Online Resources

Pennsylvania Department of Education
The PDE website is the main source of information for all things related to education in the Commonwealth. Particular areas of interest for educators working with Tech Prep and Programs of Study initiatives include:

Career Connections - Fairfax County School System - Fairfax County, Virginia
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) career guidance initiative, known as Career Connections, is designed for grades K - 12. Its success depends on the cooperative effort of students, parents, teachers, counselors, and the community. This web site is an information source designed to connect these groups.

Career and Technical Education Web Resources - Vocational Information Center
Explore vocational and technical careers, check out the skills employers really want, find a trade school, research technical topics and take a look at the current job market. An excellent one-stop, find-all site.

The Ultimate Road to Career Success
Start exploring career options and be demand by knowing about high growth jobs with better wages and brighter future.

Target Your Interests
Target Your Interests and begin by selecting the interest area that appeals to you the most. This is an excellent website to begin to connect your interests to future career pathways.

Bureau of Labor and Statistics
Match your interests to career possibilities. Use this excellent resource to focus your career plans with academic and technical skills to be included in your secondary and postsecondary program.

Pennsylvania Career And Technical Education Curriculum Resource Site
This site guides you to resources and information provided by the Bureau of Career and Technical Education. You can select any of the occupational and educational areas to learn about what career and technical programs are offered in Pennsylvania.

Every 15 Minutes
The "Every 15 Minutes Program" offers real-life experience without the real-life risks. This emotionally charged program is designed to dramatically instill teenagers with the potentially dangerous consequences of drinking alcohol.

Occupational Outlook Quarterly
The Bureau of Labor Statistic's projections contain considerable detail about the structure of the economy, the demographic makeup of the labor force, and changes in employment for nearly 700 occupations and more than 250 industries.

Tracking System for Tech Prep Students
The Star Tech Prep Consortium in Texas offers a system that tracks tech prep students from secondary to post secondary.

EdNA
(Education Names and Addresses) can be used to find name, address, administrator, and related information about the educational entities that PDE serves. These entities include school districts and their schools, intermediate units, area vocational technical schools, charter schools, nonpublic and private schools, higher education institutions, and many more.

School Profiles
The School Profiles are part of the PA System of School Assessment (PSSA). The information contained in the School Profiles is meant to assist public school personnel and all citizens in evaluating a public school's qualities.

School Matters
Standard & Poor's summary report on each school system, including relative strengths, challenges, risks, and educational return on resources.

CORD
CORD is a national nonprofit organization providing innovative changes in education to prepare students for greater success in careers and higher education.

CSI
The consortium of seven schools from the western, central, and eastern regions of PA collaboratively established standards for career / technical education programs that are integrated with the existing math and science standards.

IU20
Intermediate Unit 20 provides support and services for children with special needs, staff development opportunities for teachers, as well as technical and instructional resources and services to thirteen school districts in Northampton, Monroe, and Pike counties.

ACT, Inc & "WORK KEYS"
ACT, Inc., is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides more than a hundred assessment, research, information, and program management services in the broad areas of educational planning, career planning, and workforce development.

Excel Gradebook
Here is a faculty resource used by Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota that you may find helpful in developing your own Excel spreadsheet for your classes. You will need some background in Excel to get started.

My Grade Book
Welcome to mygradebook.com, a web-based teacher grade book useful in enhancing communication between teachers, students and parents in ALL levels of education. Individual may obtain a 60 day trial and group rates are available.

Contextual Learning Resources
According to contextual learning theory, learning occurs when students process new information or knowledge in such a way that it makes sense to them in their own frames of reference (their own inner worlds of memory, experience, and response).

National Association for the Education of Young Children
The National Association for the Education of Young Children is the nation's largest and most influential organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through third grade.

Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood Community College worked with its registrar and computer programmer to develop a model system for processing and managing articulated courses.

National Occupational Competency Testing Institute
The National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) is a leading provider of occupational competency assessments and services. NOCTI offers over 170 standardized technical tests in a variety of occupational fields or customizing assessments for their specific needs.

GetTech
The GetTech program works to spread awareness among students, parents and educators that the business world of the future is going to be dependent on workers who have strong skills in mathematics, science and technology.

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