K12 SWP Awards

The project will focus on Construction, Patient Care, and Early Childhood Education Pathways. The focus includes the support of essential collaboration across education systems Alta Vista Innovation (AVI) between the K–12 sector and community colleges (Chaffey College) with involvement from industry businesses and organizations in strengthening CTE courses, programs, and pathways aligned with regional workforce needs. Additionally, AVI will further develop and strengthen high-quality, K–14 CTE course sequences, programs, and pathways that will (1) build foundational career path skills and early career exploration, (2) enable a seamless and successful transition from secondary to postsecondary education within the same or related career paths, (3) lead to completion of industry-valued certificates, or college transfers, (4) prepare students upon completion of education to enter into employment in occupations with a livable wage, (5) identify and close equity gaps by improving access to and completion of high- skill/high-wage CTE opportunities for disproportionately impacted students, (6) facilitate K–12 student exploration and learning opportunities, and (7) contribute toward meeting the projected need for one million completers of CTE programs aligned with the state’s labor market.

Our project focuses on providing more opportunities for students to pursue pathways in Health Care and Social Assistance, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation, and Information Communication Technologies/Digital Media. We plan to achieve this goal through various outreach activities and informative publications that will help students learn more about these fields. Our aim is to expose students to work-based learning activities, allowing them to gain valuable experience, and provide training on industry-standard equipment. Additionally, CTE educators will have the opportunity to participate in professional development training, which will enable them to better support their students’ learning and career goals.

Beaumont Unified School District’s Culinary Pathway Upgrade and Expansion will expand and enhance the opportunities to relevant industry skills, connect students to work based learning opportunities, and encourage post-secondary learning and certification. By creating a mobile kitchen as an extension of our Culinary classroom, we can increase and diversify the industry standard equipment students will use while integrating elements of business and entrepreneurship. This will support new CTE course development, expansion of both teaching and support staff, and finally allow for an increase in student enrollment into one of the most sought after CTE pathways in the district. The mobile kitchen will provide students the opportunity to learn dynamic skillsets associated with budgeting, marketing, event planning, menu development, all while working with diverse populations throughout our community.

In a technology dependent pathway, outdated equipment and resources limit teachers’ ability to teach relevant industry skills, connect students to work based learning opportunities, and encourage post-secondary learning and certification. The district wide expansions and enhancements in the Digital Media Pathways Upgrade and Expansion will allow for critical technology upgrades which will allow students to learn using industry standard equipment. This will include new video and sound production equipment, editing equipment and software, technology associated with interactive media including but not limited to virtual reality and 3D animation, computers and software for graphic design, as well as the expansion into drone technology which will allow for partnerships with other growing industries in our area including residential and commercial construction, logistics, and law enforcement. New production equipment will allow our students to live-stream events and work with community partners in one of the fastest growing regions in the state.

This project expands CRY-ROP’s K12SWP Round 4 “Building CTE Bridges from High School to Community College” project to include San Bernardino Valley College staffing as part of the student support teams on our high school campuses to provide a student-centered, seamless postsecondary transition process for CTE pathway students, improve student outcomes after graduation, and increase K14 enrollment and completion rates.

K12SWP “Pre-Apprenticeships for 21st Century Careers” project will expand CRY-ROP’s Manufacturing/Mechatronics, Welding, Automotive, and Community Health pathways to meet pre-apprenticeship and competency requirements and will allow pathway completers to be certified as pre-apprentices with the CA Division of Apprenticeship Standards

The purpose of this project is to address the industry challenge for a well-trained labor force by:

• Improving & expanding CTE course offerings and pathways so that ALL students have equitable access to develop the awareness, knowledge, and skills needed to obtain employment in high-wage, high-skill, and in-demand occupations.
• Ensuring CTE content and information is readily available across secondary grade levels that support all student sub-groups.
• Investing resources to provide industry standard equipment, materials, and supplies to ensure all students are properly prepared for post-secondary education and the workforce.

The goal of the project is to expand the focus of existing Agriculture, Construction, and Transportation pathways to include agricultural science, HVAC, and logistics.

This project will support the expansion of current pathways and the creation of new CTE pathways.

This project will increase access to CTE programs at all sites. District match will double the offerings at our alternative high school. Our continuation school will expand offerings to include a First Responder Pathway. Finally, our cybersecurity pathways will be offered at all comprehensive high school sites.

The project will expand offerings for students to obtain high levels of training in Construction and Manufacturing. Testing hubs will be created at two sites for students to gain entry to the Southwest Carpenters Union and earn High-Level welding certificates. Satellite site equipment will be upgraded to meet the standards of our partners so students can gain industry certifications and register as pre-apprentices.

The project will hire two CTE Advisors who will work directly with CTE teachers and CTE teachers to support career exploration, work-based learning, certification exams, and post-secondary exploration, applications, and registration.  The Advisors will also serve as site liaisons to the outreach and advisement staff at the three Riverside Community College District colleges.

The aim of this grant is to support the expansion of CTE Engineering & ICT Pathway, along with a Work-Based Learning Continuum. This project will concentrate on the programs offered at Valley View High School and Vista Del Lago High School. It will also build upon the recently acquired Middle School Foundation Academies Planning and Implementation Grants given to Badger Springs Middle School and Landmark Middle School ($25,000 for each middle school). The objective is to increase enrollment and pathway completion rates for the MVUSD Engineering Pathway, which presently stands at 56.78%. Additionally, this grant aims to provide a robust Work-Based Learning Continuum for all MVUSD CTE Pathways.

The goal of the project is to develop a middle school college and career exploration program, setting up pre-apprenticeships/apprenticeships, implementing mentoring and internship opportunities, and develop promotional materials that foster and encourage diversity, for district pathway programs to recruit students from marginalized communities.

Our goal is to develop a registered pre-apprenticeship program with the state of California to provide every high school student the opportunity to apply and complete a minimum of 1 year in a pre-apprenticeship program in the sectors listed in the problem statement. Provide the students with the curriculum, equipment, and connections to increase the chances of successful college apprenticeship program completion and living wage jobs.

Our project aims to broaden the CTE opportunities for incarcerated students in Riverside County’s Juvenile Hall facilities who attend RCOE court schools. Additionally, we will enhance and reinforce the existing pathways for expelled students attending RCOE community schools across Riverside County.

CTE in RUSD students are not entering and staying on the path to completion into post-secondary endeavors. On average, of students who enter a CTE pathway, only 11% stay on the path and complete the concentrator and capstone courses. These students are neither prepared to stay on the path in college nor qualified to immediately join the workforce and serve the industry, further increasing the growing skills gap. We have identified an equity and access gap in RUSD based on initial research, but the data does not clarify or specify those gaps within and across subgroups of students. Our students need pathway advisement, schedule flexibility, and career awareness to Clarify, Enter, and Stay on the path, earn certification, receive articulated credit, and complete CTE pathways to thrive in the workforce.

This project will address Work Based Learning, technology, Information and Communications Technologies , and transportation-related gaps in our programs. We will also provide additional solutions for outreach to students, parents, and new industry partners.

Our SBCROP – Building Better Pathways & CTE Teacher Capacity grant will support the following activities:
(1) The Construction Technology pathway will incorporate the building of tiny houses within Fontana HS and Citrus Continuation HS’s Construction Technology into the programs, (2)expanding pathway offerings with a new Product Development pathway to students at Summit HS; introducing Truman MS students to skillsets utilized by the district’s Manufacturing, Construction, and Logistics pathways through the building of a Product Development lab; updating welding equipment at Fontana HS to support certification preparation/testing, (3) building a Logistics program at Kaiser HS, (4) providing CTE professional development for CTE educators and administrators across SBC and (5) providing Cyber/IT WBL experiences to MS/HS across SBC.

Our SBCROP – Building Better Pathways & CTE Teacher Capacity grant will support the following activities:
(1) The Construction Technology pathway will incorporate the building of tiny houses within Fontana HS and Citrus Continuation HS’s Construction Technology into the programs, (2)expanding pathway offerings with a new Product Development pathway to students at Summit HS; introducing Truman MS students to skillsets utilized by the district’s Manufacturing, Construction, and Logistics pathways through the building of a Product Development lab; updating welding equipment at Fontana HS to support certification preparation/testing, (3) building a Logistics program at Kaiser HS, (4) providing CTE professional development for CTE educators and administrators across SBC and (5) providing Cyber/IT WBL experiences to MS/HS across SBC.

The project will support program improvements to our Advanced Manufacturing Pathway. The goal is to support a seamless transition for our students to continue their education at Mt. San Jacinto College. We will also continue to create new articulation agreements in the engineering pathway with the college. We want to ensure our students have every opportunity to pursue programs within this industry at their local community college.

We will be starting a new Entrepreneurship / Small Business Pathway in the new Marketing, Sales, and service (MSS) sector. This pathway will align with our college partners and end in a certificate for our students.

Sky Mountain is introducing a new Entrepreneurship pathway in the 2023-24 school year. The goal is to expand options and opportunities for students, thus increasing CTE enrollment and improving college and career readiness, while maintaining and growing our current pathway, Product Design & Innovation (PDI).