SUPPORT SERVICES

Career Clusters
Career clusters identify pathways from secondary school to two- and four-year colleges, graduate school, and the workplace, so students can link what they learn in school and what they can do in the future.

Career Development Coordination
Works collaboratively with administrators, student services personnel, and teachers to ensure the delivery of career development services. CDCs facilitate linkages with parents, business/industry, postsecondary institutions, and community organizations to support students' transition to postsecondary education and employment.

Civil Rights
These guidelines explain the civil rights responsibilities of recipients of Federal funds who are Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and other subrecipients (i.e., Charter schools) offering or administering vocational education/workforce development education programs.

College Tech Prep
The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 supports College Tech Prep, an initiative that prepares students to enter the high wage, high tech and rapidly changing career fields available in the present and future workplace.

Gender Equity
The gender equity/nontraditional aspects of Career and Technology Education provide information that CTE teachers, academic teachers, counselors, and administrators can use to assist all students, both male and female, in setting and attaining educational goals. These goals should be based on individual interests, aptitudes, and abilities.

High Schools That Work
High Schools That Work is the nation's first large-scale effort to engage state, district and school leaders and teachers in partnerships with students, parents and the community to improve the way all high school students are prepared for work and further education.

Instructional Management
Provides schools with a computerized system that can be used to disseminate essential standards in the form of blueprints for courses; provide instructional strategies to teach essential standards containing 21st century content; provide formative, benchmark, performance, and summative assessments; document student achievement and academic growth; and provide accountability data.

Leadership Institute for Vocational Educators (LIVE)
The Leadership Institute for Vocational Educators (LIVE) is an NCDPI initiative designed to develop educational leadership among diverse ethnic populations in career and technical education.

North Carolina High School to Community College Articulation Agreement
Articulation is a systematic, seamless student transition process from secondary to postsecondary education that maximizes use of resources and minimizes content duplication.

Special Populations Coordination
The primary function of special populations coordination is to ensure that members of special populations receive services and job training.

Teacher Preparation and Licensure
Teacher preparation helps educators develop the knowledge, skills, behavior, and insights needed to become effective classroom teachers and school leaders.

Work-Based Learning
Work-based Learning gives students the opportunity to experience the workplace through job shadowing, internships, and other programs and to discover the connections between school and career.