1. Career Programs: It’s a New Day! Marcie McFalls Career Counselor February 28, 2015

2. Career Readiness Dual Enrollment Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit is a program which allows eligible high school students to enroll in college classes concurrently with high school classes, either at the college campus or at the high school, and to receive both high school and college credit.

3. Career Readiness Student Certification Trends HCS grew from 24 certificates to 374. *Credentials Issued: NCCER, ServSafe, NIMS, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Specialist,.

4. Career Program Student Certification Trends

5. What is WorkKeys? ACT WorkKeys is a job skills assessment system that helps employers select, hire, train, develop, and retain a high-performance workforce. This series of tests measures foundational skills and offers specialized assessments to target institutional needs. As part of ACT's Work Readiness System, ACT WorkKeys has helped millions of people in high schools, colleges, professional associations, businesses, and government agencies build their skills to increase global competitiveness and develop successful career pathways. Successful completion of ACT WorkKeys assessments in Applied Mathematics, Locating Information, and Reading for Information can lead to earning an Alabama Career Readiness Certificate.

6. WorkKeys Certification Trends Between 2011 -2013, HCS awarded the largest number of Alabama Career Ready Certificates in Alabama. We moved from 0 – 112 - 542

7. WorkKeys Certificate Types Earned *88% of students tested earned an Alabama Career Ready Certificate.

8. Career Readiness Student Certification Trends

9. Career Academies Microsoft IT Academy Health Science Culinary Arts Advanced Manufacturing-Welding, Drafting Design and Precision Machining Project Lead the Way-Pathway to Engineering Esthetics Automotive Technology Project Lead the Way-Biomedical Science Heavy Equipment Building Science

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