Leaders
of America
FCCLA is a dynamic and effective national student
organization that helps young men and women
become leaders and address important personal,
family, work, and societal issues through family
and consumer sciences education.
• Over 225,000 members in middle school,
high school and postsecondary nationwide
n website:
SkillsUSA
SkillsUSA is a partnership of
students, teachers, and industry
representatives working together to ensure America
has a skilled workforce. Activities in local chapters
revolve around preparation for competitions
in a broad range of leadership and career skills.
• More than 250,000 members (nation-wide)
n website:
Technology Student
Association
www.ksfccla.org
Health Occupation
Students of America
HOSA is dedicated to promoting
occupations in the healthcare industry.
It holds annual leadership conferences at the
national and state levels that feature competitions
in nearly 50 healthcare skills. HOSA views the
activities of high school chapters as extensions
of classroom healthcare education.
n website: www.kcterc.org/KansasHOSA/tabid/61/Default.aspx
TSA is an organization comprised
of middle school and high school students with
a passion to learn about technology. Students
in the organization not only understand the
value of learning to live in a technical world, but
treasure the challenge of thriving in this 21st century
environment. Members of the association compete
in a myriad of events ranging from public speaking
to web design. The skills obtained through TSA are
constantly utilized throughout a student’s life – they
go far beyond his or her postsecondary experience
within the organization.
n website:
w ww.skillsusaks.org
www.tsaweb.org
Career Clusters in Action:
Junction City High School
Extended Learning Takes
Education out of the Classroom
Extended learning opportunities offer students a chance to gain an understanding and appreciation of
how their academic curriculum relates to the world outside of the classroom. After-school activities and
work immersion programs bridge the gap between learning and actual career environments. They provide
students with insight into careers and motivate them to achieve higher levels of academic performance.
Studies show that students who engage in these types of experiences perform better on academic and skill
assessments. Kansas CTE understands that these experiences are invaluable to students who are in the
exploration and preparation phases of their career development. There are a number of opportunities
for students to use their academic coursework in settings outside of the classroom.
Consider these extended learning opportunities in Kansas:
Apprenticeships
For many, careers apprenticeships are the first
step toward certification in a variety of trades.
They allow workers to coordinate on-the-job training
with classroom learning to master specific skills
associated with a particular career.
Web resource: www.kansasapprenticeship.org
Job Shadowing
This option is so popular that there is a national
job-shadowing day. Groundhog Day, celebrated
each year on February 2nd, is also National Job
Shadowing Day. Students spend the day following,
watching, and partcipating in their chosen career
field as they shadow a worker in that profession.
Through this experience, they discover
real-world applications to lessons learned
in the classroom.
Web resource: www.jobshadow.org
Internships
Internships give students the
opportunity to experience what
being an employee in their
chosen career field is really like.
Internships typically involve a
relationship between a student
and a relevant business in
which he or she works part-orfull time for a time period of a few
weeks up to a year. These learning
experiences provide insight into the
workplace as well as enlighten the student
in what kinds of skills, education, or training is
necessary to succeed within their chosen career
field. Some students are so successful during
an internship that it leads to a job offer.
Mentoring
In schools, students have teachers; in the real
world, students have mentors. This long-term
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relationship with an industry professional
gives students first hand insider information
that is important to career success. Mentors
provide a perspective that can only be acquired
through experience.
Web resource: www.ksmentors.ks.gov
Service Learning
Volunteering is beneficial for students and
the community. Students can learn valuable
skills while participating in a variety of community
service projects or by working with specific
charities that serve a need within the students
chosen career field.
Web resource: www.kanserve.org
Cooperative Learning
Quality work spent in the pursuit of a
career should count toward a student’s
graduation requirements. Cooperative
learning is a broad idea that
describes how educators combine
learning outside of the classroom
with existing curriculum
requirements.
Virtual Learning
In recent years, the Internet has
been exploited by the educational
community as a means of
reaching out to students who may
not have access to the hands-on
resources they need to pursue their
academic and career interests. Web-based
virtual learning programs provide these students
with the online academic and career planning tools
they need. Use a search engine to look for online
education and career development opportunities
associated with any career.
Web resource: Virtualjobshadow.com
The Career Cluster model of CTE has been
adopted in principle by the state of Kansas,
but it is up to the individual schools to align
their curriculums and programs on a local level.
Junction City High School used the Career
Cluster model to create three Career Academies:
• Science, Engineering and Technology (SET)
• Business and Information Technology (BIT)
• Fine Arts and Human Services (FAHS)
The mission of Junction City High
School’s Business Information
Technology Academy is:
“To prepare students for productive
citizenship by developing employability
skills and building diverse relationships
in a global society.”
The Business and Information Technology Academy
at Junction City has built career pathways that
utilize existing curriculum offered at the school.
They have aligned their pathways using elective
courses in the following areas of study.
• Restaurant Management
• Retail/Wholesale Sales and Services
• Hospitality and Tourism
• Information Technology
• Business and Administration
• Finance
• Law and Public Safety
• Government and Public Administration
In addition, the BIT academy is encouraging
students to put their skills to work through
programs and activities outside of school.
These include:
n The BIT Academy and the City of Junction City
entered into a partnership agreement to open
a soda shop that is managed by the students.
n Accounting II students are busy learning the
TaxWise system that they will be using to prepare
tax returns. Last year over 183 Federal and State
returns were prepared and E-filed free of charge
by students.
n Students from the BIT Academy participated
in a competitive internship program. After being
selected, students were placed at a job in their
career field and earned credit for on-the-job
training during the school day.
n Ten BIT students participated in Job Shadowing
during the fall semester. Local businesses and
business partners included banks, hospitals, city
government, retail stores and restaurants as well
as the fire and police departments.
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KANSAS CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Postsecondary Education
Sample Plan of Study: Business Adminstration
9th Grade
10th Grade
11th Grade
12th Grade
English I (1)
English II (1)
English III (1)
English IV (1)
Geometry (1)
Algebra II (1)
Statistics (1/2)
American Government (1)
Physical World (1)
Biology (1)
American History (1)
Economics (1/2)
Life Skills (1)
World History (1)
General Chemistry (1)
Other Required Courses:
Health (1/2); Physical Dimensions (1/2); Computer Credit (1); Humanities/Fine Art Credit (1)
cluster electives (* Denotes Required Courses For Cluster)
Accounting*
Technical Writing*
Consumer Finance*
Entrepreneurship
Business Job Training I
Business Job Training II
Business Law
Accounting I
Accounting II
Accounting III
Software Applications
Spreadsheet Applications
Web Pages
Entertainment Marketing
Word Processing
Intro to Sociology
General Psychology
College Speech
Human Relations
concurrent enrollment courses
English Comp I
English Comp II
College Algebra
College Trigonometry
sample careers in this cluster
Business Manager
Accountant
Financial Analyst
Entrepreneur
Customer Service
* 24 Credits Required for Graduation
* 35 Service Learning Hours Required for Graduation
Authentic Workplace Experience Opportunities
Level I
Site Visit/Career Fair
Level II
Job Shadowing
Level III
Internship
(Pre-requisite course required)
Discover Days (9th Grade)
Interest, aptitude, achievement inventories
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PLAN (10)
PSAT(10, 11)
ACT (11, 12)
SAT (11, 12)
Work Keys
(11, 12)
A career pathway can guide a student to a twoyear college, a four-year college or university, the
military, or other forms of postsecondary education.
High school students are not the only people who
utilize postsecondary institutions to develop skills
and acquire necessary education, but they are
the beneficiaries of recent efforts to streamline
the educational process. Through Kansas
CTE, students have more opportunities to do
postsecondary work at the high school level than
ever before. There are some traditional programs
that have allowed high school students to get
college credit for work done in high school such as
Advanced Placement (AP) courses. High schools
and colleges throughout Kansas have developed
articulation agreements with one another to create
dual credit programs for the state’s students.
These agreements provide them with the
opportunity to take credits earned in high school
and apply them to their college graduation
requirements.
Kansas CTE is working to create new articulation
agreements that are both academic as well
as work-based in scope. Kansas CTE also works
with postsecondary education and employers to
define the educational components and experiences
that are most relevant to the Kansas economy.
Increasing the relevance and portability of all
of a student’s skills and activities that prepare
them for their career is an important step in
creating educational experiences that can
truly be tailored to the individual.
Tabor College
University of Kansas
University of Kansas
Medical Center
University of Kansas
School of Law
University of Missouri
-Kansas City
Washburn University
Washburn University
School of Law
Wichita State University
Students use the Plan of Study to help make decisions about courses and opportunities throughout
high school and beyond.
Many of the careers available to Kansas students
require education or participation beyond the high
school level. One important mission of Kansas
CTE is to give students the resources they need to
determine the appropriate postsecondary institution
for their career choice; another is to ensure that
students do not have to wait for graduation to begin
working toward their goals.
Currently, the transition between high school
and postsecondary education is often difficult
to navigate. As Kansas CTE continues to implement
career pathways, the difficulties that exist in
bridging the gap from high school to postsecondary
academic curricula will continue to disappear
until all academic work is fully credited, regardless
of grade level or location.
Baker College
-College of Veterinary
Tabor College
Higher
Highland
Community College
Barclay
College
Medicine
University
of Kansas
Colby Community College
Education
Cloud
College
Benedictine
College
Kansas State University
CoUCommunity
niversity
of Kansas
Northeast Kansas Technical College
North Central Kansas Technical College
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Bethany College
-Salina
Medical Center
Manhattan Area Technical College
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Bethel
College
K
ansas
Wesleyan
University ofKansas
Kansas
City Area Technical School
Northwest Kansas Technical College
HigherMackie
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AreaLaw
Technical School
Brown
University
School
Kansas City Kansas Community College
opportunities
Central
College
Manhattan Christian University
of Missouri
Salina Area Technical School
available College
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Donnelly
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-Kansas CityJohnson Co Community College
state of State
Kansas.
Emporia
McPherson College
Washburn Flint
University
Hills Technical College
Barton Co Community
College
Technical schools
University
MidAmerica Nazarene
Washburn
University
complement
the Garden City
Butler Co Community
Fort
Hays State
College
School
of LawCollege
Community College
Allen Co
Community College
Hutchinson Community College
state’s
community,
University
Oberlin College
Wichita State
University
two-year
and
Friends
University
Ottawa University Wichita Area Technical College Ft Scott Community College
four-year
colleges.
Dodge
City
Community College
Haskell Indian Nations Pittsburg
State Pratt Community College Neosho Co Community College
University
University
Labette Community College
Independence Community College
Hesston College
Rockhurst
College
Southwest Kansas
Technical School
Cowley Co Community College Coffeyville Community College
Newman University
Saint Seward
MaryCoCollege
Community College
Kansas State University Southwestern College
Kansas State University Sterling College
-College of Veterinary
Medicine
Kansas State University -Salina
Kansas Wesleyan University
Manhattan Christian College
McPherson College
MidAmerica Nazarene College
Oberlin College
Ottawa University
Pittsburg State
University
Rockhurst College
Saint Mary College
Southwestern College
Sterling College
Junction City High School uses the Career Cluster model to place every student in one of the three
Career Academies. Students use their current interests, strengths, and goals to choose one of the 16
clusters. To assist in educational planning for high school and beyond, a Plan of Study has been developed
for each of the clusters that details specific courses and programs at JCHS that support the cluster.
To access information on higher learning visit:
• www.kansasregents.org/institutions
• www.kotn.org/colleges.html
aker College
arclay College
enedictine College
ethany College
ethel College
rown Mackie College
entral College
onnelly College
poria State
niversity
rt Hays State niversity
iends University
askell Indian Nations niversity
esston College
ewman University
ansas State University
ansas State University
Junction City Plan of Study
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Kansas Career and Technical
Education Web Resources
Kansas Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Workforce
development
Kansas Colleges & Other Higher Education
www.kotn.org/colleges.html
Kansas Board of Regents
www.kansasregents.org
Kansas Career and Technical Education Resource Center
www.kcterc.org
National Career and Technical
Education Web Resources
US Department of Education
www.ed.gov
For more information on
Workforce Development:
• www.kansascommerce.com
• www.workforcecenters.com
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Not all learning takes place in the classroom nor does
it stop after high school. That’s why Kansas CTE has
partnered with the Kansas Department of Commerce and
its Workforce Development Division. Together they offer
career and job training to workers in order to fulfill specific
needs of Kansas businesses.
Kansas has 25 workforce centers located across the
state. These centers serve as a link between job-seekers,
businesses, and learning institutions to ensure that
Kansas has the skilled workers it needs. The Workforce
Development Division also collaborates with universities
and community and technical colleges to align courses
and curriculum with business needs. Collaborating to
identify needs, develop appropriate training tools and
curriculums, and place workers where they are needed
is a critical component of Kansas CTE. Information sharing
among the public and private sectors creates a knowledge
base that supports the decision making of students who
are still in the exploration phase of their career preparation.
National Institute for Work and Learning, Academy for Educational Development
www.niwl.org
Career Clusters Web Site
www.careerclusters.org
Armed Services Vocational Battery
www.todaysmilitary.com
O*NET – Occupational Information Network
online.onetcenter.org
Career One Stop
www.careeronestop.org
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Kansas CTE
120 SE 10th Avenue
Topeka, KS 66612-1182
Phone: 785.296.3048
www.ksde.org
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