This is the third update from one of the RELs in as many days.  Once again with no specific K-12 distance, online, and/or blended learning items included.

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REL Southeast Director’s Email

July 2022 Greetings from the REL Southeast, A critical key to success in the workplace is ensuring students are broadly prepared to move from school to their career. Career readiness is the foundational framework on which this successful transition is made. This month we would like to offer several resources curated by Dr. Kevin Smith, Training, Coaching, and Technical Support Lead and the Florida College and Career Readiness Partnership Lead for the REL Southeast. These resources were designed to help educators understand career readiness and how educators can best prepare students to enter the workforce. Workforce development continues as students move into careers. Therefore, the team at REL Southeast is also working to help leaders develop our teaching workforce.  For example, we invite you to read our recent blog post regarding the implementation of the Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy in South Carolina, a project designed to support the upskilling of early childhood educators in our region. We also invite you to explore Integrated Reading Foundations: A Tool for College Instructors of Pre-Service Teachers, a tool designed to build pre-service teachers’ knowledge of evidence-based strategies for early reading instruction. We hope you find these products informative and insightful. As always, thank you for helping to improve educational outcomes for every student in our region. With gratitude, Dr. Nicole Patton Terry Director, REL Southeast Infographics on Career Readiness The following infographics, created by the REL Southeast Florida Career Readiness Research Alliance, present several effective, evidence-based practices for career counseling that focus on how educators can help with teaching for career readiness and implementation of career-focused programs. Preparing a Career-Ready Student Career Readiness: How Do We Counsel? Career Readiness: Building School/Career Networks Career Readiness: Preparing the Student Supporting and Measuring Career Readiness—Hot Topics, Common Challenges, and Practical Resources This document shares takeaways from a convening of experts on supporting and measuring career readiness. At the convening, researchers identified four hot topics in career readiness that educators and researchers are exploring across the nation. The document provides an overview of each hot topic, a summary of common challenges, and a list of practical resources that may be useful to educators and researchers grappling with the issue in their own work. Click here to explore the resource. Self-study Guide for Career Readiness in Secondary Schools This self-study guide provides state and local education agencies and schools with a tool to assess implementation of career readiness practices across a district or secondary school and to plan improvements. It is arranged by implementation areas that have been found to be important to career readiness efforts based on a review of the literature and discussions with stakeholders. Each area includes guiding questions for discussion, potential sources of evidence, and a rating scale for self-assessment of implementation. This process of ongoing discussion, evidence use, and self-assessment can help states, districts, and secondary schools improve the effectiveness of career readiness practices. Click here to explore the guide. The South Carolina Partnership to Implement Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy (PLC-EL) The REL Southeast is partnering with the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) to investigate the implementation of the Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy and discover its impact on teacher practice and child outcomes. Discover the projects origins in our latest blog post, part of a new series that explores our research-to-practice partnerships. Click here to read the blog post.

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