Pathways Resource Library
Tools to help people understand their options
Explore messaging, research, and resources from across the field—along with customizable, white-label tools that you can adapt, brand as your own, and use in your organization’s communications—to help you reach key audiences with language that builds confidence and expands what’s possible.
Toolkit
Skills-Based Hiring Toolkit
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This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This resource includes a set of skills-based hiring toolkits that include a skills-based job-posting, interview questions, and onboarding plans. Each Skills-Based Hiring Toolkit is packed with valuable resources that will help you transform your hiring strategy.
Playbook or Guidebook
Tear the Paper Ceiling
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This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
The Tear the Paper Ceiling: STARs Hiring Playbook gives human resource professionals, talent leaders, and hiring managers practical tools and guidance to shift their hiring to include STARs - workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes.
Research Report
Voices of Gen Z
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This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
To better understand Gen Z’s unique perspectives, Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation have partnered to gather opinions directly from members of Gen Z and to track those opinions and experiences over time. This nationally representative, multiyear study of thousands of members of Gen Z between the ages of 12 and 26 gives policymakers and researchers an invaluable resource for not only understanding this generation’s needs, but for making data-driven decisions to address them.
Research Report
Organizing People through Storytelling: Public Narrative as a Leadership Development Practice
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This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
The study supported by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative proposes “public narrative” as a key form of leadership development in organizations and communities. This report raises a set of 'Action Insights' on how to use public narrative to organize people through storytelling.
Toolkit
Credit for Prior Learning Messaging Toolkit
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This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This toolkit provides effective messages targeted to key audiences and strategies for dissemination to increase participation in Credit for Prior Learning among adult learners who are pursuing career pathways and CTE programs of study that lead to jobs in in-demand fields.
Research Report
The Making of an Innovation Engine: Advancing Career-Connected Learning
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This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
The Catalyze Challenge set out to answer two core research questions: was it successful in catalyzing new innovation and, if so, what type? It employs a three-stage review process involving a collective effort to identify unique, groundbreaking career-connected models that are heavily invested in the communities they serve. The key takeaways that are explored in depth throughout this report.
Research Report
Preparing our Students for the Real World
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This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This is a thought paper for school and community leaders. It takes an honest look at the reality of what was facing America students and its workforce in 2019 and what brought America to this reality. It also provides clarity and direction to bring greater effectiveness and scalability to Career Connected Learning practices.
White Paper
Degrees of Risk: What Gen Z and Employers Think About Education-to-Career Pathways… and How Those Views are Changing
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This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This is an examination of what is required to make a person employable, as well as what professional and educational success looks like. This study was commissioned by American Student Assistance (ASA) and Jobs for the Future (JFF). The research aimed to understand current familiarity with and perceptions of non-degree postsecondary pathways from both Gen Z and employer perspectives. This paper also makes recommendations for the way forward to expand high-quality postsecondary options for all learners.
Research Report
Unlocking Economic Prosperity
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This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
Filters
Toolkit
Skills-Based Hiring Toolkit
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This resource includes a set of skills-based hiring toolkits that include a skills-based job-posting, interview questions, and onboarding plans. Each Skills-Based Hiring Toolkit is packed with valuable resources that will help you transform your hiring strategy.
Playbook or Guidebook
Tear the Paper Ceiling
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
The Tear the Paper Ceiling: STARs Hiring Playbook gives human resource professionals, talent leaders, and hiring managers practical tools and guidance to shift their hiring to include STARs - workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes.
Research Report
Voices of Gen Z
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
To better understand Gen Z’s unique perspectives, Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation have partnered to gather opinions directly from members of Gen Z and to track those opinions and experiences over time. This nationally representative, multiyear study of thousands of members of Gen Z between the ages of 12 and 26 gives policymakers and researchers an invaluable resource for not only understanding this generation’s needs, but for making data-driven decisions to address them.
Research Report
Organizing People through Storytelling: Public Narrative as a Leadership Development Practice
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
The study supported by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative proposes “public narrative” as a key form of leadership development in organizations and communities. This report raises a set of 'Action Insights' on how to use public narrative to organize people through storytelling.
Toolkit
Credit for Prior Learning Messaging Toolkit
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This toolkit provides effective messages targeted to key audiences and strategies for dissemination to increase participation in Credit for Prior Learning among adult learners who are pursuing career pathways and CTE programs of study that lead to jobs in in-demand fields.
Research Report
The Making of an Innovation Engine: Advancing Career-Connected Learning
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
The Catalyze Challenge set out to answer two core research questions: was it successful in catalyzing new innovation and, if so, what type? It employs a three-stage review process involving a collective effort to identify unique, groundbreaking career-connected models that are heavily invested in the communities they serve. The key takeaways that are explored in depth throughout this report.
Research Report
Preparing our Students for the Real World
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This is a thought paper for school and community leaders. It takes an honest look at the reality of what was facing America students and its workforce in 2019 and what brought America to this reality. It also provides clarity and direction to bring greater effectiveness and scalability to Career Connected Learning practices.
White Paper
Degrees of Risk: What Gen Z and Employers Think About Education-to-Career Pathways… and How Those Views are Changing
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This is an examination of what is required to make a person employable, as well as what professional and educational success looks like. This study was commissioned by American Student Assistance (ASA) and Jobs for the Future (JFF). The research aimed to understand current familiarity with and perceptions of non-degree postsecondary pathways from both Gen Z and employer perspectives. This paper also makes recommendations for the way forward to expand high-quality postsecondary options for all learners.
Research Report
Unlocking Economic Prosperity
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.
This resource may be shared with proper attribution to the organization.