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| Carle' High School's Health Occupations (HOPE), Careers with Children (CCARE), and Enviro-Tech career paths are one of the keys to the high success rate of their graduates. Each path has an academic and work-based component. The academic component includes a technical class directly addressing the path's occupation, plus math, English, science and history classes based upon each career focus. Once these courses are completed, students job shadow and do internships. Because students have already embarked upon their chosen profession before graduating, they are far more likely to either continue their education or enter directly into employment. The School-to-Career program was developed over a three year period, beginning in 1995. Each pathway has had a full year's investment into its development. All curricula are integrated, thematic units. There are usually approximately 15 students involved in each career pathway each year. This amounts to about half of the Carle' student body involved in a pathway at any one time. Any student completing a pathway receives a certificate of completion, ROP credit and either ECE units from the local community college for the HOPE pathway, CNA training and certificate for the CCARE pathway, or Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Training for the Enviro-Tech pathway. These pathways have allowed Carle' to make the school entirely career focused. This, in turn, has made the academic curriculum relevant. The thematic approach encourages students to learn challenging material in areas where they may have had difficulty in the past. The School-to-Career's greatest success has been that graduating students are very often employed for higher than minimum wage in a profession/career of their own choosing. They often move directly from the classroom to an internship and then into a paid position. As a result, students often continue their education in order to advance to even higher paying positions. | ||
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